Ep. 3419: Thursday starring Michael Patrick Shiels - Holiday Spectacular - Michigan's Big Show

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Live across the Great Lake State. You're connected to Michigan's
most engaging and influential radio and television program, Michigan's Big
Show starring Michael Patrick Shields, presented by Blue Cross, Blue
Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Now in the shadow of the Capitol Dome and Lansing.
He's heard from the beaches of Lake Michigan, to the
halls of power and behind closed doors. Here's Michigan's Michael
Patrick Shields.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
You know, I told you people something a long time ago,
and it's just as pertinent today as it was then.
Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull on your pants
and slide on the ice.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Michael Patrick Shields is on the air.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
Good morning world, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 6 (00:49):
It's Michael Patrick Shields from the Capital of Michigan, where
the sixty five foot tree is lit up head to
toe right in front of the Capitol Building. And we
will endeavor to get lit up this morning, not with booze.
Did you really think that, Well, I understand why you
might say that, but really we're going to get lit
up with spirit because this is our holiday spectacular. There

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will be somewhere under two thousand guests making their way through.
It's the morning of one hundred stars. And if you're
within the sound of my voice within the Capitol right now,
you could be here with us next to the Capitol
Building at Washington and Allegant at Spotlight Studios. Otherwise, we're
in your radio, or in your smartphone, or in your
tablet or in your desktop, in your car and your

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kitchen and all the places where you've nice enough to
have us. It's Michael Patrick, shields from the end of
the road at the top of the world with a
tail well calculated to keep you in subspots. And we
get your Christmas turkey on the road right now. One bite,
everyone knows the rules. Another one and another tradition. Paul Long,

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the CEO of the Michigan Catholic Conference, is here to
celebrate Christmas.

Speaker 7 (01:59):
It's wonderful time of year. Michael Patrick.

Speaker 6 (02:01):
It's so wonderful as Mike's not working. What am I
doing here?

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Ah?

Speaker 8 (02:07):
Two?

Speaker 5 (02:08):
How about it's so wonderful.

Speaker 6 (02:10):
Thank you Santa for turning on the microphone.

Speaker 9 (02:13):
It's just the most wonderful time.

Speaker 6 (02:15):
It's not working again. Santa is a grinch this morning.
There's a grinch in the system. That's okay, hold that thought, don't.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
Touch that dial.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
And what we will do as a penalty every time
the mic doesn't work, We're going to bring in Mike
Douglas with the Christmas carol that I've been asked which
is my favorite? And this one is it?

Speaker 5 (02:35):
Here? He is not Michael Douglas. Mike Douglas. The talk
show hosts sing it, Mike, Katie god Dolly, the cries

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and blinks its eyes.

Speaker 10 (03:00):
Jimmy got an all a mad exclaim that really flies.
But we were poor that Christmas, so Mama stayed am
all along, sitting in the kits and making.

Speaker 11 (03:18):
Us a present.

Speaker 12 (03:19):
It was this salt.

Speaker 13 (03:25):
Shirt spouse ring al ain't chosing Ale, Happy Birthday, Jesus,
snow flat sting lie slave spouse, dinglel Happy Birthday Gesus.
All year long, we went just to celebrate this Christmas

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mon because we want you to know we're so glad
you were born.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Ah, have a married Mary.

Speaker 14 (03:58):
Happy birthday, Jesus, Lord Jesus, can you give me a
wish right now?

Speaker 6 (04:07):
A Christmas wish? And that would be that Paul Long's
microphone works. He's with the Michigan Catholic Conference, the CEO,
and so his voice is important.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
Look, good morning, Praise God, Thank you, Thank you Jesus.

Speaker 9 (04:22):
Your favorite Christmas carol and my least favorite Christmas carol. Now,
isn't that something though?

Speaker 6 (04:27):
But it is probably the most embracing of Jesus because
sometimes you don't even hear the Jesus name and Christmas carols.

Speaker 7 (04:35):
Well, that's true, you don't.

Speaker 9 (04:37):
You have a lot of secular songs, but then you
know the religious songs.

Speaker 6 (04:41):
Even the religious ones don't say his name now that
I think of it, right to some degree, they is born.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
That's one day.

Speaker 9 (04:48):
But you know this one is this one is perfect
for young children. You know children's masses across America. This
Happy Birthday is sung to Jesus at the children's mass.
And so this song done by Mike Douglas and his troupe,
was a classic back in the day.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
It'll be in your head for the rest of the day.
Thank goodness.

Speaker 6 (05:14):
And you brought some special treats here to celebrate Jesus.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Here this is Oh, look at that.

Speaker 6 (05:19):
There's a man on a trumpet there glass man wines chardonnay,
Thank you very much. I presume that's from Dusty Cellar.
And Matt Rhodes will be along a little bit later.
I actually saw you in the shop yesterday, you did.

Speaker 9 (05:30):
I was out doing a little shopping for colleagues of
mine and here along I see this shadow behind me,
and I look at it you much to my great.

Speaker 6 (05:41):
Surprise, and there's a second bottle of red in here,
Chateau La Rose Trinta down.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
Did Matt select these for Matt did select those for me?

Speaker 9 (05:51):
And these are bottles which went to the Michigan Catholic
Conference Board of Directors and then a few other select individuals.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
What about is there a new archbishop in Detroit?

Speaker 9 (06:03):
There is, Archbishop Edward Weisenberger was installed back in March.
Archbishop iigner On, a long time archbishop of Detroit. His
letter of resignation was accepted by Pope Francis And because
he aged out, Because he aged out, that's correct. It
when a bishop turned seventy five, they must submit a

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letter of resignation to the Holy See and then it's
the discretion of the Holy See is to when that
was that is accepted.

Speaker 6 (06:31):
Cardinal Dolan had to do that too, he did. And
your friend in New York.

Speaker 9 (06:35):
Yep, and he had submitted his last spring, and you
know he turned he's he's seventy five. He'll be seventy
six this coming spring. Archbishop Ignorant was seventy six when
he was replaced. Archbisiop Weisenberger has met things head on.
He's doing a lot of work in the archdiocese to

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look at issues that trouble the archdiocese and seeing what
can be done to help bring the faith. Continue the
work that Archbishop Figeron began in reinvigorating the faith in
the Archdiocese of Detroit.

Speaker 6 (07:09):
How about a shout out from you, Paul Long at
the Michigan Catholic Conference to some of our Michigan bishops.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
Well, we have.

Speaker 9 (07:16):
Bishop Edward Losey in Kalamazoo, Bishop David Wilkoviak in Grand Rapids,
Bishop Walsh Jeffrey Walsh in Gaylard, one of a fan
favorite of this radio program. Yes, Bishop Errol Boye here
in the Dice of Lansing, Bishop Robert Gruse in the
Dice of Saginaw, and Bishop John Diffler in the Dice

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of Marquette.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
Do you think they would enjoy a just another minute
here of Happy Birthday Jesus.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
If they happened to be listening.

Speaker 9 (07:44):
I think they might prefer other songs, other hymns. But nonetheless,
I think that the notion that you focus on the
real important component of Christmas, and that is the birth
of Jesus, is what's most important. And I think they
would appreciate that.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
Oh that's nice to say, So give the people what
they want. So here it is, and not the people,
but give the man what he wants. And this is
not to leave out other faiths, of course, but this
is to say that there's a reason that all of
this material purchasing happens all over the place. And we're
not going to be preachy about it. We're just gonna
let Mike Douglas remind you that it's somebody's birthday at Christmas,

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and we all like to celebrate birthdays. And we've got
the candles lit this morning for our holiday spectacular. It's
MPs shirt spouse ring a.

Speaker 13 (08:38):
Happy Birthday Jesus, snow flat stingle slave bousing Happy Birthday Jesus.

Speaker 12 (08:48):
All year long, we.

Speaker 13 (08:51):
Waited just to celebrate this Christmas.

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Speaker 18 (10:56):
Robin Michelle Reiner's cause of death is being revealed as
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The singer's song Dying to Live from his documentary Billy
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Speaker 11 (12:32):
Welcome, messieurs.

Speaker 13 (12:34):
Shit yourself down and meet the best in keeper.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
The best in keeper in town is Matt Rhodes, the
master of the house, Dusty Seller.

Speaker 6 (12:44):
And he's here before sunrise for this morning holiday celebration,
Christmas Celebration in Christmas Red.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
Nice to see you, sir. Merry Christmas, Michael. I think for.

Speaker 6 (12:56):
One second, and with you working as many hours as
you are, I hate taking care of everybody getting holiday
gifts that could be up this early.

Speaker 22 (13:03):
Oh it's good, good change of pace and and get
out of the rhythm and uh, it's it's great to
be here and it's always a funny annual thing to do.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
Paul Long from the Michigan Catholic Conference here.

Speaker 6 (13:13):
He brought two very nice bottles that he purchased at
your store as a gift.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
Oh, wonderful, thank you, Paul.

Speaker 9 (13:19):
Well, it's the part of the large gift that do
you help us to procure every fall?

Speaker 5 (13:24):
He said, you helped him choose it.

Speaker 22 (13:27):
I do get I get the pleasure picking out the
wines for the Michigan Catholic Conference.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
Let's game it out a little bit like if someone
were like Paul were to come in and say, I
want some gifts for the uh.

Speaker 7 (13:37):
It was for the board or the board of directors.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
How do you narrow down if anyone comes in right now?
So I want to take a.

Speaker 6 (13:43):
Gift, I'm invited to a holiday party. What are the
questions that you discerned get to the bottle that you get?

Speaker 22 (13:50):
Well, you always got to start with with budget, and
because the budgets are ranged, you know a huge range
of budgets. So once you find out the budget and
get an idea for the tape, so the recipients dry
sweet medium with without alcohol, and just kind of put
it all together and get a package together.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
You're famous for six bottles for sixty dollars or sometimes yeah,
six for sixty.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
Sixty six, five sixty six, so it's up.

Speaker 6 (14:15):
To sixty six inflation, six for sixty six. But maybe
someone might say, well, I want it to be a
good bottle, but I know they might say eighty dollars,
or they might say twenty dollars.

Speaker 22 (14:29):
Oh sure, that's just it the inventory we have, we
can fit any budget to anybody given a gift.

Speaker 6 (14:36):
What would you say is a number that Because we're
in the modern age now, so do you think it's
u ghosh if someone brings you a bottle of wine
to use your app and figure out how much it cost.

Speaker 22 (14:49):
I'm sure it happens all the time, and we have
a lot of people shopping the shelf just looking at
using their app, looking at.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
The show you do? You do, absolutely so.

Speaker 7 (14:59):
Some of the apps are good, some of them or not.

Speaker 6 (15:00):
But what you say is, I know it's a situational, but
what is the right price bottle to deliver as a
gift if you're invited to.

Speaker 5 (15:07):
A dinner twenty dollars? Twenty's okay? Yep, absolutely, You're welcome
to spend more to make a better impression. I guess,
I yah know.

Speaker 6 (15:18):
But the prose of the matter is you can have
a twenty dollars bottle that's really really good.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
Yeah, it's just value for money.

Speaker 22 (15:24):
I mean, anybody can buy a great one hundred dollar
bottle line, So the trick is to find a great
twenty twenty five dollars bottle line.

Speaker 6 (15:29):
All right, good advice and bubbles is always a good
gift because then you don't have to worry about it
being paired with anything, and they can save it and
use it again. Sometime I've heard people say you shouldn't
bring wine because the host has prepared the dinner and
they probably already paired some wine.

Speaker 22 (15:48):
I disagree with that. I mean, there's always a place
for some wine somewhere during the evening and beginning, the
middle or the end. So yeah, wine's always a great
hostess gift.

Speaker 6 (15:58):
I bought some gives in your shop yesterday to give
to Jim Nance at the football game this weekend. The
CBS sportscaster is in for the Pittsburgh Steelers game, and
I said, what do you get the guy who has everything,
who's traveling on the road. You can't give him something
he's got to carry, and you want to give him
I thought to be practical, something that he might just
want to hand off to one other production assistants and say,

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here have this.

Speaker 5 (16:21):
You know what I mean. I think that's a wonderful idea.

Speaker 22 (16:24):
I'm just glad to hear what that Jim Nance is
getting a gift from Dusty Sellar.

Speaker 6 (16:28):
It's an honor, well, it'll be yeah, and it was
Michigan cherry chocolates and little chocolates that look like champagne bottles.
Oh perfect, And I will tell him what you said
about his wine moving through your store.

Speaker 7 (16:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (16:41):
Yeah, we bought a nice little stack this week and
we'd like selling his wine. It's great quality wine at
a fair price.

Speaker 6 (16:47):
It's called The Calling at Dusty Cellar. And also ANDREWI
Boot and I talked about you on the Android Boot podcasts.

Speaker 5 (16:54):
Whichever's always worrisome. Yeah, you might be. Well, it's a
little irreverent. But also, as Father Jake used.

Speaker 6 (17:01):
To say, Father Jake folio, in order to be reverend,
you have to be your reverence. But it came up,
your place came up, and you came up. And so
I don't know how long till.

Speaker 5 (17:11):
It drops, as they say, but it's in there.

Speaker 22 (17:15):
I'll be I'll be sure to check into Andrews podcast
I've heard a few of them and they're always interesting.

Speaker 5 (17:20):
Yeah. Okay, Now what do I give you this morning? Okay?

Speaker 6 (17:25):
If you you might have to go a little later, Huh,
You've got to get back to the shop. How long
are you going to stay? About twenty minutes? Okay, You're
going to be the first one. Then I'm doing this
a little bit early, but you're going to be the
first one that I've put a real twist in this
program today and I'm giving away gifts. Some of them
are designated and some of them are random. Yours is

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very much designated gift.

Speaker 5 (17:47):
Oh, here it comes. I'm going to roll across the
table to you and you can tell the listeners what
that is. Well.

Speaker 22 (17:58):
Being in the beverage business, there's a huge range of quality.
And I have a Grape Gone Wild buzzball.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
Yeah, from Michael Patrick Shields. Isn't that nice? This is
such an honor.

Speaker 22 (18:12):
I hope all your other gift recipients are so fortunate.

Speaker 5 (18:17):
Well, you remember the history our history with the buzzball.
You did the reason. Yeah, we were, Paul.

Speaker 6 (18:22):
We were looking at I don't know, it was one
of the gossip magazines and there was Britney Spears and
she was coming out of a party store late night.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
I said, what is.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
That in her hand that she's drinking? And Matt did
the research because it's like it looks like a colored
ball ball.

Speaker 5 (18:38):
Yeah, and we said buzzball and he probably the first
time Dusty cellar ever ordered buzzball, so.

Speaker 22 (18:45):
It just kind of as a lark. I ordered the
case of buzzball thinking you know, and it.

Speaker 7 (18:49):
Actually sold, Brittany.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
It took a while, but celebrity sold. And do you
know they make those in the gallon size. Now it
looks like a hand in law. That sounds like I
wasn't going to go that far. That one's the size
of maybe a small baseball. But you can get a
gallon buzzball in there. This is going to be regifted, Okay,
that you you include right into the spirit of the

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twisted thing I'm doing this morning. I have a big
bag from the Beverly Hills Hotel over there, and people
will get to lift in, reaching the bag without looking and.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
Pull out a horribly regifted gift. The bag is.

Speaker 6 (19:27):
Full of some clunkers and some nice ones, but you're
gonna have to close your eyes and reach into the
Beverly Hills Hotel bag and whatever you get is a
guaranteed regift.

Speaker 12 (19:38):
Is sweet of me.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
I might steal your idea and do that at the cellar.
That's a good idea.

Speaker 6 (19:43):
Okay, it's our holiday spectacular. Here's Britney Spears and Matt
and his buzzball at Dusty Cellar.

Speaker 23 (19:56):
Nebraska is becoming the first state in the nation to
whimp meant work requirements for Medicaid recipients. The requirements outlined
in President Trump's spending bill pass this year. Governor Jim
Pillen made the announcement Wednesday, saying the state will implement
the requirements that apply to able bodied recipients between nineteen
and sixty four. They'll have to work eighty hours a

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month or be enrolled in an approved work program or
community service. Thousands of cases of salad dressing are being
recalled due to the presence of foreign objects. More than
three thousand, five hundred cases of salad dressing, including the
popular Hidden Valley Buttermilk ranch and Italian, have been recalled
because of black plastic planting material found in the dressing's

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granulated onion. The dressings were distributed to seven retailers across
forty two locations, including Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

Speaker 16 (20:52):
Health Update. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 6 (21:02):
Paul Long from the Michigan Catholic Conference. Was it you
asked me about Jennifer Hudson yesterday?

Speaker 5 (21:07):
Did I did you or was it you, Matt somebody else.
We talked about a dinner lastnk Oh.

Speaker 6 (21:11):
Thank you for reminding me that was a fun dinner
at Dusty Cellar. Here's some Jennifer Hudson by request for
you this morning of this Damon.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
I'm a fi.

Speaker 6 (21:31):
Finding lots of love here too. I'm coming across some
of the mail that was sent to the studio Steve
Caterberg and Grand Rapids. Thank you for the card you
sent and the calendar. And I got a Happy Dinga
Steak card.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
I just came in.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
Hey, this is an Easter tradition, the day after tradition,
and it comes from someone in Kalama Zoo called doctor Bob,
and he says, for more info, call this number, Happy
Dinga Steak card. I never got a Dinga's.

Speaker 5 (21:59):
Name called number from your personal family. Maybe oh yeah,
two sixty three East Avenue.

Speaker 7 (22:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (22:08):
Thank you, Doctor Bob and Happy Dinga. Stay to you too.
Tony Kupfert.

Speaker 6 (22:12):
We got a card from Greg McNeely as we celebrate
our twentieth aniverse it's coming to the end of MPs
twenty we did.

Speaker 24 (22:18):
It's a beautiful card. The type is very small, So
cut me some slack on this one, It says Michael Patrick,
twenty years is not a fluke. It is not luck
or charm or even grit, not really, It is habit.
It is a geez here we go devotion, the kind
people mistake for ease because you make it sound effortless.

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A voice, your voice carries it travels across morning kitchens, dashboards,
earbuds tucked into joggers and janitors, and the half awake.
It moves through the air, then fiber, then cloud, then family,
back to air again and we hear it.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
Not just as.

Speaker 24 (23:01):
But as tone, as intent.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
But it is you.

Speaker 24 (23:06):
It is your name, your cadence. You are the center pen,
the metronome, the gravity. And he concludes, twenty years a
long time to do a good thing. Well, congratulations, maestro.

Speaker 5 (23:22):
Of the microphone.

Speaker 6 (23:24):
Thank you Greg greg McNeely for sure this morning in
West Michigan. And he is a poet, that's for sure.
And he took the time to do that, and we
sure appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
His book is available. Just google up Greg McNeely or
Aneely dot com and you can get his book on
all of his social media posts too, including the Sunday.

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Speaker 19 (24:16):
Trump took him with the Biden administration while highlighting an
economy that he said was turning upwards during a primetime
speech at the White House Wednesday.

Speaker 26 (24:23):
When I took office, inflation was the worst in forty
eight years, and some would say in the history of
our country.

Speaker 19 (24:30):
He started to speech by saying he inherited a mess
when he took office, but has achieved more than anyone
could have imagined.

Speaker 20 (24:35):
Trump's and current prices.

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Are down from what they were under the Biden administration,
and they're working to lower the price of groceries.

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I'm Martneyfield.

Speaker 25 (24:42):
The National Guard will not be leaving the streets of
DC after a ruling by a federal appeals court.

Speaker 27 (24:47):
A three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia overrule a lower court order
to end the deployment. The ruling noted that DC is
not a state and that President Trump has unique powers
to mobilize the guard within the district. The ruling it
doesn't end the case, but it puts the end of
the deployment on hold while legal arguments continue.

Speaker 28 (25:04):
I'm Tammy Triheo.

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Police in Rhode Island are releasing images of a second
person of interest in the man hunt for the Brown
University shooter. They say the person was in proximity to
the main person of interest that's eluded authorities for five
days now. Police are asking those who live close to
the university to check their home security cameras for any
suspicious images captured around the time of the shooting. The

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US government is admitting to several failures that led to
a deadly midair collision over the Potomac River earlier this
year that caused the death of sixty seven people. The
Department of Justice making the admission in a court filing
and a civil lawsuit connected to the January twenty ninth crash.
The government admits the pilots of an Army Blackhawk helicopter
did not maintain proper and safe visual separation from a

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The California Department of Motor Vehicle says it's giving Tesla
sixty days to stop using deceptive labels like autopilot or
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Speaker 7 (27:14):
Ah, dreaming of a Why.

Speaker 11 (27:18):
Christmas?

Speaker 6 (27:19):
Hey, that's our featured holiday voice this year. James Judson,
who just put this album out. It just dropped a
couple of weeks ago, and so we debuted it on
this program. We were the first ones ever on the
radio to play James Judson's album.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
Believe it or not.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
He started in the polka circuit when he was a
kid in Nashville and now is in Hollywood, and his
album is available through where do you get albums?

Speaker 24 (27:45):
Spotify, places like that, iTunes, Spotify, whereover there isn't James
Judson with favorite Christmas card?

Speaker 6 (27:54):
And he appeared on this program right around Thanksgiving when
we debuted it.

Speaker 29 (28:00):
Read and run, I mean the Christmas.

Speaker 5 (28:10):
How do you like that? It's a pretty good sound. Huhn,
great sound.

Speaker 6 (28:13):
So you're telling me Tony Cuthbert and the orchestra in
the hymnal here that you've given us a fun audio
to play this morning. That there's Donald Trump singing too.

Speaker 24 (28:25):
I think this is from a number of years ago,
and I.

Speaker 5 (28:27):
Wonder if he's as good as James Judson.

Speaker 24 (28:29):
It's a possibility. We'll we'll find out.

Speaker 9 (28:32):
Well, you could ask him, and I'm sure he'd tell you.

Speaker 5 (28:35):
This is the greatest song ever.

Speaker 30 (28:37):
Merry Christmas, everybody, Happy Year, Happy Holidays.

Speaker 11 (28:42):
I don't want a lot for Christmas.

Speaker 31 (28:45):
There is just one thing.

Speaker 32 (28:49):
Don't care about their present.

Speaker 11 (28:52):
Underneath the Christmas.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
I don't need to pang MoStack there. I think that's
a little don't you.

Speaker 24 (29:00):
Yeah, possibly auto tuned AI everything you can put into
the bag here it.

Speaker 30 (29:04):
Is, Oh Christmas Day, just laun you for my own
make my wish, come to.

Speaker 11 (29:19):
Christmas.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
Okay, move over, Mariah, thank you very much. Next, so
we had James Judson and Donald Trump. What about doctor Elmo?

Speaker 5 (29:31):
He has one of that.

Speaker 6 (29:32):
Now this is not in any way shape or for me,
uh like a religious song, quite sassy in fact. And
this is doctor Elmo. He did that song Grandma got
run over by a reindeer. But he did a special
version for us right on this program that I think
made us immortal.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
Grandma got run over by a reindeer walking home from
our house Christmas Eve. You can say there's no such
thing as Santa. For me and Michael Patrick.

Speaker 5 (30:01):
We believe did he ever win the Grammy Award. Probably not, oh,
because that would contribute to our fake egot that we're doing.
We try to be attached.

Speaker 6 (30:16):
To the oscar, attached to the grammy, attached to the tony,
attached to the hemmy.

Speaker 5 (30:21):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
A woman just stuck her head in the door and
said I'm here and it was blad as shields. My mother,
otherwise known around here is give it to Gibbs. Do
you want to yell it out? Give it to Gibbs?

Speaker 5 (30:33):
Stupid to do.

Speaker 7 (30:35):
I think that's great advice.

Speaker 6 (30:36):
By the way, Well, we'll see this weekends. In the meantime,
it's Doctor Elmo.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
It's not Christmas without Grandma.

Speaker 11 (30:47):
All the families dressed in black.

Speaker 6 (30:50):
I wonder what would happen if she walked up to
that yellow microphone. Come on up to that microphone while
you're here, because I know you're about to dig into
the coffee, and babe, you're a grandma. Grandma walked in
while we're playing Doctor Elmo. Can you come up to
this yellow microphone for a second, Grandma, that's you give.

Speaker 5 (31:11):
It to Gibbs. I just sat down here, we go
talk to the guy. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
Beautiful to see who got holiday apparel on, yes, and
you know Matt Rhodes and Paul Long, Yes, yes you do.
And Matt gave you wine yesterday. And Paul Long always
enjoys your cheering on the lions.

Speaker 5 (31:30):
So give us the strategy.

Speaker 12 (31:32):
Of hear me.

Speaker 33 (31:33):
You don't want to hear me in the room when
they're playing.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
With a lot of screaming and everything. Yeah, I scream.
What's that sounds like?

Speaker 34 (31:42):
Give it to Gibbs.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
Well last time they who was bed? You know he
didn't do that?

Speaker 35 (31:52):
Good?

Speaker 5 (31:52):
Yeah, that's right, he will this weekend.

Speaker 33 (31:56):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
Tony Cuppert has an audio treat that actually comes from
Thanksgiving in Turkeyville and the Trenton Tower where you live
and wind Ott.

Speaker 9 (32:04):
Yeah, let's go on.

Speaker 36 (32:05):
I'm sitting by a lot of reading and watching the
boats go by.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
I just but I said you were going to Turkeyville tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (32:12):
If you want to come over.

Speaker 19 (32:13):
And eat us for lunch, I don't know what you're doing.

Speaker 9 (32:15):
Well, we're going to be there about a love of
flock with the bustles and old bags.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
So talk to you later.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
That was a very wonderful sweet thing Dad was doing
to drive you and other people in the building Turkeyville.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
Yes, until he called you old bags.

Speaker 33 (32:35):
I'm now a chairman of the van committee.

Speaker 5 (32:38):
You carry on the tradition. Yes, isn't that sweet? Where
have you gone and where are you going?

Speaker 33 (32:42):
Well, we were supposed to go to the Wayne County
light Fest, but the van broke down.

Speaker 5 (32:48):
Uh, so you can't go.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
If it was a Hallmark movie, Santa Sleigh would come. Yeah,
take you all to the Wayne County light Fest.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
I love Hallmark. Why do you love those movies so much?

Speaker 33 (32:59):
Because they don't have blood and guts and they're always
you always know that there's a good feeling and.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
A little bit of romance too.

Speaker 6 (33:08):
Yes, and maybe one day they'll make a Hallmark movie
at Turkey Villa in Marshall.

Speaker 31 (33:13):
We can't go.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
There because the van won't shoot the old bags? What
are they going to do to fill the time?

Speaker 37 (33:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (33:22):
Did the old Bags in the building ever hear him
call them that?

Speaker 28 (33:25):
No?

Speaker 5 (33:27):
Yes, maybe they're there. It is. Well anyway, we know
what we know what turkey Ville is very near? Yes?

Speaker 6 (33:37):
But what's very near Turkeyville?

Speaker 5 (33:43):
So we light up the slot machines there?

Speaker 4 (33:45):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (33:45):
Yes, and the advice for the slot players you're going
to be there actually tomorrow, Yes, today, I.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
Actually today.

Speaker 31 (33:53):
Tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
What's the advice the strategy for slots?

Speaker 34 (33:57):
Just win, win win.

Speaker 6 (33:59):
I know you, I know you love hockey too. So
here's a holiday treat from this program too, from Tony
Cuthbert and the orchestra The Red Wings. I think played
last night. They play almost every night. It seems like.
Here's Ken call, the Polish broadcaster of the Red Wings
with his Christmas greeting.

Speaker 38 (34:18):
Here comes Sanna out of the clouds. He's got Rudolph
leading the sled and he makes his way on top
of the roof. Now he gets off the sled, looks
at the chimney. He eyes it down and boy, it
looks a little bit small for Santa. But somehow he
makes it down with chimney into the house and he
scares with presents for all the girls and boys.

Speaker 5 (34:37):
All right, tell and your driver is here. Oh yes,
what's his name?

Speaker 6 (34:45):
M Tim Tim maguire Kim, longtime executive director of the
Michigan Associational County.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
You can try the orange.

Speaker 6 (34:53):
Mic and we're going to have a very twisted game
show a little bit later that involves regifting all these
regifts in the Beverly Hills Hotel bag. But you're gonna
have to do a little something in order to reach
into the bag. And it's a combination of you know,
white elephant kind of prizes if you remember that sort
of thing, and maybe some treats in there too.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
Here's Bobby Vent in the Polish Price. Yea. How do
you say Merry Christmas in Polish shoup? That comes from
give it the gibs.

Speaker 31 (35:23):
You to everyone.

Speaker 35 (35:29):
So much?

Speaker 5 (35:34):
Cheer to everybody.

Speaker 39 (35:37):
Cheer.

Speaker 11 (35:39):
Sam must be Polish. She's such a merry man.

Speaker 40 (35:44):
Bring them lots of toys to everyone.

Speaker 31 (35:47):
He can one thing he's demanding. Anyone's understood. You'll only
bring you present.

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Speaker 6 (36:56):
When it comes to healthcare costs, we often focus on
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seeing part of the picture. The truth is our health
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Speaker 5 (37:07):
At the end of the cost equation.

Speaker 6 (37:09):
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Speaker 20 (38:01):
I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 19 (38:02):
President Trump says he's lowering costs. In an address to
the nation from the White House, Trump said car prices
aren't down compared to under the Biden administration and that
grocery prices are falling rapidly. The National Guard will not
be leaving the streets of DC following a ruling by
a federal appeals court.

Speaker 44 (38:18):
Tammy Trujello reports.

Speaker 27 (38:19):
for the District of Columbia overrule the lower court order
to mobilize the Guard within the district. The ruling doesn't
end the case, but it puts the end of the
deployment on hold while legal arguments continue. I'm Tammy Truchello,
and the.

Speaker 19 (38:39):
US is moving to sharply boost Taiwan's defenses with its
largest ever arm sale. The Trump Administration has approved more
than eleven billion dollars in weapons. The move comes as
Taiwan warns China could try to take control of the
island within.

Speaker 44 (38:51):
The next few years.

Speaker 20 (38:53):
Mark Mayfield, NBC News Radio.

Speaker 29 (39:02):
The cabin was glowing from the red Christmas lights. The
snow was falling on my way on tonight, James Judson,
I knocked on the dome. He wrote the song once,
maybe twice, and missus Claws answered, Oh did she?

Speaker 5 (39:28):
The cabin sex.

Speaker 29 (39:29):
The glasses were sparkling from the champagne she poured. The
fire was roaring, keeping us both warm.

Speaker 11 (39:41):
Her loving eyes twinkled.

Speaker 29 (39:43):
She smiled just for me. Oh, she's my greatest gift
on this Christmasy.

Speaker 31 (39:52):
Now it's just you and I.

Speaker 11 (39:55):
The kids have all.

Speaker 29 (39:56):
Grown, they've gone on their way.

Speaker 34 (40:00):
Now we're all.

Speaker 6 (40:03):
I feel like we should leave them alone. This lyric
is kind of sexy. Tim maguire, the two of.

Speaker 45 (40:08):
Them, Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun.

Speaker 6 (40:15):
That's the thing though. That's a song dedicated to Christmas Eve.
It's called It's Christmas Eve Tonight. That's the ditty. You
can find it James Judson and believe it or not,
I was there for a part of the recording of
this song. And yeah, I didn't realize this because I
don't know much about the music business. But that orchestra
that you're hearing, that's the part. I was there at
the studio on Sunset Boulevard, and they record everything separately.

Speaker 5 (40:37):
The plays comes separately.

Speaker 6 (40:39):
See the orchestra comes separately, and it's like three four
five tracks by the time they're done with it.

Speaker 9 (40:44):
I thought you maybe you were going to tell us
you were playing the accordion.

Speaker 6 (40:48):
Funny you should say that, And well, a card laid
is a card played. So you're gonna get what you
want to do along at Christmas we could be so
sad what you wish for, Tim maguire, you can be
the color commentator, narrate what you're seeing right now.

Speaker 45 (41:10):
Well, he's opening up the accordion. Here it is, he's
strapping it around is first shoulder and now he's left.

Speaker 5 (41:19):
Had and now he's warming up a little bit.

Speaker 9 (41:23):
Had I known I would never have made such a comment.

Speaker 5 (41:26):
Careful what you wish for. That's right, you might get it.
It takes a second to get this thing.

Speaker 9 (41:31):
Coachizo is one thing, but.

Speaker 5 (41:33):
That's what the tom Izzo accordion tradition is now here.

Speaker 6 (41:37):
So what what we're going to do. We're gonna do
this later too. I'm going to play a Christmas Carol
on this accordion.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
And if anyone can guess, if they can.

Speaker 6 (41:49):
Discern what the song actually is, because it's going to
be terrible because I haven't played since second grade. They
get to reach into the regift bag.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
And pull out eight regifted prize.

Speaker 6 (42:03):
That's about it. That's like a bad Santa kind of
twisted kind of thing. And so what I'm going to
do for you, You're gonna be the first one to try
it till the big crowd gets here. This is because
you invoke the accordion when you were hearing James Johnson.
So if you can name this song, you're going in
the prize.

Speaker 5 (42:20):
Yet, here we go.

Speaker 9 (42:36):
It's the worst white song in the history of the world.

Speaker 7 (42:41):
There we go.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
I got some backup. Now, the most corrupt athletic.

Speaker 8 (42:46):
In the Scrooge So you win but.

Speaker 6 (43:04):
I'm not making you go into the regifter bag. I'm
giving you a regift directly because it's something that you
would appreciate if you read the labere of it's from
the K Club in Ireland.

Speaker 5 (43:20):
Socks socks, yea stockings if you will, and I know
you one you were in Ireland this year.

Speaker 9 (43:26):
Wall one is hurling, not playing the game of hurling.

Speaker 5 (43:33):
You mean, if you drink enough Dusty's wine you might
be hurling.

Speaker 7 (43:35):
Yeah, no, I don't.

Speaker 9 (43:37):
I don't think that that's uh appropriate.

Speaker 6 (43:40):
That's a preview of what's coming next hour and those
will be Christmas Carrol's next hour and if you can
actually discern the song, But you were able to.

Speaker 5 (43:48):
Do that one, which says something. Thank you, JP McCarthy.
You both loved and loved Hall of Fame radio host.
He was like James Judson before the was James Judson.
And he got in the studio at Larry Santos, the
great commercial singer from Detroit, and it was in nova

(44:08):
in his studio there. I don't know how many tracks
they used there, but it came out sounding like this.
The Hall of Fame radio host and our guide and
mentor JP.

Speaker 31 (44:20):
A Tree.

Speaker 11 (44:26):
Chris, just like the size.

Speaker 7 (44:37):
Where the trees.

Speaker 11 (44:39):
Listen and show listen.

Speaker 6 (44:48):
Slavery in the snow, and you were at some of
the Christmas singalongs Tim McGuire in the evening with JP.

Speaker 5 (45:03):
Yes, I was.

Speaker 45 (45:04):
It was such a wonderful, wonderful time and so festive
and had a lot of fun. And I was thinking
about this on the way in. Gladys's uber driver picked
her up from the Double Tree, from the Double Tree
downtown Lancing. And this is my twentieth year of this. Yeah,

(45:27):
I haven't missed one.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
Holiday shows for twenty years right here and before that
another twenty years with JP, that's for sure, and Fat
Bob Taylor and Larry Santos and Tim Johnson. Wouldn't he
be surprised to see Detroit today? Oh all those guys.

Speaker 45 (45:47):
Oh I know Tom King, a great Tom King, Fat
Bob Taylor and Paul.

Speaker 6 (45:52):
This really sad thing is that the Normandy Bar down
there Crossman Fisher Building is now a health club. All
that destruction that took place there over the years with
the drinking.

Speaker 5 (46:04):
All the broken hearts are now all being fixed. Thank you.

Speaker 6 (46:13):
JP McCarthy and Mary Chris Mintz from MPIs.

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Speaker 28 (47:26):
Let's start in the NFL.

Speaker 47 (47:27):
Dolphins have bench quarterback Tua tongue O vi loa rookie
quarterback Quinn viewers. We'll get the start against the Bengals
Sunday at home. Tua, I'm getting benched, naturally, I'd.

Speaker 48 (47:38):
Say I'm disappointed. I think it's normal. It's a normal
human emotion.

Speaker 12 (47:42):
You know.

Speaker 48 (47:42):
Outside of that, I got to do my part. My
road here right now is to help wherever the quarterback
is going to be for this team, to lead this team,
help in whatever way I can.

Speaker 47 (47:53):
Thursday Night Football sole possession of first place in the
NFC West down the line when the Seahawks take on
the Rams in Seattle. Wide receiver DeVante Adams is doubtful
due to a hamstring injury. NBA Grizzlies twenty one to
five run in the third quarter rally beat the Timberwolves.
Grizzlies have won seven of their last nine games, and

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the Knicks have decided against hanging a banner at Madison
Square Garden for winning the NBA Cup.

Speaker 21 (48:22):
That's sports.

Speaker 28 (48:23):
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Speaker 6 (49:05):
Please Navid, So we've had James Judson and J. P.

Speaker 5 (49:13):
McCarthy singing this morning. This one goes out to Felix
Sharp cavalierrogo coma star.

Speaker 12 (49:21):
Patrick.

Speaker 6 (49:23):
Will you give us a full on Spanish or in
Spanish and Espanol, h a merry Christmas like this song
with Jose Feliciano Falise Navidad.

Speaker 7 (49:33):
Bueno, felice, navid prospero, buenas.

Speaker 5 (49:40):
Gracias, many good things in the new year. Sweet sweet,
those servesos porn. You know, Moore always hut Hey.

Speaker 6 (50:00):
I was with my mother coming out of Miami, by
the way, Gladys Shields here just the other day, and
the fellow who was helping us to the gate was Cuban,
and he'd been living in Miami for a long time,
and so I said to him, cable la and he said,
wait a minute, he said, the uneducated street people talk
like that in Cuba, not the educated people. That's not
something an educated Cuban would say.

Speaker 5 (50:22):
That's simply not true, Nabby.

Speaker 31 (50:24):
Even President former President Barack Obama said it so.

Speaker 5 (50:29):
Well, that was maybe that's the point. I'm just kidding,
but he said, it's like saying, you know, what's up?
Is that right?

Speaker 12 (50:39):
And that is correct?

Speaker 35 (50:40):
All right?

Speaker 5 (50:41):
What's wrong with that?

Speaker 49 (50:42):
He?

Speaker 5 (50:42):
I guess he was wrong. He wanted me to say,
you know, probably more formal greeting, I guess.

Speaker 7 (50:47):
Although he couldn't do it himself. That's why he was
working at the airport.

Speaker 33 (50:50):
Mmmm.

Speaker 5 (50:51):
Felix Sharp CAVALIERO. Merry Christmas to you and police Navidad
and I'm married Mary Christmas. And a lot of blessings
on you and your show and your family.

Speaker 31 (51:07):
And thank you for inviting me.

Speaker 11 (51:09):
God bless you.

Speaker 7 (51:10):
I count my blessings, and one of them was hanging
out with you.

Speaker 6 (51:14):
Thank you, my blessing, hanging out with all of you
here today in person or listening on the radio or
those in spirit. It's Michael Patrick Shields. Merry Christmas.

Speaker 5 (51:28):
I want to wend you a very christ on the bottom.

Speaker 11 (51:35):
I want to wed you very.

Speaker 31 (51:41):
Very fred a wit you.

Speaker 19 (51:49):
In VC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. President Trump says
he's lowering costs. In an address to the nation from
the White House, Trump said car prices aren't down compared
to one of the Biden mention and that grocery prices
are falling rapidly.

Speaker 7 (52:03):
The National Guard will not be.

Speaker 19 (52:04):
Leaving the streets of DC following a ruling by a
federal appeals court.

Speaker 44 (52:08):
Tammy Trujillo reports.

Speaker 27 (52:09):
deployment on hold while legal arguments continue.

Speaker 19 (52:28):
I'm Tammy Truchello, and the US is moving to sharply
boost Taiwan's defenses with its largest ever arm sale. The
Trump administration has approved more than eleven billion dollars in weapons.
The move comes as Taiwan warns China could try to
take control of the island within the next few years.

Speaker 20 (52:43):

Speaker 27 (52:45):
Cold conditions continue in the northeast, with highs in the
upper twenties to mid thirties, expect a mix of sun
and clouds, with lingering lake effects snow showers east of
the Great Lakes. Clouds will increase throughout the day in
the mid Atlantic as high as reached the low forties,
partly sunny skies in the Southeast as temperatures reached the
low sixties. The Midwest days cold, with highs in the

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low thirties, snow showers under near the Great Lakes, while
areas further west day dry but cold, mostly sunny. Throughout
the Plain States, with the northern areas hitting the thirties.
The central and southern plains will climb to the low fifties.
Plenty of sunshine in the desert southwest, where temperature to
be in the upper seventies. Central and southern californiare under
sunny skies, with the coastal area seeing the low sixties

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and the inland valleys topping out in the mid to
upper seventies. The unsettled weather persists in the Pacific Northwest,
with periods of rain and lower elevations and snow in
the mountains. High stay in the forties to the low fifties.
That's your national forecast. I'm Tammy Trihello, NBC News Radio.

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Trump took him with the Biden administration while highlighting an
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for the District of Columbia over ruled a lower court
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a deadly mid air collision over the Potomac River earlier
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The Department of Justice making the admission in a court
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ninth crash. The government admits the pilots of an Army
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from a passenger jet making its final approach to Reagan,
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta and thirty five other attorneys
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Six Flags Magic Mountain says a major chunk of the
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And of course, the holiday spirit in the air, especially
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Sarah Walters with more There's.

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No place like home for the holidays, especially if you
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every building, light pole, and tree with lights. Number three Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
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forty one. The town says they are the first in
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Dolphins have bench quarterback two a time Loa rookie quarterback
Quinn Ewers. We'll get the start against the Bengals Sunday
at home Tua. I'm getting benched, naturally, i'd.

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human emotion, you know. Outside of that, I got to
do my part. My role here right now is to
help wherever the quarterback is going to be for this team,
to lead this team, help in whatever way I can.

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Thursday Night football sole possession of first place in the
NFC West on the line when the Seahawks take on
the Rams in Seattle. Wide receiver Davonte Adams is doubtful

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the Knicks have decided against hanging in a banner at
Madison Square Garden for winning the NBA Cup.

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That's sports.

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I'm Ronza Moss.

Speaker 27 (58:55):
Cold conditions continue in the Northeast, with highs in the
upper twenties to mid thirties. Expect a mix of sun
and clouds with lingering lake effects snow showers East of
the Great Lakes. Clouds will increase throughout the day. In
the mid Atlantic as high as reach the low forties,
expect partly sunny skies. In the Southeast, as temperatures reached
the low sixties. The Midwest days cold with highs in

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the low thirties. Snow showers linger near the Great Lakes,
while areas further west s day dry but cold, mostly
sunny throughout the Plain States, with the northern areas hitting
the thirties. The central and southern Plains will climb to
the low fifties. Plenty of sunshine in the desert Southwest,
where temporatal to be in the upper seventies, Central and
southern California or under sunny skies, with the coastal areas

(59:36):
seeing the low sixties and the inland valleys topping out
in the mid to upper seventies. The unsettled weather persists
in the Pacific Northwest, with periods of rain and lower
elevations and snow in the mountains. High stay in the
forties to the low fifties. That's your national forecast. I'm
Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
most engaging and influential radio and television program Michigan's Big

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He's heard from the beaches of Lake Michigan, to the
halls of power and behind closed doors. Here's Michigan's Michael
Patrick Shields.

Speaker 16 (01:00:32):
Oh it's snow.

Speaker 21 (01:00:33):
Isn't that wonderful?

Speaker 34 (01:00:35):
I never felt so much like Christmas in all my life?

Speaker 35 (01:00:37):
Don't you share it?

Speaker 39 (01:00:38):
Dear shut John.

Speaker 7 (01:00:39):
Nast's little face.

Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
Michael Patrick Shields is on the air.

Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
Good Morning World, There's where love snow.

Speaker 6 (01:00:46):
Though she's the owner of Mission Point Resort, Mackinaw Island
Travel Commissioner. She's joining our holiday spectacular, our Morning of
one hundred Stars. And never mind what you just heard,
you do enjoy the winter Wonderland, the Courier and ives
of mac Island.

Speaker 5 (01:01:00):
When it snows absolutely What about making that crossing though
on the boat? Is that scary?

Speaker 28 (01:01:06):
The cake?

Speaker 5 (01:01:07):
Piece of cake? Well, welcome, you came all the way
downstate for this party. And it's very very sweet of you.

Speaker 6 (01:01:11):
You are obviously one of the travel leaders in Michigan,
and a man next to you is also somebody who
has dealt in recreation his whole life, at the Michigan
level and at the national level too. He was president
of the PGA of America. John LINDERD, long time Country
Club of Lancing general manager. Thank you and Merry Christmas,
Merry Christmas, good morning. You recognize these guys over here,

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I do what site? What is your record at Country
Club of Lancing? Tim Agware.

Speaker 5 (01:01:40):
The range player?

Speaker 6 (01:01:43):
Why is it, John Linder that you can have a
good range session, then you go try to play and
you're all over the place and vice versa.

Speaker 52 (01:01:50):
It's the hardest twenty yards of golfed ever to walk
from the range to the first.

Speaker 18 (01:01:56):
E with that.

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
I never heard that one before.

Speaker 6 (01:01:59):
That's pretty We also saw you on the Android Bood podcast,
which I thought was very very interesting, and you can
hear that and see it still too wherever you got
your podcast as you did a deep dive into John LINDERD.

Speaker 7 (01:02:10):
Yeah, that was a wonderful hour and a half. We
had a good time.

Speaker 5 (01:02:14):
Were you sworn in before that or no? No, okay,
you didn't have to tell the truth then, No, but
I was locked in.

Speaker 7 (01:02:21):
Okay, they locked the doors behind me.

Speaker 6 (01:02:23):
In the zone, as they say in the golf world.
And Paul long a Michigan Catholic conference you liked. But
where did you play in Ireland when you went?

Speaker 9 (01:02:31):
Did not play in irel arm No, I didn't have
enough time.

Speaker 7 (01:02:34):
That's the next trip.

Speaker 5 (01:02:36):
If Santa, we're going to put a golf course under
your tree, what would it be?

Speaker 9 (01:02:41):
With all due respect to John Oakland Hills, but the
country Club of clumb Lancing is one of my favorite
courses to play. Get the opportunity to play there maybe
once a year, and I seem to play some of my.

Speaker 7 (01:02:56):
Best golf there.

Speaker 9 (01:02:58):
If I had the opportunity to be a member, I
think I could actually break ninety.

Speaker 6 (01:03:05):
That's funny how Tiger Woods used to come into the
press room and say, well, it broke eighty. It was
like self effacing thing to kind of say, wasn't it?

Speaker 7 (01:03:12):
Almost every time?

Speaker 6 (01:03:13):
What are your experiences being around him? Like you're around him,
like we are around you right now.

Speaker 52 (01:03:18):
Weren't you a little a little bit past Champions dinner?
A couple times.

Speaker 7 (01:03:25):
Tiger's a very intense person.

Speaker 52 (01:03:30):
He wants to sell at everything he does, and he
works really hard at not only his game, but it
growing the game.

Speaker 7 (01:03:42):
He cares he does.

Speaker 6 (01:03:43):
You take those headphones off if you're getting too much feedback.
Same goes for you, Liz where Because we're about to
play the game, we decided to well, I decided to
devise a contest for today's Christmas spectacular. I always have
to have a twist. This is a particularly twisted twist.
But since you're here and we're all around the Christmas tree,
here and Tim Aguire, since your color analyst tonight, describe

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for the listeners what you are seeing now on this
radio stage.

Speaker 45 (01:04:10):
Well, I'm seeing jolly Saint Nick with the accordion in
his chest, ha, and he is getting ready to read
some notes if you can believe that he's capable of
doing that, and play a Christmas song for all of
us here, and Plague.

Speaker 5 (01:04:30):
The game name that tune.

Speaker 6 (01:04:33):
In my Santa suit in Santa Suit and these notes
you're looking at are from second grade.

Speaker 5 (01:04:37):
And now let me tell you this.

Speaker 45 (01:04:41):
What you have that not a lot of people have
is adult supervision with your mother over there.

Speaker 6 (01:04:46):
That's right, Plantus is in the room and Felix Sharp cavaliero.
And so Tom is a paul A Long. Once a
year brings out his accordion with the players and he
does a show and he does quite well. And I
went to see it one time at Reno's i think
it was, and he opened up his accordion box and
it looked just like mine, like notes like this in
a book, and the same notes from when he was

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a kid. That's what these are. Al Truskowski wrote these
out in second grade. That's why the game is interesting
because this name that tune is pretty messed up. Because
if you can actually discern what the song is, you
will win.

Speaker 28 (01:05:22):
A prize, a regifted prize.

Speaker 6 (01:05:25):
You will be able to reach into the Beverly Hills
Hotel bag and pull out a regift. Some of them
are white elephants. Some of them well, so all of
them are white elephants. So there's not much chance involved
that you'll do.

Speaker 5 (01:05:39):
Fine. Who wants to go first? Ladies first?

Speaker 7 (01:05:43):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
Sure? Okay, see if you can name this tune played
by Santa MPs on the accordion on the radio on
thirteen stations which are now tuning out with rapid extream rapidness.
Here we go first cheated. I told you would you

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really not recognize.

Speaker 7 (01:06:15):
That's what that was.

Speaker 5 (01:06:19):
From the top.

Speaker 34 (01:06:30):
It's all making sense.

Speaker 5 (01:06:31):
Now, can I get a gig at mission point? Playing
this no okay comedy hour? Here it is.

Speaker 45 (01:06:42):
The bag is being delivered across the table, trying to
do all this looking with a tremendous joy and excitement.
This is to find out what is in that Beverly
Hills bag.

Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
Close your eyes, reach in, you know you can dig
deep whatever you want to do and pull.

Speaker 7 (01:07:04):
Out the idea.

Speaker 5 (01:07:05):
Actually, oh, describe it if you would for the listeners.

Speaker 31 (01:07:11):
The Sea Wolves.

Speaker 5 (01:07:15):
Help me. It's a Sea Wolves jersey.

Speaker 6 (01:07:19):
It looks like it's a small cooler from the Eerie
Sea Wolves, which is part of the Tigers organization. And
it's got Spencer Charcolson's name on the back. And you
could put, you know, a couple of Kansas strows in
there or whatever. And when you're driving up to.

Speaker 5 (01:07:33):
Mac and it will be nice and cold for the ride.

Speaker 31 (01:07:36):
Perfect.

Speaker 5 (01:07:36):
I know you'll treasure Thank you. I'm going to treasure
this forever.

Speaker 7 (01:07:39):
It's a perfect regift.

Speaker 5 (01:07:41):
Thank you. Okay, john Ley, you're your turn. Don't worry
out I'm gonna change the key on.

Speaker 7 (01:07:48):
Yeah, help me, please, here we go.

Speaker 49 (01:07:51):
Mm hmmm mm hmmmmmmmm mm hmmm mm hmmm.

Speaker 7 (01:08:05):
Little drummer boy, you cheated?

Speaker 5 (01:08:08):
Also, No, I didn't.

Speaker 12 (01:08:10):
No, I didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:08:11):
You didn't hear anything?

Speaker 7 (01:08:13):
How did I not know it?

Speaker 53 (01:08:19):
Do you have?

Speaker 9 (01:08:19):
Do you have like copyright in frenchmen on any of these?

Speaker 5 (01:08:22):
Like you're no, because no one can tell what the
song is not violating. These are our original you know compositions.

Speaker 7 (01:08:29):
Did you actually take lessons?

Speaker 50 (01:08:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:08:33):
It was second grade. Now you get to reach into
the gifting bag and you have to take whatever you
get out of there. It has to go with you.
You must take it from the room.

Speaker 7 (01:08:42):
Well, there's nothing sharp in here, so that's that's good will.

Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
John Lindard get ten seconds.

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F The Weekend has reportedly into new deal that will
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I gotta get these papers so I can wrap these.

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What am I gonna get you?

Speaker 12 (01:12:35):
Jemen?

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I hope I.

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Don't forget nobody on his loan loan list.

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I don't forget anybody, did.

Speaker 28 (01:12:42):
Anybody in the spirit.

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Through a little my way.

Speaker 28 (01:12:49):
I got the whole guy built up to the brims.

Speaker 31 (01:12:51):
Let them driving the slang.

Speaker 6 (01:12:55):
This is Jennifer Hudson and her Christmas album that came
out last year. She was our feature artist on this
program for the Holidays, and so we always remember our
past friends and.

Speaker 5 (01:13:05):
People who've appeared on the show. And I've appeared on
her show too, sing it Jena be gotta.

Speaker 6 (01:13:11):
Be My dancing on the Jennifer Hudson Show was about
as good as my accordion playing. If you ever saw
the episode, and you could go on YouTube and find
it if you really wanted to, but be prepared.

Speaker 5 (01:13:28):
You'll see what I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:13:33):
Good morning this morning to Dawn Sipple, who is listening
to this program in California. She is a Detroit Lions fan,
believe it or not. And the Lions went out there
and got Beeton last week. But they've got the Pittsburgh
Steelers this weekend. And Jim Nantz from CBS Sports will
be coming in to call the game and I will
meet him in the broadcast booth before the game. And
John Linder, you've met our friend Jim Nance a bunch

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of times with the PGA of America.

Speaker 52 (01:13:57):
I have great guy good I actually gave a little
uh introduction speech for his induction into the Oak Hill
Hill of Fame at Oakhill when I was president of
the pg of American when we had the PGA Championship there,
and and Jim and I have a little crossroad together.
I was also recruited by the University of Houston to
play college golf there along that.

Speaker 5 (01:14:19):
Wow, and but that's not where you went. Then I
went to the University of Arizona.

Speaker 52 (01:14:23):
And I told Jim that, you know, thank Goodness that
I went to the University of Arizona, because had I
gone to the University of Houston, I probably would be
sitting in the broadcast.

Speaker 7 (01:14:32):
Well, you were a professional somewhet.

Speaker 6 (01:14:34):
You were on national television with a microphone introducing the players.

Speaker 7 (01:14:37):
So it sort of handed out a few trophies here
and there.

Speaker 5 (01:14:40):
Arizona six years.

Speaker 6 (01:14:41):
University of Arizona is in Tucson, right, And Tim McGuire,
you spent a lot of time in Tucson with your father,
And that's I'm like a server. I asked him a
question when he's having a bite of a bagel this morning,
and honor asking in honor of friend Yaffy and happy
Honuka by the way to you. But just speak king
of you know, the people that we care about and

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think about it the holidays. Your dad was spent a
lot of time in Tucson and also Larry Pontino the Empire.

Speaker 5 (01:15:08):
Yeah, those great.

Speaker 45 (01:15:09):
Memories there Tucson Country Club. We had a lot of fun.
And it's a great golf course. And what a great
place for you to be able to go to school.
It's a wonderful university.

Speaker 52 (01:15:20):
They just the university just did a fundraiser and put
fifteen million dollars into Tucson Country Club.

Speaker 7 (01:15:26):
Yeah, and that was just their last spring.

Speaker 52 (01:15:29):
They built a wonderful facility for the students student athletes
there and they linked in the golf course for today's game.
And no remember going to your dad's house. Yeah, out
there on Ducson Country Club.

Speaker 6 (01:15:39):
This is very embarrassing for you, John Linder, but you're
a tough act to follow. And your microphone is now
going to go to Scott Ellis, do you.

Speaker 5 (01:15:46):
Know by any chance?

Speaker 7 (01:15:47):
Yeah, well I do.

Speaker 5 (01:15:49):
Have you taught him golf at all?

Speaker 7 (01:15:51):
Or well, we're it's a work in progress.

Speaker 12 (01:15:54):
Were more than a work in progress.

Speaker 5 (01:15:56):
I just yeah, well you can share them if you
want cozy up.

Speaker 52 (01:16:00):
It's actually called job security. Oh, it's a student my
retirement plan.

Speaker 5 (01:16:05):
Oh, it's like a chronic illness. The drugs are going
to have to come the rest of the time. Long lessons, Well,
get on that mic and tell us what was what
about Pinehurst? What did you shoot?

Speaker 7 (01:16:14):
Oh? I never broke I broke ninety one. I broke
ninety one.

Speaker 5 (01:16:19):
Time on that little course the cauldron or what is that?

Speaker 28 (01:16:21):
Oh?

Speaker 56 (01:16:21):
I didn't even do that, a little cold the cradle,
But we did.

Speaker 5 (01:16:25):
We did ten, two, four and eight eight. It was
eight was amazing.

Speaker 9 (01:16:31):
It was amazing.

Speaker 5 (01:16:31):
Two is It's ridiculous.

Speaker 56 (01:16:33):
I mean you gotta be like John to play that.
I can tell you that much. And then ten was
I think my favorite.

Speaker 7 (01:16:37):
Ten was awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:16:39):
Did you say you love eight Pinehurst? Number eight?

Speaker 32 (01:16:43):
I do?

Speaker 5 (01:16:43):
I didn't even know you played golf? Was where I do?

Speaker 28 (01:16:47):
I didn't say I play well, Wow, we.

Speaker 9 (01:16:49):
Don't have to play.

Speaker 12 (01:16:50):
Well.

Speaker 7 (01:16:50):
We had a good time.

Speaker 5 (01:16:50):
We had eight of us down there. That's impressive.

Speaker 56 (01:16:52):
A lot of walking, a lot of walking. But it
was an amazing course and I recommend it to anybody.
But John did give me lessons, you know before in
years past, and I got a.

Speaker 12 (01:16:59):
Lot of work to do.

Speaker 6 (01:17:00):
Susanne Hewart is going to let you reach into the
regift bag. Scott ellis from the Michigan License Beverage Association.
This is our special twisted gift. No peaking. Just dig
in there as far as you want. The Beverly Hills
Hotel bag. And what did you get?

Speaker 57 (01:17:13):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:17:14):
Actually, I think that's a good white Elephant gift.

Speaker 58 (01:17:17):
It is.

Speaker 11 (01:17:17):
It's a Galway Bay bag.

Speaker 56 (01:17:21):
Just because the weather changes doesn't mean your swing has to.

Speaker 6 (01:17:24):
Well, my swing does have to change, So this is
I think those are warm sleep. Uh, they're for your
arms so that you don't have to wear a bulky sweater.
And you put those on your arms.

Speaker 7 (01:17:34):
You what my kid wears us playing basketball?

Speaker 9 (01:17:36):
Stuff Like do you have an injury or something?

Speaker 49 (01:17:38):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:17:38):
Dad just looks cool.

Speaker 5 (01:17:39):
John, what about you know what?

Speaker 56 (01:17:40):
These would have been great because it was a little
chili down in Pine.

Speaker 5 (01:17:42):
Yeah, well you'll play somewhere. That's Jilly again, right?

Speaker 7 (01:17:44):
Oh yeah, well you're gonna take me to Ireland.

Speaker 12 (01:17:46):
I hope.

Speaker 5 (01:17:47):
Huh that isn't in the White Elephant. John. That's a
pretty handy tool, isn't it.

Speaker 52 (01:17:54):
Those are great I've got them. They make them both
for cold weather and some protection.

Speaker 5 (01:18:00):
Now I have both.

Speaker 52 (01:18:01):
I have the I have the cold weather one s
and for the sun as well.

Speaker 5 (01:18:04):
Okay, look, how cool you're gonna be. No trading, right,
no trading. I am not trading. I hadn't thought about
that really.

Speaker 6 (01:18:10):
Yeah, well you know, but we're gonna check with your
wife and if we find out you're wearing those on
your legs, we're going to take them back.

Speaker 5 (01:18:17):
Got a problem, Oh boy, But don't we have.

Speaker 6 (01:18:22):
Time here for Tony Cuthbert, Just to break this up
a little bit, how about Charlie Brown Paul Long would
like this and the true meaning of Christmas Queer.

Speaker 49 (01:18:32):
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in
the field, keeping watch over their flock by night, and lo,
the Angel of the Lord came upon them, the glory
of the Lords on round about them, and they were
sore afraid, And the Angel said, unto them, if you're
not for behold, I bring you tidings, a great joy
which will be to all people. For unto you is

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born this day in the city of David, a savior,
just Christ the Lord. And this should be a sign
onto you. You shall find the Babe wrapped and swaddling clothes,
lying in an angel. And suddenly there was with the
angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God. I'm
saying glory to God in the highest an on earth,

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peace good will toward me. That's what Christmas is thought about.

Speaker 5 (01:19:19):
Charlie Brown.

Speaker 9 (01:19:21):
Beautifully said linus.

Speaker 5 (01:19:24):
Yeah, dropped a mic on that one. Huh sure did.
Peace would be nice could start.

Speaker 9 (01:19:30):
There would be very nice beginning in the Holy Land
and spreading out from there.

Speaker 5 (01:19:35):
And starts with all of us today. To go ahead
and smile at somebody. That's all it really.

Speaker 9 (01:19:40):
Takes, being kind and generous to others.

Speaker 5 (01:19:44):
We start with a smile.

Speaker 9 (01:19:46):
Yes, as Father Jake used to say, if you treat
everyone like Jesus, the world would be better off.

Speaker 5 (01:19:52):
Paul Loong, Michigan Catholic Conference MPs Merry Christmas.

Speaker 19 (01:19:56):
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The company's AI powered ray banglasses now have an audio
component which will boost conversations in noisy environments or even
play music.

Speaker 20 (01:20:53):
Tech report a Markemeyfield.

Speaker 59 (01:21:02):
Hey, jingy g it's Dominick the Donkey for you Italian
Christmas Donkey.

Speaker 6 (01:21:13):
I didn't get white elephant gifts. I got beautiful gifts
from Tony Cuppert in the orchestra. Now let's see if
you've ever been out West and Tim McGuire, you have.

Speaker 5 (01:21:21):
You know what this is? Oh boy, I'm gonna take
that one.

Speaker 6 (01:21:26):
He gave me a gift certificate to In and Out
and he wrote, I don't know how he did this,
but we're hearing Dominic the Donkey, the Italian Christmas song
right now. In the card he wrote, tale if Alice
on Novo the off und Hamburgers, which Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year. I'm giving you a Hamburger just for you. Excellent.

Speaker 7 (01:21:47):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:21:47):
And he also gave me these Liz Where stamps of
Barbara Bush, a whole shitty nice Barbara Bush stamps.

Speaker 6 (01:21:57):
And you know I have lucky enough to meet my
mother down here. Gladys was luckily meet her, and so
was Suzanne Hewart.

Speaker 7 (01:22:06):
You giving them to her?

Speaker 5 (01:22:07):
Oh I guess she kind of looks like you.

Speaker 24 (01:22:11):
By the way, you got me an Italian themed gift
as well. It's a very nice pillow with me sitting
in a Ferrari F one car.

Speaker 5 (01:22:18):
It's very very nice.

Speaker 6 (01:22:19):
You send in his face and they put him as
the driver with your does it is an accurate likeness.

Speaker 24 (01:22:25):
Close enough, close enough And.

Speaker 5 (01:22:27):
The Hewards gave me a Delta gift card so I
can fly to.

Speaker 9 (01:22:33):
California.

Speaker 5 (01:22:37):
Very useful, very very useful stuff. Thank you very much
for all of that.

Speaker 6 (01:22:42):
Now we have, oh Mission Point Resort. You're there at
least three times a year, aren't you, Scott Elise at least?

Speaker 5 (01:22:48):
And if I can go more, I will go there
right next to you.

Speaker 48 (01:22:51):
I know.

Speaker 56 (01:22:52):
It's one of my favorite parts of coming here for Christmas.
But yeah, I mean Mission Points. One of our best
members of the Lice Michigan Licensed Beverage Association. She's a leader,
you know when it comes to the island, Liz is
might go to you know, we do training up there
every year and she graciously hosts all the servers on
the island come to her place and we go up
and do server training.

Speaker 5 (01:23:09):
And does he behave why don't go up there for that?

Speaker 28 (01:23:13):
I can't tell you that.

Speaker 5 (01:23:14):
Okay, good see how wait you're there with me? One
of the times I don't think there's let's change the subject.
By the way, do you miss the voice of Tim
Allen on the Pure Michigan commercials?

Speaker 35 (01:23:23):
I do?

Speaker 56 (01:23:23):
You know what's funny is is those campaigns. I don't
think people realize what it does for the state.

Speaker 12 (01:23:27):
And then, you know, if you're a traveler. I travel
not quite as much.

Speaker 56 (01:23:30):
But when you're another you're at a hotel and you
see that pop up and you hear Tim Allen, and
you see the come to Michigan, pure Michigan.

Speaker 5 (01:23:35):
It really right, and that he comes back this year,
it does. They were the best. We'll be back. It's
MPs all across Michigan.

Speaker 25 (01:23:58):
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Trump took ing with the Biden administration while highlighting an
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for the District of Columbia overruled a lower court order
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implement work requirements for Medicaid recipients. The requirements outlined in
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Speaker 16 (01:26:51):

Speaker 11 (01:27:17):
All be home for Christmas.

Speaker 5 (01:27:24):
You can count on.

Speaker 6 (01:27:30):
James Judson with his brand new Christmas album which we
are featuring on this program, and we debuted the world
radio debut sing it James.

Speaker 11 (01:27:39):
The Present Suddenly the Tree.

Speaker 6 (01:27:44):
When James Judson is singing Tim Maguire the Presence under
the Tree, do you think he's singing.

Speaker 5 (01:27:49):
About the bag that I have of gifts to give
to guests who come back. I think that was in
his mind's eye when he wrote that song.

Speaker 6 (01:27:57):
So, since we're talking about presents under the tree and
being home for Christmas here at Lancing, the mayor is
here and he sure just re elected. Merry Christmas and
welcome back to the airwaves.

Speaker 40 (01:28:10):
Merry Christmas, Happy, Happy Kwanza, happy all the holidays and seasons.

Speaker 5 (01:28:15):
It's great to be here.

Speaker 6 (01:28:15):
So since he mentioned three or four different faiths, does
he get to go into the gift bag four times?

Speaker 42 (01:28:22):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:28:24):
Yes, be careful what you wish for. Susanne Hewart is
going to bring you the I thought you were kidding.
Now here's the thing I thought he was kidding. Don't
wait now, don't don't look in there, and don't get excited.
It's a Beverly Hills Hotel bag, but it's full of
regifts and whatever you take you must take home with you.
Oh what did you get?

Speaker 33 (01:28:45):
Right?

Speaker 9 (01:28:46):
I got happy socks.

Speaker 5 (01:28:47):
That's one of the batter gifts.

Speaker 40 (01:28:49):
I'm very excited for the happy So.

Speaker 6 (01:28:51):
Those are pretty flashy. Would you wear those at the
council meetings and so forth? Would you wear a pair
of those at the next State of the City address?

Speaker 44 (01:28:58):
Probably?

Speaker 5 (01:28:59):
You promise you'll wear them first? No, I didn't wear them.
The Happy gifted, but not previously warned. You're definitely regift
this box. This box is definitely beat up. Yeah, that's
the charm of it. The State of the City. Is
that what George Bush wore? Did he wear happy socks?

Speaker 33 (01:29:18):
Was that?

Speaker 35 (01:29:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:29:18):
He wore those? He was the Republican. That's okay, though,
isn't It's okay. It's a weird.

Speaker 40 (01:29:23):
I'm non partisans, so it's all good.

Speaker 6 (01:29:25):
I'd be excited, though, to watch the State of the
City address and know the mayor was wearing a para
sos that came from the regift bag on the holiday
show right here in the city.

Speaker 5 (01:29:33):
Will think about it. I don't watching the budget. I
don't know.

Speaker 45 (01:29:37):
I'm kind of wavering on the buzzball or the happy socks.

Speaker 5 (01:29:43):
Matt Rhodes got the buzz ball, but he brought that
upon himself. Now now that you see what the gift is,
you still want to reach in there.

Speaker 8 (01:29:54):
I got three socks, so you get I did get.

Speaker 5 (01:29:56):
I got three gifts I got.

Speaker 6 (01:29:59):
Susanne Hewart is not allowed to reach into the bag
because she is now she's doing she's doing an inventory.

Speaker 40 (01:30:06):
Of the bag, and she wants to know if you
regifted her gifts.

Speaker 5 (01:30:11):
She has seen all the prizes in the bad That's awesome.
Oh gosh, what would you give the uh?

Speaker 6 (01:30:17):
What would you give your citizens if you could give
them anything at Christmas without any budget constraints, et cetera.

Speaker 40 (01:30:24):
What would I would I would have every every one
of our four hundred miles of roads and six hundred
miles of sidewalks.

Speaker 20 (01:30:30):
Like that fixed nice.

Speaker 5 (01:30:33):
That would be nice.

Speaker 40 (01:30:34):
That would be impossible, but that would be nice. If
I could do that tomorrow. That's the most common thing
that I heard knocking doors. You know, we knocked eighty
three thousand doors during the election, which is a great
way to hear from your constituency. And we heard lots
of different things, good and bad, but we heard a
lot of folks who understood, you know, we understand. You know,

(01:30:55):
we don't you don't have the money, but you don't
have the money, but please fix my road next. So
that's what I would do if if you, Santa granted
me the Christmas miracle, I would say, just put every
road that we have in the city of Lansing right
back to where it was when it first started.

Speaker 6 (01:31:10):
He's referring, I'm wearing a Santa suit, So I wish
I could just grant that.

Speaker 7 (01:31:14):
Maybe.

Speaker 6 (01:31:15):
Well, now what I do I do notice that we're
all we're not even into the end of December yet,
and you've had in the city what's called a code blue.

Speaker 5 (01:31:23):
Yeah, yeah, I never knew about that.

Speaker 40 (01:31:25):
This has been one of the coldest winters in many,
many years. So when we have a variety of metrics
that are national and when it gets under a certain
temperature under twenty five degrees with wind chill, a variety
of other temperatures. We call it Code Blue. All of
the shelters will admit pretty much anyone. They've all got

(01:31:46):
some lists where, you know, some people who've done some
things in the past have not been able to come
back in, and we open up Let's Community Center at
night and people can go there for warming. So basically,
when it's certain cold weather, we we throw out all
the rules and we put people in to make sure
that they're not getting frostbite and not being affected by

(01:32:07):
the intensely cold elements. We do some of this in
the summer also with Code reds. We've been doing it
for five or six years, but this is the first
time I think we've had it continually now for for
three four weeks. Usually it's three four days at a time.
You activate it and then you let it expire and
and but now it's it's been excessively cold. You know,

(01:32:29):
yesterday was forty degrees and I was like, this is great,
but last night was you know under under in the teens.
I think, so you got to you got to help people,
and you got to do your best to do it.
So we're hoping that we'll come out of Code blue
soon so so staff can get a little bit of
rest because it's very time intensive for staff and costly,
but we're helping people.

Speaker 6 (01:32:50):
Well, thank you for warming people and for warming our hearts.
And I'm gonna circle back, Paul along from the Michigan
Catholic Conference to what we said about how we can
create peace each one of us individual. This what you
led into, mister Mayor and Paul and Father Jake and Absentia.
Is what Bill Murray said at the end of the
movie Scrooged.

Speaker 31 (01:33:10):
It's Christmas Easy.

Speaker 60 (01:33:12):
It's the one night of the year when we all
act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we
chair a little more for a couple of hours out
of the whole year.

Speaker 31 (01:33:23):
We are the people that we always hope we would be.

Speaker 12 (01:33:28):
It's a miracle.

Speaker 60 (01:33:30):
It's really sort of a miracle because it happens every
Christmas eason.

Speaker 31 (01:33:34):
And if you waste that miracle, you're gonna burn for it.

Speaker 5 (01:33:37):
I know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 60 (01:33:39):
You have to do something, you have to take a chance,
you do have to get involved. There are people that
are having trouble making their miracle happen. There are people
that don't have enough to eat that there are people
that are cold. You can go out and say hello
to these people. You can take an old blanket out
of the closet and say here. You can make them
a sandwich and say, oh, by the.

Speaker 31 (01:33:57):
Way, here, I get it now.

Speaker 60 (01:34:00):
And if you if you give, then you then it
can happen. Then the miracle can happen to you. It's
not just the poor and the hungry. It's it's everybody
who's gotta have this miracle, and it can happen.

Speaker 31 (01:34:11):
To night for all of you.

Speaker 60 (01:34:12):
If you believe in this beer thing, you the miracle
will happen, and then you'll want it to happen again tomorrow.

Speaker 31 (01:34:17):
You won't be one of these fasts. It says Christmas
is once a year and it's a fraud. It's not.

Speaker 60 (01:34:22):
It can happen every day. You just gotta want that feeling.
And if you like it and you want it, you'll
get greedy for it. You'll want every day of your
life and it.

Speaker 31 (01:34:31):
Can happen to you. I don't I believe in it.
Now I believe it's gonna happen to me.

Speaker 12 (01:34:36):
Now I'm ready for it.

Speaker 21 (01:34:39):
And it's great.

Speaker 12 (01:34:41):
It's a good feeling.

Speaker 5 (01:34:42):
It's it's really bitter that I.

Speaker 44 (01:34:44):
Felt in a long time.

Speaker 3 (01:34:47):
I'm ready, I have a Merry Christmas, Paul.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
That'd be a pretty good homily, wouldn't that midnight Mass?

Speaker 9 (01:34:56):
It would be a great homily any Sunday of the year.

Speaker 5 (01:35:00):
A good point. Why not Christmas all the time? That's
correct point.

Speaker 9 (01:35:04):
And it's a point it's well said from the standpoint
that if you believe it, if you try to live it,
you want to do more of it. And this is
a season in which is a giving season. It's not
a it shouldn't be a getting season.

Speaker 6 (01:35:23):
By the way, Tim McGuire gave a beautiful gift to
my uncle Denny. He didn't have to do that, and
he made his day, made his year. Probably, that's what
I'm talking about, totally random. Thank you for that, Oh,
uncle Denny.

Speaker 5 (01:35:35):
He's a legend.

Speaker 6 (01:35:39):
We will try to circle back with him soon. It's
MPs through the AT and T microphones. Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 20 (01:38:01):
I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 19 (01:38:02):
President Trump says he's lowering costs. In an address to
the nation from the White House, Trump said car prices
aren't down compared to under the Biden administration and that
grocery prices are falling rapidly.

Speaker 20 (01:38:13):
The National Guard will not.

Speaker 19 (01:38:14):
Be leaving the streets of DC following a ruling by
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Speaker 44 (01:38:18):

Speaker 27 (01:38:19):
to mobilize the guard within the district. The ruling doesn't
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Speaker 19 (01:38:39):
The US is moving to sharply boost Taiwan's defenses with
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Speaker 64 (01:39:03):
Lights on godders doors with mistletoe. Well the man's calling
for another foot of snow. The freeze is fall of Venison,
The fridge is full of beer, Christmas Time.

Speaker 5 (01:39:14):
And Michigan it is here.

Speaker 6 (01:39:16):
Oh wait, cookies with dress is Dewey Lungusky from Mason
with a Christmas song that actually includes this program.

Speaker 64 (01:39:24):
Neighbors Friends bringing Holiday cheer. Christmas Time, Michigan it is here,
lights on Big Man shining ain't bright to help both
Sanna find his way.

Speaker 11 (01:39:37):
So while the boys and girls in the Land.

Speaker 64 (01:39:39):
Of the Hand did their brand news lands on Christmas Day,
Bishigan's Big Show is spreading goodwill.

Speaker 5 (01:39:47):
There it is.

Speaker 6 (01:39:48):
Thank you very much for saying that we're spreading goodwill,
and we're connecting people this morning too, and we're connecting
with old friends to Mike fa Savage chef Mike they
call him at resurrec is here and he was my
former neighbor in the Pine Crest neighborhood and he travels
around quite a bit now.

Speaker 5 (01:40:06):
And is missus still teaching at Resurrection is?

Speaker 6 (01:40:09):
She's never going to stop it? Didn't you say she
was addicted to the smell of the chalk?

Speaker 7 (01:40:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:40:14):
Right, what a nice thing to see you again. One
of our fishing.

Speaker 6 (01:40:18):
Expert on the program too, and forestry expert as well.
And you gave the most interesting gift.

Speaker 59 (01:40:28):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:40:28):
It's it's hard to give people that are successful gifts
because you just don't know what they need or they
really need anything. But so we give us our you know,
of our time and of our hearts all along. But
you gave Tony Cuthbert a gift once that was that
had to do with Christmas? I did, Yeah, it had
to do with Jesus and and the Three Kings, remember, Yeah,

(01:40:52):
would you tell everybody what that wasn't well?

Speaker 65 (01:40:56):
I have ten grandchildren, and every time they get baptized
they get the same baptismal gift. It's what the wise
men brought to Jesus, gold, frankensense and mirrhes, and so

(01:41:16):
we gave when his son was born, we gave him
some of that.

Speaker 5 (01:41:21):
How about that Tony that was touching, wasn't it?

Speaker 15 (01:41:23):
It was?

Speaker 24 (01:41:24):
It was a difficult time, There's no question when I
was provided that in Josh and he It is in
a very special place in our house, and I am
forever grateful for it.

Speaker 7 (01:41:34):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:41:35):
That's beautiful stuff. And you brought Tony something a little
different this time today, didn't you. And you brought it
for me too. And my Polish mother, Gladys Shields. Your
chick is her maiden name, sitting right over her Jerasic,
your chick.

Speaker 5 (01:41:50):
This is a koalachi.

Speaker 17 (01:41:51):
What is that?

Speaker 65 (01:41:53):
Well, it's a Ukrainian nut roll. It's a pastry done
in Eastern Europe. Every country has a little bit different
spin on it.

Speaker 59 (01:42:05):
And so.

Speaker 65 (01:42:09):
This one is a recipe from my grandmother. I make
them every year and people that are on my nice.

Speaker 5 (01:42:16):
List get one and the naughty list don't. But I
got one.

Speaker 7 (01:42:22):
You're a nice guy.

Speaker 5 (01:42:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:42:24):
I like on the label Hill these are not local.
But enjoy every bite and we will for sure. Now
in return, we are going to give you a chance
to dip into the regift bag today from the Beverly
Hills Hotel and Liz where from mission point resort is
going to be the van of white. Now, you can't
look in there. You just have to reach in and

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whatever you take you must take home with You can't
leave it here.

Speaker 5 (01:42:50):
What is Mike Pasavage coming.

Speaker 7 (01:42:51):
Up with out of the gift What did he It's
a box?

Speaker 6 (01:42:54):
Oh yes, okay, while you're opening that to see what
it is, we are also going to welcome to the
air waves Ingrid Stein's doctor of podiatric medicine. That's your
feet right, Thank you very much. I'm welcome to the
air waves. And Merry Christmas to you.

Speaker 34 (01:43:12):
Merry Christmas, thanks for having me here today.

Speaker 5 (01:43:14):
It's a pleasure ornament.

Speaker 6 (01:43:16):
Well we found out what the req Now that is
a cheetah and that is a cheetah ornament and that
came from Africa from Mikado Safaris, regifted to you from
me and Makado Safarish. Anyway, Paul, long wait to hear
the story of how doctor Ingrid got here?

Speaker 5 (01:43:35):
How did you get here? Would you tell us? And
don't be shy about it?

Speaker 34 (01:43:38):
Okay, I am going to tell you the story several
years ago. Okay, so years ago when I first started
watching your show and listening to you, my late husband
told me, I think you need to get on his
show and talk about what you're passionate about, which is
helping people with their foot pain and what I do

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for a living. And I said, no, I can't go
on the ear.

Speaker 5 (01:44:03):
So here you are though.

Speaker 34 (01:44:05):
I was at Saint Martha's auction and thank you for
contributing this. And I bid because I just I said,
you know what I'm going to do it my husband
told me to do. And here I am.

Speaker 5 (01:44:16):
You bid on being on this show at the Saint
Martha's auction. Ye were you there, Paul?

Speaker 9 (01:44:21):
We unfortunately worked with it as he's a double header
on campus with football and hockey.

Speaker 5 (01:44:26):
That okay? And Tim, you frequent Saint Martha's now too, Yes,
I was at the Christmas pageant on Tuesday, you were, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:44:38):
Well, and now look we have a whole Saint Martha's
section here. Now that's very interesting. They migrated from saint.

Speaker 9 (01:44:44):
I wondered, I wondered who won that, And so it's
very nice to meet the doctor.

Speaker 5 (01:44:51):
Thank you doctor Ingrid did.

Speaker 6 (01:44:52):
And in the future we're going to talk more about
why at the Red Ceedar Pedietary people maybe they're not
so attentive to their feet as they should be.

Speaker 34 (01:45:03):
That's a really good point, especially this time of year.
We like to say, with people traveling and being on
their feet more shopping, it's a really good time to
pay attention to any new symptoms pain. It's not normal
to have foot pain, so we try to help them
with that, just prevention and pain relief so that they
can do the things they want to do this time
of year, enjoy the holidays, prepare for the marathon, whatever marathon.

Speaker 5 (01:45:27):
Should we walk around our house barefoot or not?

Speaker 35 (01:45:29):
Never?

Speaker 5 (01:45:30):
Never? Oh, it feels so good though? No, what about
the beach barefoot walking?

Speaker 34 (01:45:37):
I'm not a huge fan of ben ever, it's too
easy to step on things, get injuries and glass in
the feet, and you.

Speaker 5 (01:45:44):
Know you care barefoot in the grass.

Speaker 34 (01:45:47):
A little bit of foot in the beach, though, sounds
good right now?

Speaker 5 (01:45:50):
It does well.

Speaker 6 (01:45:51):
Your toes in the sand, I guess is a better
way to put it, I always wondered about that.

Speaker 5 (01:45:55):
So you should wear shoes or slippers around your own house. Correct, Okay,
Well there's little tip that you can get, and you'll
get more of that when we talk to you at
length in the next time, because now you're going to
come back again and thank you for your charitable donation
to Saint Martha's.

Speaker 6 (01:46:10):
That's very very sweet of you. And also thanks to
Sue who put it all together there. I met her Jenkins.

Speaker 34 (01:46:17):
Literally, yes, I met her that evening and she yeah,
gets your cute story for another time. I would just
throw one more thing that's speaking of this as.

Speaker 5 (01:46:25):
Soon as we get back.

Speaker 6 (01:46:26):
When it comes to healthcare costs, we often focus on
one thing, our insurance premiums. But what if we're only
seeing part of the picture. The truth is our health
insurance costs reside downstream at the end of the cost equation.
But to really understand what's driving up costs, we need
to look upstream to the healthcare system itself. Upstream, there
are costs like the price is charged by hospitals and doctors,

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and the cost of prescription drugs, healthcare administration, and technology.
These costs flow downstream directly into your health insurance premium.
That's why Blue Cross Blue Shield the Michigan is advocating
for a system wide solution to address the rising cost
of healthcare. Blue Cross knows that healthcare is personal, needs

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to work for everyone, and affordability matters, and that starts
with shedding light on the entire cost equation from upstream
costs to downstream premiums. Want to learn more, visit MI
blue Daily dot com slash affordability.

Speaker 28 (01:47:26):

Speaker 47 (01:47:27):
Dolphins have bench quarterback Tua tongue O Vi looa rookie
quarterback Quinn viewers. We'll get the start against the Bengals
Sunday at home. Tua, I'm getting benched, naturally.

Speaker 48 (01:47:38):
I'd say I'm disappointed. I think it's normal. It's normal
human emotion, you know. Outside of that, I got to
do my part. My road here right now is to
help whoever the quarterback is going to be for this team,
to lead this team, help in whatever.

Speaker 39 (01:47:52):
Way I can.

Speaker 47 (01:47:53):

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Speaker 16 (01:48:22):
That's sports.

Speaker 28 (01:48:23):
I'm Ronza Moss.

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Speaker 5 (01:48:57):
Doctor ingrid Stein.

Speaker 6 (01:48:58):
Since we were talking about toes and sand, here's a
little meley Khaliki maka, a Hawaiian Christmas carol for you.

Speaker 7 (01:49:06):
Macca is a thing.

Speaker 6 (01:49:08):
Wow, you're doing a hula dance. I wish we could
see that on the radio. Just imagine her doing that. Now,
Who is your friend you brought in the corner over here?

Speaker 34 (01:49:17):
This is Jayleen Mills.

Speaker 5 (01:49:18):
She's in red very nice. Yes, and jewelry. Oh gee's
got jingle bells on.

Speaker 17 (01:49:23):
I know.

Speaker 34 (01:49:23):
And she's great. She's the one that greets patients on
the phone and when they walk into the office, makes
them feel welcome and just does a fabulous job. We're
so happy to have her part of her team.

Speaker 6 (01:49:34):
Here's the part of the day where you get to
look into the regifting bag. You don't look in there,
you reach into the regifting bag. Tim maguire will do
the honors this time. Whatever you get as a gift,
you must take with you. You cannot leave it here,
no peaking, and feel free to dig around. Oh dear,
what did you get?

Speaker 34 (01:49:54):
Something to organize my closet, which.

Speaker 5 (01:49:58):
I know I need so magic hangers. The magic hangers
are actually courtesy of Gladys Shields. My mother over there,
And I think your friend should also get a chance
to reach into the regifting gifting bag. And once again,
you must take with you whatever comes off that bag.

Speaker 6 (01:50:20):
And she's reaching in right now and she pulls out. Oh,
you got the same kind of guest as Mike the Seven.
You've got a zebra ornament that's courtesy of Micado Safaris
in Africa.

Speaker 5 (01:50:33):
Congratulations, don't leave it here. You need to know whatever
you do.

Speaker 6 (01:50:39):
Tony Cuthbert, how about a little jingle bell since she's
wearing jingle bells from JP McCarthy and his Christmas sing Along,
and maybe we can sing along too.

Speaker 5 (01:50:46):
That's what's everybody.

Speaker 19 (01:50:50):
The nineteen ninety four Detroit Free Press w JR Christmas
thing is on.

Speaker 5 (01:50:56):
Hey, we're here in the park.

Speaker 3 (01:51:00):
Went across streets from the Fisher Building, Grand Boulevard.

Speaker 24 (01:51:03):
And second we've got a crowd of five thousand, very
hearty souls.

Speaker 5 (01:51:07):
No way, I'm Larry Santos is with us?

Speaker 12 (01:51:13):
How you doing? Wonder fight?

Speaker 5 (01:51:15):
Same to you Christmas, Larry. We've got good singers tonight too.

Speaker 44 (01:51:18):
Fat Bob Taylor, of course is with us.

Speaker 66 (01:51:20):
Fat Bobby, I'm doing the best I can, considering I
have minimal talent.

Speaker 5 (01:51:25):
We're worried about you. You just sort of straggled in.

Speaker 7 (01:51:28):
Well, okay, I may be.

Speaker 8 (01:51:32):
John McMurray, the world's greatest weather man.

Speaker 5 (01:51:35):
He's here.

Speaker 8 (01:51:35):
Thanks John, I'm absolutely here.

Speaker 11 (01:51:38):
And who's the guy on then here?

Speaker 7 (01:51:40):
Tell me where are you?

Speaker 5 (01:51:41):
What a parade of friends from Christmas past with MPs.

Speaker 19 (01:51:49):
INVC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. President Trump says he's
lowering costs. In an address to the nation from the
White House, Trump said car prices aren't down compared to
one of the Biden in Minutes stration, and that grocery
prices are falling rapidly. The National Guard will not be
leaving the streets of DC following a ruling by a
federal appeals court.

Speaker 44 (01:52:08):

Speaker 27 (01:52:09):
deployment on hold while legal arguments continue.

Speaker 19 (01:52:28):
I'm Tammy Truchello, and the US is moving to sharply
boost Taiwan's defenses with its largest ever arm sale. The
Trump administration has approved more than eleven billion dollars in weapons.
The move comes as Taiwan warns China could try to
take control of the island within the next few years.

Speaker 20 (01:52:43):

Speaker 27 (01:52:45):
upper twenties to mid thirties, expect a mix of sun
and clouds, with lingering lake effects snow showers east of
the Great Lakes. Clouds will increase throughout the day in
the mid Atlantic as high as reached the low fortiest,
partly sunny skies in the Southeast as temperatures reached the
low sixties. The Midwest days cold, with highs in the

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low thirties. Snow showers linger near the Great Lakes, while
areas further west day dry but cold, mostly sunny. Throughout
the Plain States, with the northern areas hitting the thirties.
The central and southern plains will climb to the low fifties.
Plenty of sunshine in the desert southwest, where temperature to
be in the upper seventies, Central and southern California or
under sunny skies, with the coastal area seeing the low

(01:53:27):
sixties and the inland valleys topping out in the mid
to upper seventies. The unsettled weather persists in the Pacific Northwest,
That's your national forecast. I'm Tammy Trihello, NBC News Radio.

Speaker 25 (01:53:59):
I'm Scott car President Trump says he's bringing down costs
for Americans. Addressing the nation from the White House last night,
Trump said wages for workers like construction workers are growing
at a fast rate. He claimed his implementation of global
tariffs are helping the cause. As we hear from Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 19 (01:54:15):
Trump took ing with the Biden administration while highlighting an

Speaker 26 (01:54:23):
our country.

Speaker 19 (01:54:29):
He started his speech by saying he inherited a mess

Speaker 20 (01:54:40):
I'm Markeneyfield.

Speaker 25 (01:54:41):

Speaker 27 (01:54:47):
for the District of Columbia over rule a lower court
order to win the deployment. The ruling noted that DC
doesn't the case, but it puts the end of the
deployment on hold while legal arguments continue. I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 25 (01:55:05):

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from a passenger jet making its final approach to Reagan,
National Scott Car, NBC News.

Speaker 50 (01:55:53):
Radio, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and thirty five other
attorneys general announced a settlement with Kia and Hondai for
selling cars with major security flaws.

Speaker 28 (01:56:03):
Tammy Truhiu explained.

Speaker 27 (01:56:05):
Those security flaws make the cars easy to hot wire
and steel. The company sold millions of vehicles lacking industry
standard anti theft technology, specifically within the ignition. The agreement
requires Kean Hyundai to add anti theft technology to all
future US vehicles. The companies must also provide free ignition
updates to eligible current owners and pay restitution to consumers

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whose cars are stolen are damaged.

Speaker 50 (01:56:27):
Six Flags Magic Mountain says a major chunk of the
park will be undergoing a major renovation.

Speaker 28 (01:56:33):
Mark Mayfield with the story.

Speaker 19 (01:56:40):
The area currently known as Bugs Bunny World is going
to be renamed Looney tuns Land. Six Flanks say they're
going to update the area over the next few months
and add new play spaces. Looney tuns Land will focus
on four areas, Terancemania, road Runner Ridge, Bugs Bunny Playpark,
and Camp Duck amunp Construction will start next month, where
the new area schedule to open by next summer.

Speaker 50 (01:57:02):
And of course, the holiday spirit in the air, especially
if you're in one of the towns that just made
Zillow's list of the most festive in the country. Sarah
Walters with more There's no place like home for the holidays,
especially if you live in Santa Claus, Indiana. Mcadenville, North Carolina,
is known as Christmastown USA since nineteen fifty six. Residents
decorate everything, every building, light, pole, and tree with lights.

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Number three Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, christened after the birthplace of Jesus
on Christmas Even seventeen forty one. The town says they
are the first in the States to have a decorated
Christmas tree. And iHeartMedia and Netflix are joining forces for
an exclusive video podcast partnership. The streaming giant will become
the exclusive video home for more than fifteen of.

Speaker 28 (01:57:46):
The top original iHeart podcasts.

Speaker 50 (01:57:49):
New video episodes will launch on Netflix early next year.
I'm Monica Nelson with your consumer and business news.

Speaker 47 (01:57:56):
Let's start in the NFL, Dolphins have bench quarterback two
a Tona, rookie quarterback Quinn Ewers We'll get the start
against the Bengals Sunday at home Tua.

Speaker 11 (01:58:06):
I'm getting benched, naturally.

Speaker 48 (01:58:07):
I'd say I'm disappointed. I think it's normal. It's normal
human emotion.

Speaker 12 (01:58:12):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:58:12):
Outside of that, I got to do my part.

Speaker 48 (01:58:15):
My road here right now is to help whoever the
quarterback is going to be for this team, to lead
this team, help in.

Speaker 12 (01:58:22):
Whatever way I can.

Speaker 47 (01:58:23):
the Rams in Seattle. Wide receiver Davonte Adams is doubtful

(01:58:44):

Speaker 16 (01:58:52):
That's sports.

Speaker 28 (01:58:53):
I'm Ron Tamoss.

Speaker 27 (01:58:55):
upper twenties to mid thirties. Expect a mix of sun
and clouds with lingering lake effects snow showers. East of
the Great Lakes. Clouds will increase throughout the day. In
the mid Atlantic, as high as reach the low forties,
expect partly sunny skies. In the Southeast, as temperatures reached
the low sixties, the Midwest days cold with highs in

(01:59:15):
the low thirties. Snow showers linger near the Great Lakes,
while areas further west day dry but cold, mostly sunny
throughout the Plain States, with the northern areas hitting the thirties,
The central and southern Plains will climb to the low fifties.
Plenty of sunshine in the desert Southwest, where temporatal to
be in the upper seventies, Central and southern California or
under sunny skies, with the coastal areas seeing the low

(01:59:37):
sixties and the inland valleys topping out in the mid
to upper seventies. The unsettled weather persists in the Pacific Northwest,
That's your national forecast. I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 1 (02:00:01):
most engaging and influential radio and television program Michigan's Big

Speaker 2 (02:00:16):

Speaker 1 (02:00:19):
He's heard from the beaches of Lake Michigan to the
halls of power and behind closed doors, here's Michigan's Michael
Patrick Shields.

Speaker 38 (02:00:31):
Here comes Sanna out of the clouds. He's got Rudolph
leading the sled and he makes his way on top
of the roof. Now he gets off the sled, looks
at the chimney, he eyes it down and boy, it
looks a little bit small for Santa. But somehow he
makes it down the chimney into the house and he
scares with presents for all the girls and boys.

Speaker 5 (02:00:50):
All right, thank you Kens Broadcaster.

Speaker 6 (02:00:54):
It's Michael Patrick Shields and we have presents for all
the boys and girls here at our Christmas spectacular the
morning afternoon evening of one hundred stars. And we're going
to talk travel quite a bit. Nobody travels more than
Santa Claus. And by the way, on Christmas Eve, if
you're listening on the George norriy Coast to Coast Show,
six hundred and fifty stations across the nation. You're gonna

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hear Santa Claus call in to George Norri while he's
making his rounds. And if you listen very closely to
Santa's voice, let's just say you might recognize that Santa.
Let me know if you do, and let George know
if you do. On Coast to Coast am. In fact,
last year, Paul Long, this Santa that I'm speaking of
that does the voice on the show had to leave

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midnight Mass in the middle because his show is overnight
in order to go out in the cold on the
steps of our lady of Mount Carmel Church.

Speaker 5 (02:01:45):
And why dott and make the call?

Speaker 9 (02:01:49):
Well another twenty minutes, Well it's his show.

Speaker 5 (02:01:54):
What am I going to do until six am? When
they you know, when they pull you're on.

Speaker 9 (02:02:01):
That's how it goes, as I've learned from you through
the years.

Speaker 6 (02:02:03):
Don't worry, though, I didn't miss the collection. Okay, all right,
this is the twisted part. This year, we've turned it
into a kind of a bad Santa game show. And
I want to introduce our next contestants.

Speaker 29 (02:02:16):
And they.

Speaker 5 (02:02:18):
What did I say, Yes, Nicole Noel Williams, the Capitol
Region International Airport CEO, thank you for being here and
welcome to be with program, and happy you made good
sledding here from from wherever and safely to the microphone
today perfect in beautiful.

Speaker 6 (02:02:35):
Christmas green and in the tourism industry of course. Commissioner
lives where from the Michigan Travel Commission, the owner of
Mission Point Resort on Mcina Island. You competed in this
last hour, so we'll make you ineligible, okay, thank you.
And another hotel here is with us here too, Danny Simpson,
director of sales and Marketing at the Double Tree by
Hilton right around the corner in downtown Lansing, our headquarters

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here in the Capitol where we stayed last night.

Speaker 5 (02:02:59):
Welcome, thanks for having me. What an elegant Christmas outfit
you have on too.

Speaker 67 (02:03:03):
Thank you.

Speaker 34 (02:03:04):
I thought i'd be fast.

Speaker 5 (02:03:06):
Unfortunately you are qualified for the event here. That's about
the end of the game show.

Speaker 6 (02:03:12):
And what we're gonna do is this is the accordion
that I learned in second grade. I say learned very loosely,
and so what we're gonna do is I'm going to
play a Christmas tune and if you can possibly identify
what it is, you know, name that tune was one thing.

Speaker 5 (02:03:28):
This is a step beyond. If you can actually tell
what it is, you will win a prize.

Speaker 6 (02:03:33):
That prize will be the ability to reach in blind,
which Scott Ellis is holding over there.

Speaker 5 (02:03:38):
So the Beverly Hills Hotel bag and pull out a regift.
And the rule is whatever you take you must take
with you. You cannot leave it here. You're emptying out
the closets.

Speaker 6 (02:03:50):
You could throw it out, but you can't throw it
out here, or even better which would warm my heart,
regift it to somebody else.

Speaker 5 (02:03:57):
Okay, fabulous. So I don't know if I should do it. Yeah,
you'll play against Nicolonel Williams. How's that? And Beth the
shown is here and Beth, I think what you'll be
the judge whoever you listen, whoever shouts out the title first.
If either of them can identify the song, that is,

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So here we go. Are you ready? We're ready? There's
a lot of at stake here.

Speaker 67 (02:04:28):
Santa Claus is coming to town.

Speaker 6 (02:04:31):
Oh I'm so relieved she got it. Okay, So here
comes Scott Ellis from the Michigan Licensed Beverage Association. You're
reaching into the Beverly Hills Hotel bag to pull out
a regift item which you must take with you.

Speaker 5 (02:04:47):
And slippers.

Speaker 57 (02:04:50):
She seems very excited about them.

Speaker 5 (02:04:53):
Now, these are perfect for the hotel. You'll pad around
the hotel in those. Yes, awesome when.

Speaker 67 (02:04:59):
You come to visit me next time. Someone else will
be wearing it.

Speaker 6 (02:05:05):
Too bad the podiatrist here didn't get those earlier because
she told us doctor ingrid Stein's not to walk around
our house bare foot so that she could wear those
the more you know. Congratulations, and I look forward to
those slippers going out the door with you.

Speaker 5 (02:05:17):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 9 (02:05:18):
But not Nicole, you are not off the hook.

Speaker 5 (02:05:21):
Oh, thank you, Paul. That's a good idea. Yes, you're
on your own on this one. You don't have to compete, okay,
but I think I have a team. No cheating. Oh
come on now, by the way, New Year's Eve.

Speaker 67 (02:05:35):
Yes, we're hosting a New Year's Eve event at the hotel.
It's going to be a murder mystery event. We have
all inclusive packages available for sale right now. It's three
hundred and fifty dollars a couple and it includes your
overnight's day at three course dinner, two tickets to the event,
a champagne host, one ticket, one drink ticket per person,

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early and late checkout, and free parking, which is huge.

Speaker 28 (02:06:02):
Christmas right there, Commissioner.

Speaker 5 (02:06:04):
Aware she has it down, doesn't she. She sure does.
She's hoping for Christmas in New Year's though we're not.

Speaker 6 (02:06:10):
Mission Point Resort is under snow and they open at
the very beginning of April, the end of April, end
of April, and she's never been to Mission Point Resort.
Hopefully she will make it up there, or you'll recommend it,
at least to people who come Mission Points.

Speaker 28 (02:06:24):
So beautiful.

Speaker 57 (02:06:24):
You guys have done such a fantastic job up there,
and anytime you go up to visit, your staff is stellar.

Speaker 5 (02:06:29):
So thank you, Nicole, Yeah, thank you. Incredible.

Speaker 6 (02:06:32):
Last time I saw you was at Mission Point Resort
when you posted this program.

Speaker 5 (02:06:36):
Yeah, well we were partners in crime, Nicole. No Williams,
that's right, small world, Okay, you did the whole show.
You guys did a great job.

Speaker 2 (02:06:43):
It was fun.

Speaker 57 (02:06:44):
A lot of lancing folks that were able to come
in and join.

Speaker 5 (02:06:46):
Us, so great.

Speaker 6 (02:06:47):
I just saw Paula Cunningham walk in by the way,
so you might have to Okay, you're we can't delay
this anymore.

Speaker 31 (02:06:55):
Is that?

Speaker 5 (02:06:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 57 (02:06:56):
The Mid Michigan Business Travel Coalition, so business community in
the region, in the University of the State of Michigan,
is all engaged in supporting fly lancing.

Speaker 6 (02:07:04):
First, these powerful women, Commissioner Liz Where, the CEO Airport,
the director of the hotel here in the Capital City,
the capital city's most notable hotel, all at one table
with a radio host and travel writer make magic with
a bunch of white elephant gifts to hand out. Okay,
any here it is read. Let's put it this way.

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Here's what we'll do. The sooner you named the song
the sooner, I'll stop playing it. Okay, you could do
the whole world of Michigan and all the radio listeners
a big favorite.

Speaker 57 (02:07:35):
I'm pretty oppressed.

Speaker 5 (02:07:36):
Thank you well, Sandu. And in course see that Paul
chicks dig the musicians. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (02:07:42):
Keep playing.

Speaker 28 (02:07:50):
First and Noel.

Speaker 5 (02:07:52):
Best the show and you're supposed to be the judge
and you gave her the answer. But wait a minute.

Speaker 6 (02:07:57):
You answered in the form of a question. Is that
your final an here comes Scott Ellis with the gift bag.
Now reaching into the Beverly Hotels bag, the beautiful gift
that you will not so beautiful gift.

Speaker 5 (02:08:11):
Oh what'd you get? Maybe Keith can wear those? Yeah
they could, Well, his feet are too big for those.

Speaker 6 (02:08:25):
I was just going to say, mmmm, well you'll you'll have.
It's your problem now, not mind, you could regift them.

Speaker 5 (02:08:36):
All right, we're back in the flash. It's our very.

Speaker 6 (02:08:39):
Twisted this year holiday gathering and it's Michael Patrick Shields
through the AT and T.

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Robin Michelle Reiner's cause of death is being revealed as
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The Weekend has reportedly to new deal that will change
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That's Entertainment. I'm Jacqueline Carl.

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Just nice for ustings on an open.

Speaker 6 (02:12:53):
Fight, Tony Comfort. That's Jay Hut, isn't it. Jennifer Hudson,
That sure is.

Speaker 5 (02:13:01):
I love that woman so much, and I've been so
lucky to be with her four or five times and
dance on her show. And it's so nice to hear
her at Christmas time.

Speaker 6 (02:13:08):
This was her album released last year, Just a b
Ask Him. I know her well enough to know she
would love it if we sang. And so how about
a round of jingle bells from this assembled crowd. And
let's remind everybody who is here.

Speaker 9 (02:13:26):
Paul Long, Michigan Conference.

Speaker 28 (02:13:28):
Nicole now Williams with the Airport.

Speaker 5 (02:13:31):
Capital.

Speaker 28 (02:13:32):
I'm the president CEO of the.

Speaker 5 (02:13:35):
Authority. Don't be modest. Here's another powerful woman in the
room here right too, PAULA.

Speaker 58 (02:13:40):
Cunningham, State Director AARP Michigan.

Speaker 5 (02:13:43):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 68 (02:13:44):
And an old friend, Tom Hicks and executive director of
Michigan Town Towns.

Speaker 5 (02:13:52):
Take us off because you've gotten you're getting feedback then.

Speaker 68 (02:13:54):
Tom Hickson, executive director of Michigan Township Association.

Speaker 5 (02:13:57):
That's a new gig. Congratulations, Thank you very much.

Speaker 68 (02:14:00):
It's been really exciting. And uh boy, I see Paul
Long over here. He's my former boss. Tim McGuire's in
the house, my former former boss. And I learned so
much from those guys.

Speaker 7 (02:14:08):
I had to move on.

Speaker 5 (02:14:09):
This town is something everybody knows. Everybody knows everybody, all right,
So Tony Coppert, J. P.

Speaker 6 (02:14:14):
McCarthy and the Christmas thing, we'll just get a little
bit of jingle bells in here, and uh, because I
think Jennifer Hudson would like that very much.

Speaker 4 (02:14:24):
Here we go.

Speaker 5 (02:14:29):
How about we just do the refrain and save everybody.
I'm making spearends right.

Speaker 53 (02:14:39):
Fun to ride.

Speaker 13 (02:14:43):
Tony jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.

Speaker 11 (02:14:49):
Oh, what one it is to ride.

Speaker 24 (02:14:51):
One horse epens.

Speaker 11 (02:14:55):
Bells, jingle all the way. Fun, one horse sopen.

Speaker 5 (02:15:04):
Thank you, JP McCarthy and our assembled singers here to
honor that tradition that was more than well, that was
thirty years ago probably, but still on the radio.

Speaker 9 (02:15:13):
Thirty one years ago according to that earlier clip.

Speaker 6 (02:15:16):
You please it thirty one years but that Hall of
Fame voice is still on the air and we want
to keep that alive. Okay, Paula Cunningham, Yes, we have
a Mica Savage is leaving. Thank you for the kolachi.

Speaker 5 (02:15:29):
Please say hi to missus. Tim McGuire can do the
honors with the Beverly Hills Hotel gift bag.

Speaker 6 (02:15:36):
Now, Paula, maybe you didn't know this, but you, as
a special guest, get to blindly reach into the Beverly Hills.

Speaker 5 (02:15:42):
Gift bag and get a regift and you must take
it with you. Promise you can't leave it here. We're
clearing out the closet garage sale. It's a white elephant.
You'll see so close your eyes. Who knows what you're
gonna get? You can dig in there however you want,
whatever you want to do. It's probably won't be proud

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of put a gend up with socks. What's on the socks?
A dog? A dog? Yeah?

Speaker 58 (02:16:17):
Ok, ry Christmas, and I'm obligated.

Speaker 6 (02:16:21):
You can't take you must not leave it here. You
gotta take it. You can regift it in the spirit
of what we're doing. Out of that bag right now,
paul Long since Tom Hickson abandoned you, does he get
a gift or not?

Speaker 5 (02:16:35):
He certainly does.

Speaker 6 (02:16:36):
Okay, he gets to go from Tim McGuire, his friend
and colleague, into the bag and again, Tom, you must
take whatever you get, and you can't leave it here.

Speaker 5 (02:16:46):
You can throw it out. You can't throw it out here.
How many gifts are left him? We have enough in there? Ah,
guess what he got?

Speaker 7 (02:16:59):
Fun?

Speaker 12 (02:16:59):
So more socks?

Speaker 7 (02:17:01):
This one socks in an actual box.

Speaker 5 (02:17:03):
Socks in a box? Are they colorful? They're very colorful?

Speaker 20 (02:17:07):
And there are multiple pairs.

Speaker 5 (02:17:09):
Will you wear a pair of masks at Christmas? Masks?

Speaker 12 (02:17:13):
I'll commit to you that I will one of these.

Speaker 5 (02:17:15):
You got it now, Paula.

Speaker 6 (02:17:16):
When the mayor pulled out happy socks. I asked him,
will you wear a pair at the State of the
City address, and he said, I'll think about it.

Speaker 5 (02:17:25):
Answer, we have three gifts left, okay, three to go.
That's fantastic.

Speaker 9 (02:17:34):
Socks are the gift of the day. Well, it's perhaps
at least five of us that have been granted that.

Speaker 5 (02:17:41):
Did you get socks too?

Speaker 10 (02:17:43):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (02:17:43):
Yeah? From Ireland?

Speaker 7 (02:17:44):
Though?

Speaker 5 (02:17:44):
That was nice.

Speaker 11 (02:17:45):
I actually.

Speaker 12 (02:17:48):
It's a cool bag.

Speaker 5 (02:17:52):
Would you like to trade the socks for the bag?
It is a nice bag. It's got that beliefs. Okay,
what's new with you?

Speaker 58 (02:18:01):
Well, I am just honored to be here with Santa
Claus and to.

Speaker 5 (02:18:05):
Be with all these distinguished folks.

Speaker 58 (02:18:07):
There's a lot going on at AARP. We continue to
advocate on behalf of older adults.

Speaker 6 (02:18:13):
I'm glad you brought this up. Should Santa and Missus
Stanta still be working at their age?

Speaker 5 (02:18:20):
You know me and age, we don't discriminate.

Speaker 58 (02:18:23):
If you still have the desire and if you still
have the skill set and the people still want you,
go for it. Yeah, And we still want Santa and
Missus Cosse believe me, we want them to stay on
the job.

Speaker 5 (02:18:35):
I hope. They are card carrying members of AARP and
they never retire.

Speaker 58 (02:18:40):
They've been card carrying members since ethel Percy andrews Our
founder sixty five years ago.

Speaker 6 (02:18:45):
So it's perfect, perfect Paula Cunningham AARP, Tony Kupper, What
do we gut here that might fit?

Speaker 5 (02:18:53):
Nothing?

Speaker 29 (02:18:55):
Darn.

Speaker 5 (02:18:56):
We try to play these little.

Speaker 24 (02:18:58):
You don't want to rereck the President and Trump song.

Speaker 6 (02:19:01):
No, I'm trying to be polite to our friends. That
would be pretty good. It's very sweet. Now New Year's Eve,
Christmas Day? Are these are heavy travel days or not.

Speaker 28 (02:19:13):
The actual day?

Speaker 57 (02:19:14):
It's usually a couple days prior to the holidays, so
we're starting to see folks coming in to start celebrating
Christmas right now. But the actual travel days of the
holiday itself is usually a lighter travel day. It's if
you're looking for a good deal, it's usually traveling on
that actual holiday.

Speaker 5 (02:19:34):
Have you been anywhere lately? Gosh, I have.

Speaker 57 (02:19:37):
I was down to Miami, down to Nasau and then
up to DC.

Speaker 5 (02:19:43):
You know, I was in Miami and NASA a week ago.
So was I were there at the same time? I
wonder if we were, do we remember it? I'm just
kidding it was, but of course all you know quick
flight in and out of late.

Speaker 19 (02:19:57):
The California Department of Motor Vehicles says it's good Tesla
sixty days to stop using deceptive labels like autopilot or

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told tech Crunch that they prefer to call it an
image generator. A few weeks early. GPT Image one point
OpenAI says the new version generates image is faster and

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follows instructions more accurately, and metassa can now help you
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even play music tech report a Mark Mayfield, we wish you.

Speaker 11 (02:21:03):
The Marrius, the Marius, the Maria, Yes, the Marria.

Speaker 13 (02:21:08):
We wish you the Marrius, the Marias.

Speaker 5 (02:21:11):
Now that is kind of a I don't know, kind
of a boys Christmas song. There isn't it?

Speaker 6 (02:21:16):
The rat Pack, Frank Sinatra and the rest and so
coming up we will share with you the Johnny Carson
Twelve Days of Christmas. I think that would be a
good sassy one to play.

Speaker 5 (02:21:28):
But it's a little too long. Or should we just
take two minutes of it? Why not? Let's roll. Hey,
here's Johnny Carson and.

Speaker 19 (02:21:34):
The Boys the Tonight Show as please to present the
NBC Ule Tide Carollers performing an all time holiday favorite.

Speaker 5 (02:21:46):
Remember Johnny was married. It's more times than me. That's
a lot on their true love for me.

Speaker 7 (02:21:56):
The Big House behind the Pear Tree.

Speaker 1 (02:22:00):
Second day of Christmas, My true love took from me
two swimming pools.

Speaker 7 (02:22:04):
In the house in the hills of Beverly.

Speaker 5 (02:22:08):
Thursday of Christmas, My true love took from.

Speaker 7 (02:22:11):
Me three French made two swimming pools, and the.

Speaker 12 (02:22:15):
Condo in whack.

Speaker 1 (02:22:17):
Key fourth day of Christmas, my true love took from
me four bedroom sets, three friends aids.

Speaker 19 (02:22:25):
Two swimming pools and the penthouse in NYC.

Speaker 10 (02:22:29):
A fifth day of Christmas, my true love took.

Speaker 32 (02:22:32):
From me five wearing rings, four bedroom sets, three French stage,
two swimming pools, and the brown stone in Washington, d C.

Speaker 5 (02:22:44):
Cornas. Sixth day on Christmas, my true love took from.

Speaker 32 (02:22:47):
Me six seamen jackets, five wedding rings, four bedrooms has,
three French age, two.

Speaker 11 (02:22:55):
Swimming pools, and the time chairman me.

Speaker 38 (02:22:58):
And then.

Speaker 7 (02:23:01):
Christmas from me seven Chauffred Limos.

Speaker 35 (02:23:05):
Secret chimes, five wait raise for medrans has, three French fades,
two swimming.

Speaker 11 (02:23:12):
Pools, and the ranch in the Nne Valley.

Speaker 5 (02:23:18):
Christmas Vier left.

Speaker 24 (02:23:19):
For me the eight coup Melita.

Speaker 32 (02:23:22):
Seven Chauffred Limos, six secret jacket, five wedding rais.

Speaker 11 (02:23:27):
For three French fades, swimming pools.

Speaker 5 (02:23:31):
And the yard in the floor.

Speaker 6 (02:23:34):
I only hope Andrew Bood got a slice of all
those settlements for Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon and Doc
Severnson and his team.

Speaker 5 (02:23:42):
And I know he got some from.

Speaker 12 (02:23:43):
MPs NBC News Radio.

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I'm Scott Carr, President, Trump says he's bringing down costs
for Americans. Addressing the nation from the White House last night,
Trump said wages for workers like construction workers are growing
at a fast rate. He claimed his implementation of global
tariffs are helping the cause. As we hear from Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 19 (02:24:16):
Trump took in with the Biden administration while highlighting an
speech at the White House Wednesday, When I.

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Took office, inflation was the worst in forty eight years,
and some would say in the history of our country.

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I'm Markeneyfield.

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for the District of Columbia over ruled a lower court
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Speaker 25 (02:25:06):

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a deadly midair collision over the Potomac River earlier this
year that caused the death of sixty seven people. The
Department of Justice making the admission in a court filing
and a civil lawsuit connected to the January twenty ninth crash.
The government admits the pilots of an Army Blackhawk helicopter
did not maintain proper and safe visual separation from a

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passenger jet. Making its final approach to Reagan National Scott
car NBC News radio.

Speaker 23 (02:25:55):
implement work requirement for Medicaid recipients. The requirements outlined in
President Trump's spending bill pass this year. Governor Jim Pillen
made the announcement Wednesday, saying the state will implement the
requirements that apply to able bodied recipients between nineteen and
sixty four. They'll have to work eighty hours a month

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or be enrolled in an approved work program or community service.
Thousands of cases of salad dressing are being recalled due
to the presence of foreign objects. More than three thousand,
five hundred cases of salad dressing, including the popular Hidden
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black plastic planting material found in the dressing's granulated onion.

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The dressings were distributed to seven retailers across forty two locations,
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Speaker 5 (02:27:14):
Sid Night is that James Judson.

Speaker 6 (02:27:18):
It is a new album from the Man Who is
our Holiday album James Judson. We played this on the
radio first in the world and it just broke last month.
Silent Night is obviously one of the more faith filled
carols that you will hear on like Mariah Carey and
the rest of it. So therefore we turned to a
tradition on this program. It started on this program, but

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it actually started at Saint John and Saint Thomas in
front of the congregation and its father mark Inglet's keeping Christmas.

Speaker 66 (02:27:50):
Keeping Christmas by Henry van Dyke. It is a good
thing to observe Christmas Day. The mere marking of times
and sees when men agree to stop work and make
merry together is a wise and wholesome custom. It helps
one to feel the supremacy of the common life over
the individual life. It reminds a man to set his

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own little watch now and then by the great clock
of humanity, which runs on Sun time. But there's a
better thing than the observance of Christmas Day, and that
is keeping Christmas. Are you willing to forget what you
have done for other people and to remember what other
people have done for you, To ignore what the world

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owes you and to think what you owe the world.
To put your rights in the background and your duties
in the middle distance, and your chances to do a
little more than your duty in the foreground to see
that your fellow men are just as real as you are,
To try to look behind their faces to their hearts
hungry for joy, to own that probably the only good

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reason for your existence is not we are going to
get out of life, but what you are going to
give to life. To close your book of complaints against
the management of the universe and look around you for
a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness.
Are you willing to do these things even for a day,
then you can keep Christmas? Are you willing to stoop

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down and consider the needs and the desires of little children,
To remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are
growing old. To stop asking how much your friends love you,
and ask yourself whether you love them enough. To bear
in mind the things that other people have to bear
on their hearts. To try to understand that those who

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live in the same houses with you really want without
waiting for them to tell you. To trim your long
lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke,
and to carry it in front so that your shadow
will fall behind you. To make a grave for your
ugly thoughts, and a garden for your kindly fet the

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gate open. Are you willing to do these things, even
for a day, Then you can keep Christmas. Are you
willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in
the world, stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death,
and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen
hundred years ago is the image and brightness of eternal love.

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Then you can keep Christmas. And if you can keep
it for a day, why not always? But you can
never keep it alone.

Speaker 6 (02:30:34):
Merry Christmas, father mark inglet and thank you for the memories.
It's Michael Patrick Shields with you, and I'm going to
talk about warmth and heat and hopefully your heart feels
a little warmer now. And the warmth and heat we're
going to talk about is two very different things right now.
One is with Brian Wheeler from Consumer's Energy. Merry Christmas,
Happy holidays to you, sir, Very Christmas. And the Mayor
was here not long ago, a few minutes ago, and

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he was talking about the code blues that have been
going on.

Speaker 5 (02:30:58):
And it's a very cold December, isn't it. It's been
a very cold month, right and.

Speaker 6 (02:31:05):
That's why we know when we pushed that thermostat, you're
there for us. And how many people across the state
of Michigan.

Speaker 69 (02:31:12):
Give or take seven million, so across the state, we
have a lot of footprint and impact we're having. We're
giving two hundred thousand dollars today to help food banks
across the state.

Speaker 7 (02:31:24):
So we're trying to spread some warmth and cheer.

Speaker 6 (02:31:27):
Thank you very much for that. We're counting on you
and we take it for granted sometimes and so I
appreciate you telling us about that.

Speaker 7 (02:31:34):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (02:31:35):
The warmth that Kyle Malin is going to talk with
us about. You know him, the he guest hosts this
program and he's the editor of Merz News. And at
Christmas time you had you had the heat you weren't
exactly hoped for.

Speaker 36 (02:31:50):
Oh are you're talking about a little fire hire?

Speaker 5 (02:31:53):
Yeah? Yeah, could you mind? It was fine?

Speaker 36 (02:31:57):
But you know what, here's here's a something to with
your listeners. If you have an old fire extinguisher, you
got to get rid of it because it's got carcinogenics
in it. Look for those fire extinguishers that have baking
soda in it as the active ingredient. Because if you
use those old fire extinguishers to put out the fire,

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but the powder that they spray all over the place
is almost as if you had a fire.

Speaker 7 (02:32:22):
To begin with, Is that right?

Speaker 5 (02:32:24):
Yeah, you learned that the hard way.

Speaker 35 (02:32:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 36 (02:32:26):
Yeah, a lot of deep cleans, a lot of work.

Speaker 5 (02:32:29):
It's not a lot of fun.

Speaker 36 (02:32:31):
So replace the fire extinguisher.

Speaker 6 (02:32:34):
And also, Brian Wheeler at Consumers, you were always an
advocate of people having the carbon monoxide detectors, right.

Speaker 69 (02:32:40):
Yeah, absolutely, I didn't know about the fire extinguishers, so
I'm learning things from this conversation. Well, yeah, you know,
we talk about smoke alarms, but think about those combination ones.
Smoke and carbon monoxide. Safety is such an overlooked part
of the holiday season. We're busy running around doing all
sorts of things. But take a few minutes when you're
home with family and loved ones and make sure that

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you have working smoke alarms. You're making sure those windows
are sealed nicely to keep the warm air inside and
the cold air out. There's a lot you can do
to keep your bills down, but fundamentally to stay safe.

Speaker 5 (02:33:11):
Santa came down the chimney many times, but you can't
do that. The rest of you cannot do that. You
can try to fake it somehow.

Speaker 7 (02:33:17):
But don't do it.

Speaker 5 (02:33:19):
Kyle. You're a very faithful person.

Speaker 7 (02:33:22):
There.

Speaker 5 (02:33:22):
You're on the west side at church, right, Yeah, at
Saint Gerard. Yeah, Gerard? How are things there?

Speaker 32 (02:33:28):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (02:33:28):
Thanks, are doing great.

Speaker 36 (02:33:29):
You know, we got a new priest, Father John, and
he's doing a great job. He's got probably the best
canner voice I've ever heard. Yeah, oh yeah, he's amazing.
I mean he busts out in a canter and I
actually just want to sit back and listen. I mean,
how many times have you heard that from a priest?

Speaker 5 (02:33:45):
Paul A Long from the Michigan Catholic Conference. Have you
met him yet?

Speaker 7 (02:33:49):
I have not.

Speaker 6 (02:33:50):
Maybe you have to wander over across the border to
the West side for a Master's for the heck of it.

Speaker 9 (02:33:55):
Maybe they'll actually venture west of the Capitol's worth it.

Speaker 36 (02:34:00):
He says, a great mass and a great homily. So
we're really blessed to have him there.

Speaker 6 (02:34:04):
You know Tom Hixon, of course, who used to work
with the Michigan Catholic Conference. He's got our Oh God,
is that Tom Hixon? Yeah, he's got a Santa Beard
now and he's got the gift bag that. I don't
know if you heard this morning, but we're giving out
gifts from the Beverly Hills Hotel gift bag. You've not
you can't look in there, you can reach in, dig around.

Speaker 5 (02:34:21):
Take well. I don't got to name that tune or anything. No,
we've already put the according away by Actually the city
came by and said put that thing away, and we
were scaring all the neighbors. But whatever you take, you
must take with you. You cannot leave it here.

Speaker 7 (02:34:34):
Okay, all right?

Speaker 36 (02:34:35):
Is it one of your books or not?

Speaker 5 (02:34:37):
There is a book in there, but it's not mine.
Oh what does it say?

Speaker 36 (02:34:42):
You'll shoot your eye out? Life Lessons from the movie.

Speaker 5 (02:34:45):
A Christmas Story. Yeah, and that is actually written by
a Grand Rapids author. Is really Yeah, you did alright
with that. That isn't too bad.

Speaker 31 (02:34:54):
Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 9 (02:34:55):
That might be the best gift yet.

Speaker 5 (02:34:56):
And Brian Wheeler, do you dare?

Speaker 7 (02:34:59):
Oh me up.

Speaker 69 (02:35:02):
I'm looking for the CD of Michael Patrick sings The
Christmas Great Right, it's a mug growing Lancing Together. Oh,
it's from Lancing, Michigan. Verge Bernaro, mayor State of the City. Yeah,
I'm going to be guarding this carefully that Kyle doesn't steal.

Speaker 5 (02:35:20):
That is Curtisy, Tony Cooper and the Orchestra.

Speaker 24 (02:35:24):
I've been saving that for a long time.

Speaker 5 (02:35:26):
That is a sixteen year fuzzy math, sixteen year old
mug unused and uh I'll be using it todaymorrow morning.

Speaker 39 (02:35:35):
Actually you may want to wash out right.

Speaker 5 (02:35:37):
Kyle whatever became a ViRGE Brenaro.

Speaker 36 (02:35:40):
I try and reach him sometimes to be a political pundit.

Speaker 5 (02:35:43):
A lot of people have been trying to reach him
for a long time.

Speaker 36 (02:35:45):
If you yeah, me, yeah, you've had about as much
luck as I have, then clearly.

Speaker 5 (02:35:48):
Well I'm figuratively speaking, he's also unreachable, if you know
what I mean, back in a flash, like a lot
of people obviously here I am a dusty cell, are
doing some holiday shopping and looking for there he is,
Matt Rhodes. Can you give us an update on the
season now that I was lucky enough to run into you.

Speaker 22 (02:36:07):
Welcome, Michael Patrick, and yes, we're fully stocked for the
season with a ton of wine, beer, especially food and
of course get baskets.

Speaker 6 (02:36:13):
The options you provide for gift giving choices. I'm not
sure where to turn next.

Speaker 22 (02:36:17):
Yes, many choices, whether buying for family, friends, or corporate gifts.

Speaker 7 (02:36:21):
We have something for everyone.

Speaker 5 (02:36:22):
What about gift cards?

Speaker 6 (02:36:23):
Can I get a Dusties gift card for the retail
and the restaurants.

Speaker 22 (02:36:27):
Too, That's a nice thing aboutle Gift cards then redeemed
in the cellar for retail purchases, also in the wine
bar for casual fine dining, in the tap room your
neighborhood pub.

Speaker 6 (02:36:34):
I'm going to get a six for sixty six wine
club gift and some gift cards for some clients, and
then I'm going to stop in the wine bar and
tap room for a drink because I know I'll run
into friends there or meet some new ones. And you
can join me and the six for sixty six Wine
Club at Dusty Cellar. It's on Grand River in Okamus
and online at Dustiessellar dot com.

Speaker 22 (02:36:53):
Cheers Michael Patrick, and happy holidays.

Speaker 6 (02:36:56):
Have you ever wondered why health insurance costs seem to
keep going up? I was doing some research online and
I stumbled upon some surprising information on Blue Cross Blue
Shield of Michigan's websitemibluedaily dot com slash affordability. I was
surprised to learn that the cost Blue Cross pays for
prescription drugs rose by a staggering fifteen percent last year.

(02:37:17):
Fifteen percent. That's five times higher than inflation. It's no
wonder healthcare costs or a concern for so many of us.
That's why Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is working
hard to help all of us better understand the factors
driving up healthcare costs and sharing what they are doing.
Is a business to address it because Blue Cross knows
that healthcare is personal, it needs to work for everyone,

(02:37:38):
and affordability matters. So I encourage you to take a
minute and check OUTMI Blue Daily dot com, slash affordability
and get informed.

Speaker 5 (02:37:46):
You'll be glad you did.

Speaker 6 (02:37:47):
It's eye opening information that can help everyone better understand
the complexities of the healthcare system and its impact on
your health insurance costs.

Speaker 19 (02:38:00):
In BC News Radio, I'm Mark Mayfield, President Trump says
he's lowering costs. In an address to the nation from
the White House, Trump said car prices aren't down compared
to under the Biden administration and that grocery prices are
falling rapidly. The National Guard will not be leaving the
streets of DC following a ruling by a federal appeals court.

Speaker 44 (02:38:18):

Speaker 27 (02:38:20):
to mobilize the guard within the district. The ruling doesn't
deployment on hold while legal arguments continue. I'm Tammy Trhello,
and the US is moving.

Speaker 19 (02:38:40):
To sharply boost Taiwan's defenses with its largest ever arm sale.
The Trump administration has approved more than eleven billion dollars
in weapons. The move comes as Taiwan warns China could
try to take control of the island within the next
few years.

Speaker 20 (02:38:53):

Speaker 11 (02:39:00):
You'd better watch out, better not crawl.

Speaker 5 (02:39:05):
Damn straight.

Speaker 6 (02:39:06):
That's Paul Anka, Paul Long and the talent of his
Christmas album too.

Speaker 4 (02:39:13):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:39:14):
Tom Hickson, there's one gift left in the white elephant bag.
Do you think you could see if you could get
Claudia Danny Drake to come in and reach into the bag.
Life is funny isn't it? Christmas is funny?

Speaker 5 (02:39:27):
What can I say? We want?

Speaker 6 (02:39:29):
But you see, we want the decks cleared, We want
the closets emptied. Everything must go, everything must go. And
say so, I don't know if this is a Christmas
party our garage sale combination. We want you to reach
into the gift bag. Don't look in there. These are
all regifted gifts though, so don't be too excited. It's
a Beverly Hills Hotel bag. But and whatever you take

(02:39:52):
that you you must take with you. You can't leave
it here.

Speaker 5 (02:39:55):
You can what you get?

Speaker 69 (02:39:57):
What is that?

Speaker 5 (02:39:58):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (02:40:04):
That was the last thing left? I think you should
go two for the price of one on that. That
is a That is a calendar from Steve Cadiber Uh nod?

Speaker 5 (02:40:15):
Oh no, Tim, you would love to describe that.

Speaker 45 (02:40:19):
I bet defend the dan a Detroit Detroit Lions brought
you by Miller Light.

Speaker 5 (02:40:26):
Aren't you glad you got dressed in stockings and came
down for this?

Speaker 32 (02:40:34):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (02:40:35):
You know him?

Speaker 17 (02:40:37):
He was here last year?

Speaker 61 (02:40:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:40:43):
Well I hope he's listening now. His so his spirit
is here and his magnet calendar is here and it's
Facebook friends.

Speaker 6 (02:40:49):
Oh good, right here I'll take a picture of you
with the calendar. This is all happening right on the radio.

Speaker 5 (02:40:54):
That's okay. We're letting it all hang out this morning.
I'll send that to you and you can say talked
about him and made fun of I talked about him
on the radio.

Speaker 31 (02:41:06):
You so much.

Speaker 5 (02:41:07):
I know you gotta go, but I wish you could stay.

Speaker 6 (02:41:10):
But would you give us the traditional Christmas and take
as many words as you want in Espanol to wish.

Speaker 53 (02:41:17):
Us Okay, felis navidad, parat all radio scuchas and programma.
Then Michael Patrick Shills Michigan's Big Show, Tiamo, Tiamo, tambien
Michael Patrick.

Speaker 5 (02:41:36):
Thank you by Acondios, fair lease, Navin.

Speaker 11 (02:41:42):
Fair lease, nay.

Speaker 31 (02:41:46):
Fair lease, nay back.

Speaker 11 (02:41:50):
Fairly fairley.

Speaker 5 (02:41:56):
Jaron Faeries, Oh I didn't today?

Speaker 12 (02:42:08):
Oh you.

Speaker 33 (02:42:12):
How a?

Speaker 49 (02:42:13):
Where's you?

Speaker 6 (02:42:17):
Tom Hickson looked into the bag but you're not allowed
to do. But that's okay, and he found there was
one more gift in there.

Speaker 5 (02:42:24):
Anybody out there who's let's check hold on hold meantime,
we got Jose Feliciano and Darryl Hall.

Speaker 6 (02:42:39):
Release MPs with you, and we want to thank everybody
who showed up here today and dared to play with us. Oh,

(02:43:00):
Tim maguire, a longtime executive director of the Michigan Association
of Counties, and Tom Hickson and Paul Long. You got
if you combine all the work and time you've spent
together in this capital city, it would be aluminous.

Speaker 5 (02:43:12):
Well, it's been a lot of fun and a great
voyage for sure.

Speaker 45 (02:43:16):
I'm so proud of Tom and his new title at
as executive director of the Michigan Townships Association, and my
longtime friendship with Paul Long, and of course you. This
is my twentieth Christmas program with you, and it seems
like yesterday when the first one started, and here we

(02:43:38):
are twenty years later.

Speaker 5 (02:43:39):
It's been a whole lot of fun.

Speaker 45 (02:43:41):
You had a whole host of guests today walking in
and out of this studio and thanks to Jeff and
Suzanne Hewart for providing the great catered meal and the
snacks there.

Speaker 5 (02:43:53):
Suzanne reach into the bag, yes, that would be perfect
for her. He gets to reach in and the bag
can be a gift too if you like it. Paula
Cunningham wanted to take.

Speaker 50 (02:44:02):
It with.

Speaker 5 (02:44:08):
That's perfect for you. How it is as Jackie Gleeson
used to say, and here's the honeymooners Christmas.

Speaker 35 (02:44:19):
Christmas is well, it's about the best time in the
hold year. You walk down the streets, even for weeks
before Christmas comes, and there's lights hanging up, green ones
and red ones. Sometimes there's snow, and everybody's hustling someplace.
But they don't hustle around Christmas time.

Speaker 7 (02:44:37):
Like they usually do.

Speaker 9 (02:44:39):
You know, they're a little more friendly.

Speaker 35 (02:44:40):
They bump into it, they laugh and they say pardon me,
and Merry Christmas. Especially when it gets real close to
Christmas night, everybody's walking home.

Speaker 7 (02:44:51):
You can hardly hear a sound.

Speaker 35 (02:44:53):
Bells are ringing, kids are singing, snow is coming down,
and boy, what a pleasure is to think that you
got someplace to go to, and the place that you're
going to there's somebody in it that you really love,
someone you're nuts about it.

Speaker 9 (02:45:15):
Very pious.

Speaker 6 (02:45:22):
The great one, Jackie Gleason, Michael Patrick Shields radio stations
across the state of Michigan and worldwide at amibig show
dot com. Thank you to Tony Cuthbert and the Orchestra
for another year of head banging and directing the orchestra
and coming up with the creativity that you hear, either
subconsciously or consciously.

Speaker 5 (02:45:41):
It's there for sure. He is a wizard like Mozart.
And see he's got something coming at you right this
very moment. It's MPs through the AT and T microphone.

Speaker 31 (02:45:53):
Stop Hall again, Christmas.

Speaker 60 (02:46:08):
Carols on the Spanic Christmas like the sas at a single.

Speaker 5 (02:46:17):
Time. The stream of.

Speaker 42 (02:46:26):
Our path to a top ten state is only as
strong as our strength of commitment. It's time to compete
to win. When we do better by our kids, invest
in people, accelerate our economy, and get the fundamentals right,
we will feel a powerful win in our sales that
will move Michigan over. That's a top ten state. Business

(02:46:46):
Leaders for Michigan is the state's business round Table. We're
committed to make Michigan more competitive. Time to be bold, Michigan.
It's time to compete to win.

Speaker 46 (02:46:57):
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Speaker 28 (02:47:26):

Speaker 47 (02:47:27):
Dolphins have bench quarterback Tua tongue O vi loa rookie
quarterback Quinn Viewers. We'll get the start against the Bengals
Sunday at home. Tua, I'm getting benched, naturally, I'd.

Speaker 48 (02:47:38):
human emotion.

Speaker 12 (02:47:42):
You know.

Speaker 7 (02:47:42):
Outside of that, I got to do my part.

Speaker 48 (02:47:45):
My role here right now is to help wherever the
quarterback is going to be for this team, to lead
this team, help in whatever way I can.

Speaker 47 (02:47:53):
Thursday Night Football sole possession of first place in the

(02:48:14):
the Knicks have decided against hanging a banner at Madison
Square Garden for winning the NBA Cup.

Speaker 16 (02:48:22):
That's sports.

Speaker 28 (02:48:23):
I'm Ronza Moss.

Speaker 37 (02:48:26):
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(02:48:50):
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Speaker 11 (02:49:01):
Ah behold for Christmas, you can plan on.

Speaker 25 (02:49:15):
Hi.

Speaker 12 (02:49:15):
My name is a Nergate.

Speaker 32 (02:49:16):
How many bar Hernandez.

Speaker 5 (02:49:17):
I'm from Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Speaker 20 (02:49:19):
I just want to wish.

Speaker 48 (02:49:20):
Everybody back home happy holidays.

Speaker 5 (02:49:23):
Can I love you, Mom?

Speaker 25 (02:49:25):
I love you.

Speaker 48 (02:49:26):
I hope you both heard it well and I can't
wait to see you it gran Quich.

Speaker 6 (02:49:30):
Crust.

Speaker 5 (02:49:32):
Many people will hear this song over the holidays and
they won't remember that it was written in nineteen forty
three in Michigan.

Speaker 44 (02:49:39):
I just wanted to wish my wife and family back
home a happy Holidays and my merry Christmas. I can't
wait to see you guys in January.

Speaker 6 (02:49:47):
For the troops, those who were overseas, who long to
be home at Christmas time, and that's why they're saying
I'll be home for Christmas. And the truth of the
matter is, if you listen all the way to the
end of the lyric, it'll only be in their dream
that they're home for Christmas, not physically, as you hear
bing singing there.

Speaker 5 (02:50:05):
Jim Trebilcock is a dear friend of me and the
program and everybody in this room, and a veteran. Very
Christmas to you, sir.

Speaker 39 (02:50:13):
Thank you. I spent a year and when I was
in Vietnam was zero for Christmas, which was a little different.

Speaker 5 (02:50:20):
That's what I wanted to ask you about, if you
don't mind no at all, what was that like?

Speaker 39 (02:50:25):
Lonesome, nostalgic, scary. I remember sitting on top of a
bunker that night, just looking at the stars, yeah, and
just hoping nothing happened. And it didn't because it was
kind of an unspoken truce between both sides. Everybody just
left everybody alone.

Speaker 5 (02:50:43):
Around that time of year, even in that part of
the world.

Speaker 39 (02:50:46):
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, oh roughly probably twenty three something
like that.

Speaker 5 (02:50:57):
Is that your first time, you know, like kind of
that far away from home without family and everything at
the holidays.

Speaker 39 (02:51:02):
Well, you couldn't get much further away. Yeah, it's like
a twenty two hour flight.

Speaker 5 (02:51:06):
Wow, imagine that. Paul Long and Tim McGuire and Tom Hexon,
he and Tony mccuffert and my mother Gladys over there,
he's looking at a Christmas star in a very very
different way.

Speaker 9 (02:51:15):
Well, Michael, you are a Christmas star to many. You
brighten up lives every day, and I think on behalf
of everyone that was here today, we will hope for
you a very merry Christmas and a wonderful and prosperous
New Year.

Speaker 5 (02:51:34):
Fire Keepers tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (02:51:36):
Well, in that regard, no man is poor who has friends.
That's what George Bailey said. And it's a wonderful life.
And it is a wonderful life because of all of you.
God bless you.

Speaker 39 (02:51:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 25 (02:51:49):
NBC News Radio, I'm Scott Carr. President Trump says he's
bringing down costs for Americans. Addressing the nation from

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