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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
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 (00:37):
You know, I told you people something a long time ago,
and it's just as pertinent today as it was then.
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Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants
and slide.
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On the ice.
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Michael Patrick Shields is on the air.
Speaker 7 (00:51):
Good morning world, Merry Christmas. 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
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our Holiday Spectacular. There 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,
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in your car and your 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.
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Another one and another tradition. Paul Long, the CEO of
the Michigan Catholic Conferences, here too, celebrate Christmas. It's so
wonderful as Mike's not working. What am I doing here?
Speaker 8 (02:10):
Ah?
Speaker 9 (02:11):
Two?
Speaker 7 (02:12):
How about it's so wonderful. Thank you Santa for turning
on the microphone. Now 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 touch that dial, and
what we will do as a penalty every time the
mic doesn't work, We're going to bring in Mike Douglas
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with the Christmas carol that I've been asked which is
my favorite? And this one is it? Here? He is
not Michael Douglas. Mike Douglas.
Speaker 8 (02:42):
The talk show hosts.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Sing it, Mike, Katie God Dolly.
Speaker 10 (03:00):
The cries and blinks its eyes.
Speaker 11 (03:04):
Jimmy got an awe and mad exclaim that really flies.
But we were poor that Christmas, so Mama stayed them
all a long, sitting in the kits and making.
Speaker 10 (03:22):
Us a present. It was this salt.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
The shirt, spouse, ring a leak, ain't chusing a len,
Happy birthday, Jesus, snow flaint, sting a link, slave bousing
a link.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
Happy birthday, Gesu.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
All year long we went just to celebrate this Christmas
more because.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
We rot you and know we're so glad you.
Speaker 12 (03:55):
Were born.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
A married Mary.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Happy birthday, Jesus.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Lord Jesus, can you give me a wish right now?
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. Loo, good morning, Praise God,
Thank you, thank you Jesus.
Speaker 13 (04:26):
Your favorite Christmas carol and my least favorite Christmas carol.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Now, isn't that something though, But it is probably the
most embracing of Jesus because sometimes you don't even hear
the Jesus name and Christmas carols. Well, that's true, you don't.
Speaker 13 (04:41):
You have a lot of secular songs, but then you
know the religious songs.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
Even the religious ones don't say his name. Now that
I think of it, right to slegree is born. That's
one day.
Speaker 13 (04:52):
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 troop,
was a classic back in the day.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
It'll be in your head for the rest of the day.
Thank goodness. And you brought some special treats here to
celebrate Jesus. Here this is Oh, look at that. There's
a man on a trumpet there, glass men wines, chardonnay.
Thank you very much. I presume that's from Dusty Cellar.
Matt Rhodes will be along a little bit later. I
actually saw you in the shop yesterday, you did.
Speaker 13 (05:34):
I was out doing a little shopping for colleagues of mine,
and here along I see this shadow behind me and
I look at its you, which to my great surprise.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
And there's a second bottle of red in here, Chateau
La Rose Trinta down. Did Matt select these for you? Matt,
it did select those for me.
Speaker 13 (05:55):
And there these are bottles which went to the Michigan
Catholic Conference of Directors and a few other select individuals.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
What about is there a new archbishop in Detroit?
Speaker 13 (06:07):
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.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
Out, that's correct.
Speaker 13 (06:24):
When a bishop turned seventy five, they must submit a
letter of resignation to the Holy See and then it's
at the discretion of the Holy See as to when
that was that is accepted.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Cardinal Dolan had to do that too, he did. And
your friend in New York, yep and he.
Speaker 13 (06:41):
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 Ignoran was seventy six when he was replaced. Archbishop
Weisenberger has met things head on. He's doing a lot
of work in the archdiocese to look at issues that
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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 7 (07:13):
How about a shout out from you, Paul Long at
the Michigan Catholic Conference to some of our Michigan bishops.
Speaker 13 (07:19):
Well, we have Bishop Edward Losey in Kalamazoo, Bishop David
Wilkoviak in Grand Rapids, Bishop Walsh Jeffrey Walsh in Gaylord,
one of a fan favorite of this radio program. Yes,
Bishop Earl Boye here in the Dice of Lansing, Bishop
Robert Gruse in the Dice of Saginaw, and Bishop John
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Diffler in the Dice of Marquette.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Do you think they would enjoy just another minute here
of Happy Birthday Jesus if they happened to be listening.
Speaker 13 (07:48):
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.
Speaker 14 (08:00):
The birth of Jesus, is what's most important.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
And I think they would appreciate that. 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
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remind you that it's somebody's birthday at Christmas, and we
all like to celebrate birthdays. We've got the candles lit
this morning for our holiday spectacular. It's MPs shirt.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Spouse ring a.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Happy Birthday, Jesus, snow fight stingle, slave bous dingle, Happy
birthday Jesus.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
All you we wait just to celebrate this Christmas.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Welcome, missus, it's yourself down and meet the best in Caper.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
The best in keeper in town is Matt Rhodes, the
master of the house, Dusty Cellar, and he's here before
sunrise for this morning holiday celebration, Christmas Celebration in Christmas Red.
Nice to see you, sir.
Speaker 14 (09:27):
Merry Christmas. Michael Peckett.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
I think for one second, and with you working as
many hours as you are, I hate taking care of
everybody getting holiday gifts that you'd be up this early.
Speaker 15 (09:37):
Oh it's good, good change of pace and get out
of the rhythm. And uh, it's great to be here.
And it's always a funny annual thing to do.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Paul Long from the Michigan Catholic Conference here he brought
two very nice bottles that he purchased at your store
as a gift.
Speaker 14 (09:51):
Oh, wonderful, thank you, Paul.
Speaker 13 (09:53):
Well, it's the part of the large gift that do
you help us to procure every fall?
Speaker 7 (09:58):
He said, you helped him to is it?
Speaker 15 (10:01):
I do get I get the pleasure picking out the
wines for the Michigan cather Conference.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
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 it was.
Speaker 14 (10:11):
For the board or the board of directors.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
How do you narrow down if anyone comes in, right
now it's I want to take a gift. I'm invited
to a holiday party. What are the questions that you
discerned to get to the bottle that you get?
Speaker 15 (10:24):
Well, you always got to start with with budget and
give because the budgets.
Speaker 14 (10:27):
Are ranged, you know, a huge range of budgets.
Speaker 15 (10:30):
So once you find out the budget and get an
idea for the taste of the recipients, dry sweet, medium
with without alcohol, and just kind of put it all
together and get a package together.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
You're famous for six bottles for sixty dollars or sometimes yeah,
six for sixty.
Speaker 14 (10:47):
Sixty six, five sixty six.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
So it's up to sixty six inflation, six for sixty six.
But maybe someone might say, well, I want it to
be a good bottle, but I you know, they might
say eighty dollars, or they might say twenty dollars.
Speaker 14 (11:03):
Oh sure, that's just it.
Speaker 15 (11:05):
The inventory we have, we can fit any budget to
anybody given a gift.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
What would you say is a number that Because we're
in the modern age now, so do you think it's
ghosh if someone brings you a bottle of wine to
use your app and figure out how much it cost.
Speaker 15 (11:23):
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 the show.
Speaker 14 (11:30):
You do, you do, absolutely so some of the apps
are good and some of them or not.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
What would 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 a dinner twenty dollars?
Twenty's okay?
Speaker 14 (11:44):
Yep, absolutely, you're welcome to spend more.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
To make a better impression. I guess I know what
the pruth of the matter is. You can have a
twenty dollars bottle that's really really good.
Speaker 14 (11:56):
Yeah, it's just value for money.
Speaker 15 (11:58):
I mean, anybody can buy a grea one hundred dollars,
So the trick is to find a great twenty twenty
five dollars bottom.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Line, 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 wines.
Speaker 15 (12:22):
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, line's always a great
hostess gift.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
I bought some gifts in your shop yesterday to give
to Jim Nantz 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.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Production assistance and say, here have this.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 15 (12:56):
But I think that's a wonderful idea. I'm just glad
to hear it. Jim nance is getting a gift from
Dusty Cellar.
Speaker 14 (13:02):
It's an honor.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Well it'll be, yeah, and it's 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 14 (13:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (13:15):
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 7 (13:21):
It's called The Calling at Dusty Cellar. And also Andrew
Boot and I talked about you on the Android Boot podcasts. Whichever.
Speaker 14 (13:29):
That's always worrisome.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Yeah, you might be. Well, it's a little irreverent but
also reverence. As Father Jake used to say, Fatter Jake folio,
in order to be reverend, you have to be irreverence.
But it came up, your place came up, and you
came up. And so I don't know how long till
it drops, as they say, but.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
It's in there.
Speaker 15 (13:48):
I'll be I'll be sure to check into Andrew's podcast.
I've heard a few of them and they're always interesting.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Yeah. Okay, now what do I give you this morning? Okay,
if you you might have to go a little later. Huh,
you got to get back to the shop. How long
are you going to stay? 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,
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and I'm giving away gifts. Some of them are designated
and some of them are random. Yours is very much designated. Gift. Oh,
here it comes. I'm going to roll across the table
to you and you can tell the listeners what that is.
Speaker 14 (14:31):
Well.
Speaker 15 (14:32):
Being in the beverage business, there's a huge range of quality.
And I have a grape gone Wild buzzball.
Speaker 14 (14:41):
Yeah, from Michael Patrick Shields.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Isn't that nice?
Speaker 14 (14:44):
This is such an honor.
Speaker 15 (14:46):
I hope all your other gift recipients are so fortunate.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Well, you remember the history our history with the buzzball.
You did the reason.
Speaker 14 (14:54):
Yeah, we were, Paul.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
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.
I said, what is that in her hand that she's drinking?
And Matt did the research because it's like it looks
like a colored ball ball. Yeah, and we said buzzball
and he probably the first time Dusty Cellar ever ordered buzzball.
Speaker 15 (15:19):
So it's just kind of as a lark. I ordered
the case of buzzball thinking.
Speaker 14 (15:22):
You know, and it actually sold Britney.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
It took a while, but celebrity and do you know
they make those in the gallon size. Now it looks
like a cannon ball. That sounds like a terrible 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 their green and horrible.
Speaker 15 (15:41):
This is going to be regifted, Okay, that you you
include right into the spirit of the twisted thing I'm
doing this morning.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
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 pull out a horribly regifted gift.
The bag is 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
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is a guaranteed regift.
Speaker 12 (16:13):
Me.
Speaker 14 (16:13):
I might steal your idea and do that at the cellar.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
That's a good idea, Okay, it's our holiday spectacular. Here's
Britney Spears and Matt and his buzzball at Dusty Cellar.
St Paul Long from the Michigan Catholic Conference. Was it
(16:40):
you asked me about Jennifer Hudson yesterday?
Speaker 14 (16:42):
Did I did you?
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Or was it you Matt somebody else?
Speaker 14 (16:44):
We talked about it at dinner lastn.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
Oh, thank you for reminding me that was a fun
dinner at Dusty Cellar. Here's some Jennifer Hudson by request
for you this morning.
Speaker 10 (16:55):
Oh this you Dmond.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Hello, we're 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. I just came in. Hey, this
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is an Easter tradition, the day after tradition, and it
comes from a someone in Kalama Zoo called doctor Bob,
and he says for more info, call this number, Happy
Dinga Stay card. I never got a Dinga's day.
Speaker 15 (17:34):
Would not call that number from your personal fambly Maybe yeah,
two sixty three East Avenue.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I don't know. Thank you, doctor Bob, and Happy Dinga
Stay to you too. H Tony Kupfert. We got a
card from Greg McNeely as we celebrate our twentieth anniverse
it's coming to the end of MPs twenty. We did.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
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.
(18:16):
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 not just
as sound, but as tone, as intent. But it is you.
(18:41):
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
of the microphone.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
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 his book is available. Just google up
Greg McNeely orneely dot com and you can get his
book on all of his social media posts to including
the Sunday Reads.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
Hello, thank you, a dream me of a.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Christmas.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
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 It or Not. He
started in the polka circuit when he was a kid
in Nashville and now is in Hollywood, and his album
(20:07):
is available through where do you get albums?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Spotify, places like that, ituned Spotify wherever there isn't.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
James Judson with every Christmas card. Andy appeared on this
program right around Thanksgiving when we debuted.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
It, married and right the Christmas.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
How do you like that? It's a pretty good sound.
Speaker 14 (20:36):
Huh, great sound.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
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 2 (20:49):
I think this is from a number of years ago,
and I.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
Wonder if he's as good as James Judson.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It's a possibility. We'll we'll find out.
Speaker 13 (20:57):
Well, you could ask him and I'm sure he'd tell
you this is.
Speaker 14 (21:00):
The greatest song ever. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Everybody, Happy New Year, Happy holidays.
Speaker 14 (21:07):
I don't want a lot for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
There is just one.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Thing I don't care about their present underneath the Christmas tream.
Speaker 10 (21:20):
I don't need to pay my stocking there.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I think that's a little AI, don't you possibly the
auto tuned AYI everything you can put into the bag
here it is.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Oh Christmas Day.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I just want you for my own then you or
no make mine which come.
Speaker 14 (21:40):
To oh for Christmas?
Speaker 7 (21:45):
S Okay, move over, Mariah, thank you very much. Next,
so we had James Judson and Donald Trump. What about
doctor Elmo? He has one of that. Now this is
not in any way shape or for me like a
religious song, quite sassy in fact. And this is doctor Elmo.
(22:06):
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 16 (22:14):
Grandma got run over by a reindeer walking home from
our house Christmas Eve. You can say there's no such
thing as Santa that. As for me and Michael Patrick.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
We believe did he ever win a Grammy Award? Probably not,
because that would contribute to our fake egot that we're doing.
We try to be attached to the oscar, attached to
the grammy, attached to the tony, attached to the emmy. Oh,
(22:47):
a woman just stuck her head in the door and
said I'm here, and it was glad 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 11 (22:58):
Stupid to good?
Speaker 14 (23:00):
That's great advice.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
By the way, Well, we'll see this weekends. In the meantime,
it's Doctor Elmo.
Speaker 10 (23:07):
It's not Christmas without Grandma.
Speaker 11 (23:11):
All the families dressed in black.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
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 Bailey's you're a grandma. A grandma walked
in while we're playing Doctor Elmo. Can you come up
to this yellow microphone for a second, Grandma? That's you
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give it to Gibbs. The seat. I just sat down.
Speaker 10 (23:38):
Here we go talk to the guy.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas. Beautiful to see you. Who got
holiday apparel on?
Speaker 9 (23:45):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Yes, and you know Matt Rhodes and Paul Long, Yes,
and Matt gave you wine yesterday, and Paul Long always
enjoys your cheering on the lions. So give us the
strategy of dnny.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Hear me, you don't money, hear me room when they're.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Playing a lot of screaming and everything. No, yeah, I scream.
What's that sound like?
Speaker 9 (24:07):
Give it to Gibbs. Well last time they was bed.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
You know he didn't do that.
Speaker 14 (24:17):
Good.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Yeah, that's the will this weekend.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Tony Coppert has an audio treat that actually comes from
Thanksgiving in Turkeyville and the Trenton Tower where you live
and wind Ott.
Speaker 17 (24:29):
Yeah, what's going on? I'm stepping by a lot of
reading and watching the boats go by. I just but
I you we're going to Turkeyville tomorrow. If you want
to come over and lead us for lunch, I don't
know what you're doing. We're about eleven clock or so
with the bustle of the old bags, So talk to
you later.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
That was a very wonderful, sweet thing Dad was doing
to drive you and other people in the building of Turkeyville. Yes,
until he called you old bags.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
I'm now a chairman of the Van committee.
Speaker 7 (25:02):
You carry on the tradition.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Yes, isn't that sweet?
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Where have you gone? And where you're going?
Speaker 9 (25:07):
Well, we were supposed to go to the Wayne County
light Fest, but the van broke down.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Huh, so we can't go. If it was a Hallmark movie,
Santa Sleigh would come, Yeah, take you all to the
Wayne Country light Fest. I love Why do you love
those movies so much?
Speaker 9 (25:24):
Because they don't have blood and guts and they're always
you always know that there's a good feeling and.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
A little bit of romance too. Yes, and maybe one
day they'll make a Hallmark movie. At turkey Ville in Marshall.
Speaker 9 (25:38):
We can't go there because the van won't.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Shoot the old bags? What are they going to do
to fill the time?
Speaker 16 (25:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Did the old bags in the building ever hear him
call them that?
Speaker 14 (25:50):
No?
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Yes? Maybe there is no Well anyway, we know what
we know what Turkeyville is very near?
Speaker 9 (26:00):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (26:02):
But what's very near Turkey Bo? So we light up
the slot machines there?
Speaker 14 (26:10):
Yes, yes?
Speaker 7 (26:10):
And the advice for the slot players you're going to
be there actually tomorrow?
Speaker 9 (26:15):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Today? Actually?
Speaker 9 (26:16):
No Todayrow?
Speaker 7 (26:18):
What's the advice the strategy for slots? Just win, win, win,
I know 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 played almost every night. It seems like. Here's Ken
cal the Polish broadcaster of the Red Wings, with his
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Christmas greeting.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Here comes Santa out of the clouds. He's got Rudolph
leaving 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
scores with presence for all the girls and boys.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
All right, kind of tell and your driver is here? Yes,
what's his name? Tim? Tim maguire, longtime executive director of
the Michigan Associational Country. You can try the orange mic
and we're going to have a very twisted game show
a little bit later that involves regifting all these regifts
(27:24):
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. Here's Bobby Vinton,
the Polish PRIs. How do you say Merry Christmas in Polish?
That comes from give it to Gibbs to everyone cheers.
Speaker 10 (28:04):
Sam must be Polish.
Speaker 16 (28:06):
She's such a merry man, bringing lots of toys to everyone.
Speaker 10 (28:12):
He can one thing he's demanding.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Any one's understood, You'll only bring you presents.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
The cabin was glowing from the red Christmas lights. The
snow was falling on my way home tonight.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
James Judson, I knocked on the dome.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
He wrote the song once maybe twice, and missus Claws answered, Oh.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
Did she look kind of sexy?
Speaker 5 (28:54):
The glasses were sparkling from the champagne she poured. The
bye was roaring, keeping us both worn, loving eyes twiggle,
she smiled just for me. Oh, she's my greatest gift
on this Christmasy.
Speaker 14 (29:16):
Now it's just.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
You and I. The kids have all grown, they've gone
on their way.
Speaker 11 (29:25):
Now we're all.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
I feel like we should leave them alone. This lyric
is kind of sexy. Tim maguire, the two of them.
Speaker 18 (29:34):
Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 16 (29:38):
See too.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
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.
(30:02):
The place comes separately, they see, the orchestra comes separately,
and it's like three four five tracks by the time
they're done with it.
Speaker 13 (30:08):
I thought you maybe you were going to tell us
you were playing the accordion.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Funny you should say that, And well, a card laid
is a card played. So I uh, you're gonna get
what you wanted along at Christmas.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
We could be.
Speaker 14 (30:28):
What you wish for.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
Tim McGuire, you can be the color commentator, narrate what
you're seeing right now.
Speaker 18 (30:35):
Well, he's opening up the accordion here it is, he's
strapping it around is first shoulder.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
And Paul and now he has left had.
Speaker 18 (30:44):
And now he's warming up a little bit.
Speaker 13 (30:47):
Had I known, I would never have made such a comment.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Careful what you wish for. That's right, you might get
it takes a second to get this thing.
Speaker 13 (30:56):
Coachizo is one thing, but that's.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
What the tomo accordion tradition is now here. So what
we're gonna do. We're gonna do this later too. I'm
gonna play a Christmas Carol on this accordion, and if
anyone can guess, if they can discern what the song
actually is, because it's gonna be terrible because I haven't
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played since second grade. They get to reach into the
regift bag and pull out eight regifted prize. That's about it.
That's like a bad Santa kind of twisted kind of thing.
And so what I'm gonna 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
(31:40):
when you were hearing James Judson. So if you can
name this song, you're going in the prize. Kid, Here
we go.
Speaker 13 (32:01):
It's the worst quite song in the history of the world.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
There we go. I got to back up.
Speaker 13 (32:07):
Now, the most corrupt athletic department in the Scrooge.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
So you win, but 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 Labe.
Speaker 14 (32:41):
Care of.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
It's from the K Club in Ireland.
Speaker 13 (32:44):
Socks Socks stockings if you will, and I know you
live one.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
You were in Ireland this year.
Speaker 13 (32:51):
Wall one is hurling. Not playing the game of hurling.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
You mean, if you drink enough Dusties wine hurling.
Speaker 13 (33:00):
Yeah, No, I don't. I don't think that that's appropriate.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
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 do that,
which says something. Thank you, JP McCarthy. You both loved
and love Hall of Fame radio host. He was like
James Judson before there was James Judson. And he got
(33:27):
in the studio at Larry Santos, the great commercial singer
from Detroit, and it was in nova 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 16 (33:54):
Just like.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Size the Tree.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Listen and.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Listen slave.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
And you were at some of the Christmas singalongs Tim
o'guire in the evening with JP.
Speaker 14 (34:28):
Yes, I was.
Speaker 18 (34:29):
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.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
Picked her up from the Double Tree, from the Double
Tree downtown Lancing. And this is my twentieth year of this.
Speaker 18 (34:51):
Yeah, I haven't missed one.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
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 Jon. Wouldn't he be
surprised to see Detroit today all those guys.
Speaker 18 (35:12):
Oh, I know Tom King a great Tom King, Fat
Bob Taylor and Paul.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
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 14 (35:29):
All the all the broken hearts.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Are now all being fixed. Thank you.
Speaker 8 (35:38):
J P.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
McCarthy and Mary Christmas from MPs plis so we've had
(36:07):
James Judson and j P. McCarthy singing this morning. This
one goes out to Felix sharp cavallerogo coma sta Patrick,
will you give us a full on Spanish or in
Spanish and Espanol, uh a Merry Christmas like this song
with Jose Feliciano felis navidad.
Speaker 14 (36:27):
Bo felice prospero, buenas.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
Gracias, many good things in the new year, Sweet sweet,
do servezos know more?
Speaker 14 (36:44):
Always?
Speaker 7 (36:50):
Hub Hey, I was with my mother coming out of Miami,
by the way, Gladys Shields here just the other day,
and 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
(37:11):
like that in Cuba, not the educated people. That's not
something an educated Cuban would say. That's simply not true, Nabby.
Even President former President Barack Obama said it so well,
that was maybe that's the point. I'm just kidding, but
(37:31):
he said, it's like saying, you know.
Speaker 14 (37:32):
What's up?
Speaker 7 (37:33):
Is that right?
Speaker 14 (37:34):
And that is correct?
Speaker 7 (37:35):
All right? What's wrong with that?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
He?
Speaker 7 (37:37):
I guess he's wrong with He wanted me to say,
you know, probably more formal greeting, I guess.
Speaker 14 (37:42):
Although he couldn't do it himself. That's why he was
working at the airport.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
Mmmm.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Felix Sharp CAVALIERO. Merry Christmas to you and Police Navidad
and your family.
Speaker 10 (37:52):
I'm marry Merry Christmas.
Speaker 8 (37:55):
And a lot of blessings on you and your show
and your family.
Speaker 10 (38:02):
And thank you for inviting me.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
God bless you.
Speaker 8 (38:05):
I count my blessings and one of them was hanging
out with you.
Speaker 7 (38:09):
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, friend.
Speaker 12 (38:23):
I want to wend you a very christ on the bottom. Oh,
I want to wed you very Christmas.
Speaker 11 (38:34):
I want to you very friend, but I'll
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 Michigan and Blue Care Network.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
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 (00:37):
You know, I told you people something a long time ago,
and it's just as pertinent today as it was then.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants
and slide.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
On the ice.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
Michael Patrick Shields is on the air.
Speaker 7 (00:51):
Good morning world, Merry Christmas. 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
(01:11):
our Holiday Spectacular. There 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,
(01:33):
in your car and your 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.
(01:53):
Another one and another tradition. Paul Long, the CEO of
the Michigan Catholic Conferences, here too, celebrate Christmas. It's so
wonderful as Mike's not working. What am I doing here?
Speaker 8 (02:10):
Ah?
Speaker 9 (02:11):
Two?
Speaker 7 (02:12):
How about it's so wonderful. Thank you Santa for turning
on the microphone. Now 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 touch that dial, and
what we will do as a penalty every time the
mic doesn't work, We're going to bring in Mike Douglas
(02:33):
with the Christmas carol that I've been asked which is
my favorite? And this one is it? Here? He is
not Michael Douglas. Mike Douglas.
Speaker 8 (02:42):
The talk show hosts.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Sing it, Mike, Katie God Dolly.
Speaker 10 (03:00):
The cries and blinks its eyes.
Speaker 11 (03:04):
Jimmy got an awe and mad exclaim that really flies.
But we were poor that Christmas, so Mama stayed them
all a long, sitting in the kits and making.
Speaker 10 (03:22):
Us a present. It was this salt.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
The shirt, spouse, ring a leak, ain't chusing a len,
Happy birthday, Jesus, snow flaint, sting a link, slave bousing
a link.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
Happy birthday, Gesu.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
All year long we went just to celebrate this Christmas
more because.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
We rot you and know we're so glad you.
Speaker 12 (03:55):
Were born.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
A married Mary.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Happy birthday, Jesus.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Lord Jesus, can you give me a wish right now?
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. Loo, good morning, Praise God,
Thank you, thank you Jesus.
Speaker 13 (04:26):
Your favorite Christmas carol and my least favorite Christmas carol.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Now, isn't that something though, But it is probably the
most embracing of Jesus because sometimes you don't even hear
the Jesus name and Christmas carols. Well, that's true, you don't.
Speaker 13 (04:41):
You have a lot of secular songs, but then you
know the religious songs.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
Even the religious ones don't say his name. Now that
I think of it, right to slegree is born. That's
one day.
Speaker 13 (04:52):
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 troop,
was a classic back in the day.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
It'll be in your head for the rest of the day.
Thank goodness. And you brought some special treats here to
celebrate Jesus. Here this is Oh, look at that. There's
a man on a trumpet there, glass men wines, chardonnay.
Thank you very much. I presume that's from Dusty Cellar.
Matt Rhodes will be along a little bit later. I
actually saw you in the shop yesterday, you did.
Speaker 13 (05:34):
I was out doing a little shopping for colleagues of mine,
and here along I see this shadow behind me and
I look at its you, which to my great surprise.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
And there's a second bottle of red in here, Chateau
La Rose Trinta down. Did Matt select these for you? Matt,
it did select those for me.
Speaker 13 (05:55):
And there these are bottles which went to the Michigan
Catholic Conference of Directors and a few other select individuals.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
What about is there a new archbishop in Detroit?
Speaker 13 (06:07):
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.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
Out, that's correct.
Speaker 13 (06:24):
When a bishop turned seventy five, they must submit a
letter of resignation to the Holy See and then it's
at the discretion of the Holy See as to when
that was that is accepted.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Cardinal Dolan had to do that too, he did. And
your friend in New York, yep and he.
Speaker 13 (06:41):
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 Ignoran was seventy six when he was replaced. Archbishop
Weisenberger has met things head on. He's doing a lot
of work in the archdiocese to look at issues that
(07:01):
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 7 (07:13):
How about a shout out from you, Paul Long at
the Michigan Catholic Conference to some of our Michigan bishops.
Speaker 13 (07:19):
Well, we have Bishop Edward Losey in Kalamazoo, Bishop David
Wilkoviak in Grand Rapids, Bishop Walsh Jeffrey Walsh in Gaylord,
one of a fan favorite of this radio program. Yes,
Bishop Earl Boye here in the Dice of Lansing, Bishop
Robert Gruse in the Dice of Saginaw, and Bishop John
(07:40):
Diffler in the Dice of Marquette.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Do you think they would enjoy just another minute here
of Happy Birthday Jesus if they happened to be listening.
Speaker 13 (07:48):
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.
Speaker 14 (08:00):
The birth of Jesus, is what's most important.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
And I think they would appreciate that. 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
(08:25):
remind you that it's somebody's birthday at Christmas, and we
all like to celebrate birthdays. We've got the candles lit
this morning for our holiday spectacular. It's MPs shirt.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Spouse ring a.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Happy Birthday, Jesus, snow fight stingle, slave bous dingle, Happy
birthday Jesus.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
All you we wait just to celebrate this Christmas.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Welcome, missus, it's yourself down and meet the best in Caper.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
The best in keeper in town is Matt Rhodes, the
master of the house, Dusty Cellar, and he's here before
sunrise for this morning holiday celebration, Christmas Celebration in Christmas Red.
Nice to see you, sir.
Speaker 14 (09:27):
Merry Christmas. Michael Peckett.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
I think for one second, and with you working as
many hours as you are, I hate taking care of
everybody getting holiday gifts that you'd be up this early.
Speaker 15 (09:37):
Oh it's good, good change of pace and get out
of the rhythm. And uh, it's great to be here.
And it's always a funny annual thing to do.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Paul Long from the Michigan Catholic Conference here he brought
two very nice bottles that he purchased at your store
as a gift.
Speaker 14 (09:51):
Oh, wonderful, thank you, Paul.
Speaker 13 (09:53):
Well, it's the part of the large gift that do
you help us to procure every fall?
Speaker 7 (09:58):
He said, you helped him to is it?
Speaker 15 (10:01):
I do get I get the pleasure picking out the
wines for the Michigan cather Conference.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
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 it was.
Speaker 14 (10:11):
For the board or the board of directors.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
How do you narrow down if anyone comes in, right
now it's I want to take a gift. I'm invited
to a holiday party. What are the questions that you
discerned to get to the bottle that you get?
Speaker 15 (10:24):
Well, you always got to start with with budget and
give because the budgets.
Speaker 14 (10:27):
Are ranged, you know, a huge range of budgets.
Speaker 15 (10:30):
So once you find out the budget and get an
idea for the taste of the recipients, dry sweet, medium
with without alcohol, and just kind of put it all
together and get a package together.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
You're famous for six bottles for sixty dollars or sometimes yeah,
six for sixty.
Speaker 14 (10:47):
Sixty six, five sixty six.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
So it's up to sixty six inflation, six for sixty six.
But maybe someone might say, well, I want it to
be a good bottle, but I you know, they might
say eighty dollars, or they might say twenty dollars.
Speaker 14 (11:03):
Oh sure, that's just it.
Speaker 15 (11:05):
The inventory we have, we can fit any budget to
anybody given a gift.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
What would you say is a number that Because we're
in the modern age now, so do you think it's
ghosh if someone brings you a bottle of wine to
use your app and figure out how much it cost.
Speaker 15 (11:23):
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 the show.
Speaker 14 (11:30):
You do, you do, absolutely so some of the apps
are good and some of them or not.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
What would 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 a dinner twenty dollars?
Twenty's okay?
Speaker 14 (11:44):
Yep, absolutely, you're welcome to spend more.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
To make a better impression. I guess I know what
the pruth of the matter is. You can have a
twenty dollars bottle that's really really good.
Speaker 14 (11:56):
Yeah, it's just value for money.
Speaker 15 (11:58):
I mean, anybody can buy a grea one hundred dollars,
So the trick is to find a great twenty twenty
five dollars bottom.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Line, 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 wines.
Speaker 15 (12:22):
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, line's always a great
hostess gift.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
I bought some gifts in your shop yesterday to give
to Jim Nantz 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.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Production assistance and say, here have this.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 15 (12:56):
But I think that's a wonderful idea. I'm just glad
to hear it. Jim nance is getting a gift from
Dusty Cellar.
Speaker 14 (13:02):
It's an honor.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Well it'll be, yeah, and it's 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 14 (13:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (13:15):
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 7 (13:21):
It's called The Calling at Dusty Cellar. And also Andrew
Boot and I talked about you on the Android Boot podcasts. Whichever.
Speaker 14 (13:29):
That's always worrisome.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Yeah, you might be. Well, it's a little irreverent but
also reverence. As Father Jake used to say, Fatter Jake folio,
in order to be reverend, you have to be irreverence.
But it came up, your place came up, and you
came up. And so I don't know how long till
it drops, as they say, but.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
It's in there.
Speaker 15 (13:48):
I'll be I'll be sure to check into Andrew's podcast.
I've heard a few of them and they're always interesting.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Yeah. Okay, now what do I give you this morning? Okay,
if you you might have to go a little later. Huh,
you got to get back to the shop. How long
are you going to stay? 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,
(14:14):
and I'm giving away gifts. Some of them are designated
and some of them are random. Yours is very much designated. Gift. Oh,
here it comes. I'm going to roll across the table
to you and you can tell the listeners what that is.
Speaker 14 (14:31):
Well.
Speaker 15 (14:32):
Being in the beverage business, there's a huge range of quality.
And I have a grape gone Wild buzzball.
Speaker 14 (14:41):
Yeah, from Michael Patrick Shields.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Isn't that nice?
Speaker 14 (14:44):
This is such an honor.
Speaker 15 (14:46):
I hope all your other gift recipients are so fortunate.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Well, you remember the history our history with the buzzball.
You did the reason.
Speaker 14 (14:54):
Yeah, we were, Paul.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
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.
I said, what is that in her hand that she's drinking?
And Matt did the research because it's like it looks
like a colored ball ball. Yeah, and we said buzzball
and he probably the first time Dusty Cellar ever ordered buzzball.
Speaker 15 (15:19):
So it's just kind of as a lark. I ordered
the case of buzzball thinking.
Speaker 14 (15:22):
You know, and it actually sold Britney.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
It took a while, but celebrity and do you know
they make those in the gallon size. Now it looks
like a cannon ball. That sounds like a terrible 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 their green and horrible.
Speaker 15 (15:41):
This is going to be regifted, Okay, that you you
include right into the spirit of the twisted thing I'm
doing this morning.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
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 pull out a horribly regifted gift.
The bag is 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
(16:10):
is a guaranteed regift.
Speaker 12 (16:13):
Me.
Speaker 14 (16:13):
I might steal your idea and do that at the cellar.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
That's a good idea, Okay, it's our holiday spectacular. Here's
Britney Spears and Matt and his buzzball at Dusty Cellar.
St Paul Long from the Michigan Catholic Conference. Was it
(16:40):
you asked me about Jennifer Hudson yesterday?
Speaker 14 (16:42):
Did I did you?
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Or was it you Matt somebody else?
Speaker 14 (16:44):
We talked about it at dinner lastn.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
Oh, thank you for reminding me that was a fun
dinner at Dusty Cellar. Here's some Jennifer Hudson by request
for you this morning.
Speaker 10 (16:55):
Oh this you Dmond.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Hello, we're 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. I just came in. Hey, this
(17:23):
is an Easter tradition, the day after tradition, and it
comes from a someone in Kalama Zoo called doctor Bob,
and he says for more info, call this number, Happy
Dinga Stay card. I never got a Dinga's day.
Speaker 15 (17:34):
Would not call that number from your personal fambly Maybe yeah,
two sixty three East Avenue.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I don't know. Thank you, doctor Bob, and Happy Dinga
Stay to you too. H Tony Kupfert. We got a
card from Greg McNeely as we celebrate our twentieth anniverse
it's coming to the end of MPs twenty. We did.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
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.
(18:16):
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 not just
as sound, but as tone, as intent. But it is you.
(18:41):
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
of the microphone.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
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 his book is available. Just google up
Greg McNeely orneely dot com and you can get his
book on all of his social media posts to including
the Sunday Reads.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
Hello, thank you, a dream me of a.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Christmas.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
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 It or Not. He
started in the polka circuit when he was a kid
in Nashville and now is in Hollywood, and his album
(20:07):
is available through where do you get albums?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Spotify, places like that, ituned Spotify wherever there isn't.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
James Judson with every Christmas card. Andy appeared on this
program right around Thanksgiving when we debuted.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
It, married and right the Christmas.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
How do you like that? It's a pretty good sound.
Speaker 14 (20:36):
Huh, great sound.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
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 2 (20:49):
I think this is from a number of years ago,
and I.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
Wonder if he's as good as James Judson.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It's a possibility. We'll we'll find out.
Speaker 13 (20:57):
Well, you could ask him and I'm sure he'd tell
you this is.
Speaker 14 (21:00):
The greatest song ever. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Everybody, Happy New Year, Happy holidays.
Speaker 14 (21:07):
I don't want a lot for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
There is just one.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Thing I don't care about their present underneath the Christmas tream.
Speaker 10 (21:20):
I don't need to pay my stocking there.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I think that's a little AI, don't you possibly the
auto tuned AYI everything you can put into the bag
here it is.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Oh Christmas Day.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I just want you for my own then you or
no make mine which come.
Speaker 14 (21:40):
To oh for Christmas?
Speaker 7 (21:45):
S Okay, move over, Mariah, thank you very much. Next,
so we had James Judson and Donald Trump. What about
doctor Elmo? He has one of that. Now this is
not in any way shape or for me like a
religious song, quite sassy in fact. And this is doctor Elmo.
(22:06):
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 16 (22:14):
Grandma got run over by a reindeer walking home from
our house Christmas Eve. You can say there's no such
thing as Santa that. As for me and Michael Patrick.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
We believe did he ever win a Grammy Award? Probably not,
because that would contribute to our fake egot that we're doing.
We try to be attached to the oscar, attached to
the grammy, attached to the tony, attached to the emmy. Oh,
(22:47):
a woman just stuck her head in the door and
said I'm here, and it was glad 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 11 (22:58):
Stupid to good?
Speaker 14 (23:00):
That's great advice.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
By the way, Well, we'll see this weekends. In the meantime,
it's Doctor Elmo.
Speaker 10 (23:07):
It's not Christmas without Grandma.
Speaker 11 (23:11):
All the families dressed in black.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
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 Bailey's you're a grandma. A grandma walked
in while we're playing Doctor Elmo. Can you come up
to this yellow microphone for a second, Grandma? That's you
(23:36):
give it to Gibbs. The seat. I just sat down.
Speaker 10 (23:38):
Here we go talk to the guy.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas. Beautiful to see you. Who got
holiday apparel on?
Speaker 9 (23:45):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Yes, and you know Matt Rhodes and Paul Long, Yes,
and Matt gave you wine yesterday, and Paul Long always
enjoys your cheering on the lions. So give us the
strategy of dnny.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Hear me, you don't money, hear me room when they're.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Playing a lot of screaming and everything. No, yeah, I scream.
What's that sound like?
Speaker 9 (24:07):
Give it to Gibbs. Well last time they was bed.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
You know he didn't do that.
Speaker 14 (24:17):
Good.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Yeah, that's the will this weekend.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Tony Coppert has an audio treat that actually comes from
Thanksgiving in Turkeyville and the Trenton Tower where you live
and wind Ott.
Speaker 17 (24:29):
Yeah, what's going on? I'm stepping by a lot of
reading and watching the boats go by. I just but
I you we're going to Turkeyville tomorrow. If you want
to come over and lead us for lunch, I don't
know what you're doing. We're about eleven clock or so
with the bustle of the old bags, So talk to
you later.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
That was a very wonderful, sweet thing Dad was doing
to drive you and other people in the building of Turkeyville. Yes,
until he called you old bags.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
I'm now a chairman of the Van committee.
Speaker 7 (25:02):
You carry on the tradition.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Yes, isn't that sweet?
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Where have you gone? And where you're going?
Speaker 9 (25:07):
Well, we were supposed to go to the Wayne County
light Fest, but the van broke down.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Huh, so we can't go. If it was a Hallmark movie,
Santa Sleigh would come, Yeah, take you all to the
Wayne Country light Fest. I love Why do you love
those movies so much?
Speaker 9 (25:24):
Because they don't have blood and guts and they're always
you always know that there's a good feeling and.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
A little bit of romance too. Yes, and maybe one
day they'll make a Hallmark movie. At turkey Ville in Marshall.
Speaker 9 (25:38):
We can't go there because the van won't.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Shoot the old bags? What are they going to do
to fill the time?
Speaker 16 (25:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Did the old bags in the building ever hear him
call them that?
Speaker 14 (25:50):
No?
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Yes? Maybe there is no Well anyway, we know what
we know what Turkeyville is very near?
Speaker 9 (26:00):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (26:02):
But what's very near Turkey Bo? So we light up
the slot machines there?
Speaker 14 (26:10):
Yes, yes?
Speaker 7 (26:10):
And the advice for the slot players you're going to
be there actually tomorrow?
Speaker 9 (26:15):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Today? Actually?
Speaker 9 (26:16):
No Todayrow?
Speaker 7 (26:18):
What's the advice the strategy for slots? Just win, win, win,
I know 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 played almost every night. It seems like. Here's Ken
cal the Polish broadcaster of the Red Wings, with his
(26:42):
Christmas greeting.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Here comes Santa out of the clouds. He's got Rudolph
leaving 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
scores with presence for all the girls and boys.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
All right, kind of tell and your driver is here? Yes,
what's his name? Tim? Tim maguire, longtime executive director of
the Michigan Associational Country. You can try the orange mic
and we're going to have a very twisted game show
a little bit later that involves regifting all these regifts
(27:24):
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. Here's Bobby Vinton,
the Polish PRIs. How do you say Merry Christmas in Polish?
That comes from give it to Gibbs to everyone cheers.
Speaker 10 (28:04):
Sam must be Polish.
Speaker 16 (28:06):
She's such a merry man, bringing lots of toys to everyone.
Speaker 10 (28:12):
He can one thing he's demanding.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Any one's understood, You'll only bring you presents.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
The cabin was glowing from the red Christmas lights. The
snow was falling on my way home tonight.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
James Judson, I knocked on the dome.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
He wrote the song once maybe twice, and missus Claws answered, Oh.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
Did she look kind of sexy?
Speaker 5 (28:54):
The glasses were sparkling from the champagne she poured. The
bye was roaring, keeping us both worn, loving eyes twiggle,
she smiled just for me. Oh, she's my greatest gift
on this Christmasy.
Speaker 14 (29:16):
Now it's just.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
You and I. The kids have all grown, they've gone
on their way.
Speaker 11 (29:25):
Now we're all.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
I feel like we should leave them alone. This lyric
is kind of sexy. Tim maguire, the two of them.
Speaker 18 (29:34):
Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 16 (29:38):
See too.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
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.
(30:02):
The place comes separately, they see, the orchestra comes separately,
and it's like three four five tracks by the time
they're done with it.
Speaker 13 (30:08):
I thought you maybe you were going to tell us
you were playing the accordion.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Funny you should say that, And well, a card laid
is a card played. So I uh, you're gonna get
what you wanted along at Christmas.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
We could be.
Speaker 14 (30:28):
What you wish for.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
Tim McGuire, you can be the color commentator, narrate what
you're seeing right now.
Speaker 18 (30:35):
Well, he's opening up the accordion here it is, he's
strapping it around is first shoulder.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
And Paul and now he has left had.
Speaker 18 (30:44):
And now he's warming up a little bit.
Speaker 13 (30:47):
Had I known, I would never have made such a comment.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Careful what you wish for. That's right, you might get
it takes a second to get this thing.
Speaker 13 (30:56):
Coachizo is one thing, but that's.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
What the tomo accordion tradition is now here. So what
we're gonna do. We're gonna do this later too. I'm
gonna play a Christmas Carol on this accordion, and if
anyone can guess, if they can discern what the song
actually is, because it's gonna be terrible because I haven't
(31:18):
played since second grade. They get to reach into the
regift bag and pull out eight regifted prize. That's about it.
That's like a bad Santa kind of twisted kind of thing.
And so what I'm gonna 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
(31:40):
when you were hearing James Judson. So if you can
name this song, you're going in the prize. Kid, Here
we go.
Speaker 13 (32:01):
It's the worst quite song in the history of the world.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
There we go. I got to back up.
Speaker 13 (32:07):
Now, the most corrupt athletic department in the Scrooge.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
So you win, but 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 Labe.
Speaker 14 (32:41):
Care of.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
It's from the K Club in Ireland.
Speaker 13 (32:44):
Socks Socks stockings if you will, and I know you
live one.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
You were in Ireland this year.
Speaker 13 (32:51):
Wall one is hurling. Not playing the game of hurling.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
You mean, if you drink enough Dusties wine hurling.
Speaker 13 (33:00):
Yeah, No, I don't. I don't think that that's appropriate.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
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 do that,
which says something. Thank you, JP McCarthy. You both loved
and love Hall of Fame radio host. He was like
James Judson before there was James Judson. And he got
(33:27):
in the studio at Larry Santos, the great commercial singer
from Detroit, and it was in nova 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 16 (33:54):
Just like.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Size the Tree.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Listen and.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Listen slave.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
And you were at some of the Christmas singalongs Tim
o'guire in the evening with JP.
Speaker 14 (34:28):
Yes, I was.
Speaker 18 (34:29):
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.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
Picked her up from the Double Tree, from the Double
Tree downtown Lancing. And this is my twentieth year of this.
Speaker 18 (34:51):
Yeah, I haven't missed one.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
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 Jon. Wouldn't he be
surprised to see Detroit today all those guys.
Speaker 18 (35:12):
Oh, I know Tom King a great Tom King, Fat
Bob Taylor and Paul.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
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 14 (35:29):
All the all the broken hearts.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Are now all being fixed. Thank you.
Speaker 8 (35:38):
J P.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
McCarthy and Mary Christmas from MPs plis so we've had
(36:07):
James Judson and j P. McCarthy singing this morning. This
one goes out to Felix sharp cavallerogo coma sta Patrick,
will you give us a full on Spanish or in
Spanish and Espanol, uh a Merry Christmas like this song
with Jose Feliciano felis navidad.
Speaker 14 (36:27):
Bo felice prospero, buenas.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
Gracias, many good things in the new year, Sweet sweet,
do servezos know more?
Speaker 14 (36:44):
Always?
Speaker 7 (36:50):
Hub Hey, I was with my mother coming out of Miami,
by the way, Gladys Shields here just the other day,
and 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
(37:11):
like that in Cuba, not the educated people. That's not
something an educated Cuban would say. That's simply not true, Nabby.
Even President former President Barack Obama said it so well,
that was maybe that's the point. I'm just kidding, but
(37:31):
he said, it's like saying, you know.
Speaker 14 (37:32):
What's up?
Speaker 7 (37:33):
Is that right?
Speaker 14 (37:34):
And that is correct?
Speaker 7 (37:35):
All right? What's wrong with that?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
He?
Speaker 7 (37:37):
I guess he's wrong with He wanted me to say,
you know, probably more formal greeting, I guess.
Speaker 14 (37:42):
Although he couldn't do it himself. That's why he was
working at the airport.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
Mmmm.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Felix Sharp CAVALIERO. Merry Christmas to you and Police Navidad
and your family.
Speaker 10 (37:52):
I'm marry Merry Christmas.
Speaker 8 (37:55):
And a lot of blessings on you and your show
and your family.
Speaker 10 (38:02):
And thank you for inviting me.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
God bless you.
Speaker 8 (38:05):
I count my blessings and one of them was hanging
out with you.
Speaker 7 (38:09):
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, friend.
Speaker 12 (38:23):
I want to wend you a very christ on the bottom. Oh,
I want to wed you very Christmas.
Speaker 11 (38:34):
I want to you very friend, but I'll
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