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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
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 (00:35):
Here comes Santa 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
scores with presents for all the girls and boys.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
All right, thank you, Kens Broadcaster. 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 Norrie Coast to Coast Show, six hundred and fifty
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stations across the nation, you're going to 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,
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this Santa that I'm speaking of, that does the voice
on the show, had to leave midnight Mass in the
middle because his show is overnight, in order to go
out in the cold on the steps of our lady
at Mount Carmel Church and Wydatt and make the call.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Well, he couldn't have delayed another twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well it's his show. What am I going to do?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
He's on until six a m.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
When the when the you know, when the they point
you're on, You're on.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
That's how it goes, as I've learned from you through
the years.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
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 5 (02:20):
And they what did I say?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Nicole Noel Williams, the Capital 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 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,
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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 and down town Lansing, our headquarters
here in the Capitol where we stayed last night. Welcome,
thanks for having me. What an elegant Christmas outfit you
have on too.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Thank you. I thought i'd be fast.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Unfortunately you are qualified for the event here. That's about
the end of the game show. 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,
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you know, name that tune was one thing. This is
a step beyond. If you can actually tell what it is,
you will win a prize. That prize will be the
ability to reach in blind, which Scott Ellis is holding
over there. 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
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emptying out the closets. You could throw it out, but
you can't throw it out here, or even better, which
would warm my heart, you gifted to somebody else. Okay,
So I don't know if I should do it. Yeah,
you'll play against Nicolonel Williams. How's that on? And Beth
shown is here and Beth, I think what you'll be
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the judge whoever you listen, whoever shouts out the title first,
if either of them can identify the song, that is,
so here we go are you ready, We're ready. There's
a lot of at stake here.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Santa Claus is coming to town.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
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, and slippers.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
She seems very.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Excited about them.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Now, these are perfect for the hotel.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You'll pad around the hotel in those.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Yes, awesome when you come to visit me next time.
Someone else will be wearing it.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
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.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
The more you know.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Congratulations and I look forward to those slippers going out
the door with you.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
But not, Nicole, you are not off the hook.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh, thank you. 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.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Oh come on now, by the way, New Year's Eve.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
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 wondering ticket per person, early
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and late check out, and free parking, which is huge.
Speaker 9 (06:04):
Down Christmas right there, Commissioner aware, she has it down,
doesn't she.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
She sure does.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
She's hoping for Christmas in New Year's though we're not.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
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.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Mission Point is so beautiful.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
You guys have done such a fantastic job up there,
and anytime you go up to visit, your.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Staff is stellar. So thank you, Nicole, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Incredible. Last time I saw you was at Mission Point
Resort when you posted this program.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yeah, well we were partners in crime, Nicole.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
No Williams, that's right. Small world Okay, you did the
whole show.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
You guys did a great job.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
It was fun. A lot of lancing folks that were
able to come and join us.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
So great. I just saw Paula Cunningham walk in by
the way, so you might have to Okay, you're we
can't delay this anymore, is Yeah.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
The Mid Michigan Business Travel Coalition, so business communities in
the region, and the University of the State of Michigan
is all engaged in supporting fly lancing.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
First, these powerful women, Commissioner Liz Where, the CEO of 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 naked magic with
a bunch of white elephant gifts to hand out. Okay, ready,
here it is. Ready, let's put it this way. Here's
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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 5 (07:38):
I'm pretty oppressed.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Thank you, Bill Santa Suit and in course see that
Paul chicks dig the musicians. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Keep playing.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Noel First and Noel.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Best to show. And you're supposed to be the judge
and you gave her the But wait a minute, you
answered in the form of a question. Is that your
final answer? Here comes Scott Ellis with the gift bag
now reaching into the Beverly Hotel's bag. The beautiful gift
that you will not so beautiful gift. Oh what'd you get?
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Maybe Keith can wear those? Yeah they could well, yea,
his feet are too big for those. I was just
going to say, I think, hmmm, well you'll you'll, it's
your problem now, not mind, you could regift them. All right,
we're back in the flash. It's our very twisted this
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year holiday gathering and it's Michael Patrick Shields through the
AT and T microphones.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Radio.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
Just nice roasting on an open.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Fly tony comfort. That's Jay Hut, isn't it. Jennifer Hudson,
that sure is. 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. This was her
album released last year, Fool.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Just a bla like ask him.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
All 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 4 (10:00):
Paul Long, Michigan Conference.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Nicole no Williams with the Airport.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
Capital I'm the president CEO of the Capital Region Airport Authority.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Don't be modest. There's another powerful woman in the room
here right.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Too, PAULA.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
Cunningham, State Director aar P Michigan.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Thank you very much, and an old friend.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
Tom Hicks and executive director of Michigan town town.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Take that USh off because you've getting you're getting feedback then.
Speaker 10 (10:28):
Tom Hickson, executive director of Michigan Township Association.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's a new gig. Congratulations, thank you very much.
Speaker 10 (10:34):
It's been really exciting. And uh boy, I see Paul
Long over here. He's my former boss. And Tim McGuire's
in the house, my former former boss. And I learned
so much from those guys. I had to move on.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
This town is something everybody knows. Everybody knows everybody, all right,
So Tony Coppert, J. P. McCarthy and the Christmas thing,
we'll just get a little bit of jingle bells in here,
and because I think Jennifer Hudson would like that very much,
here we go. How about we just do the refrain
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save everybody. I'm making spears right to ride.
Speaker 9 (11:17):
Tonight.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh what
one it is to ride? One horse opens he ing bells,
jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to ride?
And one horse SOPs. Thank you J P. McCarthy and
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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 4 (11:47):
Thirty one years ago according to that earlier clip.
Speaker 11 (11:50):
You please it.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
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. Please say hi to missus.
Tim McGuire can do the honors with the Beverly Hills
Hotel gift bag. Now, Paula, maybe you didn't know this,
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but you, as a special guest, get to blindly reach
into the Beverly Hills 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
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there however you want, whatever you want to do. It's
probably won't be Prada. What agend up with? Socks? What's
on the socks?
Speaker 11 (12:49):
A dog?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
A dog? Yeah, Merry Christmas, and I'm obligated. You can't
take you must not leave it here. You gotta take
it now. 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 4 (13:09):
He certainly does.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
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 can't leave it here. You
can throw it out. You can't throw it out here.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
I will.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
How many gifts are left him? We have enough in there? Ah,
guess what he got?
Speaker 11 (13:33):
Fun socks?
Speaker 10 (13:34):
More socks, this one socks in an actual box.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Socks in a box? Are they colorful? They're very colorful?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
And they are multiple pairs.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Will you wear a pair of mask at Christmas masks?
Speaker 10 (13:46):
I'll commit to you that I will one of these.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
You got it now, Paula. 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. Answer. We have three gifts left, okay,
three to go, so fantastic.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
New socks are the gift of the day. Well, it's
practice at least five of us that have been granted that.
Did you get socks too?
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah from Ireland?
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Though?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
That was nice.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
I actually like the bag.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It 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 8 (14:34):
Well, I am just honored to be here with Santa
Claus and to be with all these distinguished folks. There's
a lot going on at AARP. We continue to advocate
on behalf of older adults.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I'm glad you brought this up. Should Santa and Missus
Stanta still be working at their age?
Speaker 8 (14:54):
You know me in age we don't discriminate if you
still have the desire and if you still have the
skill set and the people still want you go for it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, and we.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
Still want Santa and missus Claus. Believe me, we want
them to stay on the job.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I hope they are card carrying members of AARP and
they never retire.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
They've been card carrying members since ethel Percy andrews Our
founder sixty five years ago.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So it's perfect, perfect Paula Cunningham AARP, Tony Cupper, What
do we got here that might fit? Nothing?
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Darn?
Speaker 12 (15:30):
We try to play these little you don't want to
re wreck the President Trump song?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
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 5 (15:47):
The actual day?
Speaker 9 (15:48):
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 it's self is usually a lighter travel Okay, it's
if you're looking for a good deal.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
It's usually traveling on that actual holiday.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Have you been anywhere lately?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Gosh, I have. I was down to Miami, down to
Nasau and then up to DC.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
You know, I was in Miami and NASA a week ago,
so was that. Were you there at the same time.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
I wonder if we were.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Do we remember it? I'm just kidding it was a coincidence.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
But of course all you know.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Sad Night is that James Judson. 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 Mariah Carey and the rest of it. So
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therefore we turn to a tradition on this program. It
started on this program, but it actually started at Saint
John and Saint Thomas in front of the congregation and
its father mark Inglet's keeping Christmas.
Speaker 12 (17:24):
Keeping Christmas by Henry van Dyck. It is a good
thing to observe Christmas Day, the mere marking of times
and seasons, when men agree to stop work and make
Mary 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 suntime. 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 owes you,
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and to think what you owe the world. To put
your rights in the background and your duties in the
middle distance, and your chance is 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 what you 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
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willing to stoop down to 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
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to understand that those who 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
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for your kindly feelings with the 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
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the image and brightness of eternal love. 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 2 (20:08):
Merry Christmas, Father mark inglet and thank you for the memories.
It's Michael Patrick Shields with you and we're 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. It is two very different things
right now. One is with Brian Wheeler from Consumer's Energy,
Merry Christmas, Happy holidays to you, sir, Merry Christmas. And
the mayor was here not long ago, a few minutes ago,
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and he was talking about the code blues that have
been going on. And it's a very cold December, isn't it.
Speaker 13 (20:35):
It's been a very cold month, right.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And 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 13 (20:46):
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. So we're trying to spread some warmth
and share.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
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. Thank you. 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 MERS News. And at Christmas time,
you had you had the heat. You weren't exactly hoping for.
Speaker 14 (21:24):
Oh are you're talking about a little fire hire?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah? Yeah, could you mind? It was fine?
Speaker 14 (21:31):
But you know what, here's a here's a something to
share with your listeners.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
If you have an.
Speaker 14 (21:35):
Old fire extinguisher, you got to get rid of it
because it's 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, but the powder that they
spray all over the place is almost as if you
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had a fire to begin with.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Is that right? Yeah, you learned that the hard way.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (22:00):
Yeah, a lot of deep cleans, a lot of work.
It's not a lot of fun. So replace the fire extinguisher.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
And also, Brian Wheeler at Consumers, you were always an
advocate of people having the carbon monoxide detectors, right, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 13 (22:15):
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 I 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
you have working smoke alarms. You're making sure those windows
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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 2 (22:44):
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, but don't do it. Kyle,
you're a very faithful person. You're on the west side
at church r Yeah, it's Saint Erard Grard. How are
things there?
Speaker 15 (23:01):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (23:02):
Thanks?
Speaker 14 (23:02):
Are doing great. 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.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 14 (23:12):
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 2 (23:19):
Paul A Long from the Michigan Catholic Conference. Have you
met him yet?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Maybe you have to wander over across the border to
the west side for a master just for the heck
of it.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Maybe they'll actually venture west of the capitol.
Speaker 14 (23:33):
It's well worth it, he says, a great mass and
a great homily.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
So we're really blessed.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
To have him there. You know Tom Hickson, of course,
who used to work with the Michigan Catholic Conference. He's
got our Oh God, is that Tom Hickson. 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, take well.
Speaker 14 (23:56):
I don't got to name that tune or anything.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
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 14 (24:08):
Okay, all right? Is it one of your books or not?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
There is a book in there, It's not mine. What
does it say?
Speaker 14 (24:15):
You'll shoot your eye out? Life Lessons from the movie
A Christmas Story.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
And that is actually written by a Grand Rapids author.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Is it really?
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You did alright with that? That isn't too bad.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
That might be the best gift yet.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And Brian Wheeler, do you dare? Oh, sign me up.
Speaker 13 (24:36):
I'm looking for the CD of Michael Patrick sings The
Christmas Great Right, it's a mug growing lancing together.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Oh, it's from Lansing, Michigan.
Speaker 13 (24:46):
Verge Bernaro, mayor State of the City.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I'm going to be guarding this carefully. The Kyle doesn't steal.
That is Tony Kuppard and the orchestra. I've been saving
that for a long time. That is a sixteen year
fuzzy math, sixteen year old mug unused and uh, I'll
be using it today tomorrow morning. Actually, may want to
watch out, right, Kyle whatever became a ViRGE Bonaro.
Speaker 14 (25:14):
I try and reach him sometimes, to be a political pundit.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
A lot of people have been trying to reach him
for a long time.
Speaker 14 (25:19):
If you yeah, yeah, you've had about as much luck
as I have, then.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Well, I'm figuratively speaking, he's also unreachable, if you know
what I mean. Back in a.
Speaker 15 (25:27):
Flash, you better watch out, better not crawl.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Damn straight. That's Paul Anka, Paul Long and the talent
of his Christmas album too you. Uh, 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? What can I say?
(26:02):
We want but you see, we want the decks cleared,
we want the closets emptied. Everything must go, everything must
say so. I don't know if this is a Christmas
party or 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
(26:22):
a Beverly Hills Hotel bag. But and whatever you take
that you you must take with you. You can't leave
it here. You can what you got? What is that? Oh?
That was the last thing left? I think you should
go two for the price of one on that. That
(26:43):
is a That is a calendar from Steve Cadbury. Uh no, Tim,
you would love to describe that. I bet defend the
den a Detroit Detroit Lions brought to you by Miller
aren't you glad you got dressed in stockings and came
(27:03):
down for this.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
You know him?
Speaker 16 (27:10):
He was here last year, had a suit, that Christmas suit.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah. Well, I hope he's listening now. His so his
spirit is here and his magnet calendar is here.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
And I'll tell him we're Facebook friends.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Oh good, right here, I'll take a picture of you
with the calendar. This is all happening right on the radio.
That's okay, We're letting it all hang out this morning.
I'll send that to you and you can say we
talked about him and made fun of I talked about
him on the radio so much. I know you got
to go, but I wish you could stay. But would
(27:44):
you give us the traditional Christmas and take as many
words as you want in Espanol to wish.
Speaker 16 (27:51):
Us Okay, felstena be that paratol radio scutas and programma.
Then Michael Big Shills Michigan's Big Show, Tiamo, tiamo tambien,
Michael Patrick.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Thank you, Okay, by Acondios, Fairley's No Done, ferleis not by.
Speaker 17 (28:20):
Fairley's No.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Fair Saved, Ferleise.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Nob Hey, Daryl Faeries, Nobby Oh I didn't today.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
That oh, where's your Maria, where's you?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Tom Hickson looked into the bag, but you're not allowed
to do but that's okay, and he found there's one
more gifts in there. Anybody out there who's hold on
hold meantime, we got jose Feliciano and Darryl Hall MPs
(29:26):
with you, and we want to thank everybody who showed
up here today and dared to play with us on
this show. Tim maguire, 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 voluminous.
Speaker 17 (29:46):
Well, it's been a lot of fun and a great voyage,
for sure. I'm so proud of Tom and his new
title as executive director of the Michigan Townships Association, and
my longtime friendship with Paul Long, and of course you Uh.
This is my twentieth Christmas program with you, and it
(30:08):
seems like yesterday when the first one started and here
we are twenty years later.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
It's been a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 17 (30:15):
You had a whole host of guests today walking in
and out of this studio. And thanks to Jeff and
Suzanne Heward for providing the great catered meal and the snacks.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
There's Suzanne should reach into the bag. Yes, that would
be perfect for her. He gets to reach in and
the bag can be the gift too if you like it.
Paula Cunningham wanted to take it with Paula Cunningham. That's
perfect for you. How there you wheed? It is as
(30:47):
Jackie Gleeson used to say, and here's the honeymooner is Christmas.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
Christmas is. It's about the first time in a hold
year we walked on the streets, even for weeks before
Christmas comes and there's lights hanging.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Up, green ones and red ones.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Sometimes there's snow, and everybody's hustling someplace. But they don't
hustle around Christmas time like.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
They usually do. You know, they're a little more friendly.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
They bump into it, they laugh and they say, pardon me,
Merry Christmas. Especially when it gets real close to Christmas night,
everybody's walking home. You can hardly hear a sound. Bells
are ringing, kids are singing, snow is coming down, and boy,
what a pleasure it is to think that you got
(31:36):
someplace to go to, and the place that you're going to,
there's somebody in it that you really love, someone your
nuts about it.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Marry Christmas, the great One, Jackie Gleason, Michael Patrick, Shields
radio stations across the state of Michigan and worldwide at
am I Big Show dot Com. Thank you to Tony
Cuppard and the orchestra for another year of head banging
and directing the orchestra and coming up with the creativity
(32:11):
that you hear, either subconsciously or consciously. It's there for sure.
He is a wizard like Mozart, and he's got something
coming at you right this very moment. It's MPs through
the ad and T microphone stopping things.
Speaker 11 (32:31):
Hall again, staring.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Harolds on the standing.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Staring, moaning, has it's not a single.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
On the stream of nice ah behold for Christmas, you
can plan on.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
My name is Nreg how Bar Hernandez. I'm from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
I just want to wish.
Speaker 16 (33:23):
Everybody back home happy holidays.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Can I love you?
Speaker 11 (33:29):
I love you.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I hope you both are doing well and I can't
wait to see you it Grandwich, Fru. 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 10 (33:43):
I just wanted to wish my wife and family back
home a happy Holidays and merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I can't wait to see you guys in January. For
the troops, those who were overseas, who longed 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 dreams that they're
home for Christmas, not physically as you hear being singing there.
(34:09):
Jim Trabilcock is a dear friend of me on the
program and everybody in this room, and a veteran.
Speaker 11 (34:16):
Very Christmas to you, sir, Thank you. I spent a
year and when I was in Vietnam zero for Christmas,
which was a little different.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
That's what I wanted to ask you about. If you
don't mind no at all, what was that like?
Speaker 11 (34:29):
Lonesome, nostalgic, scary. I remember sitting on top of a
bunker that night, just looking at the stars. Yeah, I'm
just hoping nothing happened, and it didn't because there was
kind of an unspoken truce between both sides. Everybody just
left everybody alone around that time of.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Year, even in that part of the world.
Speaker 11 (34:50):
Yeah, yep, oh yeah, yeah, oh, roughly probably twenty three
like that.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Is that your first time, you know, like kind of
that far away from home without family and everything at
the holidays?
Speaker 11 (35:06):
Well, you couldn't get much further away. Yeah, it's like
a twenty two hour flight.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Wow, imagine that. Paul Long and Tim McGuire and Tom
Hexon and Tony mccufbert and my mother glad Us over there,
he's looking at a Christmas star in a very very
different way.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Well, Michael, you are a Christmas star too 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 2 (35:37):
No man FireKeepers tomorrow. 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, Thank you,
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 (00:20):
I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
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 (00:35):
Here comes Santa 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
scores with presents for all the girls and boys.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
All right, thank you, Kens Broadcaster. 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 Norrie Coast to Coast Show, six hundred and fifty
(01:17):
stations across the nation, you're going to 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,
(01:37):
this Santa that I'm speaking of, that does the voice
on the show, had to leave midnight Mass in the
middle because his show is overnight, in order to go
out in the cold on the steps of our lady
at Mount Carmel Church and Wydatt and make the call.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Well, he couldn't have delayed another twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well it's his show. What am I going to do?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
He's on until six a m.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
When the when the you know, when the they point
you're on, You're on.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
That's how it goes, as I've learned from you through
the years.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
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 5 (02:20):
And they what did I say?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Nicole Noel Williams, the Capital 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 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,
(02:49):
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 and down town Lansing, our headquarters
here in the Capitol where we stayed last night. Welcome,
thanks for having me. What an elegant Christmas outfit you
have on too.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Thank you. I thought i'd be fast.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Unfortunately you are qualified for the event here. That's about
the end of the game show. 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,
(03:30):
you know, name that tune was one thing. This is
a step beyond. If you can actually tell what it is,
you will win a prize. That prize will be the
ability to reach in blind, which Scott Ellis is holding
over there. 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
(03:53):
emptying out the closets. You could throw it out, but
you can't throw it out here, or even better, which
would warm my heart, you gifted to somebody else. Okay,
So I don't know if I should do it. Yeah,
you'll play against Nicolonel Williams. How's that on? And Beth
shown is here and Beth, I think what you'll be
(04:14):
the judge whoever you listen, whoever shouts out the title first,
if either of them can identify the song, that is,
so here we go are you ready, We're ready. There's
a lot of at stake here.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Santa Claus is coming to town.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
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, and slippers.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
She seems very.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Excited about them.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Now, these are perfect for the hotel.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You'll pad around the hotel in those.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Yes, awesome when you come to visit me next time.
Someone else will be wearing it.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
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.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
The more you know.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Congratulations and I look forward to those slippers going out
the door with you.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
But not, Nicole, you are not off the hook.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh, thank you. 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.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Oh come on now, by the way, New Year's Eve.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
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 wondering ticket per person, early
(06:01):
and late check out, and free parking, which is huge.
Speaker 9 (06:04):
Down Christmas right there, Commissioner aware, she has it down,
doesn't she.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
She sure does.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
She's hoping for Christmas in New Year's though we're not.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
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.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Mission Point is so beautiful.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
You guys have done such a fantastic job up there,
and anytime you go up to visit, your.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Staff is stellar. So thank you, Nicole, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Incredible. Last time I saw you was at Mission Point
Resort when you posted this program.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yeah, well we were partners in crime, Nicole.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
No Williams, that's right. Small world Okay, you did the
whole show.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
You guys did a great job.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
It was fun. A lot of lancing folks that were
able to come and join us.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
So great. I just saw Paula Cunningham walk in by
the way, so you might have to Okay, you're we
can't delay this anymore, is Yeah.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
The Mid Michigan Business Travel Coalition, so business communities in
the region, and the University of the State of Michigan
is all engaged in supporting fly lancing.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
First, these powerful women, Commissioner Liz Where, the CEO of 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 naked magic with
a bunch of white elephant gifts to hand out. Okay, ready,
here it is. Ready, let's put it this way. Here's
(07:29):
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 5 (07:38):
I'm pretty oppressed.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Thank you, Bill Santa Suit and in course see that
Paul chicks dig the musicians. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Keep playing.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Noel First and Noel.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Best to show. And you're supposed to be the judge
and you gave her the But wait a minute, you
answered in the form of a question. Is that your
final answer? Here comes Scott Ellis with the gift bag
now reaching into the Beverly Hotel's bag. The beautiful gift
that you will not so beautiful gift. Oh what'd you get?
(08:22):
Maybe Keith can wear those? Yeah they could well, yea,
his feet are too big for those. I was just
going to say, I think, hmmm, well you'll you'll, it's
your problem now, not mind, you could regift them. All right,
we're back in the flash. It's our very twisted this
(08:43):
year holiday gathering and it's Michael Patrick Shields through the
AT and T microphones.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Radio.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
Just nice roasting on an open.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Fly tony comfort. That's Jay Hut, isn't it. Jennifer Hudson,
that sure is. 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. This was her
album released last year, Fool.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Just a bla like ask him.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
All 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 4 (10:00):
Paul Long, Michigan Conference.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Nicole no Williams with the Airport.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
Capital I'm the president CEO of the Capital Region Airport Authority.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Don't be modest. There's another powerful woman in the room
here right.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Too, PAULA.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
Cunningham, State Director aar P Michigan.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Thank you very much, and an old friend.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
Tom Hicks and executive director of Michigan town town.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Take that USh off because you've getting you're getting feedback then.
Speaker 10 (10:28):
Tom Hickson, executive director of Michigan Township Association.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's a new gig. Congratulations, thank you very much.
Speaker 10 (10:34):
It's been really exciting. And uh boy, I see Paul
Long over here. He's my former boss. And Tim McGuire's
in the house, my former former boss. And I learned
so much from those guys. I had to move on.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
This town is something everybody knows. Everybody knows everybody, all right,
So Tony Coppert, J. P. McCarthy and the Christmas thing,
we'll just get a little bit of jingle bells in here,
and because I think Jennifer Hudson would like that very much,
here we go. How about we just do the refrain
(11:05):
save everybody. I'm making spears right to ride.
Speaker 9 (11:17):
Tonight.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh what
one it is to ride? One horse opens he ing bells,
jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to ride?
And one horse SOPs. Thank you J P. McCarthy and
(11:39):
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 4 (11:47):
Thirty one years ago according to that earlier clip.
Speaker 11 (11:50):
You please it.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
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. Please say hi to missus.
Tim McGuire can do the honors with the Beverly Hills
Hotel gift bag. Now, Paula, maybe you didn't know this,
(12:12):
but you, as a special guest, get to blindly reach
into the Beverly Hills 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
(12:32):
there however you want, whatever you want to do. It's
probably won't be Prada. What agend up with? Socks? What's
on the socks?
Speaker 11 (12:49):
A dog?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
A dog? Yeah, Merry Christmas, and I'm obligated. You can't
take you must not leave it here. You gotta take
it now. 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 4 (13:09):
He certainly does.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
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 can't leave it here. You
can throw it out. You can't throw it out here.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
I will.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
How many gifts are left him? We have enough in there? Ah,
guess what he got?
Speaker 11 (13:33):
Fun socks?
Speaker 10 (13:34):
More socks, this one socks in an actual box.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Socks in a box? Are they colorful? They're very colorful?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
And they are multiple pairs.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Will you wear a pair of mask at Christmas masks?
Speaker 10 (13:46):
I'll commit to you that I will one of these.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
You got it now, Paula. 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. Answer. We have three gifts left, okay,
three to go, so fantastic.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
New socks are the gift of the day. Well, it's
practice at least five of us that have been granted that.
Did you get socks too?
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah from Ireland?
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Though?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
That was nice.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
I actually like the bag.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It 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 8 (14:34):
Well, I am just honored to be here with Santa
Claus and to be with all these distinguished folks. There's
a lot going on at AARP. We continue to advocate
on behalf of older adults.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I'm glad you brought this up. Should Santa and Missus
Stanta still be working at their age?
Speaker 8 (14:54):
You know me in age we don't discriminate if you
still have the desire and if you still have the
skill set and the people still want you go for it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, and we.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
Still want Santa and missus Claus. Believe me, we want
them to stay on the job.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I hope they are card carrying members of AARP and
they never retire.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
They've been card carrying members since ethel Percy andrews Our
founder sixty five years ago.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So it's perfect, perfect Paula Cunningham AARP, Tony Cupper, What
do we got here that might fit? Nothing?
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Darn?
Speaker 12 (15:30):
We try to play these little you don't want to
re wreck the President Trump song?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
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 5 (15:47):
The actual day?
Speaker 9 (15:48):
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 it's self is usually a lighter travel Okay, it's
if you're looking for a good deal.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
It's usually traveling on that actual holiday.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Have you been anywhere lately?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Gosh, I have. I was down to Miami, down to
Nasau and then up to DC.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
You know, I was in Miami and NASA a week ago,
so was that. Were you there at the same time.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
I wonder if we were.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Do we remember it? I'm just kidding it was a coincidence.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
But of course all you know.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Sad Night is that James Judson. 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 Mariah Carey and the rest of it. So
(17:10):
therefore we turn to a tradition on this program. It
started on this program, but it actually started at Saint
John and Saint Thomas in front of the congregation and
its father mark Inglet's keeping Christmas.
Speaker 12 (17:24):
Keeping Christmas by Henry van Dyck. It is a good
thing to observe Christmas Day, the mere marking of times
and seasons, when men agree to stop work and make
Mary 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
(17:47):
own little watch now and then by the great clock
of humanity, which runs on suntime. 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 owes you,
(18:08):
and to think what you owe the world. To put
your rights in the background and your duties in the
middle distance, and your chance is 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
(18:30):
reason for your existence is not what you 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
(18:52):
willing to stoop down to 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
(19:12):
to understand that those who 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
(19:32):
for your kindly feelings with the 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
(19:54):
the image and brightness of eternal love. 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 2 (20:08):
Merry Christmas, Father mark inglet and thank you for the memories.
It's Michael Patrick Shields with you and we're 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. It is two very different things
right now. One is with Brian Wheeler from Consumer's Energy,
Merry Christmas, Happy holidays to you, sir, Merry Christmas. And
the mayor was here not long ago, a few minutes ago,
(20:29):
and he was talking about the code blues that have
been going on. And it's a very cold December, isn't it.
Speaker 13 (20:35):
It's been a very cold month, right.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And 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 13 (20:46):
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. So we're trying to spread some warmth
and share.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
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. Thank you. 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 MERS News. And at Christmas time,
you had you had the heat. You weren't exactly hoping for.
Speaker 14 (21:24):
Oh are you're talking about a little fire hire?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah? Yeah, could you mind? It was fine?
Speaker 14 (21:31):
But you know what, here's a here's a something to
share with your listeners.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
If you have an.
Speaker 14 (21:35):
Old fire extinguisher, you got to get rid of it
because it's 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, but the powder that they
spray all over the place is almost as if you
(21:55):
had a fire to begin with.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Is that right? Yeah, you learned that the hard way.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (22:00):
Yeah, a lot of deep cleans, a lot of work.
It's not a lot of fun. So replace the fire extinguisher.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
And also, Brian Wheeler at Consumers, you were always an
advocate of people having the carbon monoxide detectors, right, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 13 (22:15):
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 I 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
you have working smoke alarms. You're making sure those windows
(22:37):
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 2 (22:44):
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, but don't do it. Kyle,
you're a very faithful person. You're on the west side
at church r Yeah, it's Saint Erard Grard. How are
things there?
Speaker 15 (23:01):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (23:02):
Thanks?
Speaker 14 (23:02):
Are doing great. 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.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 14 (23:12):
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 2 (23:19):
Paul A Long from the Michigan Catholic Conference. Have you
met him yet?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Maybe you have to wander over across the border to
the west side for a master just for the heck
of it.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Maybe they'll actually venture west of the capitol.
Speaker 14 (23:33):
It's well worth it, he says, a great mass and
a great homily.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
So we're really blessed.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
To have him there. You know Tom Hickson, of course,
who used to work with the Michigan Catholic Conference. He's
got our Oh God, is that Tom Hickson. 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, take well.
Speaker 14 (23:56):
I don't got to name that tune or anything.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
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 14 (24:08):
Okay, all right? Is it one of your books or not?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
There is a book in there, It's not mine. What
does it say?
Speaker 14 (24:15):
You'll shoot your eye out? Life Lessons from the movie
A Christmas Story.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
And that is actually written by a Grand Rapids author.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Is it really?
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You did alright with that? That isn't too bad.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
That might be the best gift yet.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And Brian Wheeler, do you dare? Oh, sign me up.
Speaker 13 (24:36):
I'm looking for the CD of Michael Patrick sings The
Christmas Great Right, it's a mug growing lancing together.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Oh, it's from Lansing, Michigan.
Speaker 13 (24:46):
Verge Bernaro, mayor State of the City.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I'm going to be guarding this carefully. The Kyle doesn't steal.
That is Tony Kuppard and the orchestra. I've been saving
that for a long time. That is a sixteen year
fuzzy math, sixteen year old mug unused and uh, I'll
be using it today tomorrow morning. Actually, may want to
watch out, right, Kyle whatever became a ViRGE Bonaro.
Speaker 14 (25:14):
I try and reach him sometimes, to be a political pundit.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
A lot of people have been trying to reach him
for a long time.
Speaker 14 (25:19):
If you yeah, yeah, you've had about as much luck
as I have, then.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Well, I'm figuratively speaking, he's also unreachable, if you know
what I mean. Back in a.
Speaker 15 (25:27):
Flash, you better watch out, better not crawl.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Damn straight. That's Paul Anka, Paul Long and the talent
of his Christmas album too you. Uh, 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? What can I say?
(26:02):
We want but you see, we want the decks cleared,
we want the closets emptied. Everything must go, everything must
say so. I don't know if this is a Christmas
party or 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
(26:22):
a Beverly Hills Hotel bag. But and whatever you take
that you you must take with you. You can't leave
it here. You can what you got? What is that? Oh?
That was the last thing left? I think you should
go two for the price of one on that. That
(26:43):
is a That is a calendar from Steve Cadbury. Uh no, Tim,
you would love to describe that. I bet defend the
den a Detroit Detroit Lions brought to you by Miller
aren't you glad you got dressed in stockings and came
(27:03):
down for this.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
You know him?
Speaker 16 (27:10):
He was here last year, had a suit, that Christmas suit.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah. Well, I hope he's listening now. His so his
spirit is here and his magnet calendar is here.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
And I'll tell him we're Facebook friends.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Oh good, right here, I'll take a picture of you
with the calendar. This is all happening right on the radio.
That's okay, We're letting it all hang out this morning.
I'll send that to you and you can say we
talked about him and made fun of I talked about
him on the radio so much. I know you got
to go, but I wish you could stay. But would
(27:44):
you give us the traditional Christmas and take as many
words as you want in Espanol to wish.
Speaker 16 (27:51):
Us Okay, felstena be that paratol radio scutas and programma.
Then Michael Big Shills Michigan's Big Show, Tiamo, tiamo tambien,
Michael Patrick.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Thank you, Okay, by Acondios, Fairley's No Done, ferleis not by.
Speaker 17 (28:20):
Fairley's No.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Fair Saved, Ferleise.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Nob Hey, Daryl Faeries, Nobby Oh I didn't today.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
That oh, where's your Maria, where's you?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Tom Hickson looked into the bag, but you're not allowed
to do but that's okay, and he found there's one
more gifts in there. Anybody out there who's hold on
hold meantime, we got jose Feliciano and Darryl Hall MPs
(29:26):
with you, and we want to thank everybody who showed
up here today and dared to play with us on
this show. Tim maguire, 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 voluminous.
Speaker 17 (29:46):
Well, it's been a lot of fun and a great voyage,
for sure. I'm so proud of Tom and his new
title as executive director of the Michigan Townships Association, and
my longtime friendship with Paul Long, and of course you Uh.
This is my twentieth Christmas program with you, and it
(30:08):
seems like yesterday when the first one started and here
we are twenty years later.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
It's been a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 17 (30:15):
You had a whole host of guests today walking in
and out of this studio. And thanks to Jeff and
Suzanne Heward for providing the great catered meal and the snacks.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
There's Suzanne should reach into the bag. Yes, that would
be perfect for her. He gets to reach in and
the bag can be the gift too if you like it.
Paula Cunningham wanted to take it with Paula Cunningham. That's
perfect for you. How there you wheed? It is as
(30:47):
Jackie Gleeson used to say, and here's the honeymooner is Christmas.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
Christmas is. It's about the first time in a hold
year we walked on the streets, even for weeks before
Christmas comes and there's lights hanging.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Up, green ones and red ones.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Sometimes there's snow, and everybody's hustling someplace. But they don't
hustle around Christmas time like.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
They usually do. You know, they're a little more friendly.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
They bump into it, they laugh and they say, pardon me,
Merry Christmas. Especially when it gets real close to Christmas night,
everybody's walking home. You can hardly hear a sound. Bells
are ringing, kids are singing, snow is coming down, and boy,
what a pleasure it is to think that you got
(31:36):
someplace to go to, and the place that you're going to,
there's somebody in it that you really love, someone your
nuts about it.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Marry Christmas, the great One, Jackie Gleason, Michael Patrick, Shields
radio stations across the state of Michigan and worldwide at
am I Big Show dot Com. Thank you to Tony
Cuppard and the orchestra for another year of head banging
and directing the orchestra and coming up with the creativity
(32:11):
that you hear, either subconsciously or consciously. It's there for sure.
He is a wizard like Mozart, and he's got something
coming at you right this very moment. It's MPs through
the ad and T microphone stopping things.
Speaker 11 (32:31):
Hall again, staring.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Harolds on the standing.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Staring, moaning, has it's not a single.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
On the stream of nice ah behold for Christmas, you
can plan on.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
My name is Nreg how Bar Hernandez. I'm from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
I just want to wish.
Speaker 16 (33:23):
Everybody back home happy holidays.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Can I love you?
Speaker 11 (33:29):
I love you.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I hope you both are doing well and I can't
wait to see you it Grandwich, Fru. 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 10 (33:43):
I just wanted to wish my wife and family back
home a happy Holidays and merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I can't wait to see you guys in January. For
the troops, those who were overseas, who longed 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 dreams that they're
home for Christmas, not physically as you hear being singing there.
(34:09):
Jim Trabilcock is a dear friend of me on the
program and everybody in this room, and a veteran.
Speaker 11 (34:16):
Very Christmas to you, sir, Thank you. I spent a
year and when I was in Vietnam zero for Christmas,
which was a little different.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
That's what I wanted to ask you about. If you
don't mind no at all, what was that like?
Speaker 11 (34:29):
Lonesome, nostalgic, scary. I remember sitting on top of a
bunker that night, just looking at the stars. Yeah, I'm
just hoping nothing happened, and it didn't because there was
kind of an unspoken truce between both sides. Everybody just
left everybody alone around that time of.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Year, even in that part of the world.
Speaker 11 (34:50):
Yeah, yep, oh yeah, yeah, oh, roughly probably twenty three
like that.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Is that your first time, you know, like kind of
that far away from home without family and everything at
the holidays?
Speaker 11 (35:06):
Well, you couldn't get much further away. Yeah, it's like
a twenty two hour flight.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Wow, imagine that. Paul Long and Tim McGuire and Tom
Hexon and Tony mccufbert and my mother glad Us over there,
he's looking at a Christmas star in a very very
different way.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Well, Michael, you are a Christmas star too 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 2 (35:37):
No man FireKeepers tomorrow. 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, Thank you,
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