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December 16, 2025 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, buckle up for your morning news round up kids,
the good, the bad, the downright bizarre. We've got it
all Hollywood, New York, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, the South, you know,
international news, that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, we're alive. It's a lot of work to do
this early in the morning. Are you sure people are
even awake.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
This early in the morning. I mean, it just seems a.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Lot earlier than it usually is at this time of
the morning, is all I'm saying. Because I was sleeping
really good and then all of a sudden it's like, oh, good,
Google work.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Are you sure? I said it was weird that this
is when they tell us to do this, But this
is what if we come in at a different time
of the day. They don't want.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Us to do it, and then people complain. You know,
you have a lot of complainers out there too. Yeah,
that's that's like me right now. You know, no, I
get it.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well, anyway, we're here. So Trump has signed an executive
order Fenton is a weapon of mass destruction, and he
really doesn't like Rob Reiner. We will get to that,
and people blame him for not liking him, you know,
but he did Rob Reiner did call for the He
called Trump a Nazi and said he wanted to put
him in jail now. And he did that a lot.

(01:11):
He said it over and over and over again. And
then he died and the Trump immediately took a victory
lap on the but didn't even wait for the corpse
to get caught. Now, whatever you think of that, we
will have time to dissect it later on. Maybe you
think it's fair, maybe you don't like it. Well, we'll
get to it soon. Mourners gathering in Australia for the
Hanukkah attack on Bondi Beach, the Jews that were massacred

(01:34):
by a bunch of Iswamo, a couple of his Wamo fascists.
People are noticing a lot of cops were standing around
doing nothing when this happened. Yeah, hard to ignore that.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Now everybody wants to talk more about guns, gun control,
that's the problem. Just listening to a guy last night
and he's like, oh, okay, now Australia says what they're
going to have to do to start cracking down on
people bringing guns into their country.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
They love doing that.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, well that you did that already and this still happened.
Why not maybe just consider cracking down on who you
will let into your country in the first place. Kind
of like here, we need to start focusing on keeping
people out the state. Clearly that they hate America or

(02:23):
in Australia's case, they want to come down to Australia
and mess things up.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Taking guns away from people who aren't criminals to prevent
mass shootings would be like snipping off the penises of
men who aren't sex predators to prevent rape. That should
do it doesn't really do anything so much. That's great.
You've castrated your society, but you haven't actually done anything
to stop the danger. But fine, you feel better about Also,

(02:50):
this was Islamic fascism. I don't know if you're aware
of this or not, but they are very good with bombs.
Oh yeah, absolutely yeah. You think they won't use a
bomb next time? Anyway? We hope not. But anyway, we'll
get to that. In the meantime, Nick has been arrested.
That is Rob Reiner's son. It certainly looks like he's guilty. Now,
I don't know it. When you read the reports and

(03:12):
the story and the inside sources talking to the Post.
I mean everyone's innocent until proven guilty. But he's been arrested.
It doesn't sound like they're arresting anyone else.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Right, No, it's pretty much open and shut. Of course
the news is telling us anyway.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
New York City is excited for the incoming socialism. Also,
they're having an air pollution problem, so it's weird timing
for that. In Texas right now, I don't know if
you guys are aware of this. The Texans are riding
high with playoff chances at ninety five percent after beating Arizona.
People are pretty excited about that. The bird flu has
hit Shelby County, so people are not excited about that

(03:50):
so much. And Mayor Whitmeyer of Houston has really, really,
really really upset the Democrats for the crime of being
polite to Republicans.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Let's face it, the Democrats are really easy to upset.
I mean, it's just it doesn't take much to get
them worked up.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
In New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreeport around the state. Obviously,
the operation to get rid of the e when they
call it Catalina Crunch or something, what they called it
cata Hula Crunch. That's where Hula's Yeah, I mean, Catalina
Crunch is a kido cereal. You can buy it whole food,
so I'm not recommending it. By the way, it's terrible.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I had to check you real quick because you were
talking about the Texans and their playoffs, and I remember
we started out last night watching Monday Night football Steelers
and Dolphins, and I didn't finished the game. It's three
to nothing forever, but it finally they woke up. Steelers
beat the Dolphins twenty eight to fifteen last night.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, good for them. Yeah, that's something.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Probably been better for the Texans had the Steelers lost,
I think, but that's not how it played out.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
The Dolphins really did not like being called no. That
was the whole point.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
I mean, they they said they never win a game
when it's under forty degrees. It's usually not like that
in Miami. They're used to it a little warmer climbs.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Meanwhile, in Memphis and around the state of Tennessee, police
are chasing escape juveniles and investigating shootings. Holiday toy giveaways
and parades are keeping spirits alive, and our friends and
our friends in South Mississippi are prepping for marathon traffic chaos.
This weekend, so plan those routes ahead of time, kiddos.
That's h And as for Georgia, you just keep being Georgia.

(05:30):
I try to. I feel like sometimes we just dive
right into the news. We don't do enough to sum
up all the things happening around the region and the country.
So I really tried to focus on that here at
the beginning of the show. It's very, very helpful, and
we all appreciate your efforts, Sir. I get myself a
solid b for because I'm awake right now. We could
just be talking about skiing, you know. Oh yeah, we're
still in Colorado. I'm a lot more pleasant than most

(05:52):
of the news. Yeah, it's vastly. In fact, weirdly, we're
the only ones here. Yesterday on the mountain we looked her.
I know, it's there's not a lot of snow, but
there's enough to ski, and so we were looking around
the mountain. We thought, boy, it's kind of weird that
we're the only ones here. They just got it all
to ourselves. It's very handy. I mean, it was nice
at first and then it was a little suspicious. It
starts to get creepy after a while. Are we safe.

(06:15):
It's like we're in a Stephen King novel or something.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Everybody else hears something and know something and then went
away and we didn't get the news.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Why didn't they tell us Tuesday?

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I was flaing a pood everybody who Walton and Johnson
Radio Network.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
They're trying to cancel white Christmas. But before we get
to that, I know it's a little early for history,
But can I shove someone? Your year canal real quick?
I guess it'll be okay. Do you know why this
song contains the lyric? Stuck a feather in his cap
had called it macaroni? I do not know that it's fascinating.
In the mid to late seventeen hundreds, it was common

(06:48):
for those who could afford it to send young men
from their family on what they would call a world tour,
a grand tour. They'd go around the world, or at
least through Europe. It always went through Italy, and when
the boys got to Italy they tried macaroni for their
first time. When they returned to England, they happened to
rejoin society together. They'd share their experience and anything that

(07:10):
was really interesting they'd call it macaroni. It was like
a slang term. So to make fun of the Americans
and our backwardsness. The lyric of this song, which was
originally used to mock Americans, they would say they stuck
a feather in their cap and called it macaroni, like
we were a bunch of idiots. Right. At some point
the Americans embraced this song during the Revolutionary War, kind

(07:32):
of like black people saying the N word. They owned it,
They made it their own thing. Yea, took all the
steam out of it. That's exactly right, and that is why,
that is why that lyric is in there. Well, that
is fascinating. You did not oversell. I think it's really interesting.
They're trying to cancel White Christmas. When I say they,
I mean you and your tax dollars. Steven, Oh really, yeah,

(07:55):
I'm involved in this.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I didn't even know I had that much energy to
go out after Christmas.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Oh believe me, I say, yeah, No, it's NPR still
getting some funding from you and me. Put out a
report over the weekend about the movie White Christmas. Well,
it was a song White Christmas, which originally was written
by Irving Berlin. Now he was a Jew. And if
I'm not mistaken. He wrote this song back in the forties,

(08:22):
and it was originally supposed to be a song that
harkened back to the old times. The way it was
explained to me is that his son died and so
he wrote a song about how he missed the old
Christmas with his son in all. But he was a
Jewish guy and he was secular, and so what was
interesting about that song, Oh, Dar enjoyed Christmas. Yeah, it
was the first secular Christmas hit and it kind of

(08:45):
created modern Christmas songs as we know it. It was all
about yesteryear nostalgia. This was a new idea at the time.
Now we just come to think all Christmas songs so
that way and anyway, So there were two white Christmas movies.
There was White christ which came out in the fifties.
Everyone knows that one, but it was originally in a
movie called Holiday Inn, which was about bing. Crosby went

(09:10):
around and Fred Astaire and they had a hotel that
was only open on holidays.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well, they had an old general buddy who owned a
hotel and they wanted to help him out because it
looked like it was going to have to close. And
they said, you know what, Like all good movie shows
back in the fifties sixties, they saved whatever was going wrong.
You could save everything if you just.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Put on a show. Let's put on a show.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
And when they put on a show that drew people
into the inn and then they didn't have to shut down.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yes, that's exactly correct. Now, in the original version of
this movie, they had musical numbers for all the holidays, right,
so everyone knows what White Christmas was? Well, what was
on President's Day? On President's Day, they told the story
of why Slavery and and why we loved, Why we
loved Abraham Lincoln And they did a performance in blackface

(10:07):
to a song called Abraham. Well, now, it was a
song about why it was good that slavery ended. But
bing Crosby performed this song in blackface. It had nothing
to do with Christmas at all. Not so much. You're
probably wondering, is why are you even telling us this
because that's in the movie. In fact, it's rarely in

(10:29):
the movie when they show the replays on TV. Nowadays,
NPR has decided White Christmas has gotta go.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
So just taking that part out, which they've done most
of the time. I'm not aware of watching that growing up.
I didn't see a lot of the blackface performance. They
already took that part out. Why do they want to
take the rest out?

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Modern day understanding of blackface is a little confusing. And
don't get me wrong, I am not endorsing it. But
did you know that Al Jolson, famous blackface performer, was
an advocate for African Americans working in entertainment. He was
a huge He was a radical liberal at the time
for his position on supporting black entertainers. So this is
kind of like macaroni. I'm kind of honest.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
They wanted somebody out there to be thinking negative about
certain things, and it turns out no, just the opposite.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
But they just can't let that go. I know it's
a little early and that we haven't even explained to
Russian Ukraine War or any of that stuff. You had
probably a little early for a history lesson, But I
can't do anything about that stuff. I just find this
to be fascinating. I am gay for history. You are
really am? Have you given up space or are you
gay for two things? Now? I think I'm gay for
more than one thing. You know one thing. I'm not

(11:38):
gay for men. I don't. It doesn't look at five
and doesn't do anything for me, but to each their
on anyway, we can't do anything about Donald Trump getting
mad about Rob Reiner or people getting mad about what he's.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
He's not the only one, obviously. There's all kinds of
people out there, and some people like to turn the
other cheek and go, well, you know, just because they
did something horrible doesn't mean we should act the same way.
You know, we're not gonna be like them. But then,
you know, we get emails from different people, different listeners,
and this guy says, well, wait, wait to go, it's

(12:14):
over here. I don't turn the other cheek or love
my enemies who would want me in jail or preferably dead.
So this listener here, I think, agrees with Trump's statement
about Meathead's death.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Here's the thing. I don't like what Trump did yesterday,
but remember the election. It could have been worse. I
remember the election. I remember vividly people wearing shirts that
said I would take mean tweets and cheap gas if
I could have it. And now we have affordable gas
and Donald Trump is tweeting mean things again. Sure this
is what we wanted. Whether you like it or not.

(12:50):
The give and take of the MAGA irustration. I know right,
I'm okay with it.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, Mappy Taco Tuesday, Wolfson and Johnson Radio Network,
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