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One Leg Up On Carrying the Halloween Spirit into The Holiday Season · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Creeping night, A right lookout night and ceper got mad and angry eyes,
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  won't look for horrow eze resist any enviable place, slap right across the race.
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  All right, Well, you know this song is from the movie Megan,
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  and it's kind of been popularized by that whole dance category down in the
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  Universal Orlando you know, thriller Fest, horror Fest whatever they would call it
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  down there with the Megans. But I figured, hey, it it's a
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  great song for Halloween twenty twenty three. Also could go with the Nightmare before
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  Christmas because it is the thirtieth anniversary of a movie we all grew up with,
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  right, and so a little bit of Halloween to kick off this episode
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  of the One Like Up with Alex Scatt podcast. I don't usually talk about
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  my own personal story. Sometimes I like to hear from others. But Halloween,
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  this has been a topsy turvy day for thirty two years now, And
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  because as much as I think everybody's in the Halloween spirit, for many years,
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  I was nervous to be because I hated the masks. And today reminds
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  me of a tradition that ended fifteen years ago. When sorry in October nineteen
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  ninety six and my senior year of October two thousand and eight. My dad
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  would always come out on Halloween and pick me up and we go trick or
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  treating, whether it be on my walker, on my crutches, on my
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  skate, door to door in Albertson, New York. Right outside my window,
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  the kid and twenty three is the bus we'd actually take after our trick
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  or treating. But yeah, it was one of those traditions we go door
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  to door, and you know, my dad had wanted Halloween to be fun,
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  as did my mom, and we would carve out envic and we'd carve
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  out these pumpkins year after year and light them up and put them on the
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  windowsill of the apartment of the house in Queens. And to still see those
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  lanterns around Port Washington today and elsewhere reminded me, you know, the traditions
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  are still alive. Even if we don't personally do them. It's fun to
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  see others do them in their own driveways and parking lots and apartment buildings,
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  and that is a way we all kind of stay connected through those traditions.
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  And of course Halloween two thousand and one, you can't not think of their
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  Jeter's home run putting them in November as mister November. But that game started
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  on October thirty first in two thousand and one. If you believe that,
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  remember that. Of course, his whole Diamondback series has been an nostalgia trip.
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  But yeah, Halloween, my dad and Mom and Vic always made it
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  special and the different phases I would go through, whether it would be mister
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  Mestophelis from Cats, or mister Kluzah from the Pink Panther or Eddie Munster of
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  the Monsters, or even when the old stadiums were gone fifteen years ago today,
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  my dad sent me to school, I kid you not, with an
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  rip tombstone that had both the Yankees final season logo and Shay Stadiums final season
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  logo as an homage to their ending in a kind of a Halloween twist to
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  it. Spent a couple of years out of the Ducks Baseball Stadium and actually
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  ran the bases in that costume fifteen years ago. And then as I got
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  older, you know, obviously trick or treating got out the window, but
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  my dad would always buy candy anyway and giving out to the local kids,
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  whether it be in Queens Long Island, even the city, whereever, where
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  wherever we were at. For years we would do that, and of course
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  we did have our fund at the Halloween Parade a few years there actually got
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  on New York won one year that was kind of crazy and fun. And
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  then twenty sixteen, I remember because we were literally on the pathway of the
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  parade getting to see all the ghouls and goblins as they say. And so
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  my dad was on my mind a lot today because of all this stuff we
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  did on Halloween, all the normal things a kid would do, like trick
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  or treating, even though our apartment building East forty fourth Street we trick or
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  treated a lot as well. One year it was on a Sunday. We
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  did that outside my grandmother's house. I remember staying very local for that.
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  And then just the giving back that my dad and mom and want me to
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  do, like we're giving out the treats back to the kids, kind of
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  stuck with me. And there weren't many This year. Port Washington hit out
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  Katie too, so that was a little different. And today it was just
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  a different day overall, and not as an active Halloween as I'm used to,
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  but maybe next year we will. And of course isn't that adulting.
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  I think we find that adulting and adults love Halloween weekend because that's the time
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  when people can get in the Halloween spirit, not the spirit of Halloween Store,
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  but literally the Halloween spirit and b whoever they want to be. And
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  in all the chaos and the turmoil and the craziness of the world, I've
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  got to say, Stone Street on Saturday afternoon at their Spookfest. Spooky Fest
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  really showed me that people are not afraid to still show up to these Halloween
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  things, so not afraid to dress up. Still, it hasn't the Halloween
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  spirit hasn't gotten by us as adults. And that matters because in a crazy
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  world where we don't know what's gonna happen next, in the war in Israel,
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  in a crazy world where we don't know where unfortunately the next mass shooting
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  is, here's a group of people on Stonetree this past Saturday who still showed
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  up, who want to participate in Halloween things and who want to get dressed
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  up and be a part of the action, be part of holiday Halloween weekend
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  and stay in that spirit. And that meant a lot to me too.
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  But no matter how insane it is outside, just look around you, maybe
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  get off the phone for a minute and enjoy the environment around you, which
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  has people literally still having fun and in the spirit of Halloween and in the
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  spirit of mischief and excitement and doing different things. Be more than normal.
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  Now. The other thing about all of this is being of the Halloween spirit.
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  We now turn thanks to Macy's who already lit up their Christmas lights,
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  I feel like we're already in the holiday spirit, and we should be.
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  But as I mentioned to one of my TikTok friends today, Ashley and Okay
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  ashl E and Okay, I said today, this month, this upcoming holiday
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  season is going to be the weirdest because we're all on edge on where that
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  news cycle goes while trying to be in that Thanksgiving mode, in that holiday
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  spirit mode, in that Christmas mode, and that Honiga mode, I mean
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  Hanigah. This year, since the terrorist attacks in Israel, will be very
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  different. We will need those eight days of prayer and the extended light to
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  shine on for those who are kidnapped. And you know how we do that
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  in New York. We don't rip down posters of the kidnapped saying they're missing.
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  We keep them up. We defend those posters as much as we want
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  to defend the people that are currently hostage. See, when you talk about
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  all this, it rolls you up. That's why it's gonna be tough to
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  be in the holiday spirit, in the Christmas spirit. But I think we
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  can. I think we can. I think if anything that's done Tree show
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  me is that people still want to forget the world and escape the world and
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  the news cycle around them and have fun and be in the spirit of fun.
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  And isn't that what the holiday spirit? Of fun and togetherness and peace
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  and really peace and love and harmony. That's what the message of holidays,
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  see the Christmas season is. I'm looking forward to a very busy Thanksgiving Day,
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  I'm looking forward to a very busy Christmas. And I'm looking forward to
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  continuing some traditions that my dad and I had, and may be starting new
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  ones. I love you, Papa, maybe starting new ones as well.
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  May this be the season that we say we will not be afraid. May
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  this be the holiday season that we now say we will stand as what.
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  We will enjoy each other's company, we will love on each other. We
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  will have harmony, we will have faith and peace that God's got this under
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  his control. What do I mean that maybe we can say this is the
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  holiday season, we don't let the evil forces break us. They haven't broken
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  us before, but this feels like an on edge moment where we are about
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  to be broken. And let's utilize this Thanksgiving, this holiday season, this
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  Christmas season, this season of lights to say we will keep the light up
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  in this world if it's if we're the last people to do it. We
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  will not let evil overtake this holiday Christmas season. We will not let evil
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  dictate our always exciting holiday season. We won't even let the hatred that we're
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  seeing on college campuses right now dictate how we are to spend our holiday season.
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  We won't let those who decide to disgustingly shoot up a bowling alley say
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  you are now in control of our lives. We won't let that happen.
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  You know why, because that's the intent of evil, is to take us
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  over. And you know what Halloween is. Halloween is actually meant to ward
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  off the evil spirits. So we could take this holiday to not only have
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  fun and mischief and everything like that, but to ward off the evil spirits
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  of the world that we can make it a brighter holiday season and pray for
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  those that are currently held hostage, and pray for peace in the world,
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  and pray we don't go into World War three, and pray that this horrible
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  conflict in Gaza doesn't seep into these veins of our fellow New York City residence,
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  of the point where there's civil clashes here night All hallows Eve is the
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  is the time to ward off evil. And when I think about it in
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  the adult terms that means and the podcast terms that means. By warding off
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  evil, by having the Halloweens fair, we're literally warding off the evil of
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  the world. And doesn't that give us a cleansing heading into this beautiful November
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  and December months where it's Christmas, where it's Thanksgiving, where it's everything wrapped
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  up in one where it's more than the k jeweler ads, or even more
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  than the Lexus to Remember ads December to Remember ads, where it's really just
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  a time to be at one with each other. This will be my first
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  holiday season with my fiance, first time in our five year religion we can
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  say we are engaged. It took us a while to get here, but
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  I'm excited to spend my holiday season with my fiance, with my mom,
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  with Vic, with Gabby's family, and of course we will honor my dad
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  the best we can every holiday. Right now, I'm okay, Like I
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  thought about my dad a lot today because of his traditions that he brought to
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  Halloween and the trick of treating that he had me do, and the knocking
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  on doors that we did to get all that candy that was so special.
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  I really love that. And it happened twenty seven years ago today, nineteen
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  ninety six, my first fall. That's when it all started in Albertson,
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  New York. And so we need to utilize this Halloween spirit we're in tonight,
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  or if you're in tonight, and say, let's carry there's warding off
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  of evil into our bigger holiday season, our Christmas season, our holier holiday
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  season, because I think, God bless it, we need a holier holiday
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  season than we've ever had before. I can feel that in my bones.
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  And so if you feel confused and uneasy heading the holiday season, I don't
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  blame you. I think everybody is. But that's where we can take that
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  uneasiness and turn into unity in that Christmas holiday, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, even
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  New Year spirit of joy, love, peace and harmony. And that's the
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  best way we can ward off evil. Here on the Alex Spirit podcast Network.
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  Linked to my conversation with lud Terminello and La Clippers broadcast legend. He's
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  got a star on the Hall of Hollywood Walk of Fame. He's a Hall
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  of Fame broadcaster. Ralph Lawler join us to talk about his new book Bingo
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  forty Years in the NBA. You can find that on the link below,
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  and most stay tune. What offers we got from fanatics. And I know
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  there's not out coming, the episodes to come out. I gotta think of
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  some ideas as we hit the holiday season. But I know it's only November
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  first, but I think the lights at Macy's bringing us out of the Halloween
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  world into the Christmas world already is what the nation is, what this city
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  needs right now. And if you see the Macy's lights already, share it
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  on your feed, bring that light into people's feeds that are injected with the
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  horrible videos in Gaza, with the horror that we're seeing from Maine. Interject
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  your feeds with light. We've warded off evil in Halloween. Now let's bring
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  light into the world once again. And that is how we can win.
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  This is a spiritual, cultural even I guess you would say ideological battle we're
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  dealing with. But I think if we can collectively bring light into the world,
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  that can make a difference, and God will notice. Here on,
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  God will notice. Have a great night, and we'll talk to you soon.