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"So, This is Christmas" (Christmas Morning, December 25 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We'll do it, making mornings great again. The first thing
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  Speaker 1: today on the media apps right show, Thomas do it?
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  Speaker 2: So this is Christy, What had you done?
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  Speaker 3: And you long just be gone?
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  Speaker 4: You know a lot of people will tell you and yeah,
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  Speaker 4: when you poke the radio to see if I'm actually
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  Speaker 4: live in here, if it's a recording of a guy saying, well,
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  Speaker 4: do it live. I love the fact that it's like
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  Speaker 4: a sixty year old recording of Bill O'Reilly.
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  Speaker 3: Doing it live, and.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone uses it to say we're here live, and it's
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  Speaker 4: like sixty year old Bill O'Reilly recording.
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  Speaker 3: He was what was it Weekend Update or whatever it was.
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  Speaker 4: The show he was doing it was one of those
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  Speaker 4: early evening news ish shows. I think Deborah Norville took
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  Speaker 4: over or something along those lines.
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  Speaker 3: It was a.
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  Speaker 4: Quasi news early edition something like that. Anyway, But on
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  Speaker 4: this Christmas morning, I know two things. Number one, you're
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  Speaker 4: sitting by yourself. That's almost axiomatic amongst radio listeners. If
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  Speaker 4: you're not, you're an outlier, and we like we like outliers.
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  Speaker 4: We don't like liars, we like outliers. You're also an extremist.
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  Speaker 3: You are either.
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  Speaker 4: So super Christmas that you are up right now trying
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  Speaker 4: to get everything just right, or wrapping the packages that
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  Speaker 4: you've had hidden somewhere in a barn so that when
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  Speaker 4: the little kids or grandkids wake up, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Like, oh my god, Santa did come.
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  Speaker 4: And I hope the radio is a noun in their room.
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  Speaker 4: Or you're on the complete other side of the spectrum
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  Speaker 4: and along the ba humbug side, I've got to work.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody cares. Maybe you know, Christmas hasn't worked out the
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  Speaker 4: way you want. And you know, we compartmentalize things a
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  Speaker 4: lot now, and we have a lot to get into
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  Speaker 4: this morning.
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  Speaker 3: This isn't going to be sunrise sermonette.
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  Speaker 4: We've got potential for peace in between Russia and Ukraine
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  Speaker 4: before the Trump administration is even a decade old, I
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  Speaker 4: mean a year old. The the compartmentalization often we do
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  Speaker 4: with our holidays, and I found it very interesting. I
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  Speaker 4: was studying up on something a friend of mine, another
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  Speaker 4: radio show host, was telling me about this. He said,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Christmas wasn't even an American holiday at first.
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  Speaker 4: He said, you know, the Puritans and a lot of
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  Speaker 4: the settlers in America, it was a more Germanic sect.
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  Speaker 3: It was more.
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  Speaker 4: Especially after Martin Luther, where a lot of the feasts
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  Speaker 4: got purged, the.
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  Speaker 3: Feast of Saint Nicholas being one of them.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, we do a catechism or two and things,
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  Speaker 4: you know, things are forgiven. I mean, if if Alatamir
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  Speaker 4: Zelenski can put a demilitarized zone up and offer peace
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  Speaker 4: with vlad the Invader, then we can put aside, you know,
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  Speaker 4: your differences between Martin Luther and Christian Faith. So we'll
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  Speaker 4: get into you know, how the extremists are gathering this morning,
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  Speaker 4: because you are right now, if you're tuning in right
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  Speaker 4: now to this program, you don't need to hear Christmas
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  Speaker 4: music and NonStop Christmas powables, or you don't want to.
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  Speaker 4: And if I tried to, you'd go throw the radio
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  Speaker 4: through the window. So we appreciate your attention in either instance.
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  Speaker 4: And it's all good in the hood. And we will
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  Speaker 4: endeavor to what's the expression they used to use in vaudeville,
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  Speaker 4: a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer in
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  Speaker 4: your pants. And we'll get on with the day this morning,
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  Speaker 4: as we begin with our first things, as we every day.
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  Speaker 4: If you're joining us on some of the stations that
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  Speaker 4: pick us up because we're available, and I'm here mostly
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  Speaker 4: because my family. No one in my family gets up
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  Speaker 4: this early except for me and my youngest son. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, we are early risers, and so I have time.
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  Speaker 4: You know, my Christmas isn't even going to get started
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  Speaker 4: until like two eastern. So our first things this morning,
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  Speaker 4: Let's begin with the peace deal being floated in between
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  Speaker 4: Russia and Ukraine. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski said he would
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  Speaker 4: be willing to withdraw troops from the heartland the don
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  Speaker 4: Bas region if Russia agreed to as well, and an
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  Speaker 4: international demilitarized economic zone, which was the proposal put forth
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  Speaker 4: by Marco Rubio and the Department of State as a
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  Speaker 4: pot potential for peace. A free economic zone, demilitarized and
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  Speaker 4: independent of both countries could be created there. President Trump
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  Speaker 4: used his Christmas message to tout recent economic data broader policy.
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  Speaker 4: He did say on truth social Merry Christmas to all,
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  Speaker 4: including the radical left scum that is doing everything possible
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  Speaker 4: to destroy our country but are failing badly. A poll
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  Speaker 4: shows that Americans strongly prefer First Lady of Milania Trump's
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  Speaker 4: White House decor over those of Michelle Obama or Jill Biden.
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  Speaker 4: According to Jail Partners, the poll for The Daily Mail
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  Speaker 4: showed sixty one percent shows the current decorations over the
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  Speaker 4: forty percent who liked the twenty twenty four look or
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  Speaker 4: the thirty percent who liked the twenty seven to twenty
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  Speaker 4: fifteen look. And just as Samuel Alito wrote the dissent
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  Speaker 4: in the high profile ruling regarding the National Guard in Chicago,
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  Speaker 4: saying the majority made an imprudent determination.
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  Speaker 1: For you. From Joe Thomas, It's first thing today.
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  Speaker 10: What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 4: So we gather on this Christmas day, Merry Christmas, forget
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  Speaker 4: my manners. Sometimes we just jump in both feet and
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  Speaker 4: I hope you realize the totality. So we were talking
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  Speaker 4: about compartmentalizing sometimes and we talk about the birth of
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  Speaker 4: Christ and so sometimes we talk about it without the
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  Speaker 4: context of the whole life lived. And you know, I
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  Speaker 4: was talking to a friend who was a historian. Of course,
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  Speaker 4: he's one of the folks who's like, well there's you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's this isn't when the Judeans paid their taxes. It
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  Speaker 4: wasn't in December and this and and it's truth. But
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  Speaker 4: there's arguments, you know, on all sides. Literal I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there are things in the Bible that are literally they
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  Speaker 4: have to be when they happen, like the Crucifixion, because
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  Speaker 4: how we.
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  Speaker 3: Move forward is remember that.
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  Speaker 4: When Jesus arrived in Jerusalem thirty three years later, he
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  Speaker 4: wasn't looking to start a new church. He hadn't started
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  Speaker 4: sowing the seeds of Christianity. He had lots of followers
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  Speaker 4: because he was ardently conservative regarding how the Jewish faith
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  Speaker 4: should be followed, and was an activist, if you will,
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  Speaker 4: about how the Temple had capitulated to the Romans. There's
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  Speaker 4: a reasonable case I hesitate to make because it's easy
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  Speaker 4: fruit for somebody like me to say, well, he was
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  Speaker 4: a political activist, just like you and me. But the
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  Speaker 4: and the leaders of the Temple had allowed it, of course,
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  Speaker 4: and so they were aware. And there's you know, and
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  Speaker 4: somebody wants to start the Trump maga, you know, Laura Lumer,
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  Speaker 4: Nick Fuenttees, any of these names get mentioned today at Christmas,
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  Speaker 4: get togethers ask him. Okay, so who was the one
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  Speaker 4: who killed Jesus? That'll stop everyone in their tracks. Trust me,
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  Speaker 4: you might as well slam a new set of disc
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  Speaker 4: brakes on.
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  Speaker 3: You're hitting the windshet And so.
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  Speaker 4: We look at the life led that began, whether you
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  Speaker 4: believe it apocryphal or not. He was born, parents couldn't
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  Speaker 4: find room at the end because they were on their
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  Speaker 4: way to pay their taxes, and so they come to
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  Speaker 4: pay their taxes, and Jesus is born and is a
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  Speaker 4: blessing to every single last one of us, and does
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  Speaker 4: so by sacrificing, by looking at the world that's around
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  Speaker 4: him and saying this is wrong and standing up for
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  Speaker 4: what's right, regardless of the slings and arrows that befell him.
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  Speaker 4: People started listening to him saying, you know, I read
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  Speaker 4: you know it says he's not wrong. This is how
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  Speaker 4: things are supposed to go, and here we are. And
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  Speaker 4: it's partially because Jefferson in this line of community organizers,
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  Speaker 4: if you will. That begins with Moses leading the Jews
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  Speaker 4: from slavery in Egypt despite their complaints, saying, hold on
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  Speaker 4: a second here, you didn't say it was going to
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  Speaker 4: be this hard colloquiallyams for a time through Jesus, who
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  Speaker 4: then saw the Temple become corrupted by government through Constantine,
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  Speaker 4: who does the greatest corporate merger in the history of mankind.
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  Speaker 4: As the Roman Empire is falling, He's decided, Hey, we're
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  Speaker 4: falling because everyone's becoming Christian. Maybe if we become Christian,
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  Speaker 4: I can save the Roman Empire. Then Martin Luther comes
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  Speaker 4: along and sees how again governments and their indulgences and
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  Speaker 4: their need to control people are using the faith conveniently
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  Speaker 4: interpreting the faith to their needs and ends. So he
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  Speaker 4: tries to purify it, and yet again crowned heads like
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  Speaker 4: Henry the Eighth come along. There they are again, and
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  Speaker 4: you know they'll take it over for themselves. So Jefferson
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  Speaker 4: comes along and says, what if we try to put
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  Speaker 4: a firewall up here? And I listened to this a lot,
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  Speaker 4: especially as President Trump gives you know, he's talking to
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  Speaker 4: the kids at Norad, and so so much better than
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  Speaker 4: just as a tangent, and the Christmas message and the
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  Speaker 4: church and state. You asked, well, it's not a separation
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  Speaker 4: But the word there, from the birth of this kid
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  Speaker 3: Was showing me.
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  Speaker 3: Really and it wasn't and it's not the same thing as.
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  Speaker 4: of previous events by drawing moral equivalencies. It's a starting point.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, it's actually a really good starting point
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  Speaker 4: But then you look into all the places where the
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  Speaker 3: Than Central Europe was.
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  Speaker 4: Even the British were not heavy Christmas doers. That really
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  Speaker 4: to the Hessian soldiers. No, they were an occupying army,
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  Speaker 4: segue from that into the day's travails, which is the offer.
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  Speaker 4: And it's interesting because weeks and weeks ago this was
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  Speaker 4: that had been going back and forth between meetings with
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  Speaker 4: the Ukrainians and meetings in Moscow with Putin's people, and
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  Speaker 4: each time they would come back much like Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: would come back from a meeting with Putin saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we had a great meeting, only to see another fleet
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  Speaker 4: of drones zooming in overhead. And I'm not disregarding the
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  Speaker 4: who are drawing this in Sea. See the Russians aren't
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  Speaker 4: behind Putin either. I'm not necessarily buying that because the
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  Speaker 4: whole thing comes unraveled. You don't get to invade another
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  Speaker 4: country occupying force romans in Judea. People invade other people's countries.
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  Speaker 4: Why because they want their stuff. All the other stuff
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  Speaker 4: is crap. Sorry, is that a word you're not supposed
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  Speaker 4: to use on Christmas Morning? No, all the other excuses
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  Speaker 4: to invade you because you're on the trade routes. Somebody
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  Speaker 4: an army to go get it faster than you can proclaim.
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  Speaker 4: One of my favorite Christmas movies not named die Hard
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  Speaker 4: all this bad stuff happening in England faster than you
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  Speaker 4: can say plantagen and good luck spelling it. You invade
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  Speaker 4: somebody else's country because you want their stuff, and Russia
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  Speaker 4: can say we invaded Ukraine because there are Russian citizens
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  Speaker 4: in there. If that's the case, and we allow that
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  Speaker 4: kind of nonsense to take root, then Claudia Shinbaum can
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  Speaker 4: invade southeastern United States because there are Mexican nationals there.
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  Speaker 4: Trust me, I've seen them outside of Joshua Tree National
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  Speaker 4: another country. This was laughably the premise behind the League
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  Speaker 4: It is my contention I think we've just made it worse.
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  Speaker 4: Often in a denial. No, there's nothing like that going on.
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  Speaker 6: So tell me Christmas?
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  Speaker 2: Me?
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• 46:11
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• 46:55
  Speaker 4: Pictures my sister posted of her kids, I don't make
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  Speaker 4: sure my wife doesn't see those. But she sent us
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: a text saying she wanted us to watch this very
• 47:06
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• 47:10
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• 47:36
  Speaker 4: I mean it was basically they're telling of the Ebenezer
• 47:49
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  Speaker 4: And that's not derision. That's not derision. There are no
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  Speaker 4: news stories in the world. I'm not doing a unique
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: radio program. You may say, I don't hear anyone else
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  Speaker 4: doing those like this. You know what, I grew up
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  Speaker 4: listening to radio, so somewhere, you know, this all comes
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: from either a school teacher, I had, my parents, friends
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: of mine, radio shows I listened to. There's nothing new,
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: there's packaging is different, there's the way it's laid out.
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: There might be enlightening in a way that it wasn't before.
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: But I just after the movie, I looked at my
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: wife and said, doesn't it surprise you that our daughter
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: who is as goth as they get loves this movie.
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, my daughter is I love her dealer, and
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: she's not like goth, like I'm depressed. She just likes
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: dark colored clothes and she you know, works in a
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: boutique sells you know, leather and dark old concert t
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: shirts and stuff like that. She's not a dark heart,
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: I guess, is what I'm trying to say about being goth.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot of people who are goth.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: I mean, they're just I mean, they're dark in the
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: and that's heartbreaking for people who don't see all the
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: great things in the world.
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  Speaker 3: But my daughter does.
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: And I had to chuckle because it's so anachronistic to
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: her public visage of this. You know, black eyeliner, black hair,
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: you know, Mortitia Adams or what the Wednesday Atoms kind
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: of look.
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  Speaker 3: To be this.
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, it was just like it was. It was
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: like Fruitcake. It was the video version of Fruitcake. It
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: was full of sugar and fruit and substance and density.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: And I was just like wow. And I just looked
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: at my wife.
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: I said, strike you, is is interesting that our daughter said,
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: you've got to watch this movie. And and my son,
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: you know, because you play on trips and kid gets
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: injured and you cry a little bit about that, and
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: you know it hits you in all those places that
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: good storyteller knows how to hit you in. But I
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: want to meet the person who said, Hey, you know,
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: we've got all these Broadway people, you know, all these
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: theater kids, Let's give them to Dolly Parton and see
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: what happens.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: Holy Moly.
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: But you know, hopefully you have time to be with everyone,
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: because Christmas isn't supposed to just be today. Today is
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: the birthday of the King of Kings and I and
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: that is unquestionable. But I am a true adherent to
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: the idea of every day is Christmas because the message
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: of Christmas is that we all are redeemable, we all
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: have the greatness of God in us. And I'm sorry,
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: I'm teetering out here on the precipice of sunrise Sermont,
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: and I don't want to be that guy. We got
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: plenty of people doing plenty of Christmas specials to fill
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: airtime with that. But I know, like I said at
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: the onset of the hour, if you're listening, you are
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: an extremist either you are super Christmas person who is
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: up right now making sure everything that looked completely the
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: same last night when the kids went to bed is
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: transformed into a Christmas miracle this morning. Or you are
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: the other way, and it's ba humbug for you putting
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: the waitress's song on for the umpteenth time. And in
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: either case, you are the greatness that was born this day,
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: whether you view it to be apocryphal or not, the
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: kid was born and the kid saved us, and whether
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: it's through Charles Dickens and you do it the classic way,
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: or you look at it in the more traditional American
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: ways with a coke and a picture of a cherubic
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: Santa on the advertising Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: all of our advertising driven parts of Christmas that we've added,
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: but we've added them Merry Christmas.
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