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Merry Christmas a gift from Chuck to all of you · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I have a little gift, a little present, a little
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  Speaker 1: something something coming up for you here before I get
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  Speaker 1: out here tonight, just especially for you longtime listeners, because
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  Speaker 1: I love you. I mean it. We were talking about downtown,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that I just I found it up. I
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  Speaker 1: found it sad. Took the grand kids down Sunday night
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  Speaker 1: to the wild or the Wonder lights that they've got
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  Speaker 1: and that was the only really lit up, happy celebratory
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  Speaker 1: area in downtown. And you know, we all think Elazarus
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  Speaker 1: and the Santa Land at Lazarus and the big uh
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  Speaker 1: the big light tree on top of the Lazarus building
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  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. The thing of it is,
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  Speaker 1: and what I was saying about having, you know, no
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  Speaker 1: hot chocolate, no caroling, no nothing when we went down
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  Speaker 1: there Sunday, because they only do it Friday and Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently that defies Listen to me. Now, they want to
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  Speaker 1: keep creating this this small town thing, this where the
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  Speaker 1: residences and the businesses will all be together. They're trying
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  Speaker 1: to go for like a hybrid Mayberry in a city form.
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  Speaker 1: So Sunday evening, especially with the weather's nice, is when
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  Speaker 1: you take the family out to something like that but
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  Speaker 1: the hot chocolate things aren't available. There's nobody doing the
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  Speaker 1: hot chocolate or the popcorn, or there's nobody caroling or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that. You got three guys trying to play
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  Speaker 1: a little holiday music and they sounded sad. They were
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  Speaker 1: doing the best they could. I appreciate them, but they
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  Speaker 1: just nothing nothing. It's not about See. It's like, you
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  Speaker 1: know that lipstick on a pig thing that they was at.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Palin and said that putting lipstick on a pig.
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  Speaker 1: So see, that's kind of lipstick on a pig. You
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  Speaker 1: put the lights down there, but you don't actually create
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  Speaker 1: the atmosphere that you're claiming to create, and that I
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  Speaker 1: think that sucks the life out of the holiday spirit
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  Speaker 1: for some people, including myself. I was just when I
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  Speaker 1: was doing some googling during the break here Santa Claus
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  Speaker 1: apparently according to the Columbus on the Cheap website. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, I hate that phrase when people say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you can get that on the cheap. The hell does
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  Speaker 1: that mean you can get it cheap? That's simple? So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Columbus on the Cheap dot com Santa at the Lazarus
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  Speaker 1: Building in downtown December fifth and sixth, twelfth, and thirteenth, nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: and twentieth or twenty twenty five where you can take
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  Speaker 1: photos and enjoy the seasonal fun. It's free. So having
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  Speaker 1: him at the building, I didn't even know about it.
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  Speaker 1: But secondly, just having him at the building isn't the
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  Speaker 1: same thing as having Lazarus. Or is there a downtown store?
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  Speaker 1: Is there a department store anymore downtown?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying that the personality aspect of it is
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  Speaker 1: important too. It's not just a matter of having something
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  Speaker 1: that looks like it. If you if you drank hot
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  Speaker 1: chocolate that had absolutely no taste, is it still hot chocolate? No? No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. The taste is part of the experience. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not trying to be bitter or anything, because I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: find some merry in my Christmas one way or another.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, as we move forward, if we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do it, do it better, do it better. Let's
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  Speaker 1: actually celebrate and don't be afraid to say Merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe we can have a few snowflakes next year.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows a two ninety eight six number, Bob, You're
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  Speaker 1: on sixt to n WTV in height.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Chuck.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I used to go downtown quite often during Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Lazarus was a ground zero for Christmas. I mean it
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  Speaker 3: looked like Christmas just exploded in Lazar.
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  Speaker 1: They really they tried to play kind of like the
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  Speaker 1: Macy's of New York role. Lazarus tried to fulfill here.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to be the Macy's of Columbus, and Macy's
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  Speaker 1: ended up buying them out.
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  Speaker 3: They did a fine job of I mean a lot
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  Speaker 3: of childhood memories were created at that. But I want
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  Speaker 3: to stay on point. The reason I called was there
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  Speaker 3: used to be so many lights downtown that their Coda
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  Speaker 3: offered a free bus ride and you would go around
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  Speaker 3: and look at the lights, and there would be a
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  Speaker 3: radio personality on board, uh, kind of hosting the ride,
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  Speaker 3: and he would expell what building it was and what
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  Speaker 3: lights were on there. And of course you'd always go
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  Speaker 3: by that Insurance building that had that wonderful nationally known
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  Speaker 3: Nativity scene, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But which they kept down. They would steal that down
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  Speaker 1: year after year, and now they moved it over to
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  Speaker 1: the church. It's not even at the Insurance building anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I bet city halls not lit like it used
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  Speaker 3: to be or the state houses that lit up. We
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  Speaker 3: don't go don't go that way anymore. It is uh,
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  Speaker 3: the ice skating rink used to be there, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they had hot act.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the syndrome, and they built the centrum and then
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  Speaker 1: tore down the centrum and then they brought back a
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  Speaker 1: temporary ice skating rink for a couple of winters to
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  Speaker 1: act like the syndrome was still there. How silly.
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  Speaker 3: It It is a it's a it's a shell of itself.
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  Speaker 3: And that's probably, you know, the direction that our political
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  Speaker 3: climate's heading in if we don't get it turned around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta, you gotta. What's that?
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  Speaker 3: Merry Christmas, Jack.
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  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to YouTube Bob, thanks for the call. Let
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  Speaker 1: me get to April April. You're on sixth NAUTV and Hi,
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  Speaker 1: Hi Mary Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I just wanted to, uh to mention I heard
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  Speaker 4: you talking about Lazarus was so generous with all of
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  Speaker 4: their facilities down there. Little story back in the late forties,
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  Speaker 4: my dad was the lucky employee that set up all
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  Speaker 4: the toy displays, the toy trains, and the airplane suspended
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  Speaker 4: and built the Lincoln logs that was his job. Wow,
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  Speaker 4: and yeah, what a great job. Well, my mom and
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  Speaker 4: dad had my brother and when he was born, he
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  Speaker 4: was quite ill. He had back in the day, what
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  Speaker 4: they called blue baby syndrome. And mister Lazarus called my
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  Speaker 4: father into his office and said, I understand there's congratulations
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  Speaker 4: for you you've just had a new baby, but I also
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  Speaker 4: understand he's quite ill. And I'll tell you what. Mister
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  Speaker 4: Lazarus paid for my parents to take my brother to
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  Speaker 4: John Hopkins to have him diagnosed and taken care of.
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  Speaker 1: Dear Lord, that's beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: Is that wonderful?
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  Speaker 1: April? Thank you so much for saying this and sharing
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  Speaker 1: that story, because that, see, that adds a beauty to
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  Speaker 1: the memory that wasn't there before. The generosity of the
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  Speaker 1: family with the kids at the.
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  Speaker 4: Little store and the wonderful family.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that. That is a beautiful memory. A
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  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, April, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: For sharing all of you.
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  Speaker 4: Merry Christmas so much.
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  Speaker 1: And let's get John real quick. Let's get you in here.
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  Speaker 1: You're on six NATV and John.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Chuck, I just wanted to call and let us
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  Speaker 2: know that I remember downtown Lazarus, the family loaded in
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  Speaker 2: the car and we spent the entire day down there.
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  Speaker 2: It was a beautiful, gorgeous thing. And Columbus is better
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  Speaker 2: than what we are today, and we need to bring
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  Speaker 2: something like that back.
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  Speaker 1: I wish we could. I mean, the era of the
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  Speaker 1: department store is kind of gone, but I think if
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  Speaker 1: you had something, something that was really you know, marketing, well,
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  Speaker 1: I think the people of Columbus would respond, just because
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  Speaker 1: we miss it.
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  Speaker 2: Needs to be family oriented. And why I got you
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  Speaker 2: on the phone, Chuck. I want to wish you a
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  Speaker 2: very merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and thank
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  Speaker 2: you for making the day.
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  Speaker 1: John. Thank you very much. Same to you into all
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  Speaker 1: of yours. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to twenty twenty six and I want to go back
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  Speaker 1: in time, especially to those of you that are longtime
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  Speaker 1: listeners of this radio station. Before I end tonight, I
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  Speaker 1: promised I wanted to give you a present in honor
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  Speaker 1: of what are the minds and voices and styles that
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  Speaker 1: molded me over the years. Merry Christmas, Mercy.
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  Speaker 5: Mercy that man Fallow.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, I here you a woman.
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  Speaker 5: Come in honey, Lan say it's Christmas.
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  Speaker 6: E yeah, honey, her Lord Christmas Eve Handy Caruso chopped
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  Speaker 6: the woods, Harlow, you're so bad. I fixed me some
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  Speaker 6: grumb Lick your.
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  Speaker 5: Lips and lay one on. That's Christmas, Eve Fallow, you
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  Speaker 5: made my sock straw. Police now, honey, shut up.
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  Speaker 6: Sir, you idiot, mule police navy silver please please?
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  Speaker 5: What police? Navidad hurlo. That's Mexican for happy Chris Mexican.
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  Speaker 6: Well, them poor Mexicans know about any happy Christmas.
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  Speaker 5: It was on a night like this that the wise
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  Speaker 5: men followed the star.
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  Speaker 6: Ah rustle me out from grub Woman.
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  Speaker 5: They brought gifts for the christ chime.
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  Speaker 6: While I wish I'm camel riders were dropping here and
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  Speaker 6: I are from beef Turkey and.
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  Speaker 5: From our first Christmas Hurlem.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember you brought me the beautiful music box
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  Speaker 6: you're worry to get us. We had to sell it
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  Speaker 6: on the way out here to buy food and supply.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder where that music box is now?
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  Speaker 6: A probably my mother, Mooney woman is gooning over.
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  Speaker 3: How I know.
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  Speaker 5: I've got some hot buttered drum for you. Honey. You
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  Speaker 5: haven't mentioned the tree, Harlow.
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  Speaker 6: I've seen it.
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  Speaker 5: I decorated it real pretty for you with popcorn and
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  Speaker 5: gingerbread men.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Mercy, I'm Tucker.
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  Speaker 5: I hope I'm not too wasted for church in the morning,
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  Speaker 5: church to celebrate the first Christmas.
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  Speaker 6: You mean to run down there and throw your money
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  Speaker 6: in that Podrey's plate like all the other stated women.
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  Speaker 6: That's what you mean, Oh herlor, don't put the bad
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  Speaker 6: mouth on the Podrey, not on Christmas chats silver you
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  Speaker 6: lop ear no account, that's it, Harlow.
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  Speaker 5: Knock the podre, knock the mule, knock Santa Claus just
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  Speaker 5: like you. Not Redfeather, because he's an injured wake my
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  Speaker 5: herlo all Red Feather.
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  Speaker 6: Now, Red Feather back from secret mission for paleine.
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  Speaker 5: Quiet, Red Feather, what secret? Get some hot bettered round, Oh,
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  Speaker 5: Red Feather, Yeah, high Red Feather, Mmmm straight hold butter
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  Speaker 5: police navy Red Feather?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah what Harlow squaws an old drunk kind of Mexico talk.
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  Speaker 5: Oh he knows, Red Feather. Don't let him fool.
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  Speaker 6: If fects a savage and drink that right. Come on,
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  Speaker 6: Red Feather, did you get it?
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  Speaker 2: Track?
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  Speaker 5: Many many miles, cost many white man dollar.
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  Speaker 6: I only gave you a few dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Not worry, Red Feather, scrape up difference.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't steal it?
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  Speaker 5: Oh no, get from Padre he get from stupid women.
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  Speaker 5: You're throwing pins?
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  Speaker 3: Quiet?
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  Speaker 5: Am I in the pond?
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  Speaker 4: Ring?
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  Speaker 5: Harlo? What have you got there? Nothing? Oh red feather,
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  Speaker 5: open show.
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  Speaker 6: Squash, stupid engine.
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  Speaker 5: Oh Harlow, it's it's my music box? Won, yes, Harlough,
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  Speaker 5: What is it? Honey Police Namberne.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Bob Counters, wherever you are. I want to
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  Speaker 1: thank Blazer for welcoming me into his world in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. I want to thank Zach for everything he
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  Speaker 1: does to keep us on track. I want to thank
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  Speaker 1: Mike Elliott the Boss, for giving me a shot at
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  Speaker 1: doing what I do. And I want to thank each
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  Speaker 1: and every one of you for allowing me to be
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  Speaker 1: part of your life every day on the radio. You
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  Speaker 1: make a difference to me, You make a difference for me,
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  Speaker 1: and I wish for you a very merry Christmas. I
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  Speaker 1: wish for you the warmth of heaven above. I wish
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  Speaker 1: for you a very prosperous and happy twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for letting me be part of your life
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  Speaker 1: every day on six' tenutv