Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / Wicked Radio 12-23: It's 'Merry Christmas' Dammit! Trump Speaks, & Brenda Lee's Amazing Comeback
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- 0:03Speaker 1: What the heck are you doing Washington and listening to me?
- 0:06Speaker 1: You should be out drinking eggnog and doing up parties.
- 0:09Speaker 1: And well, it is kind of early buying Christmas presents
- 0:12Speaker 1: and wrapping presents and Merry Christmas everybody, And it's very
- 0:15Speaker 1: important this time of the year. This is our annual
- 0:17Speaker 1: well it will be annual once we're doing this for
- 0:20Speaker 1: a year. Reminder to tell the joy hating bastards at
- 0:23Speaker 1: the Washington Post Merry Christmas, and we'll tell you why.
- 0:26Speaker 1: It's a great reminder. We've never forgotten that Trump's back
- 0:29Speaker 1: on stage. He was at America Fest in Phoenix or
- 0:32Speaker 1: Glendale or well it was Arizona anyway. Over the weekend,
- 0:35Speaker 1: we'll talk about that as well. I'm not gonna spend
- 0:38Speaker 1: a lot of time on what happened in the New
- 0:39Speaker 1: York City subway system over the weekend. I am going
- 0:42Speaker 1: to talk about the horrific timing of the post that
- 0:46Speaker 1: New York's governor sent out shortly before that happened. But
- 0:49Speaker 1: we'll wrap it all up today. Historian maybe never heard of.
- 0:52Speaker 1: You know, we have all heard the Rocking Round the
- 0:55Speaker 1: Christmas Tree song by Brenda Lee. It's like a Christmas
- 0:57Speaker 1: classic at this point. It's one of the most amazing
- 1:00Speaker 1: comeback stories in music history. Maybe you've never heard of.
- 1:03Speaker 1: And it's the only song that's ever knocked off Mariah
- 1:06Speaker 1: Carey off the top of the charts. Of course, Mariah
- 1:10Speaker 1: was back because she's like the Queen of Christmas, and
- 1:11Speaker 1: once you on thaw her, she's not getting frozen again.
- 1:13Speaker 1: But anyway, we'll get to that as well. All Right,
- 1:16Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, everybody. Two days before the big day, we
- 1:19Speaker 1: are literally at the two yard line before Christmas day
- 1:22Speaker 1: before Santa comes. And this is why I say it's
- 1:26Speaker 1: an annual reminder to tell the bastards, the joy hating
- 1:31Speaker 1: Cretans at the Washington Post and many others in the media,
- 1:35Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Because this is a reminder. It's the anniversary
- 1:38Speaker 1: of in twenty eighteen, one of the most infamous op
- 1:44Speaker 1: ed's ever published in American history, and it was this
- 1:47Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna read the whole article, mostly because
- 1:49Speaker 1: there's a paywall still on the Washington Post and I'm
- 1:51Speaker 1: not going to give them a dime. I'm not going
- 1:53Speaker 1: to do that. But it's everywhere these days, and the
- 1:55Speaker 1: headline said, please don't wish me Christmas. It's impolite and
- 2:02Speaker 1: alienating to assume I follow your religion. That's right. In
- 2:09Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, they actually followed this up. They got so
- 2:11Speaker 1: much backlash. Well it's actually still to this day. Is
- 2:15Speaker 1: how these things work because they get people like me
- 2:16Speaker 1: to talk about it. One of the most read downloaded
- 2:22Speaker 1: clicked on op ed's in Washington Post history. Because it
- 2:26Speaker 1: was so controversial, just in raging, they followed it up
- 2:28Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, I guess because there was so
- 2:31Speaker 1: much of a backlash by saying, it's not a war
- 2:35Speaker 1: on Christmas. It's about inclusivity, that's all. And they haven't
- 2:40Speaker 1: really backed up. Now. We all know that because we
- 2:43Speaker 1: got a hold of the media. These days, you know,
- 2:47Speaker 1: media is not what it was even in twenty eighteen
- 2:50Speaker 1: or twenty twenty two. We got a hold of the media,
- 2:53Speaker 1: thanks mainly to Elon buying Twitter, turning it into accent
- 2:56Speaker 1: community Notes, which will play a big part in the
- 2:58Speaker 1: New York subway story here in just a little bit.
- 3:01Speaker 1: But it's still there, it still exists. There are still,
- 3:05Speaker 1: you know, watchdogs of whatever the hell agenda they're trying
- 3:08Speaker 1: to push through in the media to try it. They
- 3:10Speaker 1: hate everything. They hate Christmas, they hate America, they hate freedom.
- 3:14Speaker 1: I don't know. They think they're the vanguards of like
- 3:16Speaker 1: socialism or something. I don't know what it is. So
- 3:19Speaker 1: even though they're less powerful than they ever were, and
- 3:22Speaker 1: probably the height of their power was right around twenty
- 3:24Speaker 1: seventeen twenty eighteen, even though we chopped that in half
- 3:28Speaker 1: in the ratings for CNN and MSNBC, those are like
- 3:33Speaker 1: in the toilet, and the mainstream networks as well. They
- 3:36Speaker 1: still exist. So this is why we need to make
- 3:40Speaker 1: this an annual reminder to always wish them merry Christmas.
- 3:43Speaker 1: It sounds like a small thing, but they hate it.
- 3:46Speaker 1: This is why we're going to come through and always
- 3:47Speaker 1: remind that. Oh, by the way, CNN, by the way,
- 3:49Speaker 1: just wrapped up. I guess they have to report this.
- 3:53Speaker 1: The other networks don't seem to make all of their
- 3:54Speaker 1: ratings public, but CNN does for whatever reason, maybe they
- 3:57Speaker 1: have to because of their shareholders. This was their worst
- 4:01Speaker 1: rated year in CNN's history, the worst rated year they've
- 4:06Speaker 1: ever had, and this was an election year. That should
- 4:08Speaker 1: really tell you something about the power of the media
- 4:10Speaker 1: and how it's going away. But don't ever ever let
- 4:13Speaker 1: them back in because they caused a lot of this
- 4:16Speaker 1: mess we're going through right now. But it's all getting bigger.
- 4:18Speaker 1: In fact, Trump was back on stage. I gotta tell you.
- 4:22Speaker 1: Over the weekend I kind of missed him. It was
- 4:23Speaker 1: quiet for a while. He was getting together, putting together
- 4:26Speaker 1: the cabinet positions. But there was a merit of fist
- 4:30Speaker 1: in Arizona over the weekend and he did speak at
- 4:32Speaker 1: that and well, isn't that funny. He also reminded us
- 4:36Speaker 1: to say Mary.
- 4:37Speaker 2: Christmas, Well, hello Arizona. It's great to be here. Nice
- 4:41Speaker 2: to win the election. That's very nice to win. And
- 4:44Speaker 2: I want to wish everybody a very merry Christmas. They
- 4:47Speaker 2: don't say that too much anymore.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Who we say, Yep, it's back. We're never going back again.
- 4:55Speaker 1: We actually talked about this few weeks ago. I guess
- 4:57Speaker 1: it was maybe right after Thanksgiving and just personal observation.
- 5:01Speaker 1: A lot of you actually reached out to me and
- 5:02Speaker 1: you said it to you. I got a lot of
- 5:03Speaker 1: pictures from you guys in the direct messages of targets.
- 5:06Speaker 1: I think somebody sent me a Walmart thing Merry Christmas
- 5:09Speaker 1: signs everywhere. That's big, and that's good. It's not just
- 5:12Speaker 1: happy holidays, it's Christmas. This is where it starts. If
- 5:15Speaker 1: a war on culture and bringing back freedom of expression
- 5:19Speaker 1: is back, probably will start in the Christmas season. This
- 5:22Speaker 1: is why this is important to always say that. He
- 5:24Speaker 1: also talked about this what you're probably gonna face at
- 5:28Speaker 1: the Christmas table this year, and what you what you're
- 5:30Speaker 1: gonna listen to after this election if you haven't already
- 5:33Speaker 1: had the family get togethers at the Christmas party.
- 5:36Speaker 2: And woke has to stop because along with everything else,
- 5:40Speaker 2: it's destroying our country. We're gonna stop woke.
- 5:45Speaker 1: Woke is bullshit. Yes, it is the reason why I
- 5:51Speaker 1: cherry picked that little sound from America Fist over the weekend.
- 5:54Speaker 1: Besides the fact that he says bullshit. And I quite
- 5:56Speaker 1: enjoy the fact that our politicians JD. Vance has said
- 5:59Speaker 1: it too. Like the fact that our politicians can swear
- 6:02Speaker 1: these days. I like that. Not that I'm a big
- 6:04Speaker 1: fan of swearing. I just think it's more authentic. But
- 6:06Speaker 1: it kind of debated this. You know, in thirty years
- 6:09Speaker 1: of radio, it was trained out of me. You don't
- 6:11Speaker 1: ever swear when one of these a microphone is right
- 6:14Speaker 1: in front of you, it just becomes like muscle memory. No.
- 6:17Speaker 1: But once I escape from that kind of went into
- 6:20Speaker 1: the live stream podcast world, I said, you know what,
- 6:22Speaker 1: I swear like a I swear like a sailor in
- 6:24Speaker 1: my real life. Might just be more authentic and say it,
- 6:28Speaker 1: so bullshit is Christmas is Christmas? And bullshit is bullshit?
- 6:32Speaker 1: Say it's freedom. Doesn't it feel good? But he was there,
- 6:35Speaker 1: and it's important that he said that. What I was
- 6:36Speaker 1: getting to was the reason why Cherry picked that was
- 6:39Speaker 1: the fact that he's leading the charge in this cultural
- 6:42Speaker 1: revolution we're going through right now, or freedom of expression
- 6:44Speaker 1: is back, it matters to you and me and everybody else.
- 6:46Speaker 1: It's kind of like what we were talking about right
- 6:48Speaker 1: after the election. It's going to be four straight years
- 6:52Speaker 1: of the most brainwashed among you, people you work with,
- 6:55Speaker 1: people in your family, maybe people in your house. I
- 6:59Speaker 1: don't know, I've seen it already. What have we seen?
- 7:01Speaker 1: The screaming car videos? People just screaming at the top
- 7:04Speaker 1: of their lungs because Trump want an election, they lost
- 7:06Speaker 1: an election. People shaving their heads. What was that other thing?
- 7:10Speaker 1: That other I forget the name of It was like
- 7:13Speaker 1: four B or something, but it was the liberal women
- 7:17Speaker 1: refusing to have sex for four years, whatever it will you.
- 7:20Speaker 1: Most of them you want to have sex with anyway.
- 7:23Speaker 1: You've seen that, You've seen the rage fests. Who knows
- 7:26Speaker 1: what's gonna happen at the inauguration. I'm sure it'd be
- 7:28Speaker 1: protests there. They're just so that trickles down. Or you're
- 7:31Speaker 1: going to see that at your family Christmas party too,
- 7:34Speaker 1: if you haven't already. So you got two choices here.
- 7:37Speaker 1: I mean, personally, it's a little bit different for me
- 7:39Speaker 1: because I can come on here every day and kind
- 7:41Speaker 1: of like vent and talk about it. So when I
- 7:43Speaker 1: encounter people like this in my personal life, I don't
- 7:45Speaker 1: really have to deal with them. My plan personally, I'm
- 7:49Speaker 1: gonna sit back and just enjoy it for four years.
- 7:52Speaker 1: I'm going to enjoy the meltdown. I see it as entertainment.
- 7:55Speaker 1: I see it as funny. It's a personal choice when
- 7:58Speaker 1: they melt down over this because they can't their minds
- 8:01Speaker 1: were like broken in half because they can't understand. They
- 8:04Speaker 1: can't understand how that bad orange man is back and
- 8:07Speaker 1: oh hate is back. I just let him twist, let
- 8:11Speaker 1: him twist in the wind. It's not my job it's
- 8:13Speaker 1: not your job, it's not anybody's job but their own
- 8:16Speaker 1: to try to figure it out, to try to find
- 8:18Speaker 1: some common sense if they can. Already, if some of
- 8:21Speaker 1: them can, I don't think they can't. But whatever, it's
- 8:24Speaker 1: also a choice if you want to try to talk
- 8:26Speaker 1: some sense to them. I'm just warning you, having gone
- 8:28Speaker 1: through this for a long time, you're probably not going
- 8:32Speaker 1: to be able to convince them of anything. So if
- 8:35Speaker 1: you're at your Christmas party or whatever, getting together after
- 8:39Speaker 1: the holidays next year, next four years, at work, maybe
- 8:42Speaker 1: in the cubicle, in the office, or at a restaurant,
- 8:46Speaker 1: you see people melting down over this stuff, over the
- 8:48Speaker 1: future of America, and they can't stand it because they've
- 8:51Speaker 1: been brainwashed to think it's something else. Just let them.
- 8:55Speaker 1: That's my choice, anyway, that's my recommendation. Just let him
- 8:58Speaker 1: twist in the wind, because that's their problem. All I'm saying,
- 9:02Speaker 1: all right, I'm not gonna spend a lot of time
- 9:03Speaker 1: on this because it's horrific. You probably saw the headlines
- 9:07Speaker 1: already and it's just really hate even talking about this stuff.
- 9:10Speaker 1: But to me, the message is the horrible messaging from
- 9:14Speaker 1: leadership in New York City and from a larger perspective,
- 9:20Speaker 1: the state of New York. So he heard about the
- 9:22Speaker 1: New York City subway fire. It wasn't that. That's what
- 9:25Speaker 1: the headline said. A lady was lit on fire, a
- 9:29Speaker 1: sleeping lady on a subway car. Suspect was arrested. He
- 9:34Speaker 1: was a Guatemalan illegal immigrant. Lady was on fire in
- 9:39Speaker 1: a subway car. Okay, that's horrific enough. I'm not going
- 9:41Speaker 1: to spend much time on this. Here's what I'll spend
- 9:44Speaker 1: time on. And this is why I asked the question
- 9:47Speaker 1: if politicians, and in this case New York Governor Kathy Hochel,
- 9:51Speaker 1: schedules posts used to call them tweets, their posts now
- 9:55Speaker 1: on x about anything they're doing in their agenda. Can
- 9:59Speaker 1: you really trust them? Because this is a perfect perfect example.
- 10:05Speaker 1: Hours literally hours before this horrific thing happened, Governor Kathy
- 10:11Speaker 1: Hochel sent out this post in March. I took action
- 10:15Speaker 1: to make our subway safe, safer for the millions of
- 10:18Speaker 1: people who take the trains each day. Since deploying the
- 10:20Speaker 1: National Guard, MTA safety efforts and adding cameras doll subway cars,
- 10:26Speaker 1: Crime's going down, ridership is going up. Literally hours after that.
- 10:30Speaker 1: You know what happened. We don't need to regurgitate it again.
- 10:32Speaker 1: This poor lady who was sleeping on a subway was
- 10:34Speaker 1: set on fire. This is why, First of all, it's
- 10:40Speaker 1: a bad communication move for the politicians to send out
- 10:42Speaker 1: a pre scheduled post or tweet if you want to
- 10:44Speaker 1: call it that still, but also if they do that,
- 10:48Speaker 1: if any politician or leadership person does that, can you
- 10:51Speaker 1: trust a post or a message that's pre scheduled? I mean,
- 10:55Speaker 1: I mean, how how authentic could that actually be. Yeah,
- 10:59Speaker 1: we'll schedule that for a couple of days before Christmas.
- 11:01Speaker 1: We'll write that out and get that out there. Really
- 11:04Speaker 1: you really want to do that, because look exactly what happened.
- 11:08Speaker 1: Not just a bad move, but so disingenuous that this
- 11:11Speaker 1: actually happened. It was horrific. It was absolutely horrific thing
- 11:15Speaker 1: now would say it really truly. I don't think they'll
- 11:17Speaker 1: get the message, but any politician that looks at how
- 11:21Speaker 1: embarrassed Kathy Hokle was at this tweet and then something
- 11:24Speaker 1: horrific happened. And by the way, she got thank god
- 11:27Speaker 1: for community notes on X if you're on those, she
- 11:30Speaker 1: got community noted to oblivion because obviously she had to
- 11:34Speaker 1: take down this tweet, this post after what happened, but
- 11:39Speaker 1: it lives forever when it's out there. I don't trust
- 11:42Speaker 1: any politician, any elected leader, that pre schedules a post
- 11:47Speaker 1: on anything. It doesn't sound authentic. You're not reacting to anything,
- 11:51Speaker 1: you're not really announcing anything in real time. And in
- 11:54Speaker 1: this case, look what can happen, Absolutely horrific. No one
- 11:58Speaker 1: else I don't trust. And this goes back to our
- 11:59Speaker 1: attack on the media. You know, we're taking shots at
- 12:02Speaker 1: the Washington Post already this morning. Don't forget to wish
- 12:04Speaker 1: them a merry Christmas. How about the New York Daily News.
- 12:08Speaker 1: You know what their headline was, and they stuck with us.
- 12:11Speaker 1: They didn't take this down at all. They stuck with it.
- 12:14Speaker 1: Woman dies after she catches fire and Brooklyn subway car.
- 12:19Speaker 1: What woman dies after she catches fire? She was attacked?
- 12:26Speaker 1: What are you talking about? She was set on fire.
- 12:29Speaker 1: They keep doing this even though we've made great strides
- 12:32Speaker 1: in telling the media to stuff it and hold them accountable.
- 12:36Speaker 1: And Community Notes is absolutely great. And here's another one
- 12:38Speaker 1: that got Community Noted to oblivion. They're still trying, you know,
- 12:43Speaker 1: they're barely. The mainstream legacy media is holding on by
- 12:46Speaker 1: a thread, but they're still trying this kind of crap.
- 12:50Speaker 1: Woman catches fire, Like who believes that? We have so
- 12:55Speaker 1: much access to immediate information now? And again it's like
- 12:58Speaker 1: the theme of twenty four we are the media now,
- 13:00Speaker 1: We're in the news now because of the media outlets
- 13:04Speaker 1: like AX who still believes? Who do they think they're
- 13:07Speaker 1: fooling with? This? Woman catches fire. So that's the kind
- 13:10Speaker 1: of stuff that needs to stop. That's why you think
- 13:12Speaker 1: even though we've like taken legacy media, the lying legacy
- 13:16Speaker 1: media down so many notches, that's why you have to
- 13:18Speaker 1: stay on their asses because of stuff like that, this
- 13:21Speaker 1: flat out light. I don't know what the goal would be.
- 13:23Speaker 1: Why would you try to send out a misleading headline
- 13:26Speaker 1: like that in the first place? Like what what it's
- 13:29Speaker 1: like some of the first There was another horrific thing,
- 13:31Speaker 1: not to get into this, but in Germany with that
- 13:35Speaker 1: Christmas market over the weekend, car rushes through crowd of people,
- 13:40Speaker 1: injuring many, killing some. No, it wasn't a car, it
- 13:43Speaker 1: was a terrorist that did that. You don't blame the car,
- 13:46Speaker 1: you blame the terrorist. I don't know what. I don't
- 13:48Speaker 1: know what the agenda would be of distorting the facts
- 13:51Speaker 1: to get to that, but they still do. That's why
- 13:56Speaker 1: we all have to hold them accountable. Right, Change the communication,
- 14:00Speaker 1: send that into mindset, mindset into action. That's how stuff
- 14:03Speaker 1: gets done. All right, it was too horrific talk about.
- 14:07Speaker 1: I didn't want to talk about the New York subway fire.
- 14:08Speaker 1: But there we were. We got into it. Here's a
- 14:10Speaker 1: Christmas ey story for you. It's a comeback story, which
- 14:13Speaker 1: we love in our culture, in our society, right, we
- 14:16Speaker 1: love comeback stories. We all know the Brenda Lee song
- 14:19Speaker 1: Rocking around the Christmas Tree? Is it my favorite song? No?
- 14:22Speaker 1: But whatever, it's got a nice story. I'm used to
- 14:24Speaker 1: it being there, right, and all the Christmas music stations
- 14:26Speaker 1: and everything else. I had heard this story once before,
- 14:29Speaker 1: and I wasn't sure the exact facts. It was first
- 14:32Speaker 1: recorded in nineteen fifty eight, like it's old. You listened
- 14:35Speaker 1: to the original recording, and ye know it's old. She
- 14:38Speaker 1: had other songs, she had actually a big country career,
- 14:40Speaker 1: but this song in particular became probably what Brenda Lee
- 14:45Speaker 1: is most known for. And you can think of it
- 14:47Speaker 1: now in your head as you hear it. You may
- 14:49Speaker 1: not know. It wasn't a hit at all at first.
- 14:52Speaker 1: Here's some people including Keith Urban and a classic rock DJ,
- 14:59Speaker 1: Shutgun Gilly talking about it. It's an amazing comeback story.
- 15:03Speaker 1: It's pretty good last time.
- 15:04Speaker 2: And they said, Brenda, there's a movie out it's called
- 15:07Speaker 2: Home Alone, and your songs all over it.
- 15:10Speaker 1: Branda Lee is a pot of millions of families and
- 15:13Speaker 1: has been a part of their life, their entire life.
- 15:16Speaker 1: And that's an extraordinary accomplishment. With just one song, it
- 15:19Speaker 1: knocked Mariah Carey off the charts.
- 15:21Speaker 2: You're Branda Lee singing, rocking around the Christmas Street and
- 15:24Speaker 2: it's Christmas time baby.
- 15:28Speaker 1: First of all, I miss uh, I miss classic judge
- 15:31Speaker 1: who sounded like that guy shot Gun Tough Gilly. He
- 15:34Speaker 1: wraps up the story, but it is Christmas time, baby,
- 15:39Speaker 1: miss guys like that. I never had a voice like that.
- 15:40Speaker 1: I wish I did. But what a great comeback story.
- 15:43Speaker 1: I had no idea that it was. It was. It
- 15:45Speaker 1: was the only song that ever knocked Mariah Carey off.
- 15:49Speaker 1: The number one spot didn't last for long because once
- 15:51Speaker 1: you on fall Mariah Carey, She's not staying frozen. She
- 15:55Speaker 1: came back of course it became number one because she
- 15:58Speaker 1: is the Queen of Christmas. And she didn't even want
- 16:00Speaker 1: to record that song. Mariah Carey didn't. Can you believe that?
- 16:03Speaker 1: Where Mariah Carey be if she didn't listen to some
- 16:05Speaker 1: record producer somewhere who'll told her, Yeah, we got this
- 16:09Speaker 1: Christmas song all I want for Christmas? Maybe you should
- 16:12Speaker 1: just try to record it. She didn't want to, but
- 16:14Speaker 1: they kind of forced her into it. Imagine if she
- 16:16Speaker 1: didn't where Mariah Carey b Now? I don't know whatever.
- 16:20Speaker 1: Great comeback story for Brenda lethough, how about that? Now
- 16:22Speaker 1: it's a stable Now, it's with us forever. Extra Finding
- 16:25Speaker 1: Me tomorrow is going to be Christmas Eve at the
- 16:28Speaker 1: one yard line before the big Christmas Day, so we're
- 16:31Speaker 1: getting close. And again the takeaway wish not only the
- 16:34Speaker 1: Washington Post everybody in your life Merry Christmas, is don't
- 16:38Speaker 1: let anybody ever tell you how to change your wording
- 16:42Speaker 1: for a holiday that you enjoy. That's the first takeaway.
- 16:45Speaker 1: The second one is like always, even in the Christmas season,
- 16:48Speaker 1: don't take any crap from anybody. All Right, thanks for
- 16:50Speaker 1: Finding Me the audio podcast. Even though everybody's got a
- 16:53Speaker 1: bizarre schedule this week because Christmas is in the middle
- 16:56Speaker 1: of the week. It'll be posted on all the platforms
- 16:59Speaker 1: where you get your podcast, Apple, Spotify, what's the other one?
- 17:04Speaker 1: Oh yeah, iHeart I always forget And this lives as
- 17:08Speaker 1: a replay here on XIT, on Facebook and on YouTube
- 17:11Speaker 1: as well. All that said, we're getting closer and closer,
- 17:13Speaker 1: and most importantly, we'll talk to you tomorrow. Merry Christmas.