Speaker 1: Anyway before we look at to look back at significant
Speaker 1: events and people tied to this particular date in history,
Speaker 1: including but not limited to these. This was the date
Speaker 1: that the Louisiana Purchase was completed, as that territory formally
Speaker 1: transferred from France to the United States. South Carolina became
Speaker 1: the first state to secede from the Union this date,
Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty the shots would be fired. Soon to follow.
Speaker 1: One of my top three favorite films of all time,
Speaker 1: the holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life, premiered on this
Speaker 1: day in nineteen forty six. At the Globe in New
Speaker 1: York City, the United States launched Operation Just Cause. A
Speaker 1: familiar scene with the news headlines today. The year was
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, and this is when we sent troops
Speaker 1: in to Panama at a top of the government of
Speaker 1: Manuel Noriega. Sound familiar with Venezuela and Maduro. Let's see
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five tragedy. American Airlines Flight nine sixty five
Speaker 1: from Miami to Cali, Colombia crashed into a mountain near Buga,
Speaker 1: Columbia at night while descending to the Cali area, killing
Speaker 1: all but four of the one hundred and sixty three
Speaker 1: on board and in twenty nineteen United States Space Force
Speaker 1: established by President Donald Trump. Let's see, oh yeah, more
Speaker 1: islamis terrorism. Sadly to remember just a year ago when
Speaker 1: the car slammed into a Christmas market in eastern Germany,
Speaker 1: killing six, entering more than two hundred. Rock drummer Peter
Speaker 1: Cris of Kiss Is eighty today, Dick Wolf, Law and
Speaker 1: Order seventy mentioned, Alan Parsons, Michael Batteluco the Actor seventy one,
Speaker 1: Chris Robinson of The Black Crow, still bouncing around at
Speaker 1: fifty nine. Actor Jonah Hill turns forty two. And if
Speaker 1: it's your birthday, Iope, it's the best birthday you could
Speaker 1: possibly imagine. And you get to spend that with the
Speaker 1: people you love, doing the things you love to do.
Speaker 1: That is truly my wish for you. It's five forty
Speaker 1: two and some change. Liam Tomlinson standing by as we
Speaker 1: get you. Going next with Weather in Sports on this
Speaker 1: Saturday morning to start this Saturday morning edition on seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW not I the Internet of Things world is
Speaker 1: the world we live in. And this morning I became
Speaker 1: very distressed. Right at the beginning of the show. I
Speaker 1: tried to cover it up with music, and that's what
Speaker 1: I did basicly, but my computer wouldn't work. My mouse
Speaker 1: wouldn't work. I brought Liam in here. He couldn't get
Speaker 1: it to work properly either, So I can you read
Speaker 1: stuff on my computer and bring people up on the telephones?
Speaker 1: I need my mouse to work. I mean, Liam can
Speaker 1: do all of that. But yet I feel, because I
Speaker 1: am a control freak ultimately that I need to have
Speaker 1: total control of the show except things like answering the phones,
Speaker 1: which Liam does very well, and read the sports, which
Speaker 1: Liam is much more than adequate at at this point.
Speaker 1: But I couldn't get the mouse to work properly and
Speaker 1: in my room, and then I realized the mouse was
Speaker 1: upside down, so I just turned it the other way
Speaker 1: and now it works perfectly. Well, I'm a genius. Good morning, Lynnette.
Speaker 2: How perstal so bat.
Speaker 3: Studs now save inself for their proper it's taking.
Speaker 4: And is so felt.
Speaker 3: Serving stained off retal on underst.
Speaker 5: See set.
Speaker 2: Fast befare, oh.
Speaker 3: WoT frish cob oh oh hold.
Speaker 1: Ay man, Oh my gosh. I was a little concerned
Speaker 1: you weren't going to hit that last one, but you
Speaker 1: sure did, like a champ That is my favorite. That
Speaker 1: is my favorite Christmas hymn. Thank you so much much.
Speaker 4: God bless America, godless.
Speaker 1: That yell that you God bless you. Listen. What are
Speaker 1: you doing on Monday?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 7: I wanted to come and surprise you both, but with
Speaker 7: this cold stuff, I'm afraid.
Speaker 1: Well, I let's pray for healing so you can be
Speaker 1: here Monday. Really, I would love for you to be here.
Speaker 1: If you can't, I mean, if it's safe for you
Speaker 1: to travel, I would love to see you on Monday.
Speaker 7: If it's just worry about the Exodi. Well, see, I
Speaker 7: could eat when I get back.
Speaker 6: You fixed me up plate, and I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm even going to have any
Speaker 1: food here.
Speaker 8: Oh you're not going to have any food?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: Probably probably. Maybe Dave can pick you up something on
Speaker 1: the way back to the home.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that would work.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, Lynette, Well let's let's kind of plan
Speaker 1: on it. Listen. I'm kind of rushed for time this morning.
Speaker 1: But I love you.
Speaker 10: I love you.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, and hopefully I will see you on my
Speaker 1: birthday on Monday here in the.
Speaker 7: Studio, Okay, out with God's willing great down Yes, right.
Speaker 1: All of that, all right, His will be done. Five
Speaker 1: point fifty four seven hundred WL do to the first
Speaker 1: official hour of this Saturday Morning edition for Saturday, December
Speaker 1: the twentieth, twenty twenty five. Garry Jeff Walker, Merry Christmas Seasons, Greetings,
Speaker 1: Happy holidays, and it's okay to say happy holidays if
Speaker 1: you remember that the root of the word holiday is holy,
Speaker 1: because this is a holy time of year. Praise the Lord,
Speaker 1: Baby Jesus coming to save us all from our sins.
Speaker 1: Six oh seven and Gary Jeff Walker back into the
Speaker 1: breach as they say, Oh, look who it is. It's
Speaker 1: our friend Dave from Harrison. That friend Dave. Good morning, friend, Dave.
Speaker 11: Take you more than their friend, Gary Jeff genius type guys.
Speaker 1: Hey, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, are you coming?
Speaker 1: Are you coming to my birthday party on Monday?
Speaker 10: Wouldn't miss it, sir.
Speaker 1: You know, Dave, I've often thought parallel lines have so
Speaker 1: much in common, and it's a shame they'll never meet.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, Hey, hey, Dave, Dave. I'm reading a book
Speaker 1: on anti gravity. It's impossible to put down. I ate
Speaker 1: I ate a clock yesterday. It was very time consuming.
Speaker 10: Hey, I have a guy who watch candy canes. Yeah,
Speaker 10: they're all in mint condition.
Speaker 1: Actually funny, actually funny, Dave. You know, hey, I hope
Speaker 1: that's not the best one, but it was actually funny.
Speaker 11: Okay, Well, what do you call an elf who just
Speaker 11: won the Queen of Hearts?
Speaker 1: What do you call an elephant that just won the
Speaker 1: Queen of Hearts?
Speaker 10: Well? An elf?
Speaker 1: An elf? An elf?
Speaker 10: That just what?
Speaker 1: I don't know. What do you call an elf that
Speaker 1: just won the Queen of Hearts?
Speaker 10: Wealthy? Did you say?
Speaker 1: Did you say wealthy?
Speaker 10: Wealthy?
Speaker 6: W E L F y?
Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed they're supposed to they're supposed to get better.
Speaker 11: Well there so, uh so then conversely, what do you
Speaker 11: call a broke Santa Claus?
Speaker 1: What do you call a broke Santa Claus?
Speaker 11: I call it broke Santa Claus, Saint nicol Les, Dave, Dave, Dave.
Speaker 1: I told my wife the truth. I told her I
Speaker 1: was seeing a psychiatrist, and then she told me the
Speaker 1: truth that she was seeing a psychiatrist. Two plumbers and
Speaker 1: a bartender.
Speaker 12: Jokes told by Dave from Harrison are not necessarily considered
Speaker 12: funny by the staff, management or advertisers of seven hundred
Speaker 12: WLW or his parent company, iHeartMedia. If these attempts at
Speaker 12: humor have caused you to roll your eyes, made your
Speaker 12: stomach churn, or you have considered the entire exercise to
Speaker 12: be a colossal waste of time, we deeply apologize. Now
Speaker 12: back to our irregular programming.
Speaker 1: My friend, who I think is listening in right now.
Speaker 1: His name's Art and Bolo. He's also known as Radio's
Speaker 1: best Friend, has been bugging me for a picture of
Speaker 1: me and Liam together. For what purpose?
Speaker 10: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Art's kind of a different guy, but it kind of
Speaker 1: reminds me of the the Robin Williams movie Good Morning Vietnam,
Speaker 1: where the Vietnamese bartender or bar owner is always asking
Speaker 1: him for naked pictures of Walter Brennan. It kind of
Speaker 1: reminds me of that. So Art, Liam's in the studio
Speaker 1: right now and figured we just go ahead and get
Speaker 1: it done because he bugged me again this morning. Liam
Speaker 1: all right, uh que, there you go, you look less
Speaker 1: like a hostage. Now here we go, picture made. It'll
Speaker 1: be sent forthwith Art. Thank you, Liam, appreciate that. And
Speaker 1: now that we've got that little piece of business taken
Speaker 1: care of. Let's talk to mister Washburn all radio. Rick,
Speaker 1: good morning, how are you receiving us?
Speaker 13: I'm sorry, I'm distracted thinking of the old George Carlon
Speaker 13: routine of somebody broke into my house and stole my
Speaker 13: nude pictures of Ernest bordnine.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't Who doesn't have nude pictures of Ernest borgnine?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 13: That's see everyone, I hope that's there's probably a website
Speaker 13: for that.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Merry Christmas to you, my friend.
Speaker 13: You're coming in four by four, which is better than expected,
Speaker 13: quite frankly, really on a Majestic Model one four. This
Speaker 13: radio is for nineteen fifty one. It's an AM radio
Speaker 13: boasting four tubes and nothing else, oh except that it's
Speaker 13: a marbled Catlan, which means it costs a lot to
Speaker 13: buy one now. And it's in the shape of Rudolph
Speaker 13: the Red Nose reindeer. And it has a dial likee
Speaker 13: that doesn't like the dial, but it lights up his
Speaker 13: little red nose. It's really cute. It was based on
Speaker 13: the Oregond four forty four, which was the Mighty Mite.
Speaker 13: But I'll tell you what the Rudolph obviously being for kids.
Speaker 13: And by the way today's money, it actually sold for
Speaker 13: less than two hundred bucks, so that's not bad for
Speaker 13: radio back then. Absolutely. But the one nice thing is
Speaker 13: that it is Catlin because the the Arvin Mighty Might
Speaker 13: that was based on was a metal cabinet and what
Speaker 13: they called the hot chassis. Depending upon which way you
Speaker 13: plug the plug into the outlet. Yeah, if you touch
Speaker 13: did it might send you across the room?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 6: Nice?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was it was an electronic travel agent.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 13: So the catalogs the Arvin says smart, trim and dainty,
Speaker 13: so small and compact. Okay, so far they're bat and
Speaker 13: two for two so big in power and tone. No,
Speaker 13: that's not true. So attractive in design when you remove
Speaker 13: Rudolph it's no, it's not. But solo in price, yes
Speaker 13: it is. Most families need three or more Arvins. Okay,
Speaker 13: then there's one way to sell them upstairs, downstairs, anywhere.
Speaker 13: They were really reaching for anything.
Speaker 1: No, I mean you know they're trying to upsell those suckers,
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. I mean, you know, the more
Speaker 1: the merrier, how do you do it? Volume?
Speaker 13: It's right, they made one with Rudolph, and they made
Speaker 13: one with the lone Ranger and the the marbled Catlan
Speaker 13: cabins like this one. Well, they'll bring in two grand
Speaker 13: or more today. And then Ward's Airline also had a
Speaker 13: bake light version that was not the marbled color, and
Speaker 13: it was a more fragile plastic. But nonetheless it will
Speaker 13: still bring in a grand or so.
Speaker 1: Oh, no doubt, no doubt. So uh you need? I mean,
Speaker 1: how many Arvins do you have?
Speaker 13: I actually had six of the little Mighty Mites and
Speaker 13: always and I put polarized plugs on them, so they
Speaker 13: will not send you across the room.
Speaker 6: They will across the room.
Speaker 5: So what do you do?
Speaker 1: What are you and Marie doing for Christmas?
Speaker 10: Rick?
Speaker 1: What's the usual traditional Washburn Christmas?
Speaker 10: We?
Speaker 13: Well, traditional Washburn Christmas. We actually celebrated two days ago
Speaker 13: with our daughter and had a uh we went out
Speaker 13: to Ford's Garage for dinner, which is a really cool
Speaker 13: restaurant that has a model a hanging over the bar
Speaker 13: and a great menu and lots of old antique signs
Speaker 13: from from old Ford dealerships and repair places.
Speaker 6: And so forth.
Speaker 13: And since basically that's that's our only family, we uh,
Speaker 13: celebrated early because she and I both unfortunately have to
Speaker 13: work for the whole next week.
Speaker 1: Oh my, what a bunch of draconian ogres you must
Speaker 1: work for on Christmas. Not on Christmas.
Speaker 6: Well, listen to draconian ores.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 1: I hope you both have a wonderful, blessed Christmas at work.
Speaker 1: I will I'm gonna work on Monday and Tuesday. I'm
Speaker 1: doing Willie Show on Monday afternoon and then the nightcap
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, and then we'll be going to Middle Tennessee
Speaker 1: to see Mom and Dad to the lovely village of Ripley, Ohio.
Speaker 1: How now Brown County Main Street in Ripley. The place
Speaker 1: is called Brookies, and the Gang has assembled there once
Speaker 1: again on an early Saturday morning. Good morning, gang, Good,
Speaker 1: good to hear your lovely voices all fresh tailed and
Speaker 1: bushy eared or something like that. How are you this morning?
Speaker 8: Hi?
Speaker 14: We're doing pretty good. We're all down here, nots Mormon,
Speaker 14: just having a good time and joint Tell's Company.
Speaker 1: We had a we had a we had a Queen
Speaker 1: of Hearts winter on Wednesday night at Brookies. Bill German
Speaker 1: as that was, that was his name, That was Bob Bob. Okay,
Speaker 1: Bill was out of the money, but Bob won the
Speaker 1: money because, as as Doug said at the time, he's
Speaker 1: a lucky s ob. So he I knew he was.
Speaker 4: Gonna I think he just said that right before you call.
Speaker 14: For Christmas, our weather's gonna be almost sixty degrees.
Speaker 15: It's gonna be wonderful for Christmas.
Speaker 13: Well, I mean because I don't care for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see I'm not. I'm not a big fan of
Speaker 1: the cold either, but I'd like a little snow on
Speaker 1: Christmas just to look at in the morning, you know,
Speaker 1: and then sunshine and sixty is fine with me. So, uh,
Speaker 1: what else is going on? How is the weather beaver?
Speaker 10: Sherry, the weather beaver.
Speaker 15: He's in good shape. He can't wait to come to
Speaker 15: my Christmas celebration. You know, he's going gonna uh you know,
Speaker 15: the party.
Speaker 16: Oh it's gonna say he should be the star, the
Speaker 16: star if when we're just discussing, uh, this cold weather
Speaker 16: that we've had off and on here lately, and we
Speaker 16: just found out that Buzz has a real nice battery
Speaker 16: power keeted coat, which surprises me.
Speaker 1: A battery.
Speaker 6: Yes, he's gonna full charge to this.
Speaker 4: Yes he's he's on level two.
Speaker 6: Well up coat, Well that interchangeable man.
Speaker 1: Most of them most of the time. Buzz is on
Speaker 1: like level thirteen and it has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: an electric powered coat.
Speaker 14: Well, you guys, we don't have We don't have any
Speaker 14: really anything going on out Berties right now, which other
Speaker 14: than just our regular things since the queen is over
Speaker 14: until probably next March, maybe in February.
Speaker 6: March.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't need anything.
Speaker 6: We just need.
Speaker 1: We don't need anything.
Speaker 9: We just need.
Speaker 1: We just need holiday cheer, goodwill towards men, peace on earth.
Speaker 1: And if you've got that, you've got everything.
Speaker 4: Yes, that is true. We do have to cook us
Speaker 4: out of jail, so we do have.
Speaker 1: Food and uh a good company, Yeah, always good company.
Speaker 1: Uh is Miller there? Matt Miller?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dad, Okay, I know, I know you like all
Speaker 4: the jokes, and we finally got one for you.
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean you mean beside besides you.
Speaker 4: Know, I, uh so, what has a small unit and
Speaker 4: hangs upside down?
Speaker 1: What has a small unit and hangs upside down?
Speaker 10: A bat?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 13: A bat? So it has a large unit and hangs up.
Speaker 1: I don't know what, Oh I get it?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 1: Steve from Edna is standing by with the pithy phone
Speaker 1: called News of the Week, a commentary revolve and regarding
Speaker 1: Christmas kind of and that peace on earth, goodwill toward
Speaker 1: men thing. And you know what, before we talk to Steve,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to this lady real quickly. Good morning, Pat, Good.
Speaker 15: Morning, sugar lips. I want to wish you a happy birthday.
Speaker 15: And I also I want to give the praises to Lynette.
Speaker 15: Her singing this morning was beautiful.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm like I said, that's my favorite Christmas hymn
Speaker 1: hands down is Yeah.
Speaker 15: Well, how well, sweetheart, I've been fine, trying to get
Speaker 15: back into the groove.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Well, anyway, I just pray for the kids and especially
Speaker 15: the lost children. So anyway, sweetheart, you just have a happy.
Speaker 1: Birthday, Okay, all right, Pat, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 15: Dear saying to you babe, bye bye bye.
Speaker 1: Six at seven l our friend Steve from at Ohio.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Steve, and Marry, Good.
Speaker 5: Morning Gary, Jeff. Indeed, it was on Christmas Eve and
Speaker 5: Christmas Day of nineteen fourteen, just a couple of months
Speaker 5: after World War One started. US wasn't involved yet, you
Speaker 5: are correct. The soldiers on both sides came out of
Speaker 5: their foxholes, they shook hands. The Germans actually produced a
Speaker 5: Christmas tree. I did a little digging in just to
Speaker 5: see how many books and how many papers had been
Speaker 5: written about this incident, and I came up with this one.
Speaker 5: This particular author acknowledges the fact that, beginning in the
Speaker 5: nineteen eighties, the Brits suddenly took a very active interest
Speaker 5: in exactly what happened. Now, let me read a few
Speaker 5: paragraphs at the end of this report. I've tried to
Speaker 5: counteract two popular misconceptions of the truths. One is that
Speaker 5: only common soldiers took part in it, while officers opposed it.
Speaker 5: No few officers opposed it, and many took part. The
Speaker 5: other is that neither side wished to return to fighting. No,
Speaker 5: most soldiers, especially British, French and Belgium, remained determined to
Speaker 5: fight and win. Sadly, I also had to admit the
Speaker 5: Christmas Day games of football or soccer as they call
Speaker 5: it in the US, often falsely associated with the truth.
Speaker 5: The truth is that the terrain of No Man's Land
Speaker 5: ruled out formal games. Though certainly some soldiers kicked around
Speaker 5: balls and make shifts substitutes. Another false idea about the
Speaker 5: truce was held even by most soldiers who were there,
Speaker 5: that it was unique in history. Though the Christmas Truce
Speaker 5: is the greatest example of its kind, informal truces had
Speaker 5: been an outstanding military tradition during the American Civil War.
Speaker 5: For instance, rebels and Yankees traded tobacco, coffee and newspapers,
Speaker 5: fished peacefully on opposite sides of the stream, and even
Speaker 5: gathered blackberries together. Some degree of fellow feeling had always
Speaker 5: been common among soldiers sent to battle. It got me
Speaker 5: to thinking, there's a lot of hate going around. As
Speaker 5: a matter of fact, there's more hate this Christmas than
Speaker 5: anyone since I've been alive and aware of what was
Speaker 5: going on around me. It's despicable in every respect. It
Speaker 5: would be just speakable even if it wasn't Christmas. But
Speaker 5: I got to thinking, can I ask God on his birthday?
Speaker 5: Can I ask Jesus? Could you give us another one
Speaker 5: of these Christmas truces in Australia, Ukraine, the United States?
Speaker 5: Wouldn't it be wonderful? And I know you can do it, Jesus.
Speaker 5: I want to end, as we always do at Christmas time,
Speaker 5: happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to Jim le Barbara,
Speaker 5: and happy birthday to my great grandchild first one, all
Speaker 5: of whom were born on the twenty second. God bless y'all,
Speaker 5: and God bless everybody else.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Gary Jeff, Thank you Steve. Great Christmas message.
Speaker 1: Can it be so? My friend Ray will join us
Speaker 1: Ray Scott here in just a moment as we continue
Speaker 1: on this Saturday before Christmas six fifty one at seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW actually heard during a report recently the alleged
Speaker 1: killer died of a gunshot wound from a gun No kidding.
Speaker 1: Our friend Steve Shilty, who also has a birthday coming
Speaker 1: up this coming week, his on Christmas Eve. He has
Speaker 1: a birthday on Christmas Eve every year, and he is
Speaker 1: also our resident environmental engineer. You know, environmental engineers never
Speaker 1: really retire, They just appear on the radio once a week.
Speaker 1: Steve Shilte, good morning and merry Christmas, my friend. How
Speaker 1: are we?
Speaker 6: Good morning, Gary Jeff? Better than I deserve as always,
Speaker 6: and again I'll join the chorus wishing you and the
Speaker 6: music professor a very happy and blessed birthday on Monday.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much, and hopefully hopefully you can
Speaker 1: do that for us on Monday. What are you doing
Speaker 1: on Monday, Steve?
Speaker 10: Right now?
Speaker 6: Nothing starting two, one thing after another.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well, you know noon to three, you know
Speaker 1: where we'll be. You wanted to give some shout outs
Speaker 1: first this morning? What have you got for it?
Speaker 6: First of all, shout out to my fellow Golden LaSalle
Speaker 6: alumni as we enjoyed our third annual Class of seventy
Speaker 6: three Christmas party at the firehouse at Covington Yard, hosted
Speaker 6: by our fellow classmate Steve Hamburger. Okay, so were was
Speaker 6: about fifty somewhere between fifty and sixty guys joined us,
Speaker 6: and that was great.
Speaker 1: No, no way, how long ago? I don't want to
Speaker 1: divulge too much personal information of yours, but how long
Speaker 1: ago did you graduate from Lassell?
Speaker 6: I said, class of seventy three.
Speaker 1: Seventy three, okay, so we're talking about fifty two years? Yes, well,
Speaker 1: and what made you decide to start doing an annual
Speaker 1: Christmas party three years ago?
Speaker 6: At our fiftieth I think it was at our fiftieth
Speaker 6: ann fiftieth you know, animation decided to have we decided
Speaker 6: to have it.
Speaker 1: So that's great and.
Speaker 6: Steve Hamburger owns the firehouse that coming into the yards
Speaker 6: a great place, especially with fifty sixty guys. So we've
Speaker 6: done it today. This year is our third year. Also
Speaker 6: to acknowledge guy I've known since grade school, Tim Iory
Speaker 6: and his wife who always listened to the program. And
Speaker 6: interesting one I don't I can't remember who it was.
Speaker 6: Another alumnus, when he heard that I was doing this
Speaker 6: gig every week, responded quote, I remember his quote. So
Speaker 6: you are the Steve Shulty. I've been noting you two
Speaker 6: for years. That's yep, that's me. But onto the subject
Speaker 6: and topic at.
Speaker 1: Hands bear polar bears. Everybody loves the cute little polar
Speaker 1: bears that will rip your shrowdout if you get too close. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 6: But Climate Change Weekly number five sixty six from yesterday
Speaker 6: Heartland dot org gur polar bear populations decreasing or on again.
Speaker 6: We've been hearing for years that polar bear populations are
Speaker 6: decreasing and threatening due to so called man's made catastrophic
Speaker 6: climate change. And to this day, even in your favorite
Speaker 6: NGOs such as the National Resource Defense Council and the
Speaker 6: World Wildlife Federation used polar bears as their poster childs
Speaker 6: for fundraising. It's not you know, give us lots of
Speaker 6: money and we're gonna save the bears. Well, here's the fact.
Speaker 6: Pullar bear populations have been increasing ever since sciences have
Speaker 6: been had started counting them despite slight warming and the
Speaker 6: loss of ice in the arty, since nineteen fifty, which
Speaker 6: is when they started counting them. But I guess the
Speaker 6: best they could population estimate it went from ten thousand
Speaker 6: to today over thirty nine thousand. Part of the reason
Speaker 6: is tighter restrictions in the hunting, but there were more
Speaker 6: to it. Polar bears have are extremely adaptable predators and
Speaker 6: scavengers evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. That's the
Speaker 6: number of folks hundreds of thousands of years, lived through
Speaker 6: periods that were warmer than today, such as five thousand
Speaker 6: and just seven thousand years ago. They also survived cold
Speaker 6: periods we know as ice age that other animals and
Speaker 6: species died, like the wooly mammoth and the sabertooth tiger.
Speaker 6: And yes, there are some local populations that have declined,
Speaker 6: but they're far outweighed by booms of population and other
Speaker 6: In fact, research suggests that ice loss in the Arctic
Speaker 6: regions has benefited polar bears by resulting in increased the
Speaker 6: populations of healthy ringed and bearded seals, which polar bears
Speaker 6: love to must be the filaming young for polar bears.
Speaker 6: They've showed that the polar bears in some regions are
Speaker 6: literally fatter going into winter harbonations than they did decades ago,
Speaker 6: in having more cubs survived the adulthood. So again, once again,
Speaker 6: another so called man made catastrophic climate change hopes hits
Speaker 6: the scrap pile.
Speaker 1: Well, well, Steve, what you just said, though, illuminates the
Speaker 1: danger of man made climate change because we are causing
Speaker 1: the polar bears to become obese.
Speaker 6: They're fatter, so yeah, the extent of the cute little
Speaker 6: uh bearded and polar and ring polar polar seals. Yeah, no,
Speaker 6: they're cute too.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I think humans prefer seal meat over bear meat,
Speaker 1: so I can understand while hunting has been greatly restricted,
Speaker 1: I don't need any polar bear backstrips or ground polar bear.
Speaker 1: But you know, you know what, I'm I'm like a
Speaker 1: bull walrisk. Give me a tight seal every time. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Mary Chris yes.
Speaker 6: Brook like end with this Jesus Christ reason for the season.
Speaker 1: God bless Amen seven to eleven at seven hundred WL.
Speaker 1: Great thanks to Tony Rosiello, Joe Cina, and everyone else
Speaker 1: who made it possible for me to attend the Proteller
Speaker 1: You Needy Breakfast yesterday morning at Western Hills Country Club.
Speaker 1: It's something they've done now, I believe, for thirty five years.
Speaker 1: I believe they started in nineteen ninety when about ten
Speaker 1: or so guys of the Italian American community on the
Speaker 1: West Side would get together the weekend before Christmas and
Speaker 1: they'd go from house to house, have coffee, and then
Speaker 1: wind up at somebody's place for a few drinks, play
Speaker 1: some cards, have a good time and celebrate the joy
Speaker 1: of the season together. And now it has come to
Speaker 1: be this huge charity event. And the breakfast was there
Speaker 1: yesterday and it was absolutely wonderful, and thank you all
Speaker 1: for inviting me and letting me enjoy it with you
Speaker 1: again this year. I set at a table with a
Speaker 1: bunch of guys who are just the best, Mark and
Speaker 1: Fly and Brian and Frank and Tom and Jim Lebarbara
Speaker 1: who will be joining us momentarily for Rock and Roll Archaeology.
Speaker 1: After we take a listen to this week's Tom Davis
Speaker 1: Diaries or the here's our correspondent Tommy Davis with the
Speaker 1: Christmas up of wild wacky stories from around the world,
Speaker 1: around the country. Tom Good morning, Gary Jeff. This week
Speaker 1: the world's biggest snowman is Chinese. But first, a husband
Speaker 1: in distress seen hanging from the second floor sign of
Speaker 1: a hotel naked. He was apparently caught seeing someone on
Speaker 1: the side when his wife walked in and he ended
Speaker 1: up out the window hanging from a sign. Rescuers were
Speaker 1: able to get him down, but instead of hanging around,
Speaker 1: he took off running naked through the streets and he
Speaker 1: is still missing. Meanwhile, NBC News is reporting on a
Speaker 1: camel kick during a Christmas gig. The faithful attending a
Speaker 1: live Nativity scene at the Champion Forest Baptist Church had
Speaker 1: a front row seat to see a camel kick its
Speaker 1: hind legs back and hit a woman seated in the audience.
Speaker 1: She was immediately tended to and she's expected to be okay.
Speaker 17: There is no word on the camel's motive Aboutinez, California
Speaker 17: wife surprised her husband with a Godzilla rage room for
Speaker 17: his birthday. The man, a Godzilla superfan, dressed up as
Speaker 17: the monster and smashed a mini replica of Tokyo. His
Speaker 17: wife shared the experience on social media and said it
Speaker 17: was a fun way for him to let off steam.
Speaker 17: The internet had a mixed reaction, everything from he's a
Speaker 17: week loser to at least she cares enough to indulge
Speaker 17: his infantile behavior and finally, it's the size of Godzilla.
Speaker 17: But it's not Japanese, it's Chinese. The world's largest snowman
Speaker 17: was just built in Harbin, China. It took a team
Speaker 17: of workers weeks to pile up three hundred and ninety
Speaker 17: six thousand pounds of snow into a sixty two foot
Speaker 17: tall snowman. He's wearing your red Santa outfit and is
Speaker 17: called Frosty. Last year's snowman was a record breaker, and
Speaker 17: they beat it this year by three feet. Next week,
Speaker 17: Oklahoma family dazed and confused when a kangaroo busts down
Speaker 17: the door during dinner.
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, Elite athlete or the everyday guy.
Speaker 1: Saturday before Christmas, December twentieth, twenty twenty five, Geary Jeff Walker,
Speaker 1: God Bless America Fest Turning Point USA going on in
Speaker 1: Phoenix this weekend. How about that six minutes after the
Speaker 1: hour eight oh six eastern that is, and well, look
Speaker 1: at where does the time go? How about a little
Speaker 1: science minute with little science mic on a Saturday morning?
Speaker 12: It seems appropriate, yes, as a night of Scientist is
Speaker 12: a bit surprising. Bell blinded kneewing.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Michael, how are you hello? Hey? How are
Speaker 1: you man?
Speaker 10: Hello?
Speaker 1: Little science mic, little little science, A little science minute
Speaker 1: with little science mic, a little science. How would you
Speaker 1: like a little science mic with your coffee?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 10: I was here for breakfast yesterday.
Speaker 1: I had scrambled eggs, which were delicious. I mean, and
Speaker 1: you can get scrambled eggs in any of those kind
Speaker 1: of breakfasts, but these were very very good. They had
Speaker 1: getta and I don't know who made the getta, but
Speaker 1: I found it was a little overdone, but it was
Speaker 1: still very good. Bacon. I had a cinnamon roll and
Speaker 1: lots of fresh fruit that was oh breakfast, potatoes too,
Speaker 1: very well seasoned, and coffee and a bloody Mary. Before
Speaker 1: the breakfast started, I was with the Bonavito brothers. Is
Speaker 1: there a more Italian West Side name than Bonavito. So
Speaker 1: I'm there with the Bonavitos and the little Bonavitos. They
Speaker 1: brought their sons along, and we were the only ones
Speaker 1: at the bar. Actually, before breakfast, I just wanted a
Speaker 1: Bloody Mary, so I had that and enjoyed that. And
Speaker 1: one of them had bourbon in their bloody Mary and
Speaker 1: I never heard of that before, and it still kind
Speaker 1: of makes me gag a little bit when I think
Speaker 1: of it when it comes to bloody Mary's. You know,
Speaker 1: vodka jin maybe, but not bourbon.
Speaker 10: I don't know anyway, And I'm like the donkey put
Speaker 10: a smile on my wife's face this morning.
Speaker 1: Didn't really?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 1: Has she always been a fan of donkeys?
Speaker 10: Yes, sir, yeah, well, I mean it's not when she
Speaker 10: goes to the polls.
Speaker 1: There, you go, very nice. What are you doing on Monday?
Speaker 6: Well, I guess I'll be working.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well hopefully hopefully you'll be listening. It's it's
Speaker 1: during Willie's show. He's gone and they asked me to
Speaker 1: fill in, and I said, wow, that's my birthday. I
Speaker 1: might as well host my own birthday party with Jim
Speaker 1: Lebarbera because it's his birthday too. Jim is exactly nineteen
Speaker 1: years older than I am, and I am I am
Speaker 1: clipping at sixty five on Monday, which I'm not really
Speaker 1: fully prepared for still, you know, trying to figure out
Speaker 1: the medicare thing and all of that garbage, and it's
Speaker 1: just it's a little bit much for me.
Speaker 10: Well, I know where to go to.
Speaker 1: Oh do you good?
Speaker 8: One?
Speaker 10: Yeah, we'll actually go to you.
Speaker 1: We will we will talk. We will talk after the show, Michael,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. All right, So what do you
Speaker 1: got this morning?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 10: One? This is quickly one of the better social science
Speaker 10: studies that for the year. I think that regularly helping
Speaker 10: people outside your household can actually improve your help improve
Speaker 10: your cognitive decline and keep it astray and people of
Speaker 10: our age, middle aged and older adults. So what they
Speaker 10: did thirty thousand Americans. They looked at from over the
Speaker 10: age of fifty one since like ninety eight, and they
Speaker 10: counted for OTU factors as well with education and current
Speaker 10: physical mental health. And what they found out is if
Speaker 10: you formally and even informally help somebody else two to
Speaker 10: four hours a week in this scheduled environment, or even
Speaker 10: go help a neighbor with you know, yard work or
Speaker 10: get their garbage every Monday night or anything like that,
Speaker 10: or something regular like that. They can decrease your probability
Speaker 10: of having cognitive decline by twenty percent. You know, it
Speaker 10: helps you stay connected to the outside world too, and
Speaker 10: things like that. But just it's amazing. It's like help.
Speaker 10: Things are interrelated. Helping other people helps you. You know.
Speaker 10: One of the stats I've read was one three of
Speaker 10: Americans take part in schedule formal volunteering in this country,
Speaker 10: and fifty percent do informal informal help for their neighbor.
Speaker 10: So you know, it's not all bad out there.
Speaker 1: What, No, No, it's not. In fact, we hear about
Speaker 1: the bad because that is news that is out of
Speaker 1: the ordinary. The bad is out of the out of
Speaker 1: the usual of what goes on in most people's lives.
Speaker 1: I've talked about this for years, Mike. The reason people
Speaker 1: always go, well, why isn't there any good news? There's
Speaker 1: good news all around us. We only hear about the
Speaker 1: so called bad news because it's the aberration, it's the anomaly,
Speaker 1: it's not the usual. And people need to remember that
Speaker 1: if they feel inundated with chaos and bad news all
Speaker 1: the time. Remember the reason you don't hear good news
Speaker 1: is because good usually happens. I believe that.
Speaker 10: Well, I hope you have a safe trip down to
Speaker 10: mom and dad'sie.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much, and Merry Christmas to you
Speaker 1: and yours. And are you getting your wife a donkey
Speaker 1: for Christmas?
Speaker 6: Okay? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Eight twelve at seven hundred WL the season of Immanu
Speaker 1: God with us, and he still is, I believe, Brother
Speaker 1: Rick Green on this weekend before Christmas. Merry Christmas, my brother,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 10: Mary? Christmas? Hey?
Speaker 18: Can I give a shout out before we start?
Speaker 1: You always can give a shout out? Brother. The floor
Speaker 1: is yours.
Speaker 18: I receive the Christmas card Thursday from Don and Ronda.
Speaker 18: And Don and Ronda, I'm so sorry. I do not
Speaker 18: remember who you are, but thank you for blessing me
Speaker 18: and my family.
Speaker 1: Oh that's wonderful. Don and Rondo.
Speaker 10: My brain up for thirty day.
Speaker 4: I don't know who they are, Gary, but I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well listen, go ahead with the Bible verse.
Speaker 18: Okay, So then we have John chapter one, verse twelve.
Speaker 18: He says, yet to all, Yet to all who did
Speaker 18: receive him. To those who did believe than his name,
Speaker 18: he gave the right to become children of God.
Speaker 10: Amen.
Speaker 1: Amen, brother, have a blessed Christmas. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Hey, you all have a merry Christmas?
Speaker 1: All right, Rick Green and Teresa. That Teresa quickly with
Speaker 1: our word of the day. Teresa, Liam tells me we
Speaker 1: are tight on time.
Speaker 19: Well, okay, seasons, greetings and salutations. Hello Frankie the wonder Elp.
Speaker 19: Hello christ Hello everybody.
Speaker 9: God bless you all.
Speaker 19: Happy birthday to you, and professor, Happy birthday to you.
Speaker 19: My daughter is the twenty fourths Steve Silty.
Speaker 10: The word of the day is blessing.
Speaker 19: Oh gosh, thank you Lynette. It was beautiful blessings. Blessings
Speaker 19: are favor of God, God's favor protection. And with the
Speaker 19: season upon us, we all need to remember our blessings
Speaker 19: that we are all so blessed by God. God bless you.
Speaker 1: I love you all.
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to that Teresa and to you kids. Time
Speaker 1: will gives from Wally. Does anybody really know what time
Speaker 1: it is? The guy goes to the doctor for his
Speaker 1: annual physical doctor's office calls him wants him to come
Speaker 1: back in the lab reports have detected a serious terminal illness.
Speaker 1: The doctor says, I don't know how to tell you this.
Speaker 1: I'll just tell you there's no treatment right now that
Speaker 1: we know of, no surgery, and I'd say you have
Speaker 1: about six months to live. You probably need to make
Speaker 1: sure your your will is in order. You have a will,
Speaker 1: I hope, get your affairs in order, and uh, just
Speaker 1: figure out what you're gonna do with the last six months.
Speaker 1: The guy thinks for a second. He says, Doc, I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna go live with my mother in law.
Speaker 1: I says, well, I mean it's your business, but why
Speaker 1: are you gonna go live with your mother they're in law?
Speaker 1: Because it'll be the longest six months of my life.
Speaker 1: Is it going to be almost sixty degrees on Christmas Day?
Speaker 1: Which is kind of weird, especially after what we've just
Speaker 1: been through the last couple of weeks. I'm curious about
Speaker 1: what our friend Moe Egger has cooking for the Christmas
Speaker 1: season and the Christmas week ahead. So what do you
Speaker 1: think We'll ask him? Hey, mo, how are we doing?
Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic. One of my favorite times of the year.
Speaker 1: You know, it's my birthday, on Monday. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I want you to know if you're around, you're more
Speaker 1: than invited to the on air Christmas birthday party we're
Speaker 1: going to have for myself and jim Lebarbara on Monday
Speaker 1: in lieu of the Willie Show. I'll be on for
Speaker 1: mister Cunningham, and I decided, you know, nobody else is
Speaker 1: going to throw me at Christmas party, so I throw
Speaker 1: my own, just like why I throw my own anniversary
Speaker 1: party for this show because I knew nobody else would
Speaker 1: do it. So my question for you as a dad,
Speaker 1: uh huh. Everybody has Christmas traditions in their family, and
Speaker 1: I'm just curious if you want to share with us
Speaker 1: what Christmas tradition have you established for you and the
Speaker 1: missus and and Crosley. Do you have any Christmas traditions
Speaker 1: something that you've come to do every year since you've
Speaker 1: become a dad, Crawsley.
Speaker 8: Do we have any cool Christmas traditions? Well, she gave
Speaker 8: me a shoulder shrug.
Speaker 1: Oh no, she's already, she's already. She's already got your
Speaker 1: personality pretty much.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, pretty much. I don't you know we uh,
Speaker 9: Crosley and I usually take a Saturday early in December
Speaker 9: and go visit Fanta Claus and have lunch. That's probably
Speaker 9: it qualifies our most recurring one. We've done that every year.
Speaker 1: For a long time.
Speaker 8: You know what I like to do on Christmas, and
Speaker 8: this has very little to do with my family.
Speaker 9: I like on Christmas Eve night, I like to pour
Speaker 9: myself a live as and I like to watch.
Speaker 8: Mass midnight Mass from the Vatican.
Speaker 10: I like that.
Speaker 9: Nice, probably not for everybody. It's quiet in the house
Speaker 9: before the storm the next day. My friends of mine
Speaker 9: who laugh at me for enjoying.
Speaker 8: This prevision, but because they said, well, don't you just
Speaker 8: go to a real Mass?
Speaker 9: But I actually do enjoy doing that.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that that totally qualifies. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's your thing, So it's got to be cool if
Speaker 1: that's what you enjoy doing, and that's the way you
Speaker 1: kind of soak in the spirit of what should be
Speaker 1: a joyous time for believers and for people who understand
Speaker 1: the reason for the season. I mean that that totally
Speaker 1: gets it for me.
Speaker 6: I love that.
Speaker 1: I like that, you know, and and what she spoke
Speaker 1: to there also speaks to something that a lot more
Speaker 1: of us could benefit from. Not just at Christmas, but
Speaker 1: in our daily lives, and that is taken some quiet
Speaker 1: time by ourselves, maybe maybe not with anything on in
Speaker 1: front of us, maybe with some screen time like masks
Speaker 1: like you're talking about, but just taking just taking some
Speaker 1: time to just be quiet and tune out from everything else.
Speaker 10: Mo.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been more and more people are talking
Speaker 1: about that, especially in the age in which we live,
Speaker 1: where we're constantly on our screens, on our phones. And
Speaker 1: like you said, the noise of the next day, I
Speaker 1: hear Crosley in the background. Is she singing?
Speaker 9: She's yes, she's making Christmas cards and I think she's
Speaker 9: trying to get hurt on the radio.
Speaker 8: I think is gotcha?
Speaker 1: Hi, Crosley? How you doing.
Speaker 9: She's doing well, as you can tell. I enjoy everything
Speaker 9: that you just talked about. The occasional bursts of quiet
Speaker 9: time are very much cherished.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: I come home from when I work at the bar,
Speaker 1: and I will again today when I get home a
Speaker 1: little after seven o'clock tonight, after listening to the jukebox
Speaker 1: and to the TVs with the games. The last thing
Speaker 1: I want is noise. And when I get home from
Speaker 1: this show, I will sit for an hour before I
Speaker 1: have to go to work at my other job, and
Speaker 1: we never on Saturday mornings have the TV on or anything.
Speaker 1: When I get home, we just sit there in silence,
Speaker 1: drink a little coffee. Sometimes I take a nap. But
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what tuning out is. I think one
Speaker 1: of the healthiest things you can do mentally, just to
Speaker 1: replenish your soul. Man, it's mass It really matters.
Speaker 8: It matters a lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's uh.
Speaker 9: That's a big part of my morning every day is.
Speaker 8: Drop it off school and enjoying some some silence before
Speaker 8: we uh, before we get going for the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about that. No silence in that stadium
Speaker 1: last night in Oklahoma and Norman. That was a Rockets
Speaker 1: place and it looked like the crowd was going to
Speaker 1: rule the day along with the Sooners in the first half.
Speaker 1: But Alabama came to the fore man and they they
Speaker 1: knocked it out and moved on. In the College Football Championship,
Speaker 1: do you like the setup of the first round games
Speaker 1: being played on the top top teams in the seedings
Speaker 1: home home field.
Speaker 6: Do you like that?
Speaker 10: I do.
Speaker 9: I kind of wish that was the case in the
Speaker 9: second round as well, to give those teams that got
Speaker 9: by the home field advantage that the teams in the
Speaker 9: first round that earned home games got. I think it's
Speaker 9: it's a cool element. You know, the scene last night
Speaker 9: and Norman was awesome. I also feel like if you
Speaker 9: put those games on neutral sites, logistically with the turnaround,
Speaker 9: you know, you're not giving fans that much of an
Speaker 9: opportunity to go see their favorite team play.
Speaker 8: And so I think you would have a lot of
Speaker 8: venues that are what.
Speaker 9: You don't want for a college football playoff game, and
Speaker 9: that's half empty or mostly empty.
Speaker 8: But yeah, I think you know, last year.
Speaker 9: Home teams won all four games in the first round,
Speaker 9: and frankly, none of them were very competitive. Last night
Speaker 9: was two entirely different games. I think I was like
Speaker 9: a lot of people who thought, Okay, Alabama is down
Speaker 9: seventeen to nothing, there's a lot of noise arounding their coach.
Speaker 1: Maybe going to Michigan.
Speaker 8: They just laid an egg in the SEC championship game.
Speaker 1: They're playing on the road.
Speaker 9: And then because of some Oklahoma mistakes, they had a
Speaker 9: punt that was dropped where the putter literally dropped the
Speaker 9: ball he was about to kick. They had a pick
Speaker 9: six that just totally felt like it swung the game.
Speaker 9: But yeah, there's lots of issues with the College Football
Speaker 9: Playoff that people have. Some of them are very legitimate gripes.
Speaker 9: But I think the coolest element that has been added
Speaker 9: since they expanded the field of twelve was playing games
Speaker 9: on campus sites. It's last year Notre Dame hosting Indiana.
Speaker 9: That was an awesome setting. The game wasn't very good,
Speaker 9: but that was an awesome setting. Ohio State got a
Speaker 9: home game last year and there were a ton of
Speaker 9: Tennessee fans there because it was in the wake of
Speaker 9: Ohio State losing to Michigan. I thought that was a
Speaker 9: really cool setting.
Speaker 8: It wasn't much of a game.
Speaker 9: I like the fact where we're seeing games played in
Speaker 9: true home sites in the first round, and I wish
Speaker 9: it would continue in the second round.
Speaker 1: Yeah when that and this is the last thing I
Speaker 1: saw on last night's Alabama Oklahoma game was one of
Speaker 1: the best punters in the nation simply dropping the punt
Speaker 1: right before his foot met it, and you know, Alabama recovers,
Speaker 1: And to me, that was the at one play was
Speaker 1: the shifting of the mo.
Speaker 8: Mo and you could feel it, you could see it.
Speaker 10: In real time.
Speaker 9: They also missed. They also missed a couple of field goals,
Speaker 9: including a chip shot.
Speaker 8: By a guy who hadn't missed since the first game
Speaker 8: of the season.
Speaker 9: That game very quickly went from one that felt like
Speaker 9: Oklahoma was in complete control to one that very quickly
Speaker 9: felt like it was slipping away, which it did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing that the choke color fit at home.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 1: The only game today that seems like it's going to
Speaker 1: be competitive is the Miami Texas A and M game,
Speaker 1: because I mean, let's face it, James Madison in Tulane
Speaker 1: are not college football juggernauts. They got in because they're
Speaker 1: in that Power five. Whatever. What do you look for
Speaker 1: in the Texas A and M Miami game today? And
Speaker 1: how do you think that's.
Speaker 10: Going to go?
Speaker 9: I want to see how good Miami quarterback Carson Beck is.
Speaker 9: You know, in this day and age of college football,
Speaker 9: there are certain players who feel like they've been playing since.
Speaker 8: I was in college.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and he's won and look to me, you know,
Speaker 9: the big The two controversial selections were obviously Alabama getting
Speaker 9: in instead of Notre Dame and Miami getting in instead
Speaker 9: of Notre Dame. Now, I think the consensus is that
Speaker 9: ultimately Miami deserved to get in ahead of Notre Dame
Speaker 9: because they won head to head, but how they got
Speaker 9: there was weird, and how they got there has elicited
Speaker 9: some very legitimate gripes from not just Notre Dame fans,
Speaker 9: but the athletic director at Notre Dame who went on
Speaker 9: about a three day crusade to kind of tell everybody
Speaker 9: how much his team got screwed. And I think, to
Speaker 9: a degree, they did.
Speaker 8: And so I think it's not dissimilar from last night.
Speaker 9: Do the Hurricanes belong in this field? If they play
Speaker 9: well and win, then I think to a degree, it's
Speaker 9: going to justify what the committee did. It's also a
Speaker 9: game between the ACC representative, not the ACC champion, versus.
Speaker 1: The SEC team.
Speaker 9: And I think if Miami loses tonight, it's going to
Speaker 9: be a very stark referendum on a conference that did
Speaker 9: not have a very good season, that did not send
Speaker 9: its champion to the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 6: And so we'll see.
Speaker 9: And it's also a coach in Mario Cristobal at Miami.
Speaker 9: And I was listening to a college football podcast with
Speaker 9: a talk show host from Miami who was on who
Speaker 9: was talking about the fact that, you know, Mario Cristiball,
Speaker 9: who played at Miami, was the center, was the coach
Speaker 9: at Oregon, now coaching his alma mater. He's had some
Speaker 9: terrific wins, but he's also had some games where his
Speaker 9: decision making has cost his team victory. If that happens
Speaker 9: today in the game against Texas A and M I
Speaker 9: think how he's talked about and how he's written about
Speaker 9: is going to be really interesting.
Speaker 1: I had some definite thoughts about Notre Dame and their
Speaker 1: reaction to not getting in, and they're you know, taking
Speaker 1: their collective balls and just saying, no, we're not going
Speaker 1: to play. Yeah, you cheated us out of a chance
Speaker 1: to play for a champion, so we're just not going
Speaker 1: to play in any bulls. And I've talked about this
Speaker 1: Notre Dame fans and they kind of agree with me.
Speaker 1: And you know, maybe it's time Notre Dame joins a conference.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's time that they play the best week in
Speaker 1: and week out during a conference schedule instead of relying
Speaker 1: on the name Notre Dame. What do you think about that?
Speaker 9: Well, I think if there's a program that has often
Speaker 9: fairly been accused of being entitled. It's Notre Dame. And
Speaker 9: you know, look, your independence comes at a cost, and
Speaker 9: for Notre Dame, the cost is unlike everybody else in
Speaker 9: the conference, don't get a chance to play a thirteenth game,
Speaker 9: don't get a chance to call yourself conference championships. Now,
Speaker 9: the upside of that is if you make the college
Speaker 9: football playoffs, you don't have to split the money, and
Speaker 9: so you know, there's a cost of independence.
Speaker 6: I didn't have an issue with.
Speaker 9: What Notre Dame did. Mainly I remember Florida State two
Speaker 9: years ago. Florida State got snubbed because their quarterback got
Speaker 9: hurt and they excluded them despite being undefeated from the
Speaker 9: College Football playoff. They had a lot of players opt out,
Speaker 9: and they put a product on the field that was
Speaker 9: not representative of how good that Florida State team was
Speaker 9: all season, and they got destroyed by Georgia. I would
Speaker 9: rather a team say we're not showing up, we're not
Speaker 9: gonna play, We're not gonna play without a bunch of
Speaker 9: guys who opt out, then put on the field what
Speaker 9: Florida State did. And look, a lot of schools say
Speaker 9: no to bowl games. A lot of schools say look
Speaker 9: for a variety of reasons, whether it's a coaching change,
Speaker 9: whether it's you know, we have players who aren't going
Speaker 9: to play in the game because they're going to go
Speaker 9: pursue other opportunities.
Speaker 10: Whatever it is.
Speaker 13: There's a lot of schools that say no to bowl games.
Speaker 9: There are schools that say no to the NIIT or
Speaker 9: some of the other college basketball tournaments every March. With
Speaker 9: Notre Dame, the reaction is a little bit different because
Speaker 9: it's Notre Dame, and because the athletic director did a
Speaker 9: fair amount of whining and again, and I thought many
Speaker 9: of his gripes were legitimate. But bowl games have never
Speaker 9: mattered less. Notre Dame doesn't need to pay out from
Speaker 9: some second or third tier. Bowl schools opt out all
Speaker 9: the time. And frankly, as you watch some of these bowls,
Speaker 9: when you see teams take the field without you know, sticks, ten, twelve,
Speaker 9: fifteen of their best players, sure the games often become
Speaker 9: kind of a farce. I would rather a team just say, look,
Speaker 9: we're not going to be a part of that than
Speaker 9: put a team on the field that gives us a
Speaker 9: game that's not very competitive.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll be watching with great interest the Vanderbilt Iowa
Speaker 1: game because my dad's in Iowa alum. I was born
Speaker 1: in Iowa, and I rooted for Vanderbilt for the last
Speaker 1: I don't know decade or whatever. So that's a bowl
Speaker 1: game that's not in the championship that I'll I'll have
Speaker 1: great interest in. Listen, Moe, have a very very merry Christmas.
Speaker 1: Enjoy Mass on Tuesday night and or but yeah, Wednesday night,
Speaker 1: and Merry Christmas to Crosley, you too, man, Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: All Right, you got a counselor what's going on? Hey, buddy,
Speaker 1: how you doing. You're one of those Notre Dame fans whining,
Speaker 1: aren't you. I'm one of those Notre Dame fans, but
Speaker 1: not whining. Okay, go ahead, I mean I kind of
Speaker 1: agree with Moe on that one.
Speaker 20: What's on the show today, Well, I'll tell you we're
Speaker 20: gonna be talking a lot about what's going on in
Speaker 20: Minnesota and Gary Jeff.
Speaker 1: It is just unbelievable. They're now up to I believe
Speaker 1: six billion. I heard nine. Well, this is on our.
Speaker 20: That's undocumented so far. It's going to go beyond that. Well,
Speaker 20: beyond that, we're going to talk about that in detail,
Speaker 20: in the rant. Also Janis Higel of the Epoch Time.
Speaker 20: She filed no less than five separate stories this week
Speaker 20: on it. She's up there on the ground, she's all
Speaker 20: over this thing. We're gonna talk to Janis about that.
Speaker 20: I believe I've got her on at eleven o'clock. I'm
Speaker 20: going to talk to her about that. Go to talk
Speaker 20: to Kevin Burton, independent political consultant. This Ohio governor's race
Speaker 20: is getting close. It's heating up.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 20: Everybody thought, myself included Vivek Ramaswami, would blow Amy Act
Speaker 20: in a way, and that may ultimately happen, but it
Speaker 20: is tight now. Also Texas Senate race Jasmine Crockett. I mean,
Speaker 20: if the people of Texas elect that woman, I'm moving
Speaker 20: to Mexico. So we'll be talking to Kevin about all
Speaker 20: those things. And again heavily on the Minnesota situation. Yeah,
Speaker 20: I'd hold off on the move to Mexico. I think
Speaker 20: that's gonna happen. I don't think and Amy Acting just
Speaker 20: needs to go smoke some dope and leave us alone.
Speaker 20: Have a fantastic Christmas. Merry Christmas too, buddy, you're invited
Speaker 20: to the Christmas party. Money if you want to come
Speaker 20: by June to three. All right, Mike Allen, Saturday midday
Speaker 20: next and the after the show show at Huddles. After
Speaker 20: I go home for about an hour and sit in
Speaker 20: silence and enjoy a cup of coffee. Have a great weekend.
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