1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: For the past thirty four years back, a never ending 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: debate has come up about this time every year. I 3 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: must confess I've never been a part of it, but 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: other people on our team have, and that is the 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: enduring question. Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? It is 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,079 Speaker 1: a hotly debated topic. I think partly because people don't 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: want the topic to die. They're just like talking about 8 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: the movie and whether or not it's a Christmas movie. 9 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 1: Either you think it's a Christmas movie or you don't. 10 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: There is no in between. I'm told I haven't actually 11 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: seen a movie, so no, I haven't. Some people say 12 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: it's an action movie that takes place at Christmas, and 13 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: others say it's an action packed Christmas movie. You're welcome 14 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: to weigh in by email if you'd like Roman. Where 15 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,919 Speaker 1: are you on all this? I forget Christmas movie all right, 16 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: apparently if you've never seen the film, that would be me. 17 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: It stars Bruce Willis as John McLean, a wise cracking 18 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: New York cop. His estranged wife moved the kids out 19 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: to la when she took a new job, so McLean 20 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,639 Speaker 1: flies out to spend Christmas with his family. He meets 21 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: his wife, Holly at her office on Christmas Eve. While 22 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: he's there, Hans Gruber played by Alan Rickman and his 23 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 1: men take everyone hostage, but McLean manages to slip away unseen. 24 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: He's Bruce Willis, he can do those things. He spends 25 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: the rest of the movie as a fly in their ointment. 26 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: Screenwriter Stephen Desusa affirmed that it is a Christmas movie. 27 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 1: Bruce Willis says, no, it's a Bruce Willis movie. The 28 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: movie's director John McTiernan said, we hadn't intended it to 29 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: be a Christmas movie, but the joy that came from 30 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: it is what turned it into a Christmas movie. Does 31 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: that clear it up for anyone? 32 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 2: No? 33 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 3: Well. 34 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: A new trailer was re edited by twentieth Century Studio 35 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: for twentieth Century Fox when they released the movie in 36 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: the new digital release on four K. And here's the trailer. 37 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 1: This is John nice Fair. 38 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 4: He just wants to spend Christmas with the family. 39 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 5: We'll see what Santa and Mommy can do. 40 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 4: But when he gets stuck at the office party, Merry Christmas, 41 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 4: it'll be a holiday. 42 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 5: Merry Christmas. 43 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 4: He'll never forget this Christmas. 44 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 3: It's the time of a miracle, So be a good share. 45 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 3: Only John can drive somebody that crazy. 46 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 4: Get ready to jingle some bells and deck the halls. 47 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 5: With bows. 48 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 4: O Bruce Willis, move to the coos and get together. 49 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 3: Owen Rickman, do anything you have a chance against our 50 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:03,519 Speaker 3: stimistic cowboy. 51 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 6: It became. 52 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 4: Together in the greatest Christmas story ever told. 53 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 2: I got some bad news for you, Dwayne time Spooby 54 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 2: hat at Harvey Hold. 55 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 6: I'm starting to get a bad feeling of there, Harry Christmas, 56 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 6: die Hard, this is their idea of Christmas. 57 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 7: I gotta be here for New Years. 58 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: That certainly seems to make a pretty good case that 59 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: this classic is indeed a Christmas movie? Should I watch it? 60 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: Remove But when the Hollywood reporters surveyed random people in 61 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, guess which percentage? Guess what percentage said it 62 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: was not a Christmas movie. I already started that sentence 63 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: by butt, so I've already tipped you off. Sixty two 64 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,119 Speaker 1: percent said it was not a Christmas movie. If die 65 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: Hard is not Christmas movie, then what about Diehard two? 66 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: Which I also haven't seen? It also took place at Christmas. 67 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: One thing for sure, Von Monroe's version of let Its 68 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: Know at the end of the first film, sure makes 69 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: it seem like a Christmas movie. Looking back, What a 70 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: smooth move that was, because the chatter around the movie 71 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: has kept it alive. 72 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 3: All the weather outside. It's fright voice, what the five 73 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 3: is so delightful? And since me no place to go, 74 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 3: let its know, let us know, let us know. It 75 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 3: doesn't show size stopping and they brought some call for poppy. 76 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 8: The light of day, wait and. 77 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 3: Let its know, let us know, let its know. 78 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 8: Lever remind league is good night. 79 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 3: Oh I hate going out and. 80 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 2: Hold me time. 81 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 3: All away. 82 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 6: I'm here to see Holly McClean stype it in there, 83 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 6: cute toy. 84 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 5: Twelve Terrorist Natomy Placid. 85 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 6: We're doing it for eleven years. Ten square blocks, may Day, 86 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 6: may Day, Channel nine eight Linco thirty to dispatch. 87 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 3: The seven members of the New Provo. 88 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: Front six time with automatic weapons. 89 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 3: Five imprisoned leaders of Live Afteta Quebec, four million dollars, 90 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 3: three down board to go. 91 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 5: Code two and Knockatomy Plasis. 92 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 8: Killed one terrorist for shot. 93 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 5: He claims he's capped off to others. 94 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 3: Merry Christmas. 95 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 9: Happy here, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. 96 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 5: It's Christmas Eve. 97 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 3: It's Christmas Eve. 98 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 10: I'm very merry kiss, Merry. 99 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 5: Christmas, you became Christmas. 100 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 8: It's dramon the King of Ding and this other guy, 101 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 8: Michael barryck FROs. 102 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: The Christmas song. That's actually the title commonly subtitled Chestnuts 103 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: Roasting on an Open Fire, because that's how we know it. 104 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: It was originally subtitled Merry Christmas to You, So it 105 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: was originally the Christmas song with the subtitle Merry Christmas 106 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: to you, but now it's come to be known as 107 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: the Christmas song subtitled Chestnuts Roasting on an open file 108 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 1: classic Christmas song written in nineteen forty five by Robert 109 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: Wells and the Velvet Fall Mel Tourmae. According to Tourmee, 110 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:00,359 Speaker 1: the song was written in July during a blistering hot summer, 111 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,919 Speaker 1: in an effort to quote stay cool by thinking cool, 112 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: the most performed Christmas song was born. According to b 113 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: and I that's where the royalties payment. The Christmas Song 114 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: or Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire is the most 115 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: performed Christmas song of all time. Quote. I saw a 116 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: spiral pad on Robert Wells piano with four lines written 117 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: in pencil. They started chestnuts roasting, jack frost nipping yule 118 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: Tide Carols, folks dressed up like Eskimos. Bob didn't think 119 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 1: he was writing a song limit lyric. He said he 120 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: thought if he could immerse himself in winter, he could 121 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: cool off. Forty minutes later that song was written. I 122 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: wrote all the music and some of the lyrics. End quote. 123 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: That was in nineteen forty five. That King Cole's nineteen 124 00:07:55,360 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: sixty one version is generally regarded as the definitive and 125 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: in two thousand and four was the most loved seasonal 126 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: song with women aged thirty to forty nine and ramone Roman. 127 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: I asked our team to give me one Christmas song 128 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: that is their absolute favorite and you're gonna hear those now. 129 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: That one was Ramones. His next song was released on 130 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: the Andy Williams Christmas album, titled the Andy Williams Christmas Album. 131 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: They didn't hire a consultant for that, however, it wasn't 132 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,959 Speaker 1: released as a single. His rendition of White Christmas was 133 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: the single promoted for that album. The song peaked at 134 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,959 Speaker 1: number twenty one on the UK Singles charts back in 135 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: seven and into the top ten consistently over the past 136 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:55,199 Speaker 1: several years, peaking at number five in twenty twenty on 137 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: the Billboard Hot one hundred Singles chart in the US. 138 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 2: With those holiday greetings in gay happy meetings. 139 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 3: When friends come too call, it's the poucecenes long. 140 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:21,080 Speaker 2: There'll be parties for hosting marshmallows. 141 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,559 Speaker 5: For toasting and caroling out in the snow. 142 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:28,959 Speaker 2: There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories. 143 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 5: Of Christmases long long ago. It's the most wonderful time 144 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 5: of the. 145 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: This next song is a favorite of chad'sothis very unique song, 146 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: and that it was written by Brad Paisley. Now I 147 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 1: don't really care for Brad Paisley, but I can't speak 148 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 1: ill of Chad because he's executive producer and we all 149 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: kind of work for him. So I'm going to pretend 150 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: that this next song is fantastic because it's his favorite, 151 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: but it's not mine. It is, I will say, a 152 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: unique song, and that it was written by Brad Paisley 153 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: when he was still a kid, so I gotta give 154 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: it credit for that. It starts with him singing it 155 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 1: as his younger self. It was then morphs into an 156 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: adult Brad Paisley, and I have to admit that's kind 157 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: of cool. 158 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 2: Eveoy born in that maideer to bring the world joy. 159 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,679 Speaker 5: So harsh up, little. 160 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 2: Baby baby, you know not what you do. You'll bring 161 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 2: the world peace and love and teach them well you do. 162 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 2: You have nothing to fear because you know God is 163 00:10:52,880 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 2: with you. Are away that little import baby. 164 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: In fact, that kind of reminds me of Travis Thibodeau, 165 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 1: the guy who first wrote Take My Hand. I think 166 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 1: he was twelve years old singing with his dad when 167 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:13,319 Speaker 1: he saying when he wrote that, and he first recorded it, 168 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: and then of course Wayne Tubes made it a big hit. 169 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:21,839 Speaker 1: Perhaps the best song of the bunch is the one 170 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: I chose. 171 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 5: It's my favorite day. 172 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: This comes from the TV movie A Year Without Santa 173 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 1: Claus and I love it. It's called mister heap. 174 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 11: Nice, I'm mister Christmas, I'm mister sheet, mister. 175 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 9: Call me he miser one too much Chance. 176 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:03,439 Speaker 1: McLean's pick is by a musical genius, Ray Charles. You 177 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: may recognize it from the attic scene in the movie 178 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: Christmas Vacation. It's the Spirit of Christmas and it's Ray 179 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: Charles and can there be anything more? 180 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 5: Christmas is the time movie. 181 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 8: For being with the ones we love, sharing so much 182 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:40,599 Speaker 8: joy and cheer, what a one the pulpy watching the 183 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 8: ones we love. 184 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:47,719 Speaker 1: A Christmas classic by Old Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra. It 185 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 1: was written for June for uh No, It's written for 186 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 1: Judy Garland for the musical meet Me in Saint Louis. 187 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 1: Sinatra sang the song later with reworked lyrics and it's 188 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: subducing your self. 189 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 3: A merry little Christmas. 190 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 5: Let your heart. 191 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 8: Life from No. 192 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 5: Odd Troubles will be out of side. 193 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 3: Have yourself merry little Christmas. Make the ule tie game. 194 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 2: From No. 195 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 5: Odd Troubles will. 196 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: Be Our research director Sandy Peterson. We saved hers her favorite, 197 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:02,839 Speaker 1: her submission to close out the segment. She's the classiest 198 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:06,559 Speaker 1: of the group and chose a song to fit Handel's Messiah. 199 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: Why aside from the fact that Handel managed to take 200 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: most of the Book of Isaiah and turn it into 201 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: sheer poetry, the music composition is flat out genius, with 202 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: power chords and soaring vocals, and we're still listening to 203 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: it two hundred and fifty years on. 204 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 10: Think about that. 205 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: For unto us, a child is born from Handel's Messiah. 206 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 5: This is the Michael Bay Show, Monster. 207 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: Missic Is that timming you again? When we get stories 208 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: of someone dressed like a Grinch getting arrested, what was 209 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: it the Bad Santa? What was the movie where all 210 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: the Santa claus is getting the fight or was that 211 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 1: actually real? I think that was real. Yeah, remember it 212 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: went viral. Somebody find that and send that to me. 213 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: There's there's a There's may Him that breaks out amongst 214 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: these all these mall Santas and they get in a 215 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: big fight, and it's just nothing funnier, right, It's the 216 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: juxtaposition of the you know, the mean and the happy 217 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: and like Santa Claus can't get in a fight anyway. 218 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 1: Every year there's a story and every year we get 219 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: it of a new person. This year is a fellow 220 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 1: by the name of Tucker Lee Davis who's dressed as 221 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: a Grinch and they get arrested. So this year's story 222 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: goes like this. Tucker Lee Davis and a coworker named 223 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: Ryan Jones were in an altercation at a work Christmas 224 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: party at the Hotel Indigo in Traverse City, Michigan. Davis 225 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 1: attended the party as the Grinch and his buddy Ryan 226 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 1: Jones dressed as a reindeer. Now let me first say 227 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 1: the idea of getting into a fight at a Christmas 228 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: party in an outfit, and how that's going to look later. 229 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 1: I have a little experiences without at the rcc our 230 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 1: last Christmas party, Uncle Jerry. Anyone who knows my co 231 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: best friend Uncle Jerry. He's about six two sixty three 232 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,479 Speaker 1: and he's a big fella, about two sixty two seventy, 233 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: and he wore a rabbit suit. Now, the rabbit suit 234 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,120 Speaker 1: was already awkward. Did you see it. I mean it's 235 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,680 Speaker 1: the shoes and all. It's not over the shoes. I 236 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,159 Speaker 1: mean it's a onesie, right, It's something you'd put a 237 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 1: little baby in, except for here's the late fifties, big 238 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 1: brawnie fella. And the only thing that you can see 239 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: out of it was his face. 240 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:35,719 Speaker 2: Right. 241 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: You know when you go to the amusement park and 242 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: they got that cardboard thing and it's all painted and 243 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 1: you put your face. That the only thing he is 244 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,199 Speaker 1: doing his face, And he's got the rabbit ears up 245 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,120 Speaker 1: and the whole thing. He's got his hands inside there 246 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: and it's over his feet. So I mean he's in 247 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 1: a onesie, a full on onesie, right. And it was 248 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 1: the employee Christmas party, so we'd closed the place down 249 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:04,360 Speaker 1: to everybody but our team and somebody, some dude had 250 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 1: brought a buddy of his. We don't know why, but 251 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: this dude was technically about to be fired anyway because 252 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: he was a problem in the workplace. And I don't 253 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: know if he knew it or it just he was 254 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:22,680 Speaker 1: just one big bad decision. His buddy comes and since 255 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 1: we provided free food and drink for everybody, we had 256 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: we had a casino party. Everybody got to play and 257 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: there were prizes and we're having a great time. And 258 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 1: we used to really blow it out at our Christmas party. 259 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: Those were the good old days, ram And so Uncle 260 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 1: Jerry is there and all of a sudden, Rico, who 261 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 1: was our director of security, comes over and says to 262 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 1: Uncle Jerry, I got a problem with this guy over here. 263 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:44,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to deal with him and escort him out, 264 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: and I don't want to have I don't have to 265 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 1: hit somebody at the Christmas party. And he's a guest 266 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 1: of one of our employees. Well, the employee and the 267 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: guests were getting so drunk that at some point the 268 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 1: guest was fired. I mean the employee was fired shortly thereafter. 269 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: And that's when they knew they had nothing to lose anymore, 270 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: and so they decide they want to get into a 271 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 1: fight with Rico, who's pretty bad ass dude who was 272 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 1: our director of security. And Uncle Jerry joins in, and 273 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,120 Speaker 1: they're rolling around in the asphalt parking lot and Uncle 274 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 1: Jerry's in his rabbit suit. Well, when the Stafford Police 275 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: Department shows up, they understood the situation. Jerry is stone 276 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,359 Speaker 1: cold sober. These two guys are drunk out of their 277 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 1: heads down in a headlock to keep them from hurting 278 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: anybody else. And there's Uncle Jerry in a rabbit suit. 279 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 1: So once the officers have ascertained that there's nothing really wrong, 280 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: they can't help but bust out laughing and ask if 281 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 1: they can have a photo of Uncle Jerry having apprehended 282 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,840 Speaker 1: them while in his rabbit suit. Now can you imagine 283 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: if that thing had gone very, very wrong and Jerry 284 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 1: had been to purp as opposed to the good guy 285 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: in his full on rabbit suit. And when I say 286 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: full on rabbit suit, let me make this weird. You 287 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: know the guy in the speedo on the beach who 288 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: comes up to you and he's talking in and you're like, 289 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: I can't look below your chest, dude, you're wearing a 290 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 1: speed of Well, he was wearing a slightly two tight 291 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: rabbit suit. Did I mention he's about six three two 292 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 1: seventy The rabbit suit was designed for a comfortable fit 293 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: for someone who was about six two to ten. So yeah, 294 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: it was the scene. It's one of my greatest Uncle 295 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 1: Jerry stories of all time. Anyway, So nobody goes to 296 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: the Christmas party looking to get into a fight, but 297 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: Tucker Lee Davis came in his Grinch outfit. And if 298 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 1: Tucker Lee is like most men, he's looking to have 299 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: his heart swell two sizes too big. Except alcohol was involved, 300 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: and I guess Tucker Lee is an angry drunk because 301 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: a hotel employee said that the Grinch was arguing with 302 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 1: the man in a plaid jacket. That's when a hotel employee, 303 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:59,400 Speaker 1: Jared Archibald, tried to intervene. When that happened, the reindeer 304 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 1: took our ball to the ground in a quote, This 305 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: is a witness account grappling style, and that's when Tucker Lee, 306 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: dressed as the Grinch, started to pummel the hotel employee 307 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: about the head and shoulders. When the authorities arrived and 308 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: asked who in the cindiloo who was responsible for the francas. 309 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 1: All fingers pointed to the man in green, the Grinch. 310 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 1: So the popo took Tucker Lee to the Travers County 311 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: jail and charged him with misdemeanor assault and battery. The 312 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 1: reindeer was not charged, and we hear at the Michael 313 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: Berry Show cannot talk about the Grinch without pulling from 314 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 1: the archive one of our favorites, a classic about our dear, 315 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: dear friend, the congress Woman Sheila Jackson Lee the Grinch. Hello, 316 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 1: this is Congresswoman Shilo Jackson Lee of the eighteenth Congressional 317 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:53,400 Speaker 1: District of Texas. 318 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,400 Speaker 5: You're a mean one, congress Jackson Lee. 319 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 10: Ury are a queen. You're as quiet as a riot. 320 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 10: You're as honest as you are Weave Jackson Please. 321 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:10,719 Speaker 5: It's okay. 322 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 10: You dress like every day is hollage. You're a foul one, 323 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 10: Jackson Lee. 324 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: Also want to get this big old gift. 325 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 10: Your pall see is jong Every scheme you devise, Michael 326 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:36,160 Speaker 10: Berry will debunk Jackson Lee. The three words that best 327 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 10: describe you are as follows and you quote frivolous. 328 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 1: Irresponsible, slap happy you've got the Michael Berry Show. A 329 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: visit from Saint Nicholas, or as you more commonly know it, 330 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:58,360 Speaker 1: the Night before Christmas and twas the Night before Christmas. 331 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 1: From its first line is a poem first poe. No, okay, 332 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 1: now you're interrupting. Okay, So the actual poem is called 333 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 1: a visit from Saint Nicholas. The first line of the 334 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: poem is twas the night before Christmas. It has come 335 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: to be known as twas the Night before Christmas or 336 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: the night before Christmas because people don't know how to 337 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 1: write twas, which is apostrophe, and then at twas, So 338 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: the actual name of it is a visit from Saint Okay, 339 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: all right, I will agree. Most people probably did not 340 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: know that. Yes, I will give you credit. Most people 341 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 1: probably did not know that, all right, So please don't interrupt. 342 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:48,479 Speaker 1: But you are right. That is okay, So well, all right, 343 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 1: then let me complicate the whole thing even worse. The 344 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,639 Speaker 1: original title was not a visit from Saint Nicholas. The 345 00:23:54,720 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: original title I believe was out of a visit from 346 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 1: Saint Nicholas, account of a visit from Saint Nicholas, and 347 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 1: it became a visit from Saint Nicholas or twas the 348 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 1: Night before Christmas, but I digress. It emerged in eighteen 349 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: twenty three. It was later attributed to Clement Clark Moore, 350 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 1: who fourteen years later would claim authorship. In eighteen thirty seven, 351 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 1: on the night of Christmas Eve, a family is settling 352 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: down to sleep when the father is disturbed by noises 353 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 1: on the lawn. Looking out the window, he sees Santi 354 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 1: Claus or Saint Nicholas in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. 355 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: After landing his sleigh on the roof, Santy Claus enters 356 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: the house by sliding down to chimney. He carries a 357 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 1: sack of toys, and the father watches his visitor deliver 358 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: presents and fill the stockings hanging by the fireplace, and 359 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:09,199 Speaker 1: laughs to himself. They share a conspiratorial moment before Santa 360 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: bounds up the chimney again. As he flies away, Santa 361 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:18,360 Speaker 1: Claus calls out Happy Christmas to all, and to all 362 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:25,400 Speaker 1: a good night. While this poem has been read by many, 363 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 1: maybe your mother or your father, your grandmother, your grandfather, 364 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: a school teacher. Maybe you've seen it read by a 365 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,640 Speaker 1: celebrity or a friend, But I don't know that there 366 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 1: is a better version than from the late Great Charlie Daniels. 367 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: We share it proudly with you now. 368 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 7: Twas a night before Christmas, and auf their of the house, 369 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 7: not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The 370 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,400 Speaker 7: stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes 371 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:03,640 Speaker 7: it satni lassoon would be there. The children were nestled 372 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,160 Speaker 7: all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar plums 373 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 7: danced in their heads. And Mom and her kerchief and 374 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 7: eye and my cap had just settled down for a 375 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,360 Speaker 7: long winter nap, when out on the lawn there rose 376 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,680 Speaker 7: such a clatter, and I sprang from my bed to 377 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 7: see what was the matter. Away to the window, I 378 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,399 Speaker 7: flew in a flash and tore open the shutter and 379 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 7: threw up the sash, and the moon on the breast 380 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 7: of the new fallen snow gave a luster of midday 381 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 7: to the objects below. Then what to my wondering eye 382 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 7: should appear but a miniature sleigh had eight tiny rein. 383 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,920 Speaker 12: Deer with a little old driver, so lively and quick, 384 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 12: and I knew in a moment that it must be 385 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 12: Saint Nick, more rapid than eagles as courser as they came, 386 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 12: and he whistled and shouted and called him by name, 387 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 12: now Dasher, now dancer, now Prancer, now vixen, on comet, 388 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 12: on Cuban, on donner, on blizen. 389 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 7: To the top of the porch, to the top of 390 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 7: the wall. Now dash away, dash away, dash away, all 391 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 7: as dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly when 392 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 7: they meet with an obstacle mountain to the sky, so 393 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 7: up to the housetop the Courser save flew with a 394 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 7: sleigh full of toys, and looked at Saint Nicholas too, 395 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,640 Speaker 7: And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof 396 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 7: the prancing and pawing of each little hoof, and I 397 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 7: drew in my head, and I was turning around and 398 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 7: down the chimney. Saint Nicholas came with a man. He 399 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 7: was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, 400 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 7: and his clothes were all tarnished and ashes and soot. 401 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 7: A bundle of toys that he hung on his back, 402 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,160 Speaker 7: and he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack. 403 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 7: His eyes high, they twinkled, his stemples, how merry. His 404 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 7: cheeks were like roses, and his nose like a cherry. 405 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 7: His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, 406 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 7: and the beard on his chin was as white as 407 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 7: the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight 408 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 7: in his teeth, and the smoking and circled his head 409 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 7: like a wreath. He had a broad face and a 410 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 7: little round belly that shook when he laughed, like a 411 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 7: bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump, all right, 412 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,879 Speaker 7: jolly old elf. And I laughed when I saw him 413 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 7: in spite of myself. A wink of his eye, a 414 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,440 Speaker 7: twist of his head. Soon he gave me to know 415 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 7: I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, 416 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 7: but went straight to his work and filled all the stockings. 417 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 7: And he turned with a jerk, laying his finger aside 418 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 7: of his nose, and giving a nod up the chimney. 419 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 7: He rose, He sprang to his sleigh, to his team, 420 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 7: gave a whistle, and away they all flew like the 421 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 7: dawn of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim before 422 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 7: he drove out of sight, Merry Christmas to all, and 423 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 7: to all a good night. I'm Charity Daniels. We all 424 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 7: know what Christmas is about. Twas the night before Christmas 425 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 7: is a fun poem, but it's really about the birth 426 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 7: of the savior man kind, Jesus Christ. We wish you 427 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 7: a very, very merry Christmas. Of all those folks, you 428 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 7: are Charity Daniels Band. 429 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 6: God bless you.