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Yeah. Hello again, everybody, and welcome to our 11th, 11th episode. That's two small little

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lines drawn perpendicular with one another. It's two ones. It's two ones. Yes, but they're ones

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together. Yes. Welcome to the 11th episode of Kamisa and Mark Bake a Podcast. I am Mark.

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And I'm Kamisa. If you haven't figured it out yet, we're near days away from,

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you know, Chris Kringle landing on roofs and coming down chimneys and all that fun and making

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Christmas what it is. Yes. And I am out for winter break. Yay. My 4am alarm has been silent. Yes,

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for two whole weeks it has been silenced. Yay. So that is her way of saying that she made it

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through the week without, how do we put it? Without any real problems. Incident. Without

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incident, without problems. I, the last three days were great. They were half days. My assistant and I

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watched Christmas specials while we did some end of semester paperwork. We cleaned up our classroom.

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Yes. Again, while watching Christmas specials. Well, what other way are you going to spend

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those last few days? I know, right? It was awesome. I know. My goodness. Yay.

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Yay. I, something tells me you're going to hear those bells a lot. So with that in mind,

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your week was spent trying to clear up everything before you went on break. I don't have such a

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such a lucky thing though. I do have to get a newspaper out two days next week, which, you know,

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two days is well, it's two days. That's all I could do. I got to do one today for Tuesday.

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And then one at the end of the week, which we normally do, Friday for Saturday. And guess what?

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We get the rinse, wash, repeat. All, you know, wash, rinse, repeat. We'll do that all over again

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next week. We have another paper out Monday for Tuesday and then Friday for Saturday. So

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it's a little bit of a break, but it's not really a break because I'm going to have to stay busy

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regardless of what is going on. We, you know, her last day was Friday.

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And we were hoping, hoping that everything would fall just right. And that she would be able to

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get out of there, come to Palatka and meet my photographer and I as we were all going down to

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Tampa for the gasparilla bowl between the Gators and Tulane. But that didn't quite happen like that.

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I made it down there. You made it down there, but you know, 20 minutes later than you should have.

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Well, we couldn't leave until all the kids had one bus driver. One bus driver. One bus was late.

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Yes. Because of all this consternation. Yes. One bus was late. So John and I are just like

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being very patient. Of course we were. And once she got there, we were off and running, but

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you know, we had to make a couple of stops along the way. I'll tell you what one of mine was later.

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But the other one was to get her food. See, John and I were going to get fed at the ball game,

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but not her because she was sitting in a stance. So we stopped off at the arches place.

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Yes. We went to McDonald's. That's right. And got her. Well, they were done with breakfast at that

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time. So a couple of cheeseburgers and some fries and yes, all was well in the world for her.

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We actually got there about, oh geez, we got there about 130.

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Yeah. Taking into account some traffic, but we did it. We got through. And lo and behold,

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John made his meeting at 230 before the game. And I got upstairs and I had 90, like 90 minutes to

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kill. It was great to go through the entranceway to, you know, get, not get padded down, but have to

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go through the security check and everything. And they said, where's your pass? I went, oh,

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I'm like, okay, point me in the direction of where I've had to go. It's like will call. So I had to

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walk almost back to where I crossed the street to go to will call where the media credentials were.

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So I got, I got my credential and I saw the same security guard like three times on the trip. And

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it's like, yeah, me again. Silly me forgot the credential. How dumb of I, but I got in, got

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upstairs. I'm familiar with with Raymond James stadiums press area. So I kind of have an idea

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of how all that works. But we had a lot of time to kill game kicked off at 330. They, they served us

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a box lunch, which wasn't bad. I was mine was a chicken Caesar wrap. So it was fine. They gave

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us that they gave us an apple chocolate chip cookies. And there was one other thing. Oh,

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I think it was Lay's potato chips. But, you know, I fed John was doing his thing down on the field.

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I was upstairs in the press box. And I swear to God, the first half of that game, if they were

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selling if they were giving us no dose at halftime, it might have helped six, nothing, yawn. But then

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something happened in the second half. Florida got things rolling. They figured out too late,

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what too late was doing defensively. And they were scoring. And they wound up winning the game

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33 to eight. They had a shutout until the last minute. But they won the game 33 to eight. She

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thankfully was around Gator fans. Well, the whole state will nearly the whole like 95% of the stadium

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was Gator fans. That's true. I mean, there was a product is one pocket over by the two lane

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sideline. That was all too late. You know, the Gator marching band is about 100 to 130 strong.

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I think the two lane marching band, which we saw before the game was 30 to 50 members.

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No, guys sitting next to me, he was like, Oh, yeah, their band came like all 25 of them.

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I thought it was a little more than that. But you get the point. It was like a lot to a little.

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Yeah. And they weren't too bad. No, no, neither bad. Of course, the Gator band sounds always fantastic.

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Of course. But the game itself, you know, Gators took command of that game in the third quarter,

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finally put some touchdowns together. And then the highlight for me, at least in this game,

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and I wrote about it'll be in Tuesday's paper. The highlight for me was big Desmond Watson.

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Yes, yes, yes. If you haven't seen this young man, he is a physical specimen.

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He is six foot five. Okay, that'll get your attention. He weighs 449 pounds. And you would think,

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Oh, okay, he just won big blob. No, he's not. He's actually kind of mobile. And yeah,

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he literally stopped Tulane's quarterback on a third one situation or third and two. I forgot the

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total of that particular play. He stopped them. Well, not only did he stop them, he picked them up

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and like put them right back down like a rag doll. John got a picture of a couple of pictures of him.

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The quarterback is like smiling because he knew once he ran into big Des, it was over. And he

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literally got picked up. It was part of a great defensive effort by the Gators. But late in that

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game, he got a chance to run the ball and found out from Coach Billy Napier that he had actually

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had a play planned throughout the season. If they got near the goal line in a situation,

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they were not going to hesitate and use him. But they never actually quite had that chance to do

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that in the later games against some of these teams they played. They were a big team, big play

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type team throughout most of the year. So they weren't near the goal line. But it was a fourth

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and one and it was at two lanes, 26 yard line. And she was probably part of the crowd that when

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they saw a big 21 come into the game, they were like cheering. I was like, yeah, give them the

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ball. Give them the ball. I mean, find out from DJ Lagway and Shamari Dakey, the wide receiver.

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They were rooting for him to get the ball. And sure as anything, the backup quarterback,

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Aiden Warner, handed the ball off to him and he plowed into that line. I mean, you got stopped

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immediately by how are you going to stop a six foot five, four hundred and forty nine pound guy?

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How? What what what means are you could try to stop this guy? But anyway, he made the one yard

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they needed and they were going to use them again. But they got down a little further and then it was

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a tone. Anthony Rubio, who finished everything off, I think it was a 19 yard run that finished the

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scoring off with a like two or three minutes left to go in the game. And if the name kind of

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sounds familiar, he's from the Miami area. His father is one of our senators, Marco Rubio. But

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but he he finished it off. They won 33 to eight. As I said, Florida had the shutout until the last

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minute. Tulane did score and they got the two point conversion. But you know,

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media, we were pretty much directed to just go to the press, you know, the area for where the

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press conferences were held at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium all year. Well, we were invited because

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for our press passes, we were allowed to come onto the field and watch some of the ceremony take

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place, including Coach Napier and getting interviewed and team getting the Gasparilla

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Bowl trophy, which kind of looked interesting. I can't say it was, you know, the most interesting

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trophy I've ever seen. But it was a treasure chest. It's interesting enough. Yeah. But they got to

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have some fun with that. And you know, we don't get to see that up close with these guys normally.

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But it was fun. It was a real thrill to be on that on that stadium turf over at Raymond James.

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And then we went inside and you know, these guys, you know, they brought Tulane's people in at first.

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And I asked Coach Someral, what happened in the second half? And he basically said, you know,

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they ran out of gas. And that was the best way of putting it, that they ran out of gas and Florida

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was making plays and just basically wearing them down. And he went for it a couple of times and

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he didn't make it. And, you know, they wanted to stay aggressive even in a low scoring game. But

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then he could see it nine, nothing turned to 16, nothing. And in turn to, what was it, 19, nothing

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in there, 26 to nothing. Yeah, it was awesome. For, yeah, for Gator fans, it certainly was. And

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then of course, Florida brought their bunch in. As I mentioned, Shamir Dike, quarterback DJ Langway,

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who was like DJ Langway was the MVP of the game, record 305 yards passing in that game. It was

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the sneakiest 305 yards. So you wouldn't have known he threw for 305 yards. And Coach Napier and

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big boy Desmond Watson. Now, Des, I found out is from Armwood High School, which is in the Tampa

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area in a town called Saffner. And they are a football, they are a football factory, if you

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will, they've won numerous titles over at Armwood. And find out that they coached Napier and the

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offense had a play for him that they've been saving up. And they, you know, I think it was the

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hawk, the hawk package named after his school nickname, the hawks at Armwood. So it was a lot

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of interesting, funny, let their, let them let their hair down a little bit instead of sounding

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so serious. And it was a lot of fun. We left almost immediately after the press conference,

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I'd already packed up and left and met John and of course, she's in the car because with the car

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turned on and the heat on, because it got cold as the night went on. It was very cold. But other

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than the fact it's cold, and I've come to the point now, every time, you know, the two times I've

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taken her with me to Raymond James Stadium, it's been cold. It's just been cold. So yeah, it was,

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how do you describe it? Look, I had a great time at the bowl game. This is my first bowl game ever.

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So I had a great time. I was cold. I mean, I had my fleece jacket, but I made sad choices with my

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pants and I wore capris because it had been, yeah, oops, because it had been like hot all week.

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Yeah, of course. So, you know, I was expecting it to be hot. And then as someone who was in

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menopause, I'm hot all the time. Yeah. But you know, I wasn't expecting it to be that cold on

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Friday. So yeah, I made sad choices. And so as soon as the game was over and they announced the MVP

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and they opened up the treasure chest, I walked as quickly as I could to the car.

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Yeah, she's been privy to cold weather. Last time was when the Jaguars played the box and

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fire the cannons. Oh my god. 30 times in that game. Yes. They fired, I guess, what was the cannons?

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They did fire the cannons, but it was only like, you know, when the Gator scored, they only fired at

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the one time. Instead of, you know, one cannon for each point, they just fired the cannon once.

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Yeah, yeah. So which was a lot better? Oh, sure. But it was, it was a lot of fun. And, you know,

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the Gators won. We left almost the three of us left immediately. I think we stopped once

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so we could get get her something to eat. I grabbed a sandwich from the same arches.

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Yes. And we got back probably right before quarter after 11. Yeah. Usually I would follow her back,

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but this week is all county football. And between that and doing pictures last night,

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it took me just around three hours to get things done. So, you know, now we're ready to roll with

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the all county teams, starting with football in our paper, the Plackadale News on Tuesday.

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So, yeah, after we got back to Palakka, I drove home. She drove home. So I got home about quarter

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to one. She slept a good amount of the way. I mean, I've been up since 345 that morning. Well,

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I didn't say you weren't allowed. Yeah, I know, but I'm just I'm just explaining to

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those people our audience that yeah, I'm a teacher and typically I am up at four. My alarm goes off

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at four a.m. But sometimes yeah, my body will just be like, Hey, get up. And so 345 Friday morning,

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my body was like, Hey, get up. Oh, yeah. So I got up. Yeah, well, you know, then, like I said,

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Saturday, I've spent busy trying to do busy work for beginning of this week. I slept. You slept.

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Well, day one of your vacation. Yes, I slept. And I watched TV most of the day. Yeah, we

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we have different types of jobs in that regard. So yeah, today, what do we do on Sunday? Oh,

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that's right. We went to, we're at the Wally World. We did some Christmas shopping. Yes. And yeah,

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I think practically all my Christmas shopping is done because I've done minus. Yeah. Now,

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just a matter of a few days and it'll be it'll be here Wednesday, which ironically is also the

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first day of Hanukkah. And the next day, first day of Kwanzaa. Yes. So all the holidays are

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happening one right on top of the other. It does. When's the last time that has happened?

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2005. Okay, we're Christmas Hanukkah. Well, Kwanzaa is always the 26. Yeah, I know. But

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it's been a while since it's all been in the same week. Yeah. Hanukkah was on Christmas,

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on the same day as Christmas is starting in 2005. So yeah, that was, I still remember that too,

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because my then living girlfriend and I were, we went to her brother's place. I think it was her

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brother's place. Yeah, we went to her brother's place on that particular day in Orange Park.

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And after we were done, we were hungry. So we stopped at a place. I'm not sure it still exists,

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but we went to Hooters because it was one of the very few places open on Christmas day. Yes,

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it still exists. Right in Orange Park, right there by the mall. Well, I don't know where in Orange

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Park. But it's at the mall. But yes, I'm sure Hooters still exists. I'm talking that one.

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Oh, I don't know about that one. That one. I don't care. Yeah. It's Hooters. I don't care.

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She's, yeah, don't bring up Hooters with her. Yeah. It's a long story. But we wound up having to

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eat. All I'm saying is there should be an equivalent restaurant. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're over here

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going like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just feel like there should be an equivalent restaurant

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where there should be some scantily clad men walking around serving us chicken wings.

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I know what you're saying. I'm sure somewhere, somewhere, somebody has come up with that idea

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and had it shot down because I don't understand why. That's the kind of country we live in,

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apparently. I don't know. Because I would patronize a restaurant where there were scantily clad men

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serving me chicken wings. Right. I get it. I mean, fine. If nobody's wanting to come up with it,

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I'll come up with it myself. Yeah. And we'll just call it ding dogs. There you go. She's got that

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name and everything already. Well, almost trademarked. Almost. We'll just call it ding dogs. There you

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go. Yeah. But that was, but that was the only place really that was open that night. And your

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girlfriend went for this. She liked the wings from there. We went to Hooters quite a bit back in the

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day. Whether it was that one, they had one open in St. Augustine for a time in the mid 2000s.

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Right there off of 312, almost right near the railroad tracks, right where the rail,

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right where trains go by. But yeah, that, that, that closed down almost immediately,

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like about two or three years later. So it didn't, didn't last. Let's put it that way. Just didn't last.

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Okay. But that was the last time that Christmas and Hanukkah were on the same, the same time. So

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I can remember that. You know, we talked a little about favored gifts that we have gotten. You had

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a story about, I think your favorite gift. Was it your favorite or the one you did not least liked?

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No, I had a story about my worst Christmas. All right. Yeah. I could, I could come,

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I could come up with my worst Christmas too. Okay. So, okay. So my worst Christmas. Oh my god.

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I was like 13. So it was like 1988. So, oh my god, this Christmas was horrible.

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Tell us more. Yes. Okay. So I had a quote unquote boyfriend.

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Yeah. You know, because I grew up in a very evangelical household. So, you know, girls having

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a quote unquote boyfriend was sinful and wrong. And you know, not at all normal. You know, boys

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having girlfriends were fine, but girls having a boyfriend, it was just wrong and evil and whatever.

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But yes, I am. Absolutely. I hear you. But yes, I had a boyfriend and he was in high school.

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Gotcha. Yes. And I was in eighth grade. So yeah. So yes, I had a boyfriend and you know,

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did you ever have to like sell fundraising items for your school? Yeah. You know, you had to sell

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like gift wrap that was like $30 and you get the $1.25 tree for a fraction of the cost.

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A fraction. Yeah. And like the quote unquote prizes that you can, that you can get for selling X

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amount of dollars of stuff that really wasn't worth crap. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Okay. So anyway,

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my boyfriend got me a bracelet that had a locket charm on it. Yeah. It was a heart shaped locket.

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And it had his picture inside the locket. And you know, 13 year old me who constantly read

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sweet Valley High books and sweet dream romances and wildfire romances. You know, this just,

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you know, that just excited my little heart. Oh sure. But of course, and then of course,

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you know, the bracelet wasn't worth a goddamn. Oh, pardon the language and we are going to have

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to flag this for being explicit. That's right. Yes. But the bracelet wasn't worth a fuck.

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We could use worse words, but we're not going to go. The bracelet wasn't worth anything,

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honestly. And I mean, you know, I had jewel, I've had jewelry, you know, a little cheap

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trinket jewelry, where you know, the gold plating rubbed off on your skin and stuff. So, you know,

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yes, the bracelet and the locket wasn't worth anything. But of course, my mom wouldn't let me

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keep it right because she said that he would expect things. Oh, okay. Yeah. And that that that

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insulted me because I was insulted because number one, my mom thinks I'm that fucking cheap.

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You know, my mom thinks I'm that cheap. Right. And then you know, number two,

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you know, seriously, right? It was just seriously. But anyway, the worst gift that was that was the

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worst part having to give it back. And then the second worst part was the gifts that I did get

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for Christmas. Oh, yeah. So I got a Sweet Valley High book. Okay. But it was the most boring Sweet

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Valley High book ever. Okay, how are they supposed to know that? Oh, they knew. It was so boring.

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It was like it was book 43, if I remember correctly, hard choice. 43. Yes, book 43,

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called hard choices. And it was about Enid, who is very boring. She's Elizabeth, who is also boring.

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Her best friend who once again is very boring. And her story was boring. Yeah. Yeah. And it was so

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boring. And I hated that book so much. I hated it. And then I also got book number 50, which was

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called, I think it was called Out of Reach. And it was slightly more interesting, but it was still

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very boring, because it wasn't about the Wakefield twins. More specifically, it wasn't about Jessica,

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who was my favorite twin. You know, because the books that that centered around them were so much

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more interesting. Jessica stealing somebody's boyfriend, Jessica being a bitch, you know, it's

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just those books were awesome. I didn't want to read a story about Enid. Right. I don't even have

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that book anymore, but it sucked. And it was just the worst Christmas. Well, tell me how you really

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felt about that. Geez. Anyway, I can't, I can only really think of like some of the best gifts

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I ever got my 10th birthday slash Christmas, because my birthday is a month before Christmas.

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But you know, we celebrated separately. Anyway, okay, good 1976. Okay. I got a calculator.

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I thought I was thought bomb when I got a calculator. I was fascinated by that stuff.

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Was it at least a scientific calculator? It was. Yeah. I mean, it was. Okay. So it was

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a science. It wasn't a fancy schmancy one. It was a basic one that, you know, was about the size of

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you know, a little bigger than an index card. Wait, so it was just a basic regular,

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regular calculator. Right. I was excited about that. You never understand. It wasn't at least a

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Texas instrument. It was. Okay, because Texas instruments, you know, that is like the goat.

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Absolutely. Of calculators. That is the goat. And then three years later, when I was in the eighth

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grade, I got a radio for for Christmas 1979. And it was one of those that like, it served multi

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purposes. It was like a weather detector type of radio station. It was AM, it was FM. It was

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multi purpose, but it didn't last more than about two or three years, unfortunately. Oh, no. That's

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sad. But I love that. I mean, I probably wore that thing out to death. One, my favorite gifts that

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my sister got. She got a light bright. You remember light bright. I had a light bright. Yeah. I did

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some really cool things with that light bright. I mean, I stole it from her. And yeah, I'm guilty.

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But that was that was the year before in 78. I had a light bright. It was cool. Yeah. Now,

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ask me how many times I got my butt beat for leaving the pegs on the floor and my dad stepped on

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numerous. Yes. Numerous. Numerous. We'll go there. Yeah, we'll go there. Yeah. Now every, you know,

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there's always, you know, a gift that we'll always remember now. Like I said, I got this. And of

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course, I always got various clothing. Yes. But I mean, it wasn't clothing my parents embarrassed

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me with. Okay. It was, you know, you know, jeans or or a sweater. Now, my favorite Christmas gift

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when I was a kid was that my maternal grandma took me to Macrae's. It's known as Belk now. Yeah. In

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the South. But back in the day, it was called Macrae's. And she took me there and let me get an

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outfit. Okay. And it was awesome. The favorite I got like a pair of jeans. I got one of those

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Coca Cola sweatshirts. You remember those? Oh, yeah. Yes, I got one of those. It was a periwinkle.

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Blue type. I love that sweatshirt. And I got a pair of Levi's. And but the most favorite part of

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the outfit. Yes, ma'am. I had a pair of hot pink. Mm. High top. Oh, my. Rebox. Oh, my God. You couldn't

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tell me nothing. Yeah, that that would top a lot. When I went back to junior high.

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After Christmas break, you couldn't tell me nothing. Oh, my God. In my Levi jeans, my Coca

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Cola sweatshirt and my hot pink high top rebox. Oh, wow. Yeah. And I know rebox are back. Right.

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And if I could, I would love to get another pair of hot pink high top rebox. Although I am almost

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pretty, pretty, pretty sure. Right. That my fat, barney rubble feet probably would not be able to

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get into them. Fat barney rubble feet. What makes you think Fred Flintstone's feet weren't fat?

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I mean, well, you know, Barney is short and stocky. And you know, I'm short and stocky.

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And yeah, I have stubby feet. So yeah, they I have Barney rubble feet. Okay. Point well taken.

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Go on. So, you know, I am hoping that Reebok makes wide whiffs now. Right. So I could get another pair.

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Well, the little things that make her happy, by the way. Yes. Yes. That would be one. Now,

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everybody has a Christmas story. And I'm sure there's I could tell you mine. Okay. And it is work

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related. Okay. Christmas Day 1988. I tell the story because the subject of the story is now the head

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wrestling coach at Rutgers University. Okay. Name is Scott Gooddale. Okay. We had a feature in my

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first newspaper, the Ocean County Observer, it was called Ocean's Own. He came out every Monday. It

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was a story featured an athlete who was doing things and was a major part of his team or whatever

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the case was. And yeah, we we would always spotlight him on the Monday's paper. Well,

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at this point, I was starting to do some of those feature stories 1988, as I said. And

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it was a weird week at our paper. We normally didn't have a Saturday paper. Okay. It would be on Sunday.

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But because Christmas was on a Sunday that year, 1988, we had a Saturday paper when we

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normally didn't. And we didn't have a Sunday paper. Oh, yeah, I do remember that. Yeah,

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that was part of that worst Christmas because we also had to go to church. Oh, yeah, on a Sunday.

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Yeah, of course, we had to go to church. That made it that dug the knife deeper.

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All right. But I had gotten the notes that I needed for this feature story. And we did this.

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I did this on, I think it was Friday, the 23rd. All right, we had these one system computers that,

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you know, they looked ancient, they were they were built in the either late 60s or early 70s.

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And we were still working with these things. Obviously, the idea was that it was supposed to,

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you know, save in after I typed in whatever. Okay. Yeah. Well, imagine my surprise when I

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get ready to do the story at what time was that I was I was I already planned on doing the story

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early that morning, because, you know, I was still living at home and my parents wanted to

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open up the the gifts for Christmas Day. Okay. So I leave here. I leave my home at about 645 in

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the morning. Okay. I know the story is going to take me about 45 minutes to write plenty of time

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to get back. I got into office come up to the second floor my office is and well, turn on the

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computer. The next thing I know, there's no notes. Something happened overnight. And the next thing I

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know, I have no notes. But all the notes that I taken on that Thursday, or Friday, I forget which

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day I did. I think it was Friday. They were gone. Just like that. They were gone. So I didn't have

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a whole lot of choices. It was 715 730 in the morning. Yeah, I call the Goodale house. Now,

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I was blessed in the fact that I had known the Goodale family for a number of years because

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I covered Little League. And the dad Jim was a manager of all star teams at Holbrook, which was

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in a section of Jackson. It was Holbrook Little League. So I call up. I get the mom. Sweet is

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anything. I explain the whole thing to Karen. That was the mom's name. And I said, Yeah, I need to do

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the interview all over again. Thankfully, I remember the questions. And I asked if Scott was up and

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Scott was a junior at the time at the high school. Okay. So and he was one of the top. He

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wound up going to States and he had a very successful career. So I call him up. Thankfully,

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I had his coach's notes who I'd known for a long time guy named Al Ayers. He was the wrestling

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coach at the time. And well, I was able to get him. And I said, Scott, you're not going to believe

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this. I lost the notes. I need to do the interview again. So he could have been nicer. We did this.

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It was about 15 minutes. I got the notes that I needed and printed them out immediately. And was

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able to write the story, got it done. And I got home about five to nine in the morning. Just in

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time for, I think it was WPLJ at the time was playing American Top 40 with shadow Stevens as

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the host. Because I always remember the first song that they played debuting at number 40 was Kiss

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by the Art of Noise featuring Tom Jones. So there's my story of Christmas almost, whoa,

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involving my job. I salvaged the day because I was dealing with the right family at the right time.

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That was 36 years ago. Yikes. I was much younger and

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anyway, I want to spend a little more time on this. Because we really didn't, we talked about some of

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the movies that we grew up with Christmas wise. Yes. And I don't think, I think we only scratched the

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surface. Okay. I think we really did. So we mentioned some movies, but there were others we

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didn't mention. And I'm going to mention a few right here. Okay. Elf, Will Ferrell and James Cahn.

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You know what? I did not like it when it first came out. Okay. But I think that was because

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Will Ferrell was everywhere at that time and it was just way too much for me. Right. But

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I watched it a few years ago and I like it. Okay. Yeah. I get melancholy about it because the late

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Bob Newhart was in that movie as well. Yes. And apparently, I don't know how true it is, but apparently

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Bob Newhart and Will Ferrell did not get along. Oh, no. Making that movie. I don't know if that's

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true or not. But yeah, that was that was a story. Or no. Oh, no, no, not Bob Newhart. I'm sorry. It

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was James Cahn. Oh, he seems like that type. Well, apparently he did not get along with him, whoever

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it was. Or there's with Will Ferrell or something like that. I don't know how true that is. But anyway,

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moving on. White Christmas or Holiday Inn, which is an old forties movie. Holiday Inn is the movie

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that gave us the hit White Christmas. Yes. Irving Berlin's White Christmas. Yes. But I don't know.

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I don't know how other than it's a wonderful life, I don't know how particular you are about the old

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black and white Christmas movies. It depends. Okay. I like them. I'm not saying I'm overly

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crazy about them, but I like them. Okay. All right. You mentioned the year without a Santa Claus last

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week. Yes. I'm team Heat Mizer. Yes. There's the Santa Claus with Tim Allen. We didn't really talk

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about that one. But it was an interesting movie. Do you ever see the Santa Claus? No, I have not.

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Really? Okay. I have Disney Plus. Okay. So anytime, any place. Yeah. The shop around the corner

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with Margaret Sullivan and Jimmy Storert. There's James Storert again. If you have a word crush,

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you're not alone. Al Allred Kralik and Clara Novak play two head buddy employees who become

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infatuated with their respective pen pals. Little do they know that their worst enemy is actually the

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love of their life. Wasn't that remade into a movie of a different name? It said you may also

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recognize this story as the plot of the musical She Loves Me. No. They're based on the same plane.

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No, but there's another movie that has the same premise with Tom Hanks. Oh, with Meg Ryan. Yes.

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But not sleepless in Seattle. No, it's not sleepless in Seattle. No. Yeah. I know. Was it you got

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mail? Yes. That's it. Okay. That's it. All right. The polar express. I like it. Okay. I mean, you

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know, when I taught in elementary school, that was always a staple of the last day. You know,

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the kids come to school in their pajamas. We serve hot cocoa. We show polar express. Yeah. Yeah.

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The Family Stone. Yes. Diane Keaton, Sarah Jessica Parker in this movie. Yes. Another big

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dysfunctional family holiday movie. I like those movies. If it could go wrong. Yeah. And yet,

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the Griswolds are like that with all the vacation films, but you didn't see. I haven't seen Christmas

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Vacation and I don't know why. But you know, Dr. Seuss is how the Grinch stole Christmas. Yes. The

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animated. The animated version of 1966 TV movie special. Yes. I love it. Yeah. It was fine. And

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they mentioned Santa Claus 2. Okay. I, you know, I've never really seen the Santa Claus. I've seen

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the first Santa Claus, but I've not seen the Santa Claus 2. I don't know why. Miracle on 34th

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Street. Okay. Which one? You forgot to mention that. Which one? You know, that's the thing. I'm not

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sure which one it was. Yeah. Gosh, which one was it? The original, the 1947. With Natalie Wood? With

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Natalie Wood. Yeah. Okay. I have a story about that. All right. Go on. So, okay. First time I

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ever saw this movie, I was in sixth grade. Yeah. Maddie Akin Elementary School. And it was the last

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day before Christmas break. Yeah. And they herded us all into the auditorium. Oh, okay. And you

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know how they had those big TVs on the, on the wheels. Yeah. Those big TV carts. Yes. So, you

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know, they wheel us into, they, they heard us into the auditorium like cattle and we had to sit on

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the floor and they wheel in the big TV and we watched, first thing we watched was Reading Rainbow.

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Oh. Yes. Okay. Because I guess they had to make it seem like they were actually teaching us something

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that day. So, we watched Reading Rainbow. And it was the episode where Abiyoyo was the book.

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Yeah. And they talked about music and you know, Run DMC came on and they did a quick rap.

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Oh, was it Christmas in Hollis or no? No, they didn't do that. But no, it was just a regular

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episode. But you know, Run DMC came on talking about how reading is cool. And you know, reading

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makes you smart. Right. So, you know, that validated me a lot. But then afterward,

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uh-huh, they dimmed the lights and they showed us Miracle on 34th Street. My gosh. And I was like,

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yay! Because you know, it's kind of skeptical at first. But you know, but as the movie went on,

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you know, I was like, yay! Yay! This is great! Yay! Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. So, that's my story

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about having seen that. But I thought it was the best movie. Okay. Okay. I'm down with it. Then,

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of course, they mentioned Holiday Inn, which we mentioned before. Yes. It's a Wonderful Life,

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which we talked about last week. Jack Frost. Okay. Now, is that the one where dad is dead

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and he comes back as a snowman? Yeah. So, he has a second chance with his son. Okay. Yeah.

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Yeah. That was with Michael Keaton in that, in the starring role of that movie. Okay. I'll be

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home for Christmas, which is a Disney comedy, starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas from Home Improvement

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fame. Yeah. After being ditched in the desert in a Santa suit without any ID or money, he experiences

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all the trials and tribulations of holiday travel or learning the deeper meaning of love, family,

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and gratitude. He must have come from the stuffy family. I guess. Yeah. How the Grinch stole

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Christmas, the Jim Carrey version, which I've never really seen. I saw it. I'm not sure I can

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see it after seeing the animated movie. Yeah. Yeah. I have a hard time with that. Yeah. Frosty's

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Winter Wonderland. Oh, I love that one. That's the one where Frosty gets married to Crystal,

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the Snow Lady, and Andy Griffith was in it. I think we talked about it a little bit last week.

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I think that's what we did. Fred Claus, Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti. I believe this is where

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old St. Nick gets sick and they need somebody to take over for him and they find Fred.

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Yeah. Father St. Nick is an all too reliable dad who must deal with the constant bickering

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while also proceeding with diligent Christmas duties. I think he had to pinch it for Santa that

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time. Okay. For Christmas, again, Vince Vaughn, but with Reese Witherspoon. It's a rom-com.

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I think I've seen that once. The Family Man, which I saw when I was living in Key West in 2000,

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starring Nicholas Cage and Taylor Leone. Now, is that the one where he's like this horrible

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businessman? He's a car dealer. Okay. Yeah. And he has to reconsider his life choices.

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And watch Cold Wall Street. Okay. You're right. He was a Wall Street executive. I thought he played

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a car dealer guy, but named Jack. He time travels to the past where he lives in an alternate life

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with his college sweetheart and learns about the life he could have had. Yes. Yeah. The apartment.

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Now, they list the apartment. I don't know if the apartment for whatever's sake is a Christmas.

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Well, it's considered that because remember, okay, so you would recognize the apartment as the musical

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promises. Promises promises. Okay. Now, do you remember when we saw my coworker in promises

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promises? In a little playhouse thing in Orange Park. Yes. Okay. So do you remember there was

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one part where there was an office Christmas party? Yes. I do. Yes. And highly, it scored the Oscars

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for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Jack Lemon was in the role as the

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hardworking office employee. Christmas with the cranks. Again, Tim Allen wasn't that based on

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a John Grisham novel novella? But this is where the family is gone for the week or whatever. And

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the Cronks all go to a Caribbean cruise. However, the annual street decoration competition is

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a surprise visit may get the in the way of their getaway plans. Your friends and family are bound

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to get a hoot out of all of the cheesy jokes. Best Man Holiday. I love that. I figured you know this

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one. It was a sequel to the Best Man. Yeah. Was that Tay Diggs? Yes. Okay. I'm showing her a picture

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right now. Do you who is in that? Okay. Oh, yes. And it's like all the black people. So it was like

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Terrence Howard. Okay. I thought that was Terrence Howard. Yes. It was Terrence Howard. And I want

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to say I think Neil Long was in it. Okay. And oh my God, I can't remember who else was I know

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Tay Diggs was in it. Morris Chestnut was in it. Okay. It was so good. Christmas in Connecticut.

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Love's in the air in this romantic drama. Journalist Elizabeth Lane claims to be a famous food

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writer but the truth unravels when war hero Jefferson Jones is sent to spend the holiday

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with her family for some bucolic and rural recuperation. Scrooged. We didn't talk much about

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Scrooged. No, but I love I love Scrooge. Yeah. I loved Scrooge. It was good. Yeah. We I

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Bill Murray could play almost any character and do it well. I mean, think about it. He earned an

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Oscar nomination as an actor as a long suffering actor who's in Japan doing commercials and whatever

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to do promotion for his latest product in the Sophie, Sophie Coppola, Sophia Coppola

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movie Lost in Translation. Yes. I love that movie by the way. Yes. Beethoven's Christmas Adventure

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but it came back to Bill Murray. Yeah. He was he was great at Scrooge. Yes. And honestly, I love

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a Christmas Carol. Yeah. So I love any movie that is a variation of a Christmas Carol because

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there's one with Susan Lucci called Ebby. Yeah. Where she plays a mean business lady. Yeah. And

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there's also one with the late great Cicely Tyson. I forgot what that one was called but she also does

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a female Scrooge which was also awesome. Yeah. Babes in Toyland. I have heard of it but I've never

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seen it. The Annette Funicello version of Disney. What else? Arthur Christmas.

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You know, I've never seen Arthur Christmas. A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey. I have not seen

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that one. My favorite version of Christmas Carol is the one. Yeah. The one is two of them that I love.

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It's the one with Patrick Stewart. Yeah. And the one with George C. Scott. Yeah. I'm going to mention

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just a couple more. Okay. Bad Santa. Oh, I love Bad Santa. I don't know and we were talking about

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this earlier. I don't know if anybody else could have played the role of Bad Santa other than Billy

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Bob Thornton because he was just hilarious in that role. I don't know about you but I thought he was

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just tremendous. Oh, here we are. The Muppet Christmas Carol. Yes. I also love that one. Yes.

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Michael Cain in the 1992. White Therese, not the Rat. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Oh, you know,

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I love that one because you know, we usually watch it and make fun of stuff in it. Yeah.

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A diva's Christmas Carol. Oh my God. That is my absolute favorite. No, you love the Christmas

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story. Yes, I know. But all the Christmas Carol variations. A diva's Christmas Carol is my absolute

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favorite. And it's Vanessa Williams playing Scrooge. Yes. I loved her in that. I love her so much.

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Oh, here's another we talked about earlier. Jingle All the Way. Now, is that the one with

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Arnold Schwarzenegger? It's in Bad. I believe that that is true. Yes. And they're trying to,

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Arnold Schwarzenegger did another one of those Christmas movies, I believe, with Matthew Broderick.

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I was not Jingle All the Way. Oh, I forgot what it was. Oh my God. I can't remember the name of the

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darn movie. But yeah, they, Jingle All the Way was that movie with Sinbad and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Yes. And they were fighting over a toy. Yes. That was it. Little Women. I would not consider that a

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Christmas movie. Yeah. A lot of people consider this a Christmas movie, even though only parts of it

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take place during the holiday season. Yes. But I grow and growing up, having been made to read

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Little Women. Yeah. And I did enjoy the book. Mm hmm. Oh, Joye, Joye, Joye, Joye. Well, that's

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French. Yes. From Merry Christmas. Yeah. It's 1914 Christmas truce held in the trenches when the

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Germans and the French stopped and they met in No Man's Land and I believe it was Silent Night

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that they sang. Okay. Yeah. It was emulated in the music video for Paul McCartney in 1984 called

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Pipes of Peace. It's a great, it was a great piece of work. Okay. Home Alone 2. Santa Claus Conquers

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the Martians. I think that's better viewed if you go on Rift Tracks. Okay. Olive the Other Reindeer.

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Oh, when I talked pre-K, I read that book to my class. I love that. I love the Other Reindeer.

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So I've never seen it. What? Or... So it's about a reindeer named Olive. All right. And she mistakenly

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thinks that Santa has called her to come help. Oh, no. Yes. And she goes on this adventure to get

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to the North Pole. It's nice. Okay. It's nice. It's different. It's different. It's funny. It's nice.

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Unlike Rudolph who was mocked and all that stuff and the Nightmare Before Christmas, which is a

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weird movie, and Rent filmed live on Broadway. Okay. I do not consider Rent a Christmas movie. Yeah.

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But considering that it starts and ends at Christmas time. Okay. I can see why. All right.

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But yes, Rent is one of my favorite musicals because of course I am a big theater nerd. You are.

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And if I had gone to a high school that emphasized the arts instead of sports,

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I probably would have been a theater kid. Yeah. But we mentioned the Nightmare Before

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Christmas, which Tim Burton's movie. Yes. And it came out during the holidays. But I never really

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identified it as a Christmas movie. And actually when I hear Nightmare Before Christmas, I just

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think about that cutaway gag on Family Guy. Oh, no. Where they talk about Jack Skellington's

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Forfeb, the night, the Fourth of July Nightmare or something. But they're singing spooky weirdness,

448
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la la la. And they're singing about presidents being dead and patriotic weirdness. And it's

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funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. Yeah. I will show you the YouTube clip later. All right.

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One last film we got to mention. Okay. And it is one that she saw earlier today. She literally saw

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this. My sister brought it up and said, how did you not mention this last week? Emmett Otter's

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Jug Band Christmas. You know what? Yes, I did see it for the very first time earlier today.

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By the way, it came out in 1977. Okay. Did it come out on regular TV? It was on, yes, it was on HBO.

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That's not regular TV. Okay. But it was on TV nonetheless. Yes. But it was HBO. Right. My

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family didn't have HBO. I'm sorry. Do you know what the church I grew up in called HBO? Go on.

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Hellbox Office. So yeah, so it was no way in the world. I would have seen that as a kid.

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But you finally did. Yes. You know, because it was on YouTube. So you know, bless the people that

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upload these old school things to YouTube so that people like me who were denied these simple

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pleasures as a child can enjoy them as an adult. That's true. And I did see it today. It is a very

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sweet, very wonderful story about a single mom who wants nothing more than to give her kid

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a nice Christmas gift and about a hardworking son who wants to give his hardworking single mom

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a nice Christmas gift. So it has like the magic of the Muppets with the gift of the Magi.

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But it was awesome. I absolutely loved it. All right. So I don't know if we covered all the bases,

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but we covered a good amount of them. Let's put it that way. So we don't have to worry about that

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until next year. Okay. I got not one. Not one, everybody, but two trivia questions today. Okay.

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And they're both Christmas based. So let's see how good you are. All right. Question number one,

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in the 1964 movie Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, which you had mentioned, yes,

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what was the name of Rudolph's elf friend? Oh, come on. Don't answer it. Let others figure that out.

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And we'll give you the answer in a moment. But I got good news. I got good news. I'm sorry,

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you had to wait almost an hour, but I got good news for you. Well, it's kind of really, really good

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news, but it's not complete yet. And there's a caveat to this. Okay. Remember, I did the radio

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show on Thanksgiving? Yes. Well, the ratings went through the roof. All right. No, no, they didn't.

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I'm just picking that last part up. But I'm gotten the okay to do a trial run of a radio show that

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I've been thinking about doing for well over a year. And now I'm going to at least do the,

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the, you know, the trial run of it. It is in, it is called the top 20 countdown. And it's looking

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back at a certain year of the week that we do the show. Like for instance, the trial run show

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will run on, we're going to do that show on the radio station in my town WPLK AM and FM.

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And we're going to be doing that from 10am to noon next Saturday. It is the countdown.

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This Saturday, like the 28th. Okay. So that's this Saturday. This Saturday, folks. This Saturday.

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And I'm inviting everybody to listen in, whether it is on the radio station. WPLK is 98.3 FM or

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AM side, it is 800. I mean, well, I guess it's better that you do it here because I try to boost

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you up on Facebook. And Facebook sent me a nice nasty message saying that I was spamming people.

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That might be a problem. And even if you didn't mean it, that, that, yeah, they're very, very tight

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about that stuff. No, they're very tight about certain things. Yeah. But it is a, it is an old

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e-show. It basically, we're going to be countdown to the top 20 songs. Our trial run show will be

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for December 28, 1969. That will be the date. December 28, 1969. We're going to start at 10am

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on WPLK. You can listen on the AM or the FM if you're close by to where the station is based in.

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But if you're not, and you're listening out there and you're far away, you could go two

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different directions on this. You could go to the website where the station is located, which is

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Bass Capital Radio. B-A-S-S-C-A-P-I-T-A-L-R-A-D-I-O. BassCapitalRadio.com. You have a choice of two

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radio stations. W-I-Y-D is the country station. WPLK is the oldest station. You've got to hit WPLK.

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You'll hear the show. Also, thanks to a high school classmate of mine who showed me this about

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three years ago, you could go to Radio.Garden as in how does your garden grow or vegetable garden.

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You get the idea. Radio.Garden and the search box just type in WPLK. It'll come up with that as well.

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So you have two ways, you have four ways to listen to the show. And I invite you to listen to the

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show. We're going to be counting down the 20 biggest songs on the, according to the Billboard

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Out hundred chart from December 28, 1969. Now here's where the caveat is thrown in. I'm going to need

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your help. If I don't get the sponsorship, you know, like commercials and whatever to back this up,

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I don't have a show. And that's what I need more than anything else. I need about two or three,

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at least sponsors to start with. Now, pipe dream would be four or five, but I would like to bring

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people in and give them the same kind of show every week. We want to bring you in. We want to,

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you know, pimp up your business, whatever the case may be. I want us to have a good show. And I

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want us for you to succeed as a business out there. So I invite everybody who has a business,

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you know, especially in Putnam County, in St. John's County, or in Flagler County,

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01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:28,080
or in areas nearby, if you're listening to this podcast in Jacksonville, hey, go for it. I have

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no problem with it. We're trying to get sponsorship. So we could do this show again. And I have my

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next show planned for January 11th. And I will let you know how that's going. But if you are

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interested now in being a sponsor, you could do so by getting my email address, which is

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Marky B, M-A-R-K-Y-B-E-E, as in Bumblebee, MarkyB1966 at gmail.com. Again, MarkyB1966

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at gmail.com. I'm excited about doing this show. As a matter of fact, when I was coming to her place

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on Sunday, I was really thinking, I was doing the show in my head. I was literally doing a show in

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my head. I was having a good time doing that. But that is what we're planning to do. Now,

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if we get the okay, if we get the sponsorship and everything turns out fine, we will have another show.

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We will start doing the show regularly on January 11th. But that's up to the people helping in

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sponsoring the show. Because that's a big deal too. And we want to bring, as I said, bring people in.

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And help sponsor the show. And it'll get a lot of listeners ears to probably patronize the business.

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So it is important that we do that. I want to do that. And hopefully you will be out there trying to

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help us listen to the show. You be the judge of whether we've got a good show to advertise,

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or just a good show to listen to. Okay. Let me know one way or the other. And hopefully,

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you know, this Saturday 10am on WPLK AM and FM, it turns out fine. Okay. So I'm excited.

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Ready to go. All the songs in the top 20 I found out is are in our PLK library. I'm excited about

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that. So I don't have to download anything extra other than some bonus songs. And again, inviting

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you all to listen 10am Eastern time, Saturday, December 28th. Okay. So right after the Christmas

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break. All right, trivia time. We asked the question before in the 1964 movie Rudolph the Red

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Nose Reindeer. What was the name of Rudolph's elf friend? Go on. You know the answer. His name was

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Hermie. He was very much so Hermie. He wanted to be a dentist. I was going to say that was the

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next part of the question. And then the hand elf was hating on him. I know. Because I'm like,

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okay, but my thing is why are you hating on him? Right. Y'all need healthcare at the North Pole.

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Y'all are elves. Y'all don't eat nothing but candy canes and cookies. Y'all ain't got no tea.

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I think it was pointed out in that movie too. Yes. Y'all need a dentist. I don't know why

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y'all was hating on Hermie. Right. No, no, I hate. I'm with you there. Why was y'all hating on him?

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All right. I said we had a second trivia question. It involves Christmas. Yes. All right. Think hard

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about this one. Okay. What popular Christmas song was actually written for Thanksgiving?

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Let you think about that for a second. What popular Christmas song was actually written

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for Thanksgiving? You wouldn't think this. No, but what is it? It is one of the very most popular

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songs involves a sleigh. Is it Jingle Bells? It is Jingle Bells. Okay. Seriously? Yeah. I'm serious.

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I don't know the backstory about it, but it was one of the trivia questions that I was looking at

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before we started doing this podcast. Yeah. What was it? Jingle Bells was originally supposed to be

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for Thanksgiving now. I don't understand the correlation, but I got to go with it. That's

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weird. That's what it said. That's strictly basing this on. Yeah, this is how it happened. So,

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yeah, it is Jingle Bells. I know you're trying to figure it out. You're singing it. I could see it

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now. You're singing it in your head and you're trying to figure out, well, where's the Thanksgiving

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part? Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out. Where is the Thanksgiving in that? Yeah, but

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it was originally written for Thanksgiving. Who knew? All right. We always close the show out

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with the top six songs from the Billboard Hot 100, but we're not doing that this week. It is

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Christmas week. Okay. When I used to have a regular gig at WPLK, my next to last week in 2020 on that

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show, I did a countdown, a top 40 countdown of the best Christmas songs. Now, a lot of it was

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popular. A lot of it was my, quite a bit of it was my opinion, but we could debate this all day

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long. Okay. I know you probably have a list in your head of what was your top six, but this is

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what I counted down as number six through one the week before my last show on New

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Year's Day 2021. I mean, so this was the countdown show and this was number six.

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The song that has raised millions and millions of dollars for the hungry in Africa.

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I think you know the song. Okay. Do they know it's Christmas?

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Do they know it's Christmas by Band-Aid. Okay. Of course, it was a month at that time until

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Elton John's Candle in the Wind 1997. It was the biggest selling single in British chart history.

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Written, of course, by Sir Bob Geldof and by

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Mid-Jour of the Band Ultravox. But yeah, that was, it brought in some of the big stars of the time,

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Boy George, Paul Young, the late George Michael, Simon LeBon, Sting, Bono of U2.

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They were the main lead singers on that record and again, raised millions of dollars to help

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combat famine in Africa, especially in Ethiopia. There was an ABC documentary on this in 1982

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that they were watching. Okay. And Sir Bob Geldof was watching and yeah, that he was inspired

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to do this. And of course, all those records that were made, of course, We Are the World,

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Tears Are Not Enough, which was the Canadian answer to all this. And then of course, Live Aid

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comes about because of Band-Aid and because of that one simple recording session. So that was

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number six on my list. Now, number five is a song that first became famous by Bobby Helms in 1957.

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Darrell Hall and John Oates did a version of it in 1982. And it is just one of the catchiest tunes

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of all time at Christmas time, Jingle Bell Rock. Okay. Love it. You love it, of course.

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It is just a catchy tune. It is just really, really, and of course, it's played a lot at

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Christmas time. So why not? Okay. Number four is a song that was actually composed. And I'm not

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kidding about this story. Written by Mel Tormey. He wrote this song about the holidays and winter time

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while he was sitting at the poolside in Beverly Hills, or was it Beverly Hills? The town I'm

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thinking of. Palm Springs in California. He was just sitting there. And he wrote this song.

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He wrote the first lines, chestnuts roasting on an open fire, jackfros nibbling at your nose.

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You couldn't do that under those circumstances anywhere, but he did. Okay. Of course, you know

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that as the Christmas song. Yes. The most famous version of, you know, numerous people did it.

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Yes. But the most famous, I think we agree, Nat King Cole. Yes. That man just had a velvety voice.

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Yes. Number three is a song that last year hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. And when it

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happened, this woman who was 79 years old became the oldest artist in history to have a number one

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hit. Of course, but people don't know us that she recorded the song in 1959 when she was all of 14

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years old. And what a lot of other people don't know is that it's one of 15 official state songs

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for Tennessee. Yeah, that's wild in its own right. The song, of course, by a woman who had

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many, many hits as a teenager. I'm sorry. I want to be wanted. Break it to me gently.

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Just to name a few. Sweet nothings. Of course, I'm talking about Brenda Lee. Yes. Who's actually

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from Georgia. And her song at number three, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree. PBS recently

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did a documentary about her. And I'm almost certain that that was a fantastic one. I have not

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watched it. I have to, I'll have to watch it on my PBS app. And number two, until about a few years

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ago, it would be easy to say, well, you know, yeah, it's the king. It's the boss. But the truth

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of the matter is it was the boss until, like I said, a few just like four or five years ago.

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We've mentioned the movie that it's from, Holiday Inn. And you could go back all the way. This song

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was recorded in 1942. 1942, everybody. And it has lasted generations, 82 years, four generations.

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Actually more than that. Five generations. You believe that? Five generations. And it is still

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one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time. Written by Irving Berlin, sung by Bing

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Crosby. Of course, White Christmas. Okay. I mean, there's no denying that. We could be, we could go

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another 100 years. We could be long gone. And that song will still, still be popular to this day.

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I'm almost guaranteeing you that. But I said that that was the biggest Christmas song of all time

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until a few years ago, when this song made history. It was recorded in 1994 for this woman's Christmas

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album. And back then her co-writer, Walter Afanasyev, said, why are we doing this? Usually when you

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make an Al Christmas album, it is like the kiss of death. It is like the kiss of death. It basically

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signals to your fans, I got nothing left. Christmas albums are all I'm left with. But she was at her

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highest of high points. And they wrote this song. She has even said that she was inspired by the

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Phil Spector sound. And Darling Love's amazing version of Baby, Please Come Home. Yes. Which

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Darling Love did for years on the Late Show with David Letterman. And she just recently did with

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Jimmy Fallon. Yeah. Yeah. And Darling Love is in her early 80s. And she is still rocking out for that song.

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Yeah, I showed you the one she did on SNL like a year or so ago. Yeah. Oh my God. That's,

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yes. There are moments I have to leave that room because it is one of my all time favorite Christmas

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songs. And I'm going to be like a three year old just weeping because I love that song so much.

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But that was one of the inspirations of that song, this song. It came out in 1994, hit some

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various top 40 radio charts. But Billboard Magazine changed the chartology or their method,

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methodology of how they bring in the hits. And they finally in like 2017 allowed Christmas

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songs to be a part of the Billboard Hot 100. Yes. This song has been number one, I believe, five

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times since then. It wasn't last year, but it just went back to number one this year.

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A woman who has 19 number one hits to her credit, including this one. But this song is the true

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standard now of what Christmas greatness is all about. Some people love this song. Some people

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don't love it, but I totally love this song. Number one, Mariah Carey. Yes. All I want for Christmas

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is I have her Christmas album. I did too. I was dating. I have it on vinyl. I was dating a woman

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whose mom sadly passed away three months later from cancer. She got me the cassette of Mariah Carey's

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Christmas and I wore that song out. I love that song. But yeah. Yeah, that was number one on my

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list. I think I probably shocked a lot of radio listeners expecting white Christmas. Sorry. Sorry.

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No, this is the standard now. All I want for Christmas is you by Mariah Carey. Number one.

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We made it. Very extended long podcast, but we made it. Well, it is Christmas. It is Christmas.

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And next week we'll recap Christmas, whatever we did. And we're going to review 2024. It's that

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moment, everybody. It's that time, everybody, where we look back on the year gone by. It was

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an interesting year to say the least for both of us. But look forward to 2025. So that's it for now.

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And don't forget, I got a radio show this coming Saturday on WPLK, AM and FM. You can listen

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locally. You can also listen to the show on Bass Capital Radio.com. Hit WPLK. You'll listen to

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it there. Or radio.garden. Hit WPLK. That's winner Paul, what would that be? Losing. Okay, let's try

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this again. Winner Paul losing and what would the KB? Knowledge? Something like that. I was never

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big on the Army, whatever that is, the Whiskey Tango, whatever. Yeah, you know what I'm talking

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about. Yes, I've never been on top of that. So it's WPLK. Just type that on radio.garden and

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you'll hear it that way. But I'm looking for sponsorship. That's the most important thing.

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I'll let you know how we did. Hopefully you'll listen for yourselves. But that's it.

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We just made it and we did it. I am Mark. And I'm Camisa.

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And we just made a podcast, everybody. See you back here in seven days. Merry Christmas to all.

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Happy Hanukkah and happy Kwanzaa. Yes, happy merry everybody. Merry everything. There you go.

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Until next week. Seven days from now, we'll reconvene and we'll do this all over again. So until then,

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bye. Bye.