1828 - "No Agenda Christmas 2025"

Speaker 1 Adam Curry, John C.

Speaker 2 Dvorak.

Speaker 3 It's Thursday, December 25th, 2025.

Speaker 5 This is your award-winning Give One Nation Media Assassination, episode 18, 28.

Speaker 2 This is No Agenda.

Speaker 1 Jolly and Merry, and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Snow Country here in FIBA region number six. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.

Speaker 2 And from Northern Silicon Valley, where everybody wishes you a happy Christmas. I'm John C.
Dvorak.

Speaker 1 It's Craig Bottom Buzzkill in the morning.

Speaker 1 So that seems to be a thing. People are saying Happy Christmas, like you just said.
What happened to Merry Christmas? What's wrong with Happy Christmas? Well, there's nothing wrong with it.

Speaker 1 It just, it seems, uh,

Speaker 1 it seems like not the thing. We used to say Merry Christmas, then it became Happy Holidays.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so now they've combined the two.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 All the liberals around here are saying Merry Holidays.

Speaker 1 No, no. Yeah.
Really?

Speaker 1 Merry Merry holidays.

Speaker 2 Merry holidays.

Speaker 1 That is so wrong on so many levels. So happy Christmas.

Speaker 1 Merry holidays. Well, here we are.

Speaker 1 It is Christmas. Merry Christmas.
Merry holidays. Happy Christmas.
And all that, everybody. And we are not really here, which is a, is this the first time we haven't done it on Christmas?

Speaker 2 Well, we don't have, I mean, there's only been

Speaker 2 four Christmas shows, maybe five.

Speaker 2 So yes, it is, as a matter of fact. We normally always do it.

Speaker 2 You have family in town. Yes.
And it would seem more

Speaker 1 family-friendly. Family-friendly.

Speaker 2 Wiser

Speaker 1 not to have, hey,

Speaker 1 you were working there my whole childhood, and now you're still doing it, you douchebag. That's what I would have gotten.

Speaker 2 And rightly so.

Speaker 1 Yes, exactly. So it's highly appreciated.
We do, however, on the brink, have a best of Christmas show, which Sir Donald Winkler put together for us.

Speaker 1 You know, whenever you put out the call, this is interesting kind of in the dynamics of podcast listening.

Speaker 1 A couple days, like maybe three days later, people are like, oh, yeah, I just heard your call out.

Speaker 1 You know, because

Speaker 1 you expect this, like, hey, I said this on Thursday. You should be telling me on Thursday.
It just doesn't work that way. That'll be the day.
It doesn't work that way. So also got Professor

Speaker 1 The professor from china he did he actually did another exit strategies part two so we have that one in the can because i'm sure something else will come up eventually in our life so we appreciate oh yeah he's good yeah he did he did it he did a good uh did he do the first exit strategies i think he did i don't i don't remember

Speaker 1 and uh so merry christmas john are you celebrating today no of course not we're gonna put it off uh

Speaker 2 there's a lot of good reasons for this what are the reasons this year Well, there's always the same reasons. One, traveling during the holidays.

Speaker 2 If you're going to travel, you want to,

Speaker 2 why does everyone want to travel on the same day? There's like the same thing with Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 Oh, the world's worst travel day.

Speaker 2 Let's travel then.

Speaker 2 Let's travel on that day. There's a good idea.
When you can easily just offset it a day or two.

Speaker 2 What's the symbolism of having the turkey on Thanksgiving as opposed to the next day or say Saturday?

Speaker 2 And then the other thing is

Speaker 2 you can get everything on sale.

Speaker 2 Yes. And since the algos are going to be looking at me for everything I do, and they're going to overcharge me for everything that I buy now based on dynamic pricing,

Speaker 2 I will be able to

Speaker 2 get everything cheaper because they're going to look, oh, this guy, he's not paying that. He'll pay lower.

Speaker 1 Wait a minute.

Speaker 1 It's not dynamic pricing. What was it called again?

Speaker 2 Dynamic's the old one. The old idea is dynamic.

Speaker 1 That's the old one. It was something.

Speaker 2 Surveillance pricing. Surveillance pricing.

Speaker 1 There you go. That's it.

Speaker 2 Nailed it. You're going to surveil me and they're going to say, wow.

Speaker 1 So, Sir Donald Winkler put together, I would say, a rather positive show.

Speaker 1 I know he must have searched for a long time, but he put together a very positive show, positive Christmases from No Agenda Christmases Past.

Speaker 1 And he also put some, you know, he added in some Christmas end of show mixes, created his own with Suno, of course, so we can have some, everybody can hate on AI during this happy season.

Speaker 1 The thing that I was listening to it, because, you know, this includes stuff from way back and just multiple Christmases. Holy cow, the cussing I do is off the hook.

Speaker 1 It's really, it's, it's cringy.

Speaker 9 Well,

Speaker 2 well, not as well, if you go back far enough, yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, I don't have to go back that far. Four years, five years.

Speaker 2 Well, good. I'm glad you noticed.

Speaker 1 Everyone's so happy that you've taken over that role for me in the middle of the day.

Speaker 2 Yes, because yes, I have. I do it less.

Speaker 2 But when I do it, they're always impactful, I believe.

Speaker 1 Yes, it's super impactful.

Speaker 2 So I'm not just, you know, the problem with people cussing is, as we know, because we listen to all these podcasts,

Speaker 2 is the gratuitous just, you know, F this, F, that, F, this, F, the F and this, the F and that.

Speaker 2 There's no impact there. It's just a filler word.

Speaker 2 And filler word cussing is

Speaker 2 what gets cringy.

Speaker 1 Well, that's what you're going to hear because when you put it all together, it gets really cringy. So here it is.
Part one. We'll be back in about an hour or so.

Speaker 1 Sir Donald Winkler's No Agenda Christmas special.

Speaker 3 A Merry No Agenda Christmas,

Speaker 10 John and Adam

Speaker 10 to all the producers and douchebags of Gidmon Nation,

Speaker 11 hallelujah,

Speaker 10 and thank you for your courage,

Speaker 12 They said they had heard the show and could not resist trying to bring me up to the real gold standard of Yorkshire instead of PG Tips. I was tickled.
And there's a whole box apparently.

Speaker 12 So I can't wait to get to the office, which, by the way, Monday, I'm flying back tomorrow afternoon, Monday evening, we have our Pod Show UK Christmas dinner. We're not doing a huge party, but

Speaker 12 when you put staff together with spouses and some of our talent who work

Speaker 12 full-time

Speaker 12 for productions we're doing, you're talking 25, 30 people.

Speaker 12 Of course, Patricia and I were going to go to the party. What do you think shows up today in my email box?

Speaker 12 An invitation for Monday night, starting at 6 o'clock for the Led Zeppelin one-off reunion concert and party.

Speaker 12 I'm like, oh my fucking God, I feel so bad for the pod show people that I won't be able to make it.

Speaker 13 You're going to have to make a showing.

Speaker 12 No, I'm, of course, I'm going to the Christmas party.

Speaker 13 Oh, man, I don't know. Yeah, I know.
Led Zeppelin one-off. Of course, those guys are so gone by now.

Speaker 12 Yeah, but it's like the Ahmed Erdogan trivia.

Speaker 13 Well, here's his PodSafe Christmas song.

Speaker 12 All right, I'm going to give this up. So I've not, I don't think I've, I certainly don't recall seeing a YouTube video, but I have it lined up.
You may not hear it through your headphones, but

Speaker 16 can you hear it? Okay, guys, everyone ready to sing the song? Yeah, I'm hearing ready.

Speaker 16 Now, remember, it's almost Christmas, and nobody has any Pod Safe Christmas music, so that's your motivation here. Cece Chapman, you ready?

Speaker 15 I'm ready for everybody.

Speaker 16 And Lena Nora from Jawbone, good to to go? Let's do that. And Adam Curry, Skyping in from the helicopter, flying somewhere above your golden palace.
You all hatched in there, Adam?

Speaker 17 Adam.

Speaker 4 Adam! Adam right here! We walked in!

Speaker 4 Yeah,

Speaker 12 I do remember this, actually.

Speaker 18 It's a real hole, though.

Speaker 12 Alright, I'm not going to play the whole thing. Well, that is pretty funny.
You got to kind of see the video because you can't understand all the lyrics and they have it on screen.

Speaker 12 Yeah,

Speaker 12 it's been very, very cold here in the UK for the past, I think the past two weeks, just really cold, like constantly around

Speaker 12 the freezing point,

Speaker 12 which made my Christmas shopping that much unhappier today.

Speaker 13 Oh, yeah. Well, I usually go Christmas shopping the night before Christmas.

Speaker 12 Well, that's what I do, too. Last Minute Man.

Speaker 13 Yeah, well, the funny thing is you run into a lot of, if you go on Christmas Eve, besides the fact that they throw everything on sale, you run into, and I've done this for years, decades, you run into fellow travelers, people who are who are just the same, you know, they're just like you.

Speaker 13 They go on the last day,

Speaker 13 and they've been doing it for years, and they all, you're kind of like your immediate friends with all of them, and you joke about it. And it's like a whole different crowd of people.
It's mostly men.

Speaker 13 And they're out, you know, shopping around.

Speaker 13 And it's the funniest thing is because it's like one of those deals where you're just like, you're pals with these people without even knowing them and you're all you all know what you're up to

Speaker 19 so a big cultural deal in the united kingdom on christmas day at 3 p.m the queen's speech to the to uh to the country to her uh what do you call them

Speaker 19 media subjects subjects that's it

Speaker 19 And

Speaker 19 I think we've missed it every single year because, you know, it's not.

Speaker 13 I think I saw it because I was up in Washington. I think I saw it.

Speaker 19 They think they broadcast it on Canadian news I'm sure they do because of course Canada is controlled by the Queen still and

Speaker 19 yeah it's more than just

Speaker 19 set dressing witness what just happened anyway I don't want to get into that because we'll get all the Canadians pissed off again

Speaker 19 so I'm like ready for this

Speaker 19 and so what she does is she starts off and she says and not a not a smile right she says and just horrible it's just really cold and impersonal and the Brits are are like, oh, we love watching the Queen's speech.

Speaker 19 Okay, we'll watch the Queen's speech. So we're all ready.
By the way, Top of the Pops came back for a special hour and a half show before that, which was pretty cool.

Speaker 19 Anyway, so she comes on, she says, Well, you know, what I've learned is that when I work with people who help others in these trying times, that they they truly are fulfilled, that they have fulfilled lives and they truly are happy.

Speaker 19 And then they switch to these ENG footage of her boys, you know, visiting poor kids, and then then there's Charles somewhere with African kids, and

Speaker 19 then she's like, Well, see, this is my family. See how much they do for other people.
That's what you should do. Merry Christmas.
And that was it.

Speaker 19 And I'm like, it was absolutely, I was shocked.

Speaker 13 I saw it. That's what I see.
Yeah, they showed the kids. They're always, you know,

Speaker 13 these.

Speaker 19 Yeah, but they have no jobs. No kidding.
It's easy for them to go around doing good when you have endless tax money to spend and no jobs.

Speaker 13 And these

Speaker 19 Yeah, and

Speaker 13 the guys probably blew in there, sat down, okay, took a couple shots. Okay, let me get out of here, and they had to wash up.

Speaker 19 Yeah, so this is an uplifting Christmas adventure from the Bill de Bear Corporation.

Speaker 19 And so they have this. I mean, it's a beautifully done, beautifully animated three.
Is it three-part series? Is that what it is?

Speaker 13 I think it was supposed to be more, but the fourth one I realized was taken off, and I don't know what was on that one. Okay.

Speaker 19 so just listen to a little bit of what our kids are being taught here. Actually, I'll fast-forward.
So, there's so it's uh Santa and Mrs.

Speaker 19 Claus, they're up at the North Pole, and then we see the nice little polar bears, and they're having fun, they're romping around, and then they come up and they talk to Santa, and here's what they have to say:

Speaker 19 uh oh

Speaker 19 hello there!

Speaker 19 What fine-looking polar bears! Pleased to meet you, Santa. I'm Ella.
Oh, and this is my sister, Emma. Santa, it's gone.
Gone. It's gone.

Speaker 19 What's gone? Tell them, Dad. The North Peak.
A mountain? A mountain is gone. How is that possible?

Speaker 20 Santa, sir, that's why I'm here. That's why we're here.

Speaker 19 The ice is melting. The North Pole is melting.
Yes, my dear, we know. The climate is changing.
There's bound to be a little melting. It's worse than that, Santa.
A lot worse.

Speaker 19 At the rate rate it's melting, the North Pole will be gone by Christmas. My, my.

Speaker 19 All of this gone by next Christmas? I don't think so.

Speaker 19 No, sir. Not next Christmas.
This Christmas. Oh, there'll be no more Christmas.
Oh, mommy, daddy, quick, you have to stop putting carbon in the air.

Speaker 19 It's gonna sad. We're not gonna be doing Christmas.
This is this is fucking. This outrages me.

Speaker 19 It just outrages me.

Speaker 19 It's pretty over the top.

Speaker 13 Well, no, this is, I don't know if it's the same one, but this guy, I don't think I've ever seen him. Well, maybe.
But anyway, he made this interesting commentary.

Speaker 13 And he's a contrarian entrepreneurial type that predicted the crash and the rest of it, like everybody else. I just want to read this.

Speaker 13 He's talking about how can we get our, you know, get the economy going again. He says, if we spend the money at Walmart,

Speaker 13 this is for Christmas. If we spend the money at Walmart, the money goes to China.
If we spend it on gasoline, it goes to the Arabs. If we buy a computer, it will go to India.

Speaker 13 If we purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala. If we purchase a good car, it will go to Germany.

Speaker 13 If we purchase useless crap, it will go to Taiwan, and none of it will help the American economy. The only way to help the money at home

Speaker 13 or the only way that the money here at home, to keep the money here at home, geez,

Speaker 13 the only way to keep the money here at home is to spend it on prostitutes and beer, since they're the only products still made in the U.S.

Speaker 19 I have to do my part, he said.

Speaker 19 Well, can we just add noagendashow.com to that or dvoract.org/slash na?

Speaker 13 Yeah, we should send him a note that he left this out.

Speaker 13 My battery died.

Speaker 21 Have a Merry Christmas, my friend. Merry Christmas, everyone.

Speaker 21 John, my battery tied.

Speaker 21 Have a Merry Christmas, my friend. Merry Christmas, everyone.

Speaker 19 So anyway, John, Merry Christmas to you, man. Merry Christmas to you.
Thank you so much for your beautiful gift. Oh, you liked that? Liked it very much.

Speaker 19 You know, it's going to determine the entire interior of our house. Everything now has to be red.
I figured it'd be a couple of spot pieces of spot art you could put up somewhere next to each other.

Speaker 19 John gave us two beautiful pictures that he took himself. These are all tulips, I believe, John.
Yeah, apparently, yes.

Speaker 13 I'm not of a photographer of

Speaker 13 flowers normally, but these are from the reason I gave them to you because it reminds you of Holland, because these were taken in Holland at the Tulip Festival, which I went to last year during my stint at Queen's Day.

Speaker 13 Yes. And,

Speaker 13 you know, it's one of those things that everybody in Holland, I guess, talks about. Oh, yeah, the Tulip Festival.

Speaker 13 You go to this thing. It's for people out there who want to know about it.
It's actually worth going to. And of course, everybody in Holland feels this way too.
It's actually worth going to once.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 19 I think I went to it in 1973.

Speaker 19 One of our

Speaker 13 producers, Clark, sent this note.

Speaker 13 I thought this would be a nice Christmas diddy. Last Christmas, I bought Obama t-shirts for my in-laws, who are Democrats, but are also racists.

Speaker 19 Nice.

Speaker 13 We sent them back to Texas from D.C. And when they came to visit a few months later, they brought this one back.
Let me do the photo. They probably turned the other one into a hood.

Speaker 13 The next time it came back, just the logo came back cut out.

Speaker 13 Of course, being the fine son-in-law that I am, I knew we would have to come up with something and send it back.

Speaker 13 My brilliant wife then had the idea to turn it into a pillow and, here's the kicker, have my six-year-old daughter do the sewing.

Speaker 13 This way, the pillow is a gift from their granddaughter and her very first sewing project, and they will have to keep it.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 work on something else.

Speaker 2 Depressed the listeners. They're going to, what is this? These guys are crazy.

Speaker 22 I got to tell you,

Speaker 25 so we had a great Christmas yesterday.

Speaker 25 Merry Christmas to you, John, by the way.

Speaker 23 Merry Christmas Christmas to you and to all the ships at sea and the boots on the ground.

Speaker 22 But we watched,

Speaker 25 as one does, you watch some Christmas movies and Scrooge was on with Bill Murray, which I think is one of my favorite Christmas movies.

Speaker 2 I love that film, yes, from 1988.

Speaker 25 And if you haven't seen it, I encourage you to at least watch the beginning because there's something, I noticed something very funny. And again, this is 1988.

Speaker 33 Bill Murray is the president. He's

Speaker 35 a top executive of a television network, the IBC television network, and he's a total dick.

Speaker 23 He's the most horrible.

Speaker 37 I mean, he's very true to form a television executive, actually.

Speaker 25 And it starts off with doing this big live extravaganza on Christmas Eve, which is the

Speaker 25 Christmas Carol, the Charles Dickens story.

Speaker 25 And so they're in the executive suite, and they're looking at the promo for

Speaker 24 this extravaganza.

Speaker 22 And so, you know, they've got a nice little promo and it looks kind of good.

Speaker 25 And apparently the promo is performing quite well.

Speaker 28 But then Bill Murray, as the president of this network, freaks out and says, you know, this is not, you need to scare people that if they miss watching this show, they will, you know, their lives will be over.

Speaker 25 And then he rolls out a promo and it's the funniest thing.

Speaker 31 I mean, it could have been any promo for any news, cable news network today. And of course, in 1988, it was outrageous that the promo literally, you know, you see an airplane taking off and

Speaker 28 and the voiceover says, this special is so terrifying.

Speaker 25 And you see the airplane explode in midair and the voiceover literally says, terrorism.

Speaker 22 And then it's like, you know, drugs.

Speaker 31 And you see the needle going in the arm. It was exactly like what CNN, Fox, and MSNBC are today.
Only in 88, that was seen as an outrageous, crazy thing.

Speaker 46 It could never happen.

Speaker 35 That's crazy. That's crazy.

Speaker 26 That's just fiction. It's just a movie.

Speaker 25 And now we're living it.

Speaker 23 Just, wow.

Speaker 2 Well, you know, gives us something to talk about.

Speaker 37 Yeah, but you know, it's just like, wow.

Speaker 26 I was.

Speaker 2 You were

Speaker 2 made a clip.

Speaker 51 Yeah, I should have.

Speaker 25 My impression kind of sucked.

Speaker 52 A lot more pleasant now that Christmas is coming. Oh.
Check out the TSA Carolers at LAX.

Speaker 54 This is great.

Speaker 31 Listen to the report from the compromised ABC News.

Speaker 47 This is like so clearly, it's like, all right,

Speaker 39 here's the Ministry of Truth speaking.

Speaker 25 Please make these guys look human.

Speaker 26 And just listen to this report.

Speaker 25 It's outstanding.

Speaker 25 It's a bunch of TSA Gibronis standing in the departure hall with like a keyboard.

Speaker 25 There's a lot of stress. So when our singers start singing, maybe they'll get a smile.

Speaker 55 Maybe someone will just relieve a little bit of the stress.

Speaker 58 Hey, we do, I think, to

Speaker 58 show a different face for the you know of the TSA, more human side.

Speaker 25 And they're all in their uniforms, and they got a couple of guys who like think they can sing.

Speaker 59 You know, you know, those people who then go in and syncopic.

Speaker 2 I work with one

Speaker 56 had a very shiny nose.

Speaker 61 The TSA people who have been so bad now being everybody together, everybody in the Christmas spirit.

Speaker 6 But then one buggy.

Speaker 23 Here he is.

Speaker 25 Here's the guy who's doing syncopic, like, you know, kind of like swing through it all.

Speaker 56 Christmas Eve,

Speaker 56 Saturday to say.

Speaker 62 Way to get us on our trip to Christmas.

Speaker 64 American Airlines flights leaving at 12.05 to Miami, Denver, Chicago, San Francisco.

Speaker 3 Way

Speaker 56 is the blue bird

Speaker 45 And let's wind it up.

Speaker 29 What do you think, sir?

Speaker 29 Go TSA, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 45 Yeah, yeah, we love it. Go, TSA.
You're awesome.

Speaker 2 Unbelievable. It reminds you of the Brown Shirt Chorus of 1938.

Speaker 33 I don't know if you're making a joke, but it wouldn't surprise me if it actually existed.

Speaker 32 Do you know who the president is of the United States States of Europe, John?

Speaker 2 Well, isn't it the same guy?

Speaker 23 The dishrag guy?

Speaker 29 The what?

Speaker 2 The dishrag guy.

Speaker 23 The dishrag guy? Yeah.

Speaker 68 Yeah,

Speaker 68 you got to know his name.

Speaker 36 Rumpoy.

Speaker 22 Yeah, exactly. Herman van Rompuy.

Speaker 39 He decided to

Speaker 23 leave us all with, well, you know what he does for a hobby.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he's a poet. He's a haiku idiot.

Speaker 29 Haiku, that's right.

Speaker 50 He wrote us a little haiku.

Speaker 62 Oh, I want to hear it.

Speaker 31 Well, unfortunately, it's in he did it in Dutch/slash French.

Speaker 2 Oh, that sucks.

Speaker 25 But it's only three lines, so I can translate it back.

Speaker 37 Let's listen to it.

Speaker 25 Silence and happiness.

Speaker 41 From Christmas to the New Year.

Speaker 70 Hopen Oak op hop.

Speaker 38 We're hoping for hope.

Speaker 23 We're hoping for hope?

Speaker 30 Yes.

Speaker 2 Silence? What's the silence? Do you you tell everyone to shut up?

Speaker 23 Let's do it again.

Speaker 69 And Heiku.

Speaker 25 Silence and actually silence and happiness. Silence and joy.
Silence and happiness.

Speaker 2 Yeah, if you shut up, you'll be happy.

Speaker 47 Shut up, you'll be happy.

Speaker 25 Oh, it's code from Christmas to the new year.

Speaker 2 So you got to be shut.

Speaker 25 You got to shut up and be happy between Christmas and the new year.

Speaker 2 That's weird.

Speaker 26 I don't know. I'm just saying.

Speaker 25 That's what he's telling us to do.

Speaker 23 And then the payoff.

Speaker 49 Also, hoping for hope.

Speaker 38 What does that even mean?

Speaker 2 I have no idea what hoping for hope means. But that's what he's saying.

Speaker 36 That's literally what he's saying.

Speaker 38 Bob Hope fan.

Speaker 30 Hoping for hope.

Speaker 1 I received in the mail a

Speaker 42 piggy bank

Speaker 40 emboldened with the CIA logo from the CIA gift shop.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 54 From one of our nights in the Virginia area.

Speaker 23 This thing is outrageous.

Speaker 35 And there was a 20 inside,

Speaker 22 along with the microphone in the cell.

Speaker 2 Good CIA stuff. I have to beg, and then somebody finally

Speaker 2 throws it. Okay, well, here's one for you.

Speaker 1 It's like you look at this thing. It's like, wow, that's just weird.
It's a piggy bank with a CIA logo.

Speaker 2 What else do they sell in this shop? We've got to go visit the shop with a camera.

Speaker 46 And it's all made in China.

Speaker 57 Yeah.

Speaker 71 This is the best part of it.

Speaker 68 No, I tweeted it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, heaven forbid we make a piece of pottery in the United States.

Speaker 50 And do you guys read The Night Before Christmas at your house by any chance?

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 73 Well, this is not like an uncommon thing in America.

Speaker 46 Is we have the night before Christmas.

Speaker 44 You've never heard of it. You've never heard of The Night Before Christmas.

Speaker 2 No, I've heard of The Night Before Christmas. I've never heard of any bunch of cornballs sitting around the candlelight reading it.

Speaker 74 Yeah, this is very normal.

Speaker 36 This is very abnormal.

Speaker 44 Yeah, but The Night Before Christmas is, of course, a book about, you know, the children were all

Speaker 40 tucked in their beds and snuggled with care or whatever, you know, with dreams that St.

Speaker 75 Nicholas soon would be there to give us all kinds of goodies and crap.

Speaker 26 So the whole story is about getting stuff.

Speaker 24 You know, it's a sweet story, but it's about getting stuff.

Speaker 32 And I had never, so there's a story that this family does, but apparently, a lot of families read this particular story.

Speaker 37 And it comes from Sweden. I had never heard of it before.
And it's a very long story.

Speaker 54 It's not like, you know, in America, we're good.

Speaker 33 You know, we get commercial to the point, short, you know, a couple of pictures, you're done.

Speaker 77 Open up your gift before you go to bed.

Speaker 50 Now, this is the little troll.

Speaker 45 Have you ever heard of this story?

Speaker 27 This is about the little troll that wanted to become a human being?

Speaker 2 It's about Obama?

Speaker 7 Hey!

Speaker 23 No.

Speaker 37 It's the little troll who wanted to become a human being and discovered that the way to become a human was to help other people.

Speaker 27 And he helps this little girl, and then his life changes, and then he eventually becomes...

Speaker 37 It's kind of a mixture between the Grinch who stole Christmas and Pinocchio in a way, in a weird way, only with trolls.

Speaker 36 And it was just... Trolls?

Speaker 2 Does he finally get on Twitter?

Speaker 46 It was really nice, John. I have to say,

Speaker 2 it was kind of a non-bring a tear to your eyes.

Speaker 71 That's the most important thing.

Speaker 49 It did bring a tear to my eyes.

Speaker 23 Yeah, I have to say.

Speaker 48 It did bring a tear to my eye.

Speaker 73 What is that wrong? Is that so wrong?

Speaker 68 Yeah, I guess so.

Speaker 24 It is just like the crunch of boots on, of

Speaker 24 Jack Boots on,

Speaker 59 Jack Boots on fresh snow.

Speaker 80 That's actually uncanny.

Speaker 52 That's pretty, that's uncanny sounding, actually.

Speaker 23 Let's do a little skit. Okay.

Speaker 59 Twas the night before Christmas.

Speaker 29 Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 40 Wait until I get to the mouse part.

Speaker 2 To cue the marching soldiers?

Speaker 8 Hold on.

Speaker 68 Twas the night before Christmas.

Speaker 49 Let me do it. Echo.

Speaker 24 Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Speaker 82 However,

Speaker 50 the brown shirts were out.

Speaker 49 God.

Speaker 39 Yes, that is the ghost of Christmas Future, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 68 Played by John C. Dvorak.

Speaker 75 All right, Johnny Boy, what are you doing for the 25th?

Speaker 68 That's Wednesday.

Speaker 2 I'm heading up north, and I'll be up there.

Speaker 11 That's nice.

Speaker 80 So you'll be up there for Thursday show?

Speaker 2 Yes, I will on Sundays, too.

Speaker 32 Oh, okay, nice. Well, that's good.

Speaker 68 You'll be hanging out with the family.

Speaker 13 And

Speaker 2 we'll see, hopefully the connection will be as good as this. And I'll be doing my work from up there.

Speaker 59 Okay.

Speaker 23 I'm here with the girls.

Speaker 49 All three girls.

Speaker 40 Miss Mickey. We have Miss Christina and

Speaker 31 we have Miss Rihanna.

Speaker 32 So I've got the girls here.

Speaker 59 We're doing an old-school family Christmas and a big meet the kids drink thing tonight. Everyone's dropping by.

Speaker 77 So we're really festive.

Speaker 2 Sounds like it's festive time for all.

Speaker 68 Yeah, it is really nice.

Speaker 35 I miss the kids so much.

Speaker 68 You know what it's like when you have young kids around? Like you got JC and his wife.

Speaker 84 Wife. Hello.

Speaker 68 It's nice when the young kids are hanging around.

Speaker 59 You learn a lot.

Speaker 13 Yeah, you get something to grumble about.

Speaker 42 I learned a lot, really a lot.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you tend to learn quite a bit.

Speaker 64 Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, December 24th, 2015. Time once again for your Git Mo Nation Media Assassination episode 784.

Speaker 2 This is no agenda.

Speaker 81 Celebrating a man with a white beard selling camels.

Speaker 45 And broadcasting live from the capital of the drone, Star State, here in FIFA Region 6, Austin, Tejas.

Speaker 23 In the morning, everybody.

Speaker 54 I'm Adam Curry.

Speaker 2 And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's actually been raining for a couple of days, and I guess guess we need it. I'm John C.
Dvorak.

Speaker 2 Woo!

Speaker 8 Merry Christmas, John.

Speaker 2 Merry Christmas to you, and Merry Christmas to all the listeners.

Speaker 32 And producers, too.

Speaker 2 And producers, and

Speaker 2 the family of No Agenda, the No Agenda family, the Knights and the Dames. Yeah.
And the

Speaker 50 behind the scenes.

Speaker 9 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 38 Everybody.

Speaker 9 Oh.

Speaker 75 Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 75 We're getting good spam in the chat room.

Speaker 23 But

Speaker 40 I apparently suck roosters.

Speaker 87 Why? I don't know. Because

Speaker 88 we promote Trump and Putin.

Speaker 59 We promote Trump. We promote Trump and Putin.

Speaker 4 Trump and Putin.

Speaker 23 I think today.

Speaker 2 It's the Trump and Putin show.

Speaker 13 I'm Dadam Trump.

Speaker 38 I'm John Putin.

Speaker 81 Putin!

Speaker 23 I think we need a beer.

Speaker 83 It is in most parts still Christmas Eve. You still have some time for some shopping.

Speaker 89 Pot appears to be a popular stocking stuffer this year in Seattle.

Speaker 89 An employee at the pot shop in Fremont tells My Northwest that sales in the past two days are the best that they've been since the store has opened.

Speaker 89 He also said one of the most popular gifts is a comically large joint that sells for $80.

Speaker 8 This is what I want.

Speaker 84 I finally know what I want for Christmas.

Speaker 90 I want the comically

Speaker 29 large joint that sells for $80.

Speaker 23 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 29 Oh, Santa.

Speaker 23 Oh, yes.

Speaker 37 Yeah, I'll tell you about my Christmas presents.

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 39 I received

Speaker 8 a lot of alcoholic-related presents.

Speaker 71 Alcohol-related presents.

Speaker 86 That's a hint.

Speaker 71 Now that I think about it.

Speaker 92 Hi, I'm David Hasilov. Yeah.

Speaker 87 I got a whole bunch of cool stuff.

Speaker 37 I got, you know, Tina brought her girls over here

Speaker 75 on Christmas Eve after the show.

Speaker 93 So we had a little,

Speaker 32 almost like a family celebration.

Speaker 2 Did you have a tree?

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 86 Is it a real tree? It's a real tree. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Well, get it out of there. There's things that are flammable.

Speaker 35 I do not park the hoverboard under the tree.

Speaker 28 Well, that would be something.

Speaker 4 I wonder how many.

Speaker 2 This hasn't been recorded yet, but there's got to be a few hoverboards that were parked under trees, caught on fire, caught the house on fire, burned the place to the ground.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm sure.

Speaker 75 I'm so sure.

Speaker 4 Merry Christmas.

Speaker 2 The PBS News Hour has this musical thing. They bring some musical guy on and he tells us a story about how this song came to be or something like that.

Speaker 2 And this is kind of the backstory of the song White Christmas, which I had no idea was actually a parody. It was a joke tune.

Speaker 94 Why we think he's going to live a lot longer than 18 months.

Speaker 29 And lose his hat.

Speaker 95 Next for this holiday season, a new way to look at a classic song, Bing Crosby's White Christmas. It's the best-selling single of all time, with more than 50 million copies sold.

Speaker 95 Jeffrey Brown recently sat down with composer and pianist Rob Capolo, who deconstructs music for the news hour from time to time.

Speaker 96 Rob Capolo, welcome back.

Speaker 38 So nice to be here.

Speaker 97 All right, so White Christmas, a touching, beautiful, nostalgic song, but started life very differently as a kind of parody.

Speaker 53 Yeah, you know, we now think of it as this perfect sentimental depiction of Christmas's past.

Speaker 53 But in fact, it originally started with a verse that no one sings anymore and that Berlin actually eliminated from the song that sets the song in Beverly Hills, LA.

Speaker 53 It actually started: the sun is shining, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway, and it's actually sung by somebody in Beverly Hills around a pool, dreaming of Christmas up north.

Speaker 53 So originally, it was a send-up of the very song that it's become.

Speaker 97 Said in Beverly Hills, but of course, came to be known and came to touch so many people because of the historical moment. 1942, American military personnel far away for the first time.

Speaker 97 Oh, John.

Speaker 68 You've ruined the movie for me now.

Speaker 32 Completely ruined. I don't think I can ever watch it again.

Speaker 81 Feeling good.

Speaker 2 You know, now you know.

Speaker 68 The more you know, the more you get spoiled.

Speaker 46 Crazy, believe me.

Speaker 78 And of course, now we basically have Christmas in the lowlands.

Speaker 87 They probably got Santa Claus walking around, too.

Speaker 2 And then they... Well, you know, the funniest thing with you and you were discussing that sort of thing is if you go down to

Speaker 2 Rio in December and you're floating around Brazil, which is the middle, this is like the hottest time of the year. It is boiling.
It's like 100 degrees.

Speaker 2 And there's all these Santa Clauses with the reindeer and the

Speaker 39 Los Angeles is weird that way, too. And it turns out we're in one of those streets where we have two neighbors at war

Speaker 7 with the house wars with the light stuff.

Speaker 28 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 23 Yeah. Oh, yeah.
That's great.

Speaker 50 We saw it happen.

Speaker 47 We saw, because, of course, this is our first Christmas here, and we saw one side, like, wow, this guy's got some lights going.

Speaker 68 And then on the other side.

Speaker 27 And now I said to Nikki, yes, I said, I think our house is perfect for,

Speaker 40 I think we can do a sleigh.

Speaker 78 And

Speaker 23 it went reindeer on the roof.

Speaker 86 And

Speaker 98 Nikki says, I'm totally fucking up the sink story.

Speaker 73 Well, what am I doing wrong?

Speaker 40 She just texted me.

Speaker 50 She's listening?

Speaker 44 Yeah, of course she's listening.

Speaker 37 She's in the car. She's on the way to a meeting.

Speaker 4 A meeting?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 On Sunday, for God's sake.

Speaker 35 Yeah, she works hard, man.

Speaker 52 But, all right.

Speaker 54 So I guess I took all the romance out of the story.

Speaker 23 Well, you could add.

Speaker 2 We could tell the story next week when we get closer to Chris. Or I guess it'd be farther away from December 2nd, which is, I guess, when the or the third or the 5th.

Speaker 23 I don't know.

Speaker 32 No, the 5th.

Speaker 23 The 5th. And then...

Speaker 73 I don't know, man.

Speaker 23 I'm from America.

Speaker 33 We always thought it was weird. And by the way, this Sinter Klaas,

Speaker 54 so he also wears like a red robe. He's got a...
Robe?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Peto.

Speaker 2 Hey, kids.

Speaker 23 He's got a pointy hat.

Speaker 25 And he's got a big stick.

Speaker 2 A big staff. I got a stick for you.

Speaker 71 I got a big staff for you, kids.

Speaker 50 But he's very thin.

Speaker 87 He's not fat like Santa Claus. He's very thin.

Speaker 2 He's a skinny guy. That's more like it.

Speaker 2 He has pant legs taped to just the bottom of some short pants taped to his legs.

Speaker 45 But it's cute.

Speaker 78 So actually, and so what the family tradition is, and this is kind of nice, is

Speaker 37 you all draw, so the big family comes together, usually not just

Speaker 78 household family, and then you'll draw lots before, like a couple weeks before, you'll draw a name out of the hat, and then you get the name on a piece of paper, and then you have to go buy something for that person and turn it into a surprise with

Speaker 7 a poem, which is about that person.

Speaker 87 But you don't ever really say, oh, this is from me.

Speaker 78 So you basically.

Speaker 2 Yeah, this is what you do. This is an office.
This has been transposed into an American tradition of doing that in the office where they don't want everybody buying everybody else gifts.

Speaker 23 Right. You do this

Speaker 82 grab bag. Very, very good.

Speaker 2 And somebody invariably gets a box of candies that they don't want.

Speaker 33 Well, the funny thing is, there's always some joker who puts together a huge box, box, right?

Speaker 78 And then you get this huge box as a present, and then you have to go through like wood chips and molasses

Speaker 26 molasses and all kinds of weird crap in there.

Speaker 71 It's hilarious.

Speaker 87 And then at the bottom, there's like

Speaker 40 a gift certificate.

Speaker 40 Yeah.

Speaker 78 But I'm sure all the listeners in Gitmo Nation Lowlands are very disappointed with my explanation.

Speaker 50 Now, did you do Disneyland the first day or the second day?

Speaker 13 We did Disneyland on Christmas.

Speaker 32 Oh, and you should do it in order. Talk about Christmas first.

Speaker 13 Let's see. What do we do first? First, we went to dinner, I think, in a cafeteria.

Speaker 59 Well, not that anyway.

Speaker 13 Okay, we go to Disneyland.

Speaker 13 We leave early. I have to say this.
I've never seen anything quite like this. And we were stunned, I say,

Speaker 13 by the freeway traffic on Christmas. It was like, it's like the world had ended and nobody was out.
They were all gone. They They all left the area.
I have never seen traffic like this.

Speaker 13 There was nobody on the roads. And apparently, what was going on was they were already at or going to Disneyland.

Speaker 13 I talked to one of the police guys as we went into Disneyland, which was all dolled up for Christmas.

Speaker 13 And in fact, they rewrote a number of the rides and the storylines in the rides themselves for Christmas.

Speaker 13 I'm under the impression that from Halloween until New Year's, for example, the haunted house ride,

Speaker 13 totally different ride. You haven't if you if you haven't been on the haunted house ride.

Speaker 23 No, I've been on the haunted house ride at Halloween.

Speaker 54 Okay. Yes, it is different.
Yeah.

Speaker 13 Totally different ride. And the one that's a real head scratcher, even though s some people didn't want to go on it,

Speaker 13 but we did, at least a half of the family did.

Speaker 54 Is the fairy dirt land ride,

Speaker 13 which is also known as it's a small world oh yeah

Speaker 13 it's a small world after all yeah yeah that song is just now part of a medley of tunes yeah for the christmas period which is mostly jingle bells jingle bells and all the rest of these christmas

Speaker 92 yeah

Speaker 13 all the low end and they've changed everything inside it's like the what happened

Speaker 13 And so that was interesting. And they've also lengthened the ride.
I took a movie of it, of the entire ride.

Speaker 88 Wow, there's some copyright violations somewhere.

Speaker 13 Oh, there's a ton. It's all copyright violations.
I'll post it and they'll let it be taken down. And it's 16 minutes.

Speaker 23 Wow, that was pretty long.

Speaker 59 That's pretty long.

Speaker 13 They've lengthened the ride, it seems. And, of course, it was also bumping into,

Speaker 13 it was loaded with traffic.

Speaker 13 The boats were bashing into each other constantly. Same thing with Pirates of the Caribbean, although they didn't change the storyline.
They put put Christmas gifts everywhere.

Speaker 13 And also the African ride where you go through Africa in a boat.

Speaker 87 They had constant gifts.

Speaker 13 That totally changed.

Speaker 13 They got every the elephants and everything are in Santa suits and they got crap hanging off of them.

Speaker 4 It's ridiculous.

Speaker 87 Were any of the Dvoraks high when you went there?

Speaker 49 Because I would suggest

Speaker 13 It would have been a good idea.

Speaker 32 Yeah, if you had me out there, I would have arranged it.

Speaker 13 Now, the thing is, is that

Speaker 13 I was told by one of the police security guys, because we chatted with him, or waiting for people, and he says, oh, Christmas is the most crowded period ever.

Speaker 13 Every year, it's the same. He says, do not leave the park.
He says, if you leave the park, you'll never get back in because every year the fire marshal shuts it down.

Speaker 7 Oh, okay.

Speaker 13 No more people are allowed in.

Speaker 4 Oh, good tip.

Speaker 13 And so

Speaker 13 we stayed in there and watched the food all the way to the fireworks and then we left.

Speaker 13 What's the name of Jingle Bells?

Speaker 96 Yeah, Jingle Bells.

Speaker 13 What's it got to do with anything that has anything to do with slavery or blacks?

Speaker 104 A Boston University theater professor claims the Christmas Carol has a problematic history because it was originally performed to make fun of African Americans.

Speaker 4 In what way?

Speaker 9 Let me see.

Speaker 98 The legacy of Jingle Bells is one where its blackface and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed from its history, says Kiana Hamill,

Speaker 79 Boston University theater historian, as she wrote a whole research paper about it.

Speaker 96 Although one horse open sleigh, let me see.

Speaker 92 I don't know, man.

Speaker 24 It's a stretch, I think.

Speaker 41 Just a tad bit of a stretch.

Speaker 13 It was first performed down Washington Street in Boston in 1857.

Speaker 13 Some area choirs adopted it as part of their repertoire in this 1860s and 70s. It was featured in a variety of parlor song and college anthologies in the 1880s.

Speaker 13 It was first recorded in 1889 on an Edison cylinder.

Speaker 9 All right.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 13 It says it's an unsettled question whether and when Purepoint originally composed the song that would become known as Jingle Bells, a plaque in 19 is a high school, like again some guy in high school or something.

Speaker 13 It's got no, there's no way that's bull crap.

Speaker 27 Well, she got her name in the paper.

Speaker 24 There's a new book out just in time for Christmas.

Speaker 108 Coming in, this is new.

Speaker 108 Daniel, first to you, what inspired Santa's husband?

Speaker 109 Well,

Speaker 110 it was sort of inspired by the annual tradition we have in this country of protection.

Speaker 105 Santa's husband.

Speaker 98 Stay tuned. You'll like it.

Speaker 13 Okay, you're beating me up on these clips.

Speaker 111 Well, I got lots of time in my hands.

Speaker 110 I'm sort of inspired by the annual tradition we have in this country of pretending that there's a giant war on Christmas and that traditional Christmas is under attack. So

Speaker 110 among other things, we were reading all of the news about the Mall of America hiring a black Santa Claus last year.

Speaker 110 And me and my now wife made a joke on Twitter that if we ever had a child, they would only know about black Santa Claus.

Speaker 110 And if they saw a white Santa Claus at the mall, mall, we would just explain, well, that's his husband.

Speaker 110 And then Ashley and I knew each other from the internet and from her illustration already. And she jumped into my Twitter mentions and said, boom, new book.

Speaker 108 Boom cut one. Yeah, and it's out now, available everywhere, actually.
So let me read a couple of pages here.

Speaker 108 It says, like any married couple, they have their disagreements, but they always manage to kiss and make up, usually over a plate of milk and cookies.

Speaker 51 So we have the gay Santa Claus.

Speaker 98 Santa is black. He's gay.

Speaker 96 And he has a husband, a white husband.

Speaker 13 A white guy. Yeah.

Speaker 112 Yeah. It's kind of misogynistic.

Speaker 13 Everybody's dresses much the same. Mrs.

Speaker 100 Claus has been wiped from history all of a sudden.

Speaker 104 It's an outrage.

Speaker 13 That is an outrage. I'm surprised people put up with this.
Everyone thinks it's great.

Speaker 105 So what are you doing for Christmas? Are you going to

Speaker 105 Washington?

Speaker 13 No, everybody's all spread out on Christmas, so we're having our Christmas here at the house

Speaker 13 on like the 29th or the 30th. Oh.

Speaker 4 And what do you, what do you think?

Speaker 13 I, by the way, have been advocating this for years, which is pushing off Christmas because of one, two reasons. One, I'm cheap.

Speaker 13 And right after Christmas, you can go to all this Boxing Day and all these places that are selling the stuff at a deep discount, and you can buy a bunch of last-minute gifts at a good deal.

Speaker 13 And then you have your Christmas where there's not a big big rush. I can get a turkey cheaper.
I'll cook a turkey or a goose.

Speaker 104 And you are Scrooge, man.

Speaker 13 No, I'm not saying it's just for that, but it's like you can do it.

Speaker 13 You don't have to be, everything has to be on the day. Oh, we got to do this on the day.
Oh, it's my birthday. It's got to be on the day.
I'm not a big believer.

Speaker 13 I'm not buying that.

Speaker 13 It's not a Scrooge thing, but as a benefit, I see it as a Scrooge thing. Yes.

Speaker 41 Well, we're going to Chicago.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I heard that.

Speaker 59 Well, I'm telling you, I'm telling the whole audience.

Speaker 104 I know.

Speaker 13 I was just saying, I heard you're going to Chicago.

Speaker 98 Yeah, going to Chicago.

Speaker 22 And so it's Tina's family, it's like 18 sisters,

Speaker 88 her mom,

Speaker 4 her girls. It's going to be...
Girl Night Out.

Speaker 41 Oh, yeah. It's going to be a whole bunch of women and then I think three dudes.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah. You guys are screwed over.

Speaker 100 We are totally screwed.

Speaker 41 We get better at these as we go along, don't we?

Speaker 13 I don't think so. Okay.

Speaker 105 Well, Merry Christmas, John.

Speaker 51 Tomorrow's the big day.

Speaker 13 Merry Christmas to you and Merry Christmas to everybody listening. Yeah, tomorrow is the big day and it's a nice Monday.
Christmas is perfect for everyone's a little extra time off.

Speaker 13 Although I think next week everybody takes the whole week off.

Speaker 2 Oh, really?

Speaker 96 Who gets to do that? We don't get to do that.

Speaker 85 We have a full show of kids.

Speaker 9 Kids.

Speaker 13 Kids. Kids.
Yeah, we're going to be back on Thursday live

Speaker 13 because this is a special show.

Speaker 13 So you could go to Chicago. Yes.
And I could go shopping at the last minute.

Speaker 100 Important stuff.

Speaker 41 Yes, because you like to get everything on the cheap and celebrate.

Speaker 13 I like to get it at the last minute because it's like a men's club.

Speaker 113 I've been a member of this club for many, many years.

Speaker 13 Yeah, you go in there, it's all pretty.

Speaker 109 It's not pretty.

Speaker 13 Oh, no, it's not pretty, but

Speaker 13 everybody knows what's going on, and it's all men.

Speaker 114 Yeah, y'all shopping.

Speaker 109 Y'all give that look like,

Speaker 9 yeah, there we are.

Speaker 109 The head nod, right?

Speaker 13 We're here again. Yeah, hey,

Speaker 41 how are you doing this year?

Speaker 112 Now, you have not actually celebrated Christmas yet.

Speaker 13 No, it's coming.

Speaker 37 You guys are very interesting, you Dvorak clan, I'll tell you.

Speaker 13 Yes.

Speaker 13 What do you call it?

Speaker 59 On the cutting edge.

Speaker 112 Is that what you were going to say?

Speaker 13 Untraditional. No.
Non-traditional. Unorthodox.

Speaker 4 Unorthodox. Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 13 And we're not even Jewish. Hey.

Speaker 112 Well, we were in Chirac.

Speaker 105 for the festivities.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I want to hear more.

Speaker 96 And we had a white Christmas. That was fantastic.

Speaker 4 yeah i bet you did

Speaker 13 my goodness i had forgotten what cold was like you can't it's not good white christmases are no fun it was zero degrees and then you get what is this you can't and half these places they won't let you even start a fire so you can't have like a a cozy fire and a white christmas with snow

Speaker 4 yet

Speaker 105 the airbnb that we had um had a fireplace on gas but the gas wasn't hooked up to it which was somewhat disappointing and i've written a review about it.

Speaker 13 Good.

Speaker 100 That pisses me off.

Speaker 13 Yeah, what's the point?

Speaker 24 What's up with wind chill?

Speaker 13 Wind chill? What about? What do you mean, what's up with it?

Speaker 104 People use that as like a death knell.

Speaker 13 Yeah, they do. Well, and wind chill does make a difference.

Speaker 83 No kidding.

Speaker 96 I, I, you know, just walking outside, and then there wasn't, there was actually no wind when I was outside, and my legs just froze.

Speaker 22 It was so unbelievable.

Speaker 59 Like, I had forgotten all about it.

Speaker 99 Yeah, I'd lived in Jersey and New York.

Speaker 7 And I know that.

Speaker 13 Yeah, but you were, you know, people have to realize,

Speaker 13 we noticed this going back and forth from Washington, is that your pores literally change from hot weather pores to cold weather pores, but it takes weeks. It just doesn't do it automatically.

Speaker 13 So when you're coming from hot weather pores, which is what

Speaker 13 you have generally speaking in Austin,

Speaker 13 and you go up to Chicago, you're just going to, it's going to be freezing cold.

Speaker 4 So you're going to be able to.

Speaker 105 So your pores have to adjust. The pores in your skin have to adjust.

Speaker 104 Yeah. Oh, I didn't know this.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 13 And so when you're, this is why people, when they come down from the northern climbs, like Mimi's up there most of the time, she should come down here. Yeah.
And she, and it'll be like 50.

Speaker 4 And she's boiling moan. Oh, it's so hot.

Speaker 4 You're going to die.

Speaker 104 I've also noticed, though, that men and women do have different temperature settings for themselves.

Speaker 13 Well, there's that. There's a little bit of that, but it's really mostly the pores.
That's why you were so cold.

Speaker 112 This is the one.

Speaker 41 that it may be too late,

Speaker 9 but

Speaker 51 the just saying Merry Christmas instead of happy holidays was a bonanza.

Speaker 13 Really? Yes.

Speaker 105 Especially in a store, like just say to the to the person who's helped, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 24 And it's immediately like, say happy holidays.

Speaker 53 You got to say happy holidays.

Speaker 13 Well, that, okay,

Speaker 13 let me mention something here. That is very retrograde.
That argument is over years ago, but okay, if they're still stuck with that in Chicago, that's not a problem.

Speaker 115 Well, no, let me tell you, and this goes very, very deep.

Speaker 59 And

Speaker 112 it's obvious why this is happening because Merry Christmas equals religion equals Republican.

Speaker 117 That's

Speaker 13 what your holiday stems from. It stems from Holy Day.

Speaker 109 John, I'm...

Speaker 13 You should throw this at them. Oh,

Speaker 13 you're more religious than me. You saying happy holy days.
But hey, let's play this clip: Merry Christmas versus Happy Holiday.

Speaker 15 Okie dokie.

Speaker 61 For he and the first lady were married

Speaker 118 and posted this late-night tweet. People are proud to be saying Merry Christmas again.
I am proud to have led the charge against the assault on our cherished and beautiful phrase, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 118 Some people believe the so-called war on Christmas began when retail stores started swapping out the term Merry Christmas for happy holidays.

Speaker 118 And by 2005, the change upset several cable news hosts like Bill O'Reilly. But frustration with the term may be less about religion than politics.

Speaker 118 A poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute found 66% of Democrats for first stores use the term happy holidays, while 67% of Republicans say stores should only say Merry Christmas.

Speaker 118 On the campaign trail, candidate Trump promised to bring back the phrase, politics aside, Mr. Trump's not the first president to say, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 3 Merry Christmas.

Speaker 118 His predecessor used the phrase every year.

Speaker 80 Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas, everyone. Merry Christmas, everybody.

Speaker 121 Merry Christmas.

Speaker 80 Merry Christmas, everybody.

Speaker 120 Past presidents also used the term happy holidays, which comes from Old English for the term holy days. And Christmas is the only federal holiday based on religion.

Speaker 120 Serena Marshall, ABC News, Washington.

Speaker 9 Right.

Speaker 13 And there's there's no reason unless they're apparently Democrats are the ones behind.

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 51 Literally.

Speaker 84 Well, come on.

Speaker 59 Aren't all millennials Democrats?

Speaker 13 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 51 So I'm telling you, the sequence is Merry Christmas, crazy religious people, crazy religious right.

Speaker 112 There's a war on God.

Speaker 96 There's a war on religion.

Speaker 76 Not Islam, of course, but Christianity and even Judaism.

Speaker 112 I think there's a war on Jews.

Speaker 51 So when you say Merry Christmas, it's religious.

Speaker 114 You're crazy religious right.

Speaker 59 You're Republican. You're Donald Trump.

Speaker 103 And then the Jews on Facebook,

Speaker 104 who I'm friends with, Facebag friends,

Speaker 116 they

Speaker 8 had their,

Speaker 100 and these would be liberal friends of mine.

Speaker 96 And they would say, oh, go ahead, wish me Merry Christmas.

Speaker 41 For me, it's just Monday.

Speaker 13 I mean, go to work.

Speaker 112 What are you doing on Facebook?

Speaker 111 Do some work.

Speaker 13 Tell them to talk about it with Hanukkah Harry.

Speaker 96 Who's Hanukkah Harry?

Speaker 13 Oh, we talked about this on the No Agenda. I'm sorry, on the DHM.

Speaker 4 I didn't hear it.

Speaker 13 Oh, yes. Horowitz says that the Jews

Speaker 13 have a Santa Claus-like character called Hanukkah Harry

Speaker 13 because the kids, Jewish kids, they're seeing all this stuff going on. They got the tree.
You see trees and the Santa Claus and all this stuff, but they can't.

Speaker 13 And so they've dreamed of Hanukkah Harry, and apparently it's been on forever. A lot of non-Jews don't know about it.
And they have some sort of tree called something.

Speaker 13 They've got, in other words, a parallel universe Christmas starring Hanukkah Harry. So it's bull crap.
They got to take the day off. They're not working on Monday.

Speaker 104 That's funny.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 4 I thought so.

Speaker 13 It's what I never heard of Hanukkah Harry.

Speaker 104 No.

Speaker 39 Daddy.

Speaker 39 Yes, Felix.

Speaker 122 Do they celebrate Christmas on their agenda?

Speaker 40 No, they're podcasters. They're too poor to celebrate Christmas.

Speaker 122 Can we make a jingle for Adam and John?

Speaker 40 What would you like to make the jingle about?

Speaker 122 Donald Trump.

Speaker 49 That's a good idea.

Speaker 49 Get ready to shout.

Speaker 7 Get ready to cry.

Speaker 7 Get ready to pout. I'm telling you why.

Speaker 49 Donald Trump is coming.

Speaker 49 You better resist Get into a fight You're gonna take on the fascist alright

Speaker 7 Donald Trump is coming

Speaker 40 to town

Speaker 57 He's literally at blood

Speaker 7 We know he's full of hate

Speaker 57 But daddy is the president He'll make America great

Speaker 7 You'd better musk up, you need to organize.

Speaker 123 It's time for a lap, I'm telling you why.

Speaker 7 Donald Trump is coming.

Speaker 40 Coming to town.

Speaker 122 Daddy, what's the difference between Santa and Donald Trump?

Speaker 122 I don't know. Santa's good for bells, and Donald Trump's good for jingles.

Speaker 7 Donald Trump is coming.

Speaker 40 Coming to town.

Speaker 123 Get the anti-book flags.

Speaker 122 Stop flying it high.

Speaker 122 Said fighters shit Punch the roundabout guys

Speaker 11 Donald Trump is coming

Speaker 7 out

Speaker 125 We know he's pure evil

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Speaker 1 It got recorded at some point. It was so funny.

Speaker 1 John and Adam trying to coordinate something is,

Speaker 1 you know, you don't want us running the government, or certainly not the military. Like, imagine us coordinating D-Day.
It's like,

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Speaker 1 you blew it up.

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So, what's worse than finding a worm in an apple?

Speaker 1 I know the answer.

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Tucker, Candy, Nick,

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Speaker 2 I guess Bannon spoke at the thing, too. And nobody talks about Bannon at all.

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Speaker 96 Boxes. Yeah, you give each other boxes.

Speaker 114 Why go and alienate our UK producers?

Speaker 13 Well, they've picked up on Boxing Day in Canada. They use their Boxing Day up there.
Now we're thinking about it.

Speaker 4 People talk about it.

Speaker 101 I bet it's going to be a millennial thing,

Speaker 101 Boxing Day. You watch.

Speaker 116 You can just put money on it.

Speaker 13 I always thought, you know, when I, I think originally I thought it was some Australian thing because that's what was in the UK and it had to do with kangaroos.

Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 13 Boxing.

Speaker 13 I always visualized the can't couple kangaroos with boxing gloves on. Okay.
Okay. On Boxing Day.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 34 I'm glad that you've been put straight.

Speaker 101 But again, I think it's a fine millennial trait. That's how it'll be brought in.
Boxing Day. Oh, yes.
We have Friendsgiving and Boxing Day.

Speaker 41 We don't celebrate Christmas. We celebrate Boxing Day.

Speaker 23 Don't you see?

Speaker 85 It's headed that way.

Speaker 4 Celebrate Boxing Day.

Speaker 101 We celebrate celebrate Boxing Day.

Speaker 13 Christmas is pre-boxing day.

Speaker 34 So

Speaker 85 people will put up with a lot.

Speaker 33 And that's apparent in the United Kingdom.

Speaker 29 Christmas is cancelled in the UK.

Speaker 67 We cannot continue with Christmas as planned.

Speaker 72 We cannot continue.

Speaker 23 It was all over the news.

Speaker 37 The U.S. media love talking about this story.

Speaker 126 In the United Kingdom, a new variant of the coronavirus is spreading rapidly. And today, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced new restrictions for areas in Britain's southeast, including London.

Speaker 126 He urged all residents to stay home for the upcoming Christmas holiday.

Speaker 77 It is with a very heavy heart, I must tell you, we cannot continue with Christmas as planned.

Speaker 126 The variant has turned up in several other countries, and mutations are not unusual. British officials say this variant does not appear to be deadlier, but it does spread spread more rapidly.

Speaker 35 Man, I'm going to call some major

Speaker 23 on this.

Speaker 92 This makes no sense.

Speaker 34 This new variant, we touched on it briefly on Thursday.

Speaker 92 But come on,

Speaker 103 there's been talk of different strains for months. It's never an issue.
Nothing's happening.

Speaker 34 Nothing to see here. Don't look at it.

Speaker 88 Now we got to cancel Christmas.

Speaker 41 Oh, yeah, because of this straight.

Speaker 34 Man, and they brought this out at five o'clock in the afternoon with the deadline by midnight it people went crazy trying to get up north anywhere anywhere out of the out of the central uh central east part of of the country to just avoid being

Speaker 13 locked in your home get out of london people

Speaker 76 and here's the crazy thing the netherlands just announced i'm sure other eu member states will follow uh they're stopping all flights from and to the united kingdom

Speaker 52 a smaller christmas is going to be a safer Christmas and a shorter Christmas is a safer Christmas.

Speaker 121 This is our COVID Christmas.

Speaker 36 In Paris, Christmas lights and a nightly curfew.

Speaker 36 It's a horrible thing to think that we would be here as the World Health Organization saying to people, don't hug each other.

Speaker 3 It's terrible.

Speaker 128 But this year, if you love your family, if you really care about your family, we won't have these get-togethers.

Speaker 128 What we're going to do is I will guarantee you that grandpa or grandma won't be here for Christmas.

Speaker 128 This is our COVID Christmas.

Speaker 123 It's beginning to look like COVID Christmas

Speaker 7 everywhere you go.

Speaker 23 Take a look at the big box stores.

Speaker 49 Opening once more while restaurants and bars are told no.

Speaker 7 It's beginning to look like COVID Christmas

Speaker 123 Cloys to stay indoors

Speaker 123 But the jittiest sight to see is the media will be broadcasting fear porn

Speaker 123 Slaves that are mutinous surrounds that shoots are the wishes of Tony and Bill

Speaker 123 They will use science to ensure compliance till all of our veins have been filled And they'll take it live on TV just to prove that it won't kill. It's beginning to look like COVID Christmas

Speaker 7 everywhere you go.

Speaker 49 Empty chairs and empty tables,

Speaker 123 people who just weren't able to wear a mask wherever they did go.

Speaker 49 It's beginning to look like COVID Christmas.

Speaker 123 Soon, Freedom Pass will start.

Speaker 123 But the thing that'll make you free is the mRNA vaccine plunged into

Speaker 7 your

Speaker 7 arms.

Speaker 6 Well, none of the vaccines at this point appear like they'll work with a single dose.

Speaker 23 You know,

Speaker 62 the side effects were not super severe.

Speaker 7 That is, it didn't cause permanent health problems.

Speaker 60 Are these vaccines safe?

Speaker 6 Yeah, but some of that is not dramatic where, you know, it's just, you know, super painful.

Speaker 49 But it's beginning to look like COVID Christmas.

Speaker 123 Soon, Freedom Pass will suck.

Speaker 123 But the thing that'll make you free

Speaker 123 is that mRNA vaccine

Speaker 49 plunged into

Speaker 49 your

Speaker 49 world.

Speaker 123 It's COVID Christmas

Speaker 123 for

Speaker 123 sure.

Speaker 128 You know, you can't sugarcoat it anymore. It's all about human life.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 We noticed this. No kidding.
Have you noticed that the news reports on COVID deaths initially often stated

Speaker 2 the age of the victim, but now it is seldom mentioned?

Speaker 42 No, of course.

Speaker 96 We can't have that.

Speaker 25 We can't have you figuring out statistics for yourself.

Speaker 2 My question to COVID fear mongers, how many of these supposedly died of COVID would have been alive today if

Speaker 2 there was no virus?

Speaker 2 Probably less than half. The empty chair guilt trip narrative is mostly false.
I love the empty chair. Oh, there's going to be an empty chair and empty chair.

Speaker 2 There's always an empty chair unless you don't have enough chairs.

Speaker 2 Don't you think?

Speaker 112 And why?

Speaker 37 And if grandma dies, do you actually leave an empty chair open at the table?

Speaker 2 With a meal in front of it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, for grandma?

Speaker 129 With the place setting?

Speaker 85 Possible.

Speaker 2 Come next Thanksgiving and Christmas, there will be empty chairs, but most of these empty chairs will be due to diseases other than COVID.

Speaker 2 Also, most empty chairs caused by COVID all will be because of the virus being contracted somewhere besides the family get-together.

Speaker 2 Family members will hear being cheated out of

Speaker 82 a final gathering with their non-departed relationships.

Speaker 2 Well, the final gathering with their non-now departed relatives because of the government-induced fear, funded by taxpayers, of course, and promoted by the media.

Speaker 2 Hello, yeah, yay, Sir Donald of the Firebottles, Count of Eastern Washington, Spokane Valley.

Speaker 37 Okay, thank you very much, sir.

Speaker 92 Thank you very much.

Speaker 88 We got to wrap this up, but I did want to make mention:

Speaker 37 there is a song in the Netherlands which was done by Jupfonetheck, who is a Cabrace, which is an old school name for

Speaker 92 stand-up comic in the old world.

Speaker 111 And he wrote this song, oh, this must be 40 years ago, called Floppy.

Speaker 32 And Floppy is a song about a rabbit, hence the flappy, flappy ears.

Speaker 111 And what happens to Flappy, this poor boy's

Speaker 103 pet rabbit on Christmas Day.

Speaker 109 And would you believe that this song, this Floppy song, has been covered by Todd Rundgren of all people.

Speaker 76 And I just want to play a little bit.

Speaker 31 You can guess how it ends, but it's just so weird to have this old traditional Dutch song, creepy one, covered by Todd Rundgren.

Speaker 32 And if I just behave, then I'd get something yummy later on.

Speaker 26 She also didn't know where Floppy was, and said she'd ask my dad, who was busy in the shed.

Speaker 116 So, you know what happens at the end of the song, right?

Speaker 2 The rabbit's dead.

Speaker 33 Yeah, they eat the rabbit for Christmas dinner.

Speaker 121 Yeah.

Speaker 47 I can't believe Todd Rundgren covered this.

Speaker 2 Well, maybe he likes rabbits.

Speaker 23 It's a horrible, sad song. The kids running all over the place

Speaker 74 trying to find Flappy.

Speaker 47 Flappy, and he's not in the shed.

Speaker 29 Where's Flappy?

Speaker 23 And then he's on the table.

Speaker 4 They ate Flappy.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, it's kind of a sick. It's not horror.
It's sick.

Speaker 4 It's very sick.

Speaker 82 I just found it very odd that Todd Rond would do that, but maybe that's Todd.

Speaker 82 But if he can't go to anyone's house

Speaker 82 or near this strange.

Speaker 30 His level of the unity

Speaker 57 He can come down the chimney

Speaker 7 is level of the unity

Speaker 57 He can come down the chimney

Speaker 57 I vaccinated Santa Claus

Speaker 57 I vaccinated Santa Claus

Speaker 57 I vaccinated Santa Claus

Speaker 57 I vaccinated Santa Claus

Speaker 11 I vaccinated Santa Claus

Speaker 11 I vaccinated Santa Claus

Speaker 57 vaccinated Santa Claus

Speaker 57 I vaccinated Santa Claus

Speaker 2 did he not

Speaker 81 vaccinate Mrs.

Speaker 7 Claus?

Speaker 49 She doesn't count. He's a misogynist dull skin.

Speaker 23 Corona, if this is true.

Speaker 49 From the elves.

Speaker 49 Nothing about the elves in the workshop.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 56 They have two.

Speaker 4 Everyone gets two shots.

Speaker 57 Santa Claus is good to go.

Speaker 4 The audio horn all the way to the horn.

Speaker 88 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It was a tinny sound.

Speaker 100 The voice was also professional.

Speaker 54 This was a professional voice.

Speaker 31 This is not like, hey, everybody, I'm going to set this bomb off.

Speaker 74 I'm a crazy nut job. 5G, man.

Speaker 2 5G's got... Hey, ho, 5G's got go.

Speaker 11 5G, man.

Speaker 50 Because that's the message I'd have.

Speaker 72 5G is killing you.

Speaker 90 I'm going to save you.

Speaker 2 Let's do it now. You got 15 minutes.

Speaker 23 That's the message. That's the message I would be putting out there.

Speaker 2 That would be the,

Speaker 2 yes. And there'd be pamphlets blown into the air or something.
I mean, you do something. You just don't blow something up and then have somebody else theorize it about 5G.

Speaker 109 No, no, no.

Speaker 2 You're making a protest about 5G. You're protesting.
Yeah.

Speaker 98 But, well, let's listen to this 25 seconds before the explosion because someone did something interesting, which I want to try on you.

Speaker 34 I don't think it'll work, but let's listen.

Speaker 34 Also, I listened really closely, some isolation, and what you're hearing before this area must be evacuated now.

Speaker 109 They say all buildings.

Speaker 37 This is a professional type of announcement.

Speaker 34 If anything, it came from a script that

Speaker 112 has, this is something that you might...

Speaker 112 In fact,

Speaker 41 I kind of suspect the

Speaker 88 smart light lamppost to be doing this.

Speaker 34 That's the kind of sound I'd expect from the government when they hear something telling you to evacuate.

Speaker 59 It doesn't sound...

Speaker 2 very governmental sounding, you're right. That's a good point.

Speaker 98 If you can hear this message, evacuate now, implying that there was some thinking done about the loudness, the blast.

Speaker 37 If you can hear that message, then you're within the blast zone.

Speaker 34 It just, that, that is really, I don't take that one lightly.

Speaker 88 And what

Speaker 34 see if you get anything out of this, but someone reversed this audio,

Speaker 34 which is my favorite devil trick to do.

Speaker 88 And they claim, now it's much easier when you read the words on the screen than I think your brain goes, oh, yeah, I hear that.

Speaker 114 But they claim in reverse, you will hear, are you ready? Are you ready? This will be quick. Are you ready?

Speaker 41 And ends with Merry Christmas.

Speaker 88 See if if you can pick any of that out of this.

Speaker 34 I literally hear Merry Christmas to all.

Speaker 2 I can hear Merry Christmas to all. And the other one I hear mostly, are you steady?

Speaker 2 But it's like you can hear it. It's like looking at clouds.

Speaker 23 Well, yes.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes.

Speaker 2 And you can hear what you want. Especially if it's pre-syllable.

Speaker 2 I said,

Speaker 2 I set you up. You should not have given me.

Speaker 88 Man, I know I set you up. I was dumb.

Speaker 2 So I'm already primed to hear that. This is like the old trick you do to an audience.
I've seen it done. It's very interesting.

Speaker 2 There's that picture of the rabbit that looks like a flower or something. It looks like two different things.
It was anyway. You tell half the audience it looks like something.

Speaker 2 You tell the other half the audience they're going to

Speaker 2 suggest it. And then when they show that, you have them raise hands.
And

Speaker 2 whatever was suggested is what they report. So, yeah, I wish you hadn't done that.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 98 I was pretty sure you wouldn't have gotten anything if I hadn't told you that.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, that's the idea. Yeah.

Speaker 88 But I like it. I don't know why someone would do that and post it, but I like it.

Speaker 112 So, will we really know?

Speaker 9 Doubtful.

Speaker 2 Now we can play COVID relief. COVID, COVID, butt slam.

Speaker 113 COVID relief for millions of Americans remains in limbo tonight.

Speaker 113 After Congress and the White House spent months negotiating the deal, President Trump called it a disgrace and then left Washington for Mar-a-Lago, sowing chaos before Christmas.

Speaker 54 Now, John, before we get too far away from Christmas, I do have a question for you.

Speaker 54 When

Speaker 100 did Kwanza really become a thing in the United States or Canada for that matter?

Speaker 54 Do you recall?

Speaker 2 I don't know that it ever became a thing. It was an invention.
It makes no sense because it's supposed to be a harvest festival or something, and it's right in the middle of winter.

Speaker 2 here anyway.

Speaker 2 I could look it up, but I know you have something to tell me.

Speaker 125 So I'm not sure if it's bother.

Speaker 116 But was it during Obama's years that

Speaker 2 way for Obama?

Speaker 7 Okay.

Speaker 98 How far do you think?

Speaker 54 According to the book of knowledge,

Speaker 78 I'll just tell you that Kwanzaa was created in 1966 during the aftermath of the Watts riots.

Speaker 34 And it was specifically an African-American holiday.

Speaker 116 And his, and this

Speaker 103 Maulana Karenga, who created it, said his goal was to, quote, give blacks an alternative to the existing holiday of Christmas and give blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and their history rather than simply imitate the practice of dominant society.

Speaker 114 So this would be, if you are truly,

Speaker 9 he made it up.

Speaker 2 Well, yeah, he made it up, but he's refusing to acknowledge the fact that a good portion, if not the majority, of black Americans are Christians.

Speaker 54 Well, yes. He does.

Speaker 9 Yes.

Speaker 100 Correct.

Speaker 42 Correct.

Speaker 2 So he's insulting them in some way. I don't know anyone who celebrates Kwanzaa.

Speaker 100 Yes, you do.

Speaker 42 Yeah, very famous person who celebrates Kwanzaa.

Speaker 9 You?

Speaker 86 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 83 And let me just specify.

Speaker 79 Kwanzaa is celebrated on the winter solstice, December 21st.

Speaker 83 So this came out on the 25th on Christmas.

Speaker 34 This is the most famous person who celebrates Kwanza.

Speaker 130 Happy holidays, everyone. I wanted to take a moment to send my warmest wishes to everyone celebrating Kwanzaa.

Speaker 130 Like so many other holidays, we will be celebrating Kwanzaa a little differently this season in our home. We'll be doing it over Zoom.

Speaker 130 You know, my sister and I, we grew up celebrating Kwanzaa every year. Our family, in our extended family, we would gather around across multiple generations and we tell stories.

Speaker 4 Hold on a second.

Speaker 74 So in Canada, when she was growing up, because

Speaker 103 that's where she grew up, but maybe after she was 12, when she got back to the United States, they started celebrating Kwanzaa.

Speaker 103 But she makes it sound like this was really a thing in her non-African-American household.

Speaker 34 Which is an African, it's actually, it is the worst form of cultural appropriation you can do as a person, I think, regarding Kwanzaa is pretend that you celebrated it.

Speaker 33 You're not African American.

Speaker 82 It's not a black thing, lady.

Speaker 33 It's an African-American thing.

Speaker 103 If that, because I agree, if I say to Mo, happy Kwanzaa, he spit takes at me.

Speaker 38 You're like, bro, we're Christian.

Speaker 88 We celebrate Christmas in our house.

Speaker 8 Our home.

Speaker 130 We'll be doing it over Zoom. You know, my sister and I, we grew up celebrating Kwanzaa every year.
Our family would, in our extended family, we would gather around across multiple generations

Speaker 130 and we tell stories. The kids would sit on the carpet, and the elders would sit in chairs, and we would light the candles.

Speaker 124 Elders.

Speaker 81 And, of course, afterwards, what elders?

Speaker 7 Elders?

Speaker 33 The cult. What the hell is she talking about? Tribal elders, John.
Don't you get it?

Speaker 96 She's African now.

Speaker 103 She's African-Canadian-American, Tupac-loving,

Speaker 34 Kwanzaa celebrating Indian Jamaican.

Speaker 130 Would sit on the carpet and the elders would sit in chairs.

Speaker 88 Smoking smoking the peace pipe.

Speaker 130 And we would light the candles and, of course, afterwards have a beautiful meal. Oh, yeah.
And of course, there was always.

Speaker 23 Yeah, go ahead. This is a great piece.

Speaker 7 There's much more to do.

Speaker 2 Somebody convinced her to do this. I don't believe she came up with this idea on her own.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, you got to do that. I think they're making a fool out of her.

Speaker 100 But wait until you hear how deep she goes.

Speaker 42 I mean, it's one.

Speaker 90 I think I could pull this off the way she's doing it because

Speaker 109 she's lying.

Speaker 2 this is there's no way

Speaker 34 there's no way that she celebrated Kwanzaa with the elders in can in Candinavia with her Indian mother her Jamaican dad

Speaker 130 there's just no way like the candles no there's no way no there's no way hold on let's let's listen to this what she does light the candles on the carpet and the elders would sit in chairs and and we would light the candles and of course afterwards have a beautiful meal and of course there was always the discussion of the seven principles And my favorite, I have to tell you, was always the one about self-determination, Kuji Tagalia.

Speaker 130 And, you know, essentially it's about, you know, it's about be, be and do.

Speaker 130 Be the person you want to be and do the things you want to do and do the things that need to be done.

Speaker 130 It's about not letting anyone write our future for us, but instead going out and writing it for ourselves.

Speaker 130 And that principle motivates me today as we seek to confront the challenges facing our country and to build a brighter future for all Americans.

Speaker 130 So to everyone who is celebrating, happy Kwanzaa from our family to yours.

Speaker 2 Well, you know, one of the things we're overlooking here is the way our fabulous rulers,

Speaker 85 their leaders,

Speaker 2 Our leaders are dealing with this.

Speaker 2 I do have a Christmas message that came out from Ontario. We got a little Canadian action here.
The CDN is the name of this clip. The Ontario Finance Minister, Rod Phillips.

Speaker 2 He gave a message to the public.

Speaker 88 Nice and uplifting, I'm sure.

Speaker 23 Now, I know that.

Speaker 7 Here's the clip.

Speaker 131 Now, I know that this Christmas is a bit different than Christmases in the past. We're meeting virtually and online and not able to be in person with as many family and friends as we'd like to.

Speaker 131 And I want to thank each and every one of you for what we are doing to protect our most vulnerable while we celebrate this very, very special but challenging holiday season.

Speaker 132 It's all there. The folksy hay there, the fireplace, the sip of eggnog at the end, the lovely words, a beautiful Christmas message from a politician to his constituents.

Speaker 132 That, of course, is Ontario's finance minister, Rod Phillips. But unbeknownst to us, that whole scene might have been a bit of a ruse.

Speaker 132 While that image and that video was tweeted to Ontarians, we have now found out that Rod Phillips was sunning himself on a beach in St. Bart's.

Speaker 132 And it's been a big mystery as to where is Ontario's finance minister.

Speaker 132 Just a few short weeks ago, the Toronto Sun started inquiring to his office as we had heard rumors that Rod Phillips had left the country. Well, how could that possibly be?

Speaker 132 Rod Phillips is a leader in this province. He is one of the most senior cabinet ministers.

Speaker 132 He is also part of the team that crafted the lockdown rules where we saw the big box stores stay open, where the small businesses were shut down.

Speaker 132 He couldn't possibly have said to all Ontarians stay home, shut down, and then jetted off to a sunny vacation. Well, it turns out that's exactly what he did.

Speaker 132 So, as news broke that Rod Phillips had indeed gone on a very lovely vacation, while the rest of us canceled our trips, canceled our vacations, canceled seeing family, basically canceled Christmas, did everything by Skype and Zoom and FaceTime, just like the government told us to, only move for essential services.

Speaker 132 The finance minister of Ontario decided that he's going to get on a plane and go to St. Bart's.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 117 Well, this is good.

Speaker 74 This is, and that's the, and when she says, we did this, we did that.

Speaker 112 No, you didn't, lady.

Speaker 88 You're lying. No one's doing it all.

Speaker 4 You're lying.

Speaker 117 We're all lying.

Speaker 23 If you, if you say, oh, I, oh, I follow the rules, you're full of crap.

Speaker 13 I disagree with you.

Speaker 2 I think a lot of people follow the rules, my next door neighbors, for sure.

Speaker 2 The lib joes for sure, because they won't even get together with each other.

Speaker 100 Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 This is not true. There's most people, I mean, yeah, there's a number of scoff laws and other people, oh, let's just circumvent.
Let's do what we can.

Speaker 2 My son and his wife, they're all locked down.

Speaker 7 Right, right, but forever.

Speaker 112 Yes, yes, but do they not cheat at all?

Speaker 23 There's not a single time say, well, I really shouldn't have done that.

Speaker 2 This is what. I don't know that they did.
I don't know this. I mean, maybe they cheat, you know, in some way they take the mask off to, you know, to do something.

Speaker 49 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 But no.

Speaker 109 Cheat, cheat.

Speaker 2 It's not like flying off the same barts.

Speaker 112 Do they have the mask over their nose or under their nose?

Speaker 2 It's always over the nose. Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 38 A little harsh, but you gotta live with it. There are rules in the world, so you kind of have to follow them.

Speaker 29 I'm a rule follower, so if the rule is that we have to do it, then I'll do it.

Speaker 81 All right.

Speaker 14 We know the police are searching for a motive for the Christmas Day bombing. It turns out that suspect, Anthony Warner, was very interested in several conspiracy theories.

Speaker 14 A source familiar with the Nashville bomb investigation tells ABC News that Warner may have been tracking a conspiracy about lizard people.

Speaker 14 Now, authorities tell ABC News that Warner may have spent time hunting for alien life forms in a near state by park, although it is not the park that we've been, that park has not yet been named.

Speaker 14 The source tells ABC News that thoughts about those conspiracies were found in writings associated with the suspect, Warner. This is an ongoing investigation.

Speaker 14 At this time, it's unclear if these beliefs are connected to the Christmas Day bombing.

Speaker 32 Sources familiar with the bomber thinking believe that lizard people are running the show.

Speaker 35 Wow.

Speaker 74 They just, whatever you do, don't let anyone think anything about this.

Speaker 86 Okay.

Speaker 74 I know there's no bomb crater.

Speaker 112 I know there's no, you know, I know we're, I know there's all kinds of carbon, blackened soot, which looks like it might have been a directed energy weapon.

Speaker 34 They're coming for me.

Speaker 103 But please just keep focused on 5G and lizard people.

Speaker 59 I I have more clips.

Speaker 74 Do you have any idea of clips?

Speaker 88 Because I got a couple more.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I got nothing.

Speaker 2 Oh, oh, well, I've been following it. You know, the guys, you know, this all bogus.

Speaker 2 Where's the guy's note? That's what I wanted to know. Exactly.

Speaker 74 Exactly.

Speaker 104 What kind of good QAnon lizard people hunting 5G denier suicide bombs himself and leaves no note or as we would call it a manifesto?

Speaker 4 Because this is bullshit.

Speaker 2 All right, part three.

Speaker 61 We'll take a look at these long COVID testing lines across the country right now.

Speaker 61 With the threat of Omicron and Christmas just three days away, many people are wanting to make sure they are healthy and can gather safely with loved ones.

Speaker 2 Stop the clip.

Speaker 4 Okay. Are you all right?

Speaker 2 So there are people that they're not sick

Speaker 50 that wants to make sure they're healthy.

Speaker 2 So I'm standing there. I'm doing 40 push-ups.
I'm, you know doing some jumping jacks. I'm doing some pull-ups.

Speaker 49 I wonder if I'm healthy.

Speaker 2 I think I'm going to go get tested.

Speaker 2 What kind of idiots are these?

Speaker 49 Either healthy or you're not.

Speaker 2 You know if you're healthy.

Speaker 47 These people should be on television.

Speaker 2 If you're catching something, yeah, maybe.

Speaker 2 I think I got the sniffles. I think

Speaker 2 I'll go get tested. Why not? But no, these are people that they're just all healthy.
They just want to get tested just in case.

Speaker 61 Is a way many people are wanting to make

Speaker 54 It's a psychological operation.

Speaker 120 And this evening, a possible game changer in the fight against COVID.

Speaker 61 The FDA has granted emergency use authorization for Pfizer's antiviral pill. Studies show the oral treatment is nearly 90% effective against severe illness and death.

Speaker 116 What does nearly 90% mean?

Speaker 104 Is it 89?

Speaker 59 Why not just say 89, 87, 88?

Speaker 2 They don't have any numbers.

Speaker 133 As we get closer to Christmas, demand for testing is surging. Lines like this one here at the Washington test.

Speaker 23 Demand is surging.

Speaker 4 What kind of, but really?

Speaker 133 Lines like this one here at this Washington, D.C. testing site are long, and lines like this can be seen all over the country.

Speaker 118 We are expanding our testing capacity.

Speaker 133 Washington, D.C.

Speaker 61 is one of the latest cities to require vaccines for people 12 and older at indoor venues.

Speaker 133 The demand for vaccinations and booster shots has also caused long wait times heading into the holiday weekend.

Speaker 72 I'm getting my code shot.

Speaker 122 Second one.

Speaker 74 You had to put the abused child on it, didn't you?

Speaker 2 That's the reason for the clip. Oh, it's horrible.
horrible.

Speaker 30 A little kid

Speaker 23 comes out.

Speaker 2 I just got my shot, and I'm going to get my second shot any minute.

Speaker 49 I'm going to be.

Speaker 50 But wait, why was that in the testing clip?

Speaker 2 They just threw it in gratuitously.

Speaker 34 I don't even believe those people are in line for tests.

Speaker 76 I don't believe there's this big deal.

Speaker 7 I don't believe it for a second.

Speaker 2 Remember last year, March, April, Berkeley had a drive-through testing thing.

Speaker 2 I would drive past that thing once a week. No one.
Nobody was in line.

Speaker 54 Nobody. Here's the president.

Speaker 65 One of the other things that we know that has to be done is more testing.

Speaker 64 Testing.

Speaker 91 Because Omicron spreads easily, especially among the unvaccinated, it's critically important that we know who's infected.

Speaker 91 That means we need more testing. On that score, we're now where we should be.

Speaker 91 Yes, we have over 20,000 free testing sites. Yes, we've used the Defense Production Act and spent $3 billion

Speaker 91 to greatly expand the number of at-home tests available for purchase.

Speaker 5 Hi kids, just popping in with an update to let you know everything is shaping up nicely for Christmas Eve. Santa, Mrs.
Claus, and all the eligible L's have had their booster shots.

Speaker 5 Santa is well kitted out in the best layers of protection. His mask is well fitted and the slate is naturally ventilated.
So I am happy to report that Santa has the all clear to take off.

Speaker 5 I'm also happy to report that all of the reindeer are healthy and symptom-free. But just to be extra sure, Rudolph has had his COVID-19 test to confirm his red nose is not a COVID-19 concern.

Speaker 5 Hey, hello, Dr. New.
Are you checking on Rudolph's COVID-19 test results?

Speaker 17 Hello, Dr. Tan.
I was just looking at Rudolph's results. I can confirm the results are negative and is free and clear to guide the sleigh on Christmas Eve.

Speaker 4 Wonderful.

Speaker 5 I guess that red nose really is just to light the way.

Speaker 23 What is the point?

Speaker 9 What is the point?

Speaker 2 This is a big lie.

Speaker 117 No kidding.

Speaker 2 No, I want you to play CBS report. Oh, no.

Speaker 31 Wait a minute.

Speaker 74 Are you telling me that Canada is lying about the state of Santa?

Speaker 89 Nancy, the World Health Organization, also said today Santa is immune from COVID, so we do have some good news there ahead of Christmas. Nancy Chen, thank you.

Speaker 119 What?

Speaker 2 He's immune, according to the World Health Organization.

Speaker 11 Oh, Fauci,

Speaker 134 won't you get a little closer, my dear?

Speaker 135 Jab me, baby, slip the needle into my arm.

Speaker 7 No harm,

Speaker 134 I'm an awful good slave, Fauci, baby.

Speaker 134 Hurry up and jab me tonight.

Speaker 134 Jab me, baby, a fourth and fifth booster shot too

Speaker 7 for you.

Speaker 134 You'll take care of me, dear, Fauci baby.

Speaker 135 Hurry up and drag me tonight.

Speaker 134 Think of all the fun I'll miss

Speaker 135 All the New York restaurants I can't visit

Speaker 134 Next year I'll be just as good

Speaker 57 A sixth, an eighth, anything you say

Speaker 134 Jab me baby, I want a shot and four is not a lot

Speaker 135 but I'll keep wearing my mask, Fauci, baby.

Speaker 11 Hurry up and jab me tonight,

Speaker 134 jab me, baby.

Speaker 135 Slip a needle into my arm, no harm.

Speaker 134 I'm an awful good slave, Fauci baby.

Speaker 10 Hurry up and jab me tonight.

Speaker 10 Shit.

Speaker 54 Alright, there it is.

Speaker 54 My teeth just fell out.

Speaker 136 All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.

Speaker 54 Seriously, my front teeth just fell out.

Speaker 7 My two front teeth. Jesus,

Speaker 47 I grabbed my two front teeth.

Speaker 7 If you don't mind.

Speaker 23 I sound fine, then this is distressed. You're telling me I sound fine?

Speaker 57 All you want for Christmas is his two friends.

Speaker 2 Well, now you don't when you make a point of trying to sell.

Speaker 2 You're trying to sell sound like Dylan. Go on.

Speaker 2 Merry Christmas.

Speaker 54 So it literally just fell out now.

Speaker 2 Okay, we'll be taking a break and we'll be back here.

Speaker 29 No, let's just go. Let's just do it.
Let's just go all the way through.

Speaker 23 It'll take me 15.

Speaker 49 We're so close to the end.

Speaker 2 Let's just keep it going.

Speaker 136 All I want for Christmas is my two front piececots.

Speaker 37 I'm telling you, the world has gone nuts,

Speaker 83 and we're just here.

Speaker 49 We're just doing it. We're observing it.

Speaker 2 And either shaking our fist or laughing. Exactly.

Speaker 83 Well, I do have something, a nice upbeat little thing.

Speaker 78 I thought in the spirit of Christmas, we would go back to the 19, I think this is 1980s, with a Computer Chronicle's Christmas Gift Ideas with John C.

Speaker 42 Dvorhack.

Speaker 137 If you're still looking for Christmas gift ideas, we have yet a few more tips for you from other sources.

Speaker 137 Syndicated computer column mist, John Dvorak, likes a new game for the Macintosh called Smash It Racquet Ball. And for the PC crowd, he picks Traveling Sidekick as a great gift item.

Speaker 137 On the hardware side, Dvorak suggests the Bechtech Fannie Mac, a cooling fan for the Macintosh, or the Curtis Computer Toolkit, including pin straighteners, chip pullers, and other goodies.

Speaker 73 John, how come I miss this?

Speaker 112 I miss your

Speaker 24 lame-ass Christmas gift ideas.

Speaker 2 Can you get these? They were good in 1980.

Speaker 29 They were fantastic.

Speaker 23 I love these little tools.

Speaker 2 42 years ago. You're playing clips about me that are 42 years old and ridiculing it by today's standards.

Speaker 23 No, I'm not ridiculing.

Speaker 4 I want more.

Speaker 23 I want a lot of people.

Speaker 2 You said lame ass is ridicule.

Speaker 85 I'm sorry.

Speaker 115 At the time, it was great.

Speaker 92 We all bought that fan for the Mac.

Speaker 2 I think the Mac needed a fan.

Speaker 8 Probably to cool it down.

Speaker 76 I would just love to have some Christmas gift ideas from you for an updated version.

Speaker 8 I think you should put that on your sub stack or something.

Speaker 23 You're a legend, man.

Speaker 32 You're a legend with this stuff.

Speaker 2 I'm a legend in my own mind.

Speaker 9 No, you're a legend in a lot of minds.

Speaker 2 So I think, yeah, well, I'll start doing that next year.

Speaker 20 All stuff like this. We turn now to your health this holiday season.
And we're not talking about the flu or COVID, but about your heart. The risk is serious, and doctors are trying to spread the word.

Speaker 54 See, and literally throwing, it's not COVID or flu.

Speaker 46 Don't worry about that.

Speaker 47 It's your heart.

Speaker 20 This morning, doctors are urging Americans to put heart health at the top of their holiday to-do list.

Speaker 20 That's because more people die from heart attacks between December 25th and January 1st compared to any other week of the year, with Christmas Day being the deadliest day of all.

Speaker 20 Doctors say the leading factors include family stress and falling out of good habits, like healthy eating.

Speaker 55 It's not just an issue that holiday heart is a benign condition. Holiday heart is a very potentially serious condition that causes people to develop heart failure symptoms.

Speaker 20 Increased alcohol intake can also result in what doctors call holiday heart syndrome.

Speaker 46 Have they said it enough?

Speaker 45 Have they said holiday heart enough time?

Speaker 32 So we don't have to

Speaker 23 died suddenly. Holiday heart, holiday heart.
Have some holiday heart.

Speaker 48 Have some eggnog.

Speaker 20 That's when binge drinking causes irregular heartbeats, which are associated with a higher risk for stroke.

Speaker 7 Is this true?

Speaker 24 Does heavier drinking accelerate your heartbeat?

Speaker 2 Well, I don't know any of this to be true. And what I find peculiar is that I think a lot of people actually eat quite well on the holidays.

Speaker 2 You get some nice bird meat, which is, you know, it's not like eating a big prime rib.

Speaker 2 You've got some usually potatoes of some sort, or sometimes yams and vegetables.

Speaker 74 Excuse me. Are you saying a prime rib is bad for you?

Speaker 2 No, I'm just saying if you're going to look at healthy food, generally speaking, people would say that a bird meat would probably be healthier than

Speaker 38 beef meat.

Speaker 32 I disagree.

Speaker 68 I think the body is a good thing.

Speaker 2 Well, no, I know.

Speaker 2 You can take either side, but let's say you have prime meat. It's beside the point.

Speaker 2 You're not eating a hamburger from McDonald's. Let's put it that way.
You're not eating a wood chip meal that's from one of the fast food places.

Speaker 2 You're eating prime rib or turkey meat or a ham or something that's well prepared.

Speaker 74 Is it not true? The Jews,

Speaker 87 they go eat Chinese crap.

Speaker 2 Yes, they do.

Speaker 2 Typically on Christmas, they brag about it. I've talked to horrorists about this.

Speaker 2 I'm on the inside of this. And yeah, they love to go eat Chinese food, but Chinese food is very healthy.

Speaker 50 Are you Jewish adjacent?

Speaker 23 Is that what you're doing?

Speaker 28 I'm a

Speaker 2 once-a-week Jew. That's me.

Speaker 48 Wait, there's more.

Speaker 55 Certain people might be more predisposed to it, but you could have no history of any heart-related conditions

Speaker 55 and drink excessively or consume too much alcohol during the holidays, and you could create a situation where you develop atrial fibrillation.

Speaker 29 I have never heard of this. Ever.

Speaker 55 Congestive heart failure, even in the absence of any pre-existing risk factors.

Speaker 20 A lack of sleep is another major concern. A new survey found adults on average lose 39 minutes of sleep per night over the holidays.

Speaker 20 And if you're hosting a holiday party, prepare to get even less shut eye.

Speaker 20 Party hosts reported sleeping up to 83 minutes less than usual on their party night, all contributing factors that doctors warn could spoil the holiday fun if you don't make time to take care of yourself.

Speaker 23 It could spoil your holiday fun if you fall down dead from a heart attack.

Speaker 43 Thank you, ABC.

Speaker 87 Australia has an even more egregious way of communicating that you just might die, you just might be unlucky, but it's not from anything that you put into yourself.

Speaker 7 No, no.

Speaker 60 A Santa visit is part of the Christmas tradition for many families.

Speaker 128 What would you like for Christmas?

Speaker 60 One health expert says he's promoting unhealthy eating habits unless he loses a few belt sizes.

Speaker 138 And I'm calling for a healthier representation of such an iconic figure, which is part of Christmas.

Speaker 60 Doctor says obesity shouldn't be celebrated at a time when so many people overindulge.

Speaker 138 Statistics show that there is a significant increase of heart attack and physics to the ER during this period of the year.

Speaker 138 We should not associate this wonderful, joyful time of the year with the need of overeating.

Speaker 60 An idea professional Santas are losing their hats over.

Speaker 87 So don't be fat because you can die from a heart attack. But

Speaker 103 they're conflating it with Santa.

Speaker 87 Santa's a bad example because he's fat.

Speaker 2 So tired of this.

Speaker 67 What firewood might tell us about the economy right now.

Speaker 65 In Europe people are stockpiling firewood as energy bills soar in Germany the price of firewood has risen 86%

Speaker 65 in a year in Bulgaria.

Speaker 86 It's nearly doubled

Speaker 65 Even in Switzerland where inflation is relatively tame the cost of firewood rose 26%

Speaker 65 in one month Across Europe, people are bracing for energy shortages this winter as tensions over the war in Ukraine disrupt Russian gas supplies.

Speaker 86 Trump tried to warn Germany, but they just laughed him off.

Speaker 2 Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.

Speaker 67 Other wood products are being impacted too.

Speaker 65 The cost of toilet paper has spiraled as the energy required to cook wood pulp becomes more expensive. High demand for wood isn't just an economic issue.

Speaker 65 Relaxation of logging laws has led to environmental protests in Hungary. Higher wood prices could lead to illegal logging and over-harvesting and a shortage of timber for building.

Speaker 65 Burning wood also emits more particle pollution than road traffic and more CO2 than fossil fuels.

Speaker 65 Even so, it seems firewood will help tackle Europe's energy shortages this winter and nudge it closer to energy independence from Russia.

Speaker 65 Bloomberg suggests lap cats, quilts, and brisk walks to stay warm and make the best of a bad situation.

Speaker 65 As we journey into the Great Reset, just know that your unelected overlords at the World Economic Forum are working tirelessly to create energy equity where everyone is equally cold.

Speaker 65 How is your country handling the energy crisis?

Speaker 77 Reporting for the Great Reset, I'm the tyrannical Liz.

Speaker 100 This is how out of touch and stupid these people are.

Speaker 37 Nancy Pelosi was, and I'm just really negative on

Speaker 26 our representatives here in the United States.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 24 Yeah, Merry Christmas indeed.

Speaker 31 In fact, Nancy Pelosi wished everybody, of all denominations, all face a merry festival, a merry holiday season, a happy holiday season, as she left

Speaker 54 chair of Speaker of the House,

Speaker 2 did our fabulous Catholic Speaker of the House even say the word Christmas?

Speaker 4 Let's listen.

Speaker 139 Strong, bipartisan, I vote, yield back the balance of my time, and wish everyone a happy, healthy, and safe New Year. Happy holidays.
Merry Christmas. Happy Schwanza.
Happy Hanukkah.

Speaker 136 Whatever it is.

Speaker 29 You talked over it.

Speaker 139 Merry Christmas. Happy Schwanza.
Happy Hanukkah. Whatever it is.

Speaker 49 Happy Schwanza.

Speaker 23 Are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 Schwanza is a Kwanzaa for people with big dicks.

Speaker 139 New Year. Happy holidays.
Merry Christmas. Happy Schwanza.
Happy Hanukkah. Whatever it is you celebrate, be safe.

Speaker 76 She did say Happy Christmas. Merry Christmas.

Speaker 74 She did throw in a Schwanza. You gotta

Speaker 75 love that Schwanza.

Speaker 2 You got the Schwanzas here coming in.

Speaker 23 This woman is horrible.

Speaker 2 What an idiot.

Speaker 3 Oh, goodness.

Speaker 76 What are you having for Christmas meal?

Speaker 74 What are you guys having?

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 23 everybody's having Christmas scattered around.

Speaker 2 We're having our true Christmas will be around

Speaker 71 January 12th.

Speaker 2 No, it's right. It's going to turn out to be around January 1st.

Speaker 88 Oh, okay.

Speaker 88 But

Speaker 2 we have to have something in a Christmas. So tomorrow, JC and Jesse and Theodore

Speaker 2 will be over with

Speaker 2 three-rib roast.

Speaker 2 Oh, nice. For me.
Oh, that's today. I'm sorry.
That's today. They'll be over today.

Speaker 90 Are you ready for them? Make sure you're ready.

Speaker 81 Make sure you got the three rib roasts.

Speaker 2 I got a cellar full of wine. I'm always ready.
Uh-huh. So they'll be over today with that.
And so I'll have that. Mimi will be having, she's stuck up north because of the scuffs sodium.

Speaker 2 Yeah, of course she did. And so she'll be up there with Eric and the three kids and

Speaker 2 D.

Speaker 2 And they'll be eating something up there.

Speaker 2 And then Jay and Brennan will be serving a Christmas meal that she's going to prepare for his relatives.

Speaker 9 Ah.

Speaker 32 And are you invited to that with his relatives?

Speaker 2 I actually am.

Speaker 23 And you're not going to go, obviously.

Speaker 2 Well, it's because

Speaker 2 JC is doing something, and the show is kind of eating into it because it's going to be really early, so it's not possible.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 37 Yeah. Well, Tina, the keeper, is cooking up a ham, which we got from Nolacek Meats

Speaker 112 this year.

Speaker 87 I'm very excited about that.

Speaker 2 That'll be delicious. Those guys do good work.

Speaker 23 They know what they're doing.

Speaker 32 Yeah,

Speaker 75 I got some bacon. I got sausage, all kinds of stuff from them.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 37 Okay, so that covers the food aspect.

Speaker 2 Yes, we're done.

Speaker 77 Ho, ho, ho, global citizens.

Speaker 81 This is Santa Klaus. I am checking my list to see who is being naughty or nice according to ESG.

Speaker 81 The worst punishment will be for the climate change deniers. If you are naughty, do not worry.
We will not put a lump of coal in your stocking. Coal is made of carbon and carbon is forbidden by ESG.

Speaker 40 So we will just take your stock ink.

Speaker 81 And your other gifts. You will get nothing and be happy.

Speaker 7 Another tradition is the leaving of cookies and milk for Santa.

Speaker 81 These cookies must be 100% vegan, and the milk must be soy milk.

Speaker 23 Under ESG, there will be no more cow milk, and of course, no more meat.

Speaker 81 You may also leave for Santa cookies made with the cricket flour and a glass of cockroach milk. But even I will not eat this.

Speaker 7 You will eat this.

Speaker 81 Maybe not this year, maybe not next year. But we still have plenty of time to implement Agenda 2030.
So now is the opportunity for giving the hugs, exchanging the gifts, and eating the ham.

Speaker 81 Make the most of your unsustainable freedom while you still got it. We at the World Economic Forum wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new world order.
So long, farewell. Ophelia saying, good luck.

Speaker 140 You know, Clinton and Cosby are Kelly and Kobe,

Speaker 140 Weinstein and Spacey, and Jared from Subway.

Speaker 19 But do you recall

Speaker 19 The most famous rapist of all

Speaker 142 Jeffery Edward Epstein Had an island full of kids

Speaker 142 Filmed them with politicians for Israeli influence

Speaker 43 All of the deep state assets were afraid of his arrest

Speaker 141 They didn't want their sex crimes posted to the internet

Speaker 141 So one Moggy New York night the Clinton cartel came

Speaker 141 Cameras glitched in the guards' naps while Jeffrey Epstein's neck was snapped Then all the media coverage

Speaker 141 Said it was a mystery

Speaker 141 You're not allowed to protest

Speaker 141 and we're blaming the Chinese

Speaker 141 Merry Christmas to filthy animal

Speaker 2 Well, that's an enlightening report It's uplifting for Christmas spirit. Your Christmas spirit must be flying high

Speaker 90 So along with this, of course, we have to My Christmas spirit is is

Speaker 109 very high.

Speaker 2 Well, I find it to be ridiculous. I thought the whole idea was you take the Ozembi so

Speaker 2 you can chow down.

Speaker 41 No, no, I think the reason why people are stopping is because otherwise you're throwing up all day.

Speaker 37 You know, it's like you go to have Christmas dinner.

Speaker 76 I got to go take a dump.

Speaker 49 I got to go puke. I don't feel good.

Speaker 129 Tis the season for holiday feasting. And now some using medications like Ozempic, Munjaro, and Wigovi for weight loss say they're taking a vacation from the drugs.

Speaker 132 Unpopular opinion in the semaglutide semaglutide world.

Speaker 129 Julie Stoll Kelly, who lost 38 pounds, says she's foregoing the appetite-suppressing semaglutide in favor of feeling less uncomfortably full and fielding fewer questions during festive meals.

Speaker 129 She skipped her dose during Thanksgiving.

Speaker 132 What I noticed was I was still able to eat the things that I really wanted to, indulge a little bit. I just had to be really conscious about how I was feeling,

Speaker 132 what I was eating, how fast I was eating it.

Speaker 129 For Kaylee Svensson, who lost 90 pounds on Munjaro, cutting back this time of year is a financial decision, a trade-off to put presents under the tree.

Speaker 143 It's something that is financially, extraordinarily expensive for our family to afford because our insurance isn't covering it.

Speaker 143 And if I can make a box last six weeks instead of four, that'll save me a couple hundred extra.

Speaker 96 I think this, I'll continue in a minute.

Speaker 79 I think this may be part of the ploy to get this thing on Medicare.

Speaker 85 Look at these poor people.

Speaker 81 They can't.

Speaker 44 In order to put presents under the tree,

Speaker 2 they have to sacrifice.

Speaker 83 Hope everybody had a Merry Christmas.

Speaker 74 I know that I had a great Christmas.

Speaker 83 We had one of the human resources and her boyfriend here.

Speaker 54 That was great.

Speaker 24 And I made double-dip depression slave stew for the day after Christmas, which everybody loved.

Speaker 76 If you've never heard of that, it's a no-agenda staple.

Speaker 99 I've published the link to the

Speaker 76 to the recipe in the show notes.

Speaker 33 Of course, the Dvorak family celebrates traditionally on the 29th of December.

Speaker 2 Well, no, actually, traditionally, we actually celebrate on the 1st of January. Of January,

Speaker 2 which was done in the 14th and 15th, or that 15th and 16th century by the Tudors, they would always do it on the 1st, and we feel this is more traditional.

Speaker 2 We believe in a traditional Christmas,

Speaker 2 so we do our gifts on the 1st of January.

Speaker 54 And are they doing it all at your place, or where's it taking place this year?

Speaker 2 Everyone's going to be here.

Speaker 117 Oh, that's nice.

Speaker 74 Eric as well? is he coming up from SD?

Speaker 2 No, Eric's going to stay.

Speaker 2 No, he's snowed in.

Speaker 38 Oh, so he won't be able to come in there. Of course.

Speaker 42 Of course.

Speaker 2 It's in South Dakota.

Speaker 23 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 And he's starting to talk like South Dakota.

Speaker 28 Oh, really?

Speaker 32 He's doing that now?

Speaker 2 No, not yet, but it's coming.

Speaker 23 See, I got to put my glasses on.

Speaker 29 You can put your glasses on and look at the light.

Speaker 2 It's the Christmas miracle. Now, wait a minute.
Before you play it, we've had animal stories. Yes.
We've had people stories.

Speaker 48 Babies in tornadoes stories.

Speaker 2 We have had everything so far, but we haven't had this kind of Christmas miracle.

Speaker 119 The holidays had a rocky start for the Hansons, but getting their car back just in time for Christmas, they say, is the best gift they could ask for.

Speaker 107 We got the news that it was stolen right after Thanksgiving.

Speaker 119 The only thing worse than having your car stolen is having it happen around the holidays.

Speaker 107 So it was gut-wrenching.

Speaker 119 Matt and Christy Hansen loved their 1995 Acura Integra so much, they invested $18,000 in restoring it for their son. But their plans vanished when it was stolen from a body shop on November 29th.

Speaker 29 It would be the best Christmas miracle.

Speaker 144 And that was one of the things that she had said, that it would really be a Christmas miracle and make their Christmas if they were able to find their car.

Speaker 119 Travis Christensen saw the story on KSL, but no one could imagine what happened next.

Speaker 107 It was like a needle in a house. haystack.

Speaker 119 On a work drive, Travis spotted the car tucked behind a building in Taylorsville.

Speaker 144 I got a closer look at the car and thought, man, this really looks like the car. And so I was able to go and dig up the KSL article.

Speaker 107 He messaged me, I think I found your car. He sent some pictures.
I couldn't believe it. He didn't want any of our reward money.
He was just happy to get our car back.

Speaker 144 It felt really good to be a part of that and helping them

Speaker 144 help get that car back to them so they could they could drive it and enjoy it and continue to make memories with it.

Speaker 119 Travis knows firsthand what it's like to have a car stolen, making this experience that much better.

Speaker 144 It's a really fun story to be a part of.

Speaker 107 This is another chapter in this car's story.

Speaker 119 As for the Hansons, they plan to pay it forward.

Speaker 107 I think it's a reminder that we can help other people

Speaker 107 more than we know.

Speaker 119 Now, as you heard, Travis isn't interested in that monetary reward, but he says he really wants to take a picture with the family and, of course, the red Acura. I'm Darna Mejia, KSL5 News.

Speaker 25 Aww, isn't that nice?

Speaker 79 You could have cut it down by 30 seconds.

Speaker 2 As long as it's under two minutes, I'm good with it.

Speaker 1 Well, it was a nice miracle.

Speaker 54 A Christmas miracle, the red Christmas miracle.

Speaker 28 The red acura is back.

Speaker 117 Oh, I'm so happy.

Speaker 49 A good news story from JCD.

Speaker 26 Happy vibes for you and me.

Speaker 23 And we all feel better now.

Speaker 49 He's done his bit.

Speaker 23 So back to reality that's turning to shit day

Speaker 7 good news everybody

Speaker 23 barreling down the mountain and broadcasting live from the heart of da vinci's hometown here in florence italy in the morning everybody i'm adam curry and i'm from northern silicon valley where it's wet i'm john c dvorak

Speaker 7 is really hot and buzzkill really

Speaker 54 That's all you got? It's just wet.

Speaker 1 It's just wet, everybody.

Speaker 2 I thought you were going to be in Amsterdam.

Speaker 73 No, I was in Amsterdam the first day, and then now we're in Florence because we're here for Christmas.

Speaker 2 I understood that you were going to go right to Italy and to do whatever it was you're doing, and then go to Amsterdam and do the show there.

Speaker 46 Well, you have it exactly backwards now, don't you?

Speaker 2 Obviously.

Speaker 76 Now, we went to Amsterdam first to do some stuff there, and then we went to Italy for my brother-in-law's 60th birthday, and we're staying, we're going to be here for Christmas.

Speaker 76 That's what's going on.

Speaker 29 How could you get that so wrong?

Speaker 23 I have no idea.

Speaker 86 It's unbelievable.

Speaker 50 So we almost didn't make it tonight for the show, which was rather exciting.

Speaker 2 Well, this is going to be an interesting story.

Speaker 4 Maybe not.

Speaker 2 This is the happy holidays clip. I have some conversations.

Speaker 90 You're starting with talk clips right off the bat.

Speaker 2 Oh, all my clips are talk clips.

Speaker 54 This is hurting the show.

Speaker 127 Wishing people a Merry Christmas when you don't know what holiday they celebrate is sort of like wishing someone a happy birthday when you don't know when their birthday is.

Speaker 131 Like, yeah, I get the sentiment, but you're a little off.

Speaker 29 That's neither here or there.

Speaker 127 But I get a kick out of the people who insist on saying Merry Christmas instead of just saying happy holidays. Happy holidays, everybody.

Speaker 32 We're back to this again.

Speaker 103 We still haven't figured this one out.

Speaker 33 We can't say Merry Christmas. But

Speaker 2 here's the question on my mind:

Speaker 2 when it's 4th of July,

Speaker 114 that's a holiday. Yes.

Speaker 2 Do we say happy holidays?

Speaker 35 No, we say happy 4th of July or Happy Independence Day.

Speaker 2 It's Veterans Day.

Speaker 48 Yeah, but it's day off.

Speaker 23 But hold on a second. This year, I saw your newsletter.

Speaker 76 You know, we still celebrate important things like Kwanzaa and Festivus.

Speaker 2 Kwanzaa's not a holiday.

Speaker 23 And Hanukkah started on the same.

Speaker 2 Hanukkah's not a holiday. There's no, you don't take, there's no federal time off for Hanukkah.
There's no federal time off for Kwanzaa.

Speaker 59 I see what you're getting at.

Speaker 54 You're getting at the holiday part.

Speaker 2 So if you say happy holiday, like say yesterday or today, what are you referring to?

Speaker 76 Why don't you enlighten me?

Speaker 2 You're referring to Christmas. Yes.
So why don't you say Merry Christmas or Happy Christmas? Because it's Christmas we're talking about here.

Speaker 2 When New Year comes, that's another holiday. You don't say happy, you don't say you say happy new year.
You don't say happy holidays during New Year. Why is it only Christmas

Speaker 2 that this issue comes up?

Speaker 23 Because there's a hatred of Christians is the only possible explanation.

Speaker 106 On the 12th day of Christmas, no agenda gave to me 12 years before extinction.

Speaker 89 The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change. We're all gonna die!

Speaker 106 11 jingles jingled!

Speaker 125 Someone's getting cornhole today.

Speaker 60 Oh my god, that is amazing!

Speaker 121 This is a bird of scumbags. Have you seen that juice?

Speaker 11 That's true.

Speaker 106 Nine Trump rotations.

Speaker 102 Narcissist.

Speaker 121 Mean. Long ties.

Speaker 3 Insane.

Speaker 2 Tweets too much.

Speaker 102 Small hands.

Speaker 121 Small penis. Big red button.

Speaker 9 Criminal.

Speaker 106 Eight glitches reported.

Speaker 3 Glitch.

Speaker 102 Glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch.

Speaker 106 Seven Obamas knowing.

Speaker 48 No, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 7 No.

Speaker 106 Six foamers foaming.

Speaker 106 Oh my god.

Speaker 106 Five emotional support goats.

Speaker 106 Four job commas.

Speaker 19 Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.

Speaker 106 Three jaunch chairs squeakings.

Speaker 7 Two little grootiers. Wow!

Speaker 63 Wow!

Speaker 63 And an hour, short and dealer's choice. Is this Crown Hog Day 2?

Speaker 70 Ho, ho, ho!

Speaker 81 Merry Christmas!

Speaker 1 Well, well, well, Sir Donald Winkley, you have deserved your executive producer credit.

Speaker 1 Actually,

Speaker 1 exactly

Speaker 1 producer credit, yeah, producer.

Speaker 1 He's

Speaker 2 Which is curiously in

Speaker 2 the biz, that's more valuable than executive. The executive read is just

Speaker 2 a suit.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
You want to be a producer, and you are one, Sir Donald Winkler. We appreciate that.
A night, a night jumping into it. You know, I actually sent a really notice, and he said, nice note.

Speaker 1 He said, ever since COVID, haven't been able to support you with much treasure, so I'm really happy I can contribute this way. And that's

Speaker 2 nice.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's how value for value works, and we live by it and we die by it. So remember to support us at noagendadonations.com.

Speaker 1 We will return on Sunday's show with a fresh new brand perspective on everything. That is a lot of good stuff.
There's a lot of good stuff.

Speaker 1 Until then, coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, Christmas Central. In Fredericksburg, Texas.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.

Speaker 2 Man from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're having, you know, getting a little rain finally. I'm John C.
Dvorak.

Speaker 1 We'll be back on Sunday. See you then.
And remember us at noagendadonations.com. Adios, mofos, a hooey hooey, and such.

Speaker 18 A Merry No Agenda Christmas,

Speaker 15 John and Adam

Speaker 15 to all

Speaker 15 the producers and duspects of Gidenmo Nation,

Speaker 15 hallelujah

Speaker 15 and thank you for

Speaker 15 your courage

Speaker 15 The best podcast in the hillers

Speaker 30 Devorak.org slash n a

Speaker 89 Merry Christmas, you filthy perverts.