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Good morning, everyone. 905 Dixon and Vining at Talk99.5 Talk99.5.com. Happy Monday to you. Two days till Christmas. We'll give you the weather forecast that looks like this. Nice today. It's going to be lots of sunshine. I have about 55. Looks good again tomorrow. Sunny skies in 59. Christmas Day, 50% chance of rain and I have 61. Thursday, cloudy, 10% chance of rain and I have 62. Alrighty.

So that's kind of what we got enjoyed today and tomorrow if you have some last-minute shopping to do. You got perfect weather for it. I don't know if you got out and about over the weekend, Richard, but it was a little hectic around some of them all. Yeah, I was. I traveled mostly on the back roads just because I didn't want to have to deal with that stuff and it worked out pretty well.

But boy, there's not a lot of cars in our parking lot this morning. I don't know if you've noticed that. It's kind of thin. It's a little on the thin side. Lots and lots of people are just making this a two week vacation, which is good for them. We're doing almost that.

Close. Manheim's team roller music tomorrow, and Manheim on Christmas Day. And then we will have some guest hosts that you can enjoy. Many of those you have heard on the air before, some of our partners at 1819 News. April Marie. Justin Chandler. Jeff Poor. Brian Dawson. Dustin Chandler. We refer to them as the P team.

Well, they're good, though. They're good Bt. The B plus D. B plus A minus. Oh, A minus. I'll give them an A minus. Wow. You do that. They're going to start wanting to get paid. I know. You can't do that.

Be plus. Don't even make that suggestion. Be plus for Christmas present to them is to give them a name on it. All right, Christmas time. It is here, folks. And, you know, the temperature is overnight really chilly. Last Saturday night, Sunday, even today, it's chilly out there. And if your windows that you have in your home right now are not good quality windows, odds are that it's getting harder and harder to heat your home.

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All right, Steve, I assume you've got this ready to go. This is from many, many years ago when I came to the conclusion that, do they know it's Christmas by banded worst song ever written? And I decided to start picking it apart line by line on the air. And quite frankly, I had only thought of a little bit of it. Like before I started, I wasn't really sure where I was going with it. So this sort of developed in real time,

It's a dumber song that I even thought it was. I mean, the deeper we got into it, the more I was like, this is really idiotic, you know? It gets requested a lot every year and we agree to play it twice. So we played it last Friday, early, and we're playing it today, late. This is my breakdown of, do they know it's Christmas? I have long maintained that the song, do they know it's Christmas? Is the worst song

ever when it comes to Christmas time. Yes, even worse than wonderful Christmas time because well, wonderful Christmas time is trite while it is meaningless. It's not harmful at least. It's, it's not

atrocious or difficult to listen to or painful on so many different levels, which do they know its Christmas is? Now, when you think about the people that were involved in this thing, I mean, you had members of Duran Duran. You had Sting. You had Bono for Christ's sake. Bono of you, too, involved in this. And yes, George Michael and Wham. But these guys all had hit records.

of which you could say, well, that's some damn fine musical writing right there. These guys actually wrote some pretty good songs. And then you listen to this piece of Christmas joy, and you say, what the hell happened? Did nobody's writing Instinct kick in to stop this from happening? Did nobody say, you know, I like the tune, and I think it's a great sentiment, but we could use a little work on two or three of the lines.

Nobody bothered to do that. Maybe more importantly, it started a spate of these, let's all get together and get a supergroup to help out in some capacity. And that was a trend that went on through the 80s until somebody finally realized, hey, no one likes this, we should stop it. Thank you for recognizing that, by the way, whoever you were, blessed soul. Now, line by line, when you disassemble, do they know it's Christmas, which is what we're about to do?

You will see with me. That it is in fact the worst Christmas song ever written. Here we go, fire away. Do they know it's Christmas? This is a happy little ditty. I'm gonna be humming this all day. Nice. It's Christmas time. There's no need to be afraid. Okay, stop. It's Christmas time. There's no need to be afraid.

When have those two thoughts ever held someone's mind at the same time? Hey, kids, it's Christmas time. Oh, no, no, there's no need to be afraid. Wait, wait, wait, when the hell was anybody ever afraid of Christmas? Until, of course, you get older and you have to spend it with your in-laws. Then, yeah, okay. But honestly, do you actually need to tell people there's no need to be afraid of Christmas?

All right, roll it. Hang it up a little. Okay, stop. What the hell is that? We let in light and we banish shade. Sure, I think that's a pretty reasonable thought we've all had at Christmas time, haven't we? Hey, good morning. It's Christmas time. Everybody let in light and banish shade.

Are these guys just phoning it in at this point? Seriously, nobody stopped them and said, your first two lines are crap. Let's go back to the writing board and see if we can't come up with something better. But the important thing is they rhyme, right? I have a feeling that's what they were going for. Well, we just have to have something that gets the ball rolling and rhymes. But if you think about it, these two lines mean exactly nothing. Roll it.

Boy George. You gotta love it. Spread a smile of joy. Okay, stop!

At least the first two lines trite and stupid, though they were rhymed. There's no need to be afraid, let in light and ban a shade. The next two lines, we can spread a smile of joy, throw your arms around the world at Christmas time. Could you honestly not come up with something that rhymed with the word joy? Was it that hard toy? Boy, Myrna Loy, for the love of God, you're not even trying. Roll it.

Okay, stop. Again, the brilliant use of the English language, but say a prayer to pray for the other ones. Some breakdown of the word pray or prayer twice in three words.

Honestly, Abraham Lincoln put together the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope in a short train ride and managed to write something significantly better than this. These guys had time. They had alcohol at their disposal. And this is what they came up with. Say a prayer to, to what? Say a prayer to think of the other ones? Say a prayer to remember the other ones? Say a prayer. No, wait. Say a prayer to pray for the other ones.

Brilliant. I love it. Let's go with it. Roll. It is hard. Okay, stop. There's a world outside my window and it's a world of dread and fear. Only if you live in Bessemer.

All right, roll. All right, stop. The only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears. You know, there is water in Africa. Are you familiar with Lake Victoria? It's a huge lake. It's one of multiple large lakes in Africa. Maybe you're familiar with a little river there. It's called the Nile.

It's massive! But the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears. Seriously guys, you could have gotten a world book encyclopedia, maybe looked up a little something in Africa before you wrote the song. I'm just saying! Okay, stop!

The Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom. Well, this is just a happy little Christmas number, isn't it? I feel better already, go! Okay, stop!

This is really possibly the worst line in the entire song. Break it down for a second. Tonight, thank God it's them instead of you. Let's imagine how that prayer would go. Oh, dear Lord. Thank you so much for making sure that somebody on the other side of the planet is starving instead of me.

Thank you for visiting him with cursed boils, horrible dysentery, and God knows what kind of venereal diseases instead of me. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, little baby, Jesus, and your solid gold diaper. Don't even know your names and your shapes yet. Thank you for making sure that umbutu-ai is actually the one dying and not me.

Really? You want to throw an African you've never met under the bus? Thank God it's them instead of you! Oh my God! And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time! Alright, stop! You know why there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time?

because it's in the Southern Hemisphere, because when it's winter here, it's summer there. So no, there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time. And by the way, if there were, these people would probably just freeze to death, and then you'd have something else more horrible to sing about.

Okay, stop. The greatest gift they'll get this year is life. When you stop to think about it, that's not a bad little gift. Hey, congratulations, little Ombutu. You get to live for another year. Awesome! Thanks, Santa! Okay, hold it! Did I mention the Nile?

No rain or rivers, did I mention Lake Victoria? Seriously guys, look at a map or something before you start writing. Alright, you know, you know what? They don't. Oh wait, that's my favorite part. Alright, stop!

Here's to you, raise a glass for everyone. Here's to them underneath that burning sun. Seriously, are we drinking a toast to the Africans dying underneath the burning sun? Is that what's happening at this point in the song?

Here's to you, Mr. Underneath the Burning Sun. You've just spent all day being chased by a lion. Your distended belly flopping in the breeze as you try desperately to get away. Here's to you, Mr. Underneath the Burning Sun. It's like a bad Bud Light commercial, isn't it? Don't raise a glass to dying Africans. What's wrong with you people? Do they know it's Christmas time?

Okay, the answer is no. The answer is no, they don't know it's Christmas time. Because, and this is important, 65% of the African continent is what? Muslim. They're Muslim and they don't celebrate Christmas. They celebrate Ramadan or whatever.

I have to give props where props are due. This song and its sales helped raise so much money that then went to purchase food that was flown to Ethiopia, where it was immediately scarfed up by the handful of people in that country that had any wealth and power at all.

while everyone Bob yelled off was trying to help, continued to starve and live a horrible life. Okay? The problem isn't that there isn't food available. The problem in almost every single poor African nation is that they have a corrupt government that refuses to allow their citizens the freedom

to make and do and be and survive. They got wealthy on the backs of their citizens and they're going to continue to get wealthy on the backs of their citizens. And that's not a happy Christmas thought. I appreciate what you tried to do there, Bob. I really do. I wish you'd gotten yourself a couple of better songwriters. And the next time you hear that song, do yourself a favor and change the channel.

Was that the extended dance remix version, Steve? That felt longer than the last time we played it on Friday. I don't think it was. Well done, Richard. The first time I heard that was many years ago. I was like, can I hear that again, please? It's become a Christmas classic. It's just, it's well done. That's all I know to say because you broke that down absolutely beautifully.

Thank you. And you know, the great thing is David Sears recorded it. And so I don't have to do it every year live. Yeah, that's good. We just play it. Just break it back out again. And it seems to be a big fan favorite. 922 Dixitivining. Steve gets a very short turn coming up next. 926 Dixitivining. Talk 995. Talk 995.com. Thanks for being here. This is our final show of 2024. And as promised, it has been half-assed.

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Yeah, really. Saturday, unfortunately, learned about the passing of Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Ricky Henderson, born Ricky Nelson on Christmas Day, 1958 in Chicago, turns out as his mother was on the way to the hospital, he couldn't wait. He says he was born in the backseat of an osmobile and joked about it by saying I was already fast. I just couldn't wait. They do say, by the way, he was named after the singer, Ricky Nelson, apparently his parents liked him.

It was a natural Southpaw when he was in Little League, but he said he learned about right-handed, so it was kind of a rarity. Actually, historians say only about 57 players in all of Major League Baseball history could bat-righty and throw lefty on a regular basis. He explained that all of his friends batted right-handed, so that's the way he thought it was supposed to be done.

Very athletic as a youth, he not only played and excelled at baseball, he played basketball, was an all-American running back in high school, put up to 1,000 yard in seasons, tried track too, but the schedule was in conflict with baseball, so he chose baseball. But he got offered several football scholarships.

It was his mom who changed his mind. His mom noted that football players had shorter careers, so he turned down those scholarship offers and took the offer from the Oakland Athletics. The A's had drafted him in the fourth round of the 1975 MLB draft. He worked his way up through the minor league ladder, finally got a call up to the major league team midway through the 1979 season.

In his first start, went two for four with a stolen base. He would actually finish out the season there, batting two 79, stealing 33 bases, and that is where everything started. Stole 100 bases in 1980, setting the A's new all-time single-season record for that time, which he then broke in 1982. Not only breaking the team record, but setting a new major league record for steals in a year when he swiped 130, was actually more than nine out of the than 14 American League teams, and still is the record for a season.

Thing is, he could also begin to show a knack for hitting lead-off home runs. Started to get some power going. Wasn't enough for the A's to keep him, and he started to get traded around after 1984, got traded to the Yankees. The Yankees traded him back to the A's in 1989. Finally won his World Series. He did note one strikeout in his career.

In 1990, he was actually the 5,000th strikeout victim from Nolan Ryan. He ended up bouncing around a lot and finally retired. By the time he retired, he held the career records in several different categories. For run scored, 2,295 stolen bases, 1,406. That's far more than second place Lou Brock tallied at 939.

Fourth all time in games played 3,081 13th and career at bats 10,961 and he has over 3,000 hits in his career as well. 81 lead off home runs in his career far ahead of second place George Springer who sits at 56. Unfortunately, he was diagnosed with pneumonia that put him into the hospital a few days ago and he passed away on Saturday, Ricky Henderson, 65 years old.

Well he may have ended up on first base in heaven but he's on third base already. You know he took it real fast. That did not take but a moment. St. Peter started to talk and he just went right in. Guy was amazing.

The fact that we are still listening to that 30 years later shows just how good it is. I mean, it is a brilliant concept. It's been 30 years. He mentions O.J. Simpson, of course, and that was 95, I want to say, 94.95. This was after. I mean, obviously he

the whole trial thing had gone on, which is why he says, he's not you. He's not you. I want to make sure that's perfectly clear. But yeah, I mean, it was a really rather brilliant. He's got two other versions of it. And I believe that's three total versions of the Hanukkah song. And they're all... See, he should do more of those. The lunch lady, this one. He could just be the Hanukkah guy.

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uh... because it's not tight you know i mean it's it's loose if you get a loosey-goosey rat job there how's it what you got with it that is your present it's the wrapped in the same present uh... gift wrap that you have uh... which is nice that's perfect i got one for steve as well and uh... i think i'll be in there just to bring you my career goal

This is a big dicks in a vining present exchange. You don't get to find out what's in these presents until January 6th, because we don't open our presents until Christmas Day. That's the way real people do it. Oh, marvelous. Look at this.

I got two presents, and they're both boxed very nicely and wrapped in wonderful paper. This is significantly better than anything I've done. Okay, now I'm just embarrassed. Oh, look at this. Hey, it's a sweater. It's a sweater. Steve has given me a lovely gift as well. Look at this. Green and ornamental. It's quite nice. Okay, wow. This is a lot of stuff. I'm gonna have to carry all this out. A lot of stuff. A lot of stuff, Richard. Just keep it coming. Look at you. Just keep it coming. Thank you.

I'm inevitably the person in the house that has the fewest gifts under the tree, so it's nice that you guys are coming through for me here. Yeah, Merry Christmas Richard. There you go. Steve. Oh wait. Take this away. That's that truck Christmas wrapping paper we were talking about. Everybody loves it. It's so attractive.

Good Lord. Here's another one. You got me three. Open that one first, Richard. Can you open it? Now? Yeah, you open that one. And if you want to wait on the other ones, because I was really excited about this particular thing. I was really excited. Okay. The other ones are really good too, but this one I was really excited. I'm opening this. It's the same size and shape as the one I gave you and is wrapped in the same paper, which is worrying me.

It's so, it's not the same thing. Do you ever have on your list that gift where you're like, you can't wait for somebody to open it? And I found that gift and I better not say what family member I found it for. Lovely.

But one gift I'm especially excited about. OK. I'm trying. You might need to use that pen to open that up. Hold on a second. I can bring you a knife. Slid it right down there. There you go. Get this over here. And this is very heavy. This is an extremely good one. They go right down the middle of it. There you go. Have an anvil in it. It might. He'll say it. OK.

Here we go. It's a brown box. I'll try to describe it. Brown box. He's doing play-by-play on the present opener. Here we go. Oh, look at this. This is really heavy. It's the licorice.com red Australian. Well, and I'm going to assume. Oh, no, I'm OK. Red boat boat. No. Oh, OK.

The better not be read, I'm going to be really mad if they're read. This says red, Australia. The better not be. I'm going to be so mad because I know what your favorite flavor of licorice is. Did they mess up? I don't know. I'm going to be like, I'm not going to be happy about this.

I will be peeved. I'd be like, no, I know what flavor I ordered. That would be Richard's favorite flavor. Black licorice. If it's red, I'm going to lose it. I'm going to lose it. They really didn't want me getting at this. They're very, very security minded there at licorice.com.

You got it. Woo! Yeah! Great, there's one on the other side too. Oh geez, sorry. What are you people doing today here? Stop it! It better not be read. Aw, Richard, I'm gonna be like, I'm so sorry. I ordered black licorice. I like red licorice too. Well... Nothing not to like about it.

Don't tell me it's red eating a piece right now That's supposed to be black as well both of them because I know how much do you loved it? So there you go. That's like a year supply of liquor. Uh-huh. Yeah, a little at a time. How is it yummy?

Licorice. Good. Okay. Perfect. I love it. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas and thank you both. Thank you all. Thank you. In advance. I didn't get you licorice, Steve. That's fine. That's not what's in there. I appreciate it.

You're right over there, Richard. Now I can't do the rest of the show. Your Christmas presents suck this year because, you know, both your birthday and your Christmas presents last year were awesome. So this year you get like suck-ass gifts. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Hey, the Lion King opened to a disastrous $35 million. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Well, Debbie said it wasn't very good. She didn't like it. Well, and if you get the CGI wrong,

You know, it becomes glaringly obvious. And sometimes it kind of gets annoying, if not nauseating. And she said that too. I remember she said the CGI was all kind of messed up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, the original opened to 200 million dollars. So they kind of figured, oh, this ought to be huge. We'll be able to do this. No. Didn't have got a 57% rotten tomatoes score. No. No, 57% rotten, I guess. So it said that bad.

Moana 2, a monster hit doing very, very well. Moana 2 is going to be a billion dollars easy. This one just not resonating with people. Again, it's like, why? Okay, obviously people like Moana so we can see why they're going to make a sequel to that. But did we need a prequel to the Lion King? Was that necessary? No, was it? No, it was not.

Once again, running out of ideas. Let's just make a sequel. It's always case of prequel. Well, especially since this was.

You know, this was the live action version of it, which is still CGI, of course. You know, it's not really live. It's, it's all motion capture and crap like that. So crazy to me that they were like, well, hey, that went really well. Let's go ahead and make another one and make a prequel instead of coming up with new ideas. Disney gets your act together. Guys, you're killing me. You're killing me. Kelly Clarkson.

and I have something in common. Oh, do tell. Brilliant voices. No. She cooks too. She does from what I understand. What she did was she had a holiday picture of her with the family and all of the stockings are hung by the chimney with care. That's nice. It's got her name.

her son's name, her daughter's name, and a fourth stocking that says, nope. Oh, wow. Did you feel it necessary to put that up? I'm like, apparently so. Somebody's a bit bitter. She just got through a divorce that apparently was not, I don't know, I get a couple of years ago from what I understand, but yeah.

i'm i feel very much that way as well i've just come at the point where i'm like yeah that's not nope we don't need that anymore you know we're done with that that's not going to happen i feel this kelly i feel it in my very bones and uh... you saw the movie uh... it ends with us on Friday said

Yeah, that was kind of creepy. I was looking for something just to chill and relax and that was the movie creepy or the fact that the story came out. Well, that's what was so weird because I watched it Friday night and then it was Saturday I woke up and I saw that there's this Blake Lively who was suing Justin

baldani for sexual harassment. So if you see the movie and then you wake up the next day, it was almost as if the movie came alive and was real because of what happened in the movie. It freaked me out. I was like, what? And apparently, yeah, I was like, the guy's creepy in the movie. And if what is true that she's alleging, it makes it 10 times creepier.

well he's uh... whoa that they actually have some recording of him he has uh... spoken to a p r firm who specializes in this think about that there is a p r firm out there that specializes in uh... trying to rehabilitate your image after you've been accused of sexual harassment i bet in hollywood they're very busy i bet they are uh... he had a phone call with them and uh... then he ended up with a getting a letter

And he says, I'm not as happy about the letters not making me feel as comfortable as the phone call did with these guys. And it's like, well, how about this? Don't sexually harass people on set and you'd be okay. Terrible. Yeah, apparently he wanted a couple of more scenes with Blake Lively, who's great in this film. And it's, you know, you have to see it. But he's in the, from the beginning, you're kind of guy. This guy, there's something awful little bit. And she's married to Ryan Reynolds.

I mean, cute as he can be, and I'm sure that he's probably thinking to myself, what was this guy doing on the set with my wife? And this just wasn't, hey, we're playing these different roles to make this movie. This guy was probably, I don't know. Again, it's weird. It's very strange. It might be a method actor. Yeah. I would say that...

ryan rentals could take care of this pretty quickly yes he probably could just hit hit justin with his wallet and it would be over that would be done at that point

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Rob G says, next year Richard needs a pocket knife for Christmas, apparently none of you own one. I do, but I was in this room. Here's why I don't carry a pocket knife. I don't remember if it was you or if it was Jim Dent that gave me a very nice little keychain pocket knife. It was a tiny little knife that I kept on my keychain. And sure enough, I'm getting on the plane.

Go to Ireland and I'm like, had to give it up. And that was my problem is that I get so used to carrying this pocket knife, I would carry a pocket knife with me everywhere I went. And I got tired of giving them up at concerts and every time you go somewhere or travel or whatever. And I'm like, I could not for the life of me remember to get the damn thing out of my pocket before I went to this event. So I was losing knives that were worth like 60 and 80 bucks. So then I just started buying cheap knives. Yeah, like cheap sunglasses. Yeah, because you're going to lose them anyway.

And it didn't matter. I mean, the cheap, first off, the cheap knives don't work as well as the expensive knives. And secondly, you really look like a thug when you're pulling that $2 knife out of your pocket. And I didn't like the way people were looking at me. So I stopped carrying a pocket knife just because of that, because the world is too dangerous. Yes, it is. 952 with Dixon & Vine and the Dixon & Vine in question of the day, final one of the year coming your way. Next song was put out to placate the record company.

after the Eagles were taking so long to finish the long run that Don Henley said, what about we cut a Christmas song and we give them that just for at least around Christmas time. And they chose Charles Brown's, please come home for Christmas. This to me, the definitive version. Now, I love Charles Brown's version. Don't get me wrong. I love Bonnie rates version too. That's good. But this one is is the one that I think everybody goes with.

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Question of the day. Oh, what is your favorite Christmas memory? Just that simple. What is your favorite Christmas memory? Steve-o.

I moved down here the summer. I turned five. We went back up to Massachusetts to his parents, my dad's parents place. And that's the last white Christmas that I can remember at the age of five because most every one of them have been spent either here or in Fort Walton Beach where my grandparents moved after my grandfather retired or the last couple of years my dad worked at the VA hospital. He transferred to the Biloxi one.

So that's, yeah. Wow. I don't, I don't know white Christmases as a general rule. So that's the one. I had more than your fair share of them. What about you, Valley?

You know, for the most part, it's just missing being with, like, grandparents when you were little. That the whole family would get together at Christmas, extended family, and, you know, grandparents on both sides, and not having them apart at Christmas anymore. I have no clue what that's about, because I only had one surviving grandparent when I was born, and I didn't care for that much.

How about you, Richard? I remember when my daughter turned, she was three, and she was on the verge of four shifts a couple of months away from four. And Santa dropped off a play kitchen and a bicycle, a little bicycle, and a Barbie car.

And it was my job to put them all together. Oh, Richard. Under the Christmas tree. It was great, man. I had a glass of scotch in one hand and a cigar. I was watching Steve Martin's Twist of Fates, Simple Twist of Fate. It was about 11 o'clock at night. And I was putting these stories together. And I just thought, were there a couple of, was there a couple of leftover screws when everything was done with that cocktail? Yeah, back January 6, 6 a.m. Bub by now.

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