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which means no politics here tonight. We're just going to be talking about Christmas and celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, because again, that is the reason for the sea, and that's the reason we're putting out this. Of course, for those of you who want to listen to the political podcast, you can go back and you can listen to our one hundredth episode that we released earlier this week featuring our good friend in the original
host of The Right Side radio program, Senator Chris McDaniel. So check that episode out and you can get your political dose. But the thought process behind putting together a Christmas episode is there going to be a lot of you out there that are making the drive to go see your family. I myself will be listening to this episode as I drive down towards Gangesville, Florida, to go see my mother, go see my sister, my nieces, my aunt.
Of course this Christmas, they'll be an incredible void, sadly since this will be the first Christmas without my father, but I will honor him in several ways. One of the most important is by going down there and being with them. So we're not going to make this a sad holiday. And this isn't going to be a sad show. There's going to be time here soon for reflection and a sad show, but not today. Today we're going
to be festive. We're going to be celebratory. So we do want to start things off with something that to me is one of the greatest things that it's one of the greatest things from my childhood. But it's also something that I took for granted. It's something you wouldn't see network television putting into a new special. These days, they run from the idea of what Christmas truly
is supposed to represent. But they didn't run from this idea when Charles Schwartz insisted that they put in this speech from Linus in the Charlie Brown Christmas Special. And this speech is one that every year that I put out a Christmas show. I'm going to play this speech because I think that it is impactful. I think it's meaningful, and I think it is something we should all listen to. Here we're hopeless, Charlie Brown, completely hopeless. Rats.
You've been done before, Charlie Brown, but this time you really did it. Not at true. I guess you are right, Linus. I shouldn't have picked this little tree. Everything I do turns into a disaster. I guess I really don't know what Christmas is all about. Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about? Pure hardy Brown? I can tell you what Christmas is all about mine, please, And there were in the same country, shepherds abiding in the field keeping watch over their flock by night.
And lo, the Angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shall round about them. And they were sore afraid, and the Angel set unto them. If you're not for behold, I bring your tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign. Unto you. You shall find the Babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in the manger.
And suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace good will toward me. Have a holy jolly Christmas. It's the best time all the years. I don't know if there will be snow, but I have a cup of you. Have a holy jolly Christmas. And when you walk down the sleeper, say hello the friends you know and everyone you meet. Oh, the mistletoe hung where you can see, some body waits for you.
Kiss her once for me. Have a holy jolly Christmas. And in case you didn't here, oh my golly, have a holly, jolly Christmas this year. Have a jolly Christmas. It's the best time. Have a holy jolly Christmas. And when you walk down the street, say Hellord a friend to know, and everyone you meet, oh hol the missletoe hung where you can see some body waits for you. Kisser once for me. Have a holy jolly Christmas, and invace you here, oh my dolly, have
a holly jolly Christmas this year. All right, guys, and we're getting back into the program itself. One of the great things about Christmas, of course, is seeing it through the eyes of children, and you know again that can take you back to your time as a child. Christmas was a magical time, and it becomes a little less magical as we get older, but not because it shouldn't be, and not because it truly isn't because we get wrapped up on the other things. We get stressed out because we can't
afford all the wonderful Christmas gifts that we feel like our family deserves. We get overburdened because how much family is around us, and we're not accustomed to that, and we start to try to push back against some of that. We need to be a little bit more mindful of that stuff because, again, and I'm speaking from experience, more so this year than ever before, you never know when this might be the last Christmas that you're celebrating with a
loved one. You never know when this might be the final time, So you need to stop and enjoy it, don't fight, try to find that common ground just for a couple of days. You can start your arguments with your brother and your sister in a couple of days. If your mom makes you angry, if your dad upsets you, let it go this weekend. There's no reason to hold on to that. And there's absolutely no reason why you should hold onto any type of animosity against your family members that could potentially
cost you more time. As I'm making this drive down to Gangsville, Florida from Mississippi, it's a long drive and why I don't like making it, It's going to be very worth it, and I am definitely looking forward to getting to see everybody again. I already saw my brother and my sister in law when they came here to Ellisville a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, they're not going to be able to make it down to Gainesville, but I do hope that we can try to get a Christmas with all of us together
soon. Whether it's get the family down there in Gangesville to come back to Mississippi for Christmas or get all of us down there to Gangesville, I don't know, but that's my dream. That's what I hope to see happen in the near future, is that we can try to figure out a way to get us all back together that are still around, because again, we know that these moments are fleeting. As a kid, you look at this and
it's always out in front of you. It's always right there. There's the highs and the highs of like the Christmas that I got the Death Star playset was incredible, and then there was the not so great Christmas because I was too upset that I didn't get the Gijo aircraft carrier or whatever it was, because I was too wrapped up in everything. But what Christmas truly is but Linus. He lays it out for you in that speech that I played just a second ago. He lays it out for you, and I think that
that is what we need to remember. Jesus is the reason for the season. We have to embrace that as I was getting ready for the show. I was listening to some of the recorded Christmas messages that I got from some of our friends last year, you know, and I'm going to probably play
some of those. I didn't call them. I didn't get these re recorded for twenty twenty three, probably because I decided to put together a show and record a Christmas special last minute, so I didn't take the time to say, hey, guys, y'all want to call in and do this again, because I didn't do it that way this year, and I probably should have. But I had some great people come on last year and give us some
Christmas well wishes, and they're still meaningful and they're still impactful. So I'm going to play them for you right here and let you guys hear this real quick. Right here, all right, guys, is Jack Fairchild's again and I am now joined by Kelvin Dogg Smith. For those of you who remember from earlier this year, Dog came on as one of the guests on our first ever roundtable discussion. Dog welcome back to the right side, and Merry Christmas to you. Marry Christmas to you, brother. How are you?
I'm doing good, my friend, and I understand you wanted to join in in the party and deliver your own Christmas message to the listeners. Absolutely, you got it, You ready for it? Go ahead, my friend. Well, friends, I just want to wish you all Marry Mary Christmas, and just remind you that we do not have this Christmas season or this holiday season at all without Jesus. So I just pray that you get to spend a lot of time with family and that Jesus is at the center of it.
And I just pray for safety and just pray that you all have a great time. And again, Merry Christmas to you all. Hey, guys, welcome back here. This is Jack Fairchild again and I am joined with Dan Carr from the National Conservative Club and let Mississippi Vote. Dan, welcome back to the right side. And I know that you've got a special Christmas wish for the listeners out there as well. Jack, I do. Man. At first, I just want to say thank you for all that you
do for conservatives all across the great state of Mississippi. And it's great to hear your voice and you've got such a strong conservative message and strong voice for our calls, and I just want to say thank you. And Merry Christmas to you and your family, and I really appreciate all that you do and to your listeners. You know, I just want to say Merry Christmas to each and one of you, and I pray that you have a great time with your family. Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year.
We get to celebrate the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ, who came, who was born of Mary, and he lived for thirty three and a half years a perfect sinless life, and he died on that old rug across for our sins. And this is one of my favorite times of the year to celebrate the birth of the Messiah, to celebrate the birth of Christ. And then of course getting to spend time with family. You know, you can't beat that, and just getting to spend time and watch your children open
up their gifts. It's just a wonderful time. And I just want to say Mary Christmas to each other one of you, and thank you for listening. I'm to the right Side Radio. Thank you for listening, thank you for joining in week after week. And it's because of you that makes what we do possible. And I just want to say thank you, and I pray that you have a Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you as well, Dan, And for those who haven't heard it yet, check out the Dan
Carr podcast as well. Dan puts out what I like to call quick hitter podcast that are really quick, short mess just out there that I think are really important. Dan, So thank you for all that you're doing as well. Merry Christmas, my friend. All right, guys, I'm now joined by Jerald Wade. Of course you know Jerald was a guest on this program. He was also one of the members of our first roundtable discussion. Jerald, welcome back to the right side. Hey, Jack's good to be back.
Well, Jerald, I know that you have a Merry Christmas message out there for our listeners, so I just want to give you the opportunity to wish everyone to Merry Christmas. Absolutely well. You know, this is a great time of the year, Christmas time, and we think about all the presents and the toys and the things that we give and the things that we get, but we just need to constantly remember that a month of Jesus Christ, we wouldn't have a reason for this type of time of year, the
real reason for this season. So Merry Christmas to everyone, and hope you have a great Christmas season as well as a great new All right, guys, I am now joined byvery good friend Jim Sigelski of The Buckneked Truth and the Laurel Leader Call. Jim, welcome back to the Right Side. Thank you, Jack, appreciate it well, Jim. I wanted to have you on as part of this Christmas special episode so you could take a chance to wish our listeners and merry Christmas as well well. On behalf of Buck and
everybody at the Bucks, and you could choose. First of all, Jack, I want to thank you for so leman for instance year and being one of our best cats all year. We really appreciate the Right Side Radio podcast and I want to wish every right blooded patriot out there very merry Christmas. Thank you too, and Merry Christmas to you as well. All right, guys, I'm now with our good friend Richard Conrad. As you guys all know, Richard was a guest on our Round Table, the first round Table
episode that we did earlier this year. Richard, of course, is well known around these parts as a columnist and one of the original founders of One of the tea party groups here in Jones County. Richard, welcome back to the right side. Thank you, Jack. I just want to wish everyone and very merry Christmas, and don't forget what it's truly about. It's about the present Christ. I hope to say here. Absolutely, Richard, do
you have anything special planned for Christmas this year? Just being with family, just trying to take a break for politics and just enjoy what Christmas is truly about. Absolutely, my friend. Thank you so much, and Merry Christmas to you as well. Merry Christmas. All right, guys. So I am now joined with Lewis Garvin, my longtime co host back in the terrestrial radio days. Lewis, welcome back to the right side. Merry Christmas to you. Merry Christmas, Jack. I appreciate you having me on. This
is great. I just won't go wish everybody out there that has listened to us over the years and is listening now, and they love America. They love what we're doing in this world as Christians. We're celebrating Christ his birthday, and I thank him for what he has done and what he is doing and what he's going to do. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone. Thank you Lewis, Hello Christmas. We love you so who does thinking love you? Deco shuns over it, hon a Christmas dream, Oh would
be the same. You are you with me when those blue snowfully start falling? That's when those blue mel breeze start calling him. You will be to when are with your gris mother. But have a blue, blue, blue blue Christmas. You'll be when all ri with your brand have a blue blue blue blue. All right, guys, thank y'all for listening there, and thank you to our friends for those Christmas wishes that they recorded last year. So for those of you that heard me referencing the first ever round Table from
earlier this year, that's technically last year. So if you missed it and you want to go back and hear those guys on that round table, go back to last year's podcast and it will be the first one titled round Table. So check it out. I think you guys will enjoy that episode as well. Everyone does good job, but I just I felt like I wanted to keep those guys included, despite the fact that I didn't get a chance
to update their Christmas wishes for everyone this year. But I wanted to keep them included in the Christmas Show. So I was able to do that by going ahead and pulling back out of the archives and finding that stuff. Another
thing that I wanted to play that I played on last year's show. Ronald Reagan, of course, was a strong Christian president, and listening to his Christmas Eve address from nineteen eighty three, it's really a nice comforting throwback from what we get today, because you don't really get Christian values put out there
by our current president. Expect to see Joe Biden addressing the nation on Christmas Eve in invoking Christ, but Ronald Reagan did, and I think it's worth sharing this address once again, my fellow Americans, like so many of your homes, the white houses brimming with greens, colorful decorations, and a tree trimmed and ready for Christmas Day, And when Nancy and I look out from our upstairs windows, we can see the National Christmas Tree standing in majestic beauty.
Its lights fill the air with a spirit of love, hope, and joy from the heart of America. I shared that spirit recently when a young girl named Amy Benham helped me light our national tree. Amy had said that the tree that lights up our country must be seen all the way to heaven. And she said that her wish was to help me turn on its lights. Well, Amy's wish came true, But the greatest gift was mine, because I saw her eyes light up with hope and joy, just as brightly
as the lights on our national tree. And I'm sure they were both seen all the way to heaven, and they made the angels sing. Christmas is a time for children, and rightly so we celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Peace, who came as a babe and a manger. Some celebrate Christmas as the birthday of a great teacher and philosopher, but to other millions of
us, Jesus is much more. He is divine, living assurance that God so loved the world he gave us his only begotten sons, so that by believing in Him and learning to love each other, we could one day be together in paradise. It's been said that all the kings whoever reigned, at all the parliaments that ever sat, have not done as much to advance the cause of peace on earth and goodwill to men as the man from Galilee, Jesus of Nazareth. Christmas is also a time to remember the treasures of our
own history. We remember one Christmas in particular, seventeen seventy six, our first year as a nation. The Revolutionary War had been going badly, but George Washington's faith, courage, and leadership would turn the tide of history off our way. On Christmas Night, he led a band of ragged soldiers across the Delaware River through driving snow to a victory that saved the cause of independence. It said that their root of march was stained by bloody footprints, but
their spirit never falded, and their will could not be crushed. The image of George Washington kneeling in prayer in the snow is one of the most famous in American history. He personified a people who knew it was not enough to depend on their own courage and goodness. They must also seek help from God, their father and preserver. In a few hours, families and friends across
America will join together in caroling parties and Christmas Eve services. Together we'll renew that spirit of faith, peace and giving which has always marked the character of our people. In our moments of quiet reflection, I know we will remember our fellow citizens who may be lonely and in need tonight is the Christmas spirit
still alive? Some ask, well, you bet it is. Being Americans, we open our hearts to neighbors less fortunate, We try to protect them from hunger and cold, and we reach out in so many ways, from Toys for Tots drives across the country to good Will, but the Salvation Army to American Red Cross efforts which provide food, shelter, and Christmas cheer from
Atlanta to Seattle. Churches are so generous it's impossible to keep track. One example, Reverend Bill Single's Presbyterian meeting house in nearby Alexandria, Virginia, is simultaneously sponsoring hot meals on wheels programs, making and delivering hundreds of sandwiches and box loads of clothes, while visiting local hospitals and sending postcards to shut ins
and religious dissidents abroad. Let us remember the families who maintain a watch for their missing in action, and yes, let us remember all those who are persecuted inside the Soviet Block, not because they commit a crime, but because they love God in their hearts and want the freedom to celebrate Hanukah or worship the Christ Child. And because faith for us is not an empty word,
we invoke the power of prayer to spread the spirit of peace. We ask protection for our soldiers who are guarding peace to night from frigid outposts in Alaska and the Korean Demilitarized Zone to the shores of Lebanon. One Lebanese mother told us that her little girl had only attended school two of the last eight years. Now, she said, because of our presence there, her daughter can live a normal life with patience and firmness. We can help bring peace to
that strife torn region and make our own lives more secure. The Christmas spirit of peace, hope, and love is a spirit Americans carry with them all year round everywhere we go. As long as we do, we need never be afraid, because trusting in God is the one sure answer to all the problems we face. Till next week, Thanks for listening. God bless you, and Merry Christmas. Mere Christmas to the Gipper there, and may he
rest in peace comforting. And that's the thing that I remember most about Ronald Reagan when I was a child and he was president, was that when he'd
come on the television screen that there was a comforting presence. We don't have that anymore, and we need to be praying to find that, whether it's the current leadership finds themselves and are able to retap into their faith, or that we're able to move on to a stronger Christian leader that is going to be able to guide this nation in the direction that we need it to. I'm gonna pause right here, take a quick break right here on the right
Side Radio program Christmas Special, Folks, We'll be right back. All right, guys, welcome back here to the Right Side Radio program. Here we are in the Christmas Special spectacular where we are talking about Christmas and trying to lay things that are gonna make you extremely joyous and entertain you during the season. And I want to play a song that, again as a child, I loved. Some of you are probably gonna find it annoying, but one
that I used to play back on the terrestrial radio Christmas Show. This is the Alan Chipmunks Christmas Tree song. All are you ready to sing a song? Okay? Simon okay, okay, album album okay, now let's get ready. That was very good. Signon, very good. Theodore Alvin if you were a little flat watch it, Alvin, Alvin, Oh, wow off wool off, very good boy, that's enough. Let's not overdo it.
Oh does that song bring me back? Because again it's a great reminder of the innocence we had as a child, the magical experiences that we had during Christmas time. We all, as we get older, we long for those days. And if you're fortunate enough to have children and you get to experience again through their eyes, through their wonder and that's something that's incredible and it's hard for those of us like myself who have no kids to fully appreciate.
So I go back and I listen to the album and the Chipmunks Christmas song, so that way I can tap back into that youthful experience, wonderful Christmases. Of course, I remember the Christmas, of course that I received the death Star playset, and that was the one of the highlights. I was so excited that I got this amazing toy. Then, of course, you fast forward a few years later and you go to one of those disappointments
because she didn't get the Gi Joe aircraft carrier. And you have to let go of those things because again, as a child, even with a wonder you start to try to put the emphasis on the wrong parts of Christmas. What am I getting, what's going to be my big gift? And why it's cool? And the big gifts are awesome. Don't get me wrong. We always have to go back and remember why we're celebrating Christmas in the first
place. We always have to go back and remember the reason for the season, and we have to hold on to that with everything that we can. So yes, magical songs, corny songs like the Alven and the Chipmunks Christmas song, those should still hold a special place in your heart if they held a special place in your heart when you were a kid. Still does for me and it always will. It's just a fun little song and Alvin's over exuberance because he wants that hula hoop. I think that's part of the reason
why I still enjoy playing it and listening to it. But of course, next let's listen to a little bing Crosby and let him bring us into this next batch of it, or next segment of the right Side. Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let yourself be live. From now on, our troubles will be our size. Have yourself from merry little Christmas. Make the Yule tide gays. From now on our troubles will be miles away. Here we are as in olden days, Happy golden days of your faithful friends who
are dear to us. Gather near to us once more. Through the years, we all will be together, if the faith's allow. Until then, we'll have to muddle through somehow. So have yourself a merry little Chris. Must not days be called eightful friends who are due to us, gathering you to us at more o the years, we all will be together, if the fates allows, Hang a shining star upon the highest spy. Have yourself a merry little Chrissmas. Can you go wrong with Bing Crosby during the Christmas
Time? I don't think that you can, you know, I think that that is one of the best holiday crooners, the best Christmas crooners out there, So definitely, and that may not be the last time we hear from him on this broadcast, but I do. One of the things that has always been special and magical about Christmas time is Christmas movies. We sit down and we watch these movies. Whether it's the magical movies, or whether it's the funny movies. I mean, sure, we've got some that tuggets your
hardstreams, the love stories that are told during Christmas. And I'm firmly on the camp that Diehard is in fact Christmas movie. The action movies that are set at Christmas as well. So I did find a couple of clips here of famous Christmas movies and famous Christmas quotes from said Christmas movies. And here we go. Let's start with this one. Santa's coming to Oh my God,
this says Christmas the season of perpetual hump two. So not just for information, look what you give, your little jerk, if you look for it. I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around. This is a full blown four alarm holiday emergency. Here we're gonna press on and we're gonna have the half happiest Christmas and spin crossby tap dance with Danny Kay. And when Santa squeezes his fat white down that Jimney Knight,
he's gonna find the jobbiest bunch of poles this side of the nuthouse. And I think you're beautiful, and I feel really warm when I un around you, and my tongue swells up. So do you want to go eat food? I feel it in my bingles, I feel it in my shoes. Sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see dreaming. Love Christmas. It's Christmas Eve. It's the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer. We we we smile a little lasier,
we we we, we care a little more. I want an official butter recovering action. Do you want to join as well? Arab, you're a twelve hundred year old elf. We're pretty good for your age. Thanks, But I'm seeing someone I'm rapping. Why are you smiling like that? I just like to smile. Smiling is my favorite. I can't seem to find our truth blush and I pick one up when I go out today. Other than that, I'm a good shape. Okay, Daddy, that's true.
Let's go get the kicks out of us by yes. Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morn, the clean, cool chill of a holiday airs sol in his bathrobe, and being a chemical toilet into my sewer. Okay, love, Batty, put yourself every time of bell rings, I mean you'll get his wings, say good night Kevin, good night Kevin. It came without ribbons, it came without dirge, it came without back of his boxes. A back maybe Christmas, he thought, darn't come from a
stall. Maybe Christmas perhaps. I mean, it's a little bit more. Come under the cars, we'll get together, have a few lefts. And of course, like I said, Diehard is in fact Christmas movie, so it had to make the cut there. But that's not all, you know, their other compliment. Again, this is the fun of recording. Sometimes words just struggle to come out. But there are other list compiled of memorable
movie quotes out there and again during Christmas time. Everybody has a certain set of movies that they feel they must watch during the Christmas season, Christmas vacation. You heard a clip there that's a must a Christmas story. So many folks, you know, enjoy the twenty four hour marathon that TNT likes to run of a Christmas story. You've got Elf, which is a more modern Christmas classic. You've got so many great movies. Miracle on thirty fourth Street.
Of course, it's a wonderful life. How can you ever forget it's a Wonderful Life. That movie was owned so frequently on almost every channel when I was growing up as a kid, and now it's harder to find. I remember being tired of it despite the fact it was a classic, but now I long for the days of where it was on. Almost every network was showing it. With so many classics, it's hard to find all of them. And of course, as I've said a couple of times, Diehard,
you gotta watch Dialard. It's a Christmas movie. I don't care what anybody says, but here's some more fun Christmas movie quotes for you guys to enjoy and try to remember which movies these came from. Is As you listen to these clips, we'll told you a real turn. Barrons Al Jr. Jets Run definitely, Sadey Thomas, Welcome to the family, best relative, Wallason Davis A fright. You know we've got to get some Luke. We've got to take the show to Chicago and Bosler. I can't make it.
I'm going to be very busy. Wait a minute, I'll join you from what I see now that'll cut through the murkiest storm. They can dish up what I'm trying to say, is RUDEO with your nose so bright, won't you guide my slid tonight? It will be an honor, sir. Oh, you don't believe that, do you. You see? My mother is Missus Walker, the lady who hired you. But I must say you're the best looking one I've ever seen. Your beard does have one of those things
it goes over your ears. That's because it's real. Just like I'm ready to send the close. It's Christmas Eve. It's it's the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer. We we we smile a little lazier. We we we we share a little more for a couple of hours out of the whole year. We are the people that we always hoped we would be. That the mama is getting red. I hate red. Thermometers is fasty because when the thermometer gets all reddish, the temperature goes up.
And when the temperature goes up, I started to know are coming. I should you want? You'll shoot your eye out, kid. Chriswold family Christmas tree. Isn't it a little big? It's not big, it's just full. Yeah, that they wouldn't fit in our yard, not going in our yard ruts. It's going in our living room. This is extremely important.
Would you please tell him that instead of persons this year, I just want my family back, No toys, nothing but Peter Kate, buzz making, Lenny and Jeff and my aunt and my cousins and if he has time, my uncle Frank. Okay, list a list. It's making a list, jumping Sannah, what don't forget the grunch? I always mean and Harry is snowy. His hands might be cold and clammy, but I think he's actually kind of sweet. Sweet. You're thinking sweet, merry Christmas? Any
nice kid, bad chetch your character? I plant out our whole day. First we'll make snow angels for two hours, and then we'll go ice skating, and then we'll need a whole roll of toll House cookie dough as fast as we can, and then to finish, we'll snuggle again. Those a lot of those lines, and a lot of those movies are so quotable that you can sa and when you hear him, you're like, I know exactly which movie that is from. That's why it's so fun to go through these
movies during Christmas time. There's so many of them. Charlie Brown Christmas. That's one you know, I already played the line of speech, but that's one that I insist on watching every year because it takes me back to my childhood. Is so wonderful. But I do want to play this, and I believe I played it on last year's I know I've played it before, but I can't remember it was during last year's Christmas show or not. But
there's a warning from great radio host Paul Harvey. This is from nineteen sixty five, and it could still be relevant today when you listen to Paul Harvey's If I were the Devil, I were the devil. If I were the devil, if I were the brin of darkness, I'd want to engulf the whole world in darkness, and I'd have a third of its real estate and four fifths of its population. But I wouldn't be happy until I have seized the ripest apple on the tree the So I'd set about, however necessary to
take over the United States. I'd subvert the churches first. I'd begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve do as you please. To the young, I would whisper that the Bible is a myth. I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what's bad is good and what's good is square, and the old I would teach to pray after me our father, which aren't in Washington. And then
I'd get organized. I'd educate authors in how to make the lowrid literature exciting, so that anything else would appear dull and noninteresting. I'd threatened TV with dirtier movies, and vice versa. I'd peddle narcotics to whom I could. I'd sell alcohol till late, and gentlemen of distinction, I'd tranquilize the rest
with pills. If I were the Devil, I'd soon have families at war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations at war with themselves until each in its turn was consumed, and with promises of higher ratings, I'd have mesmerizing media fanning the flames. If I were the Devil, I would encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions. Just let those run wild until before you knew it. You'd have to have drug
sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door. Within a decade, i'd have prisons overflowing. I'd have judges promoting pornography. Soon I could evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and then from the houses of Congress, and in his own churches. I would substitute psychology for religion and deify science. I would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls and church money. If I were the devil, I'd make the symbol of Easter
an egg, and the symbol of Christmas a bottle. If I were the devil, I'd take from those who have and give to those who wanted, until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And what will you bet? I couldn't get whole states to promote gambling as the way to get rich. I would caution against extremes in hard work, in patriotism, in moral conduct. I would convince the young that marriage is old fashioned, that swinging is more fun, that what you see on TV is the way to be.
And thus I could undress you in public, and I could lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure. In other words, if I were the devil, I'd just keep right on doing what he's doing. Paul Harvey, good nay. And those are words from nineteen sixty five. And while I said, yes, we're not going to be political on the show, it's the right side. We're going to hit a political element
at some point, even on a Christmas show. But as I was preparing and I came across that, I still think that those words are very haunting because he nails exactly what's happening in our country, in our world, and during this Christmas season, we need to take this opportunity to try to fight that head on and realize exactly what we're up against. We cannot allow ourselves to just let the greatest nation that ever lived die because we did nothing.
Christmas is a time of hope, so we need to be very hopeful of our nation. We're going into a presidential election year. President isn't going to fix everything, but maybe we can get on the right track if we elect the right person next year and not more of the same. We'll see, We'll see as we go on. One thing I always like to use to help close out the show, and this won't be the end of the show.
Well maybe it will. I like to play that I'll be home for Christmas, because again it's very fitting for me since I'll be traveling and I am driving, But I'm not going home for Christmas because home for me was Vicksburg, Mississippi, and now my mother is living in Gangesville, Florida's that's not going home for me. So it's not the same feeling that I got
when I used to play this because I was going home for Christmas. But I still enjoyed the song, and I still love the sentiment, and in many ways, there's a part of me that longs for that ability to go home for Christmas, go see friends and family there, good folks like Brian Wells and Tennifer Berdome who are dear friends of mine who still live in Vicksburg, and definitely need to try to make the time to get up there and visit with them, as well as going to see my father's grave and maybe
visit with him for a minute or two. But it won't be dearing Christmas, sadly, because that's not where my mother calls home any longer. But this song will always hold a special part for me. Now, next week, my plan is to take the entire week off. I'll probably re release the Chris McDaniel interview again on Wednesday, just to make sure we maximize more people find it. But I do not plan on recording a new episode until
we enter the new year. I think once I record the one hundred and one episode of the Right Side Radio Program, I think that one needs to start in the new year. So I'm planning on taking next week off, so there'll be no Greatest Hits show this year to round out the new year. So this is it. The Christmas Special Spectacular is the last episode of the year of the Right Side Radio Program. And I can't tell each and
every single one of you how much you guys mean to me. My listeners, the ones who turn on and listen to this program week after week, and the Right Side will carry on on into next year. And of course, as you heard if you've already listened to the Senner McDaniel interview, I will be entering into another endeavor with Chris McDaniel, hopefully in March, when he and I will start broadcasting together, but it won't be the Right Side. It will be a different show, which means the Right Side will be
carrying on with me as your host. But I am so looking forward to sitting in the co host chair and being the number two Mike again, because some of my happiest moments in broadcasting were when it was myself and Chris McDaniel in the early days of the Right Side radio program, before either of us
had figured out anything about how to do a radio show. People liked the show, but I can assure you those first couple of episodes were probably pretty rough because the two of us had not found a rhythm, found it, and we put together a very successful program that you're now listening to today is this podcast format. So I very much look forward to getting back into that in the new year. There's so much I look forward to in the new
year, but there's also a certain amount of dread. Twenty twenty three has been a rough year for me. Losing my father is something I didn't anticipate. Everybody tells you that you're not ready, You convince yourself you might be because they're getting older. I get it, but let me tell you, you're not ready, no matter how much you kid yourself that you are.
You're not. This Christmas, I'll be missing my dad, missing them a lot, but I am headache down to hang out with Mom, hang out with my sister, hang out with my aunt, hang out with my nieces and look forward to that. So with that, I'm going to close out the right side Christmas Special with more being Crosbie and I'll be home for Christmas. I be hold for Christmas. You can plan on me. Please have snow, a missile toe and Prayson on the tree. Christmasy will find me
well the love like gleas a behold for Chrissmas. If all my dream behold for Christmas, you can base mondies, have snow and mistle tall. I'm proud song the tree cres mercy, the fine me where the long like green a beyond for tree I fly. Oh now I have been achieve them. Ho Ho