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are on the first day of Kwanza. Good welcome, good welcome, good
day, good whatever. It's the twenty sixth of December. Was it Christmas
at geddon? Do you think that word works day Christmas? Well, some
people have. Most people have a fabulous day and they love what they experience
and they are having a great time with the family and all that good stuff.
But sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes it becomes you know how everything
is at gedding of some sorts. You know, if it's bad, it's
ah, look at that. It's so it's something. What is it Armageddon?
I think that's how it all started. And it's so I like throwing
the best, the worst out and the best to begin. But there's always
gonna be something. Yeah, let's see you talking about I had a terrible
day. Nope. We are looking for a few of your favorite things from
your Christmas experience so we can share them with us. Use our social media
if you'd like to all of them connect to us at a good Day show,
right, isn't that? However, is that the handle that we use?
Good Day Network? Good Day Networks? Okay, so Jay is here
and Doug is here with a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Do
you think we should just put a lot of Christmas music stays to just put
them all the Christmas music aside? Okay, it's over, Christmas is over.
Sometimes they keep it going until January first. I was just going to
say, I feel like a lot of people keep it going for just this
last week. M all right, So I want to know what your favorite
thing was, please, Jay Kirshner, about your Christmas experience? What was
it? You all? There was a lot there There were yeah, there
were there was a lot that was just so enjoyable. This was the first
year that my son was really into Christmas, understanding doing more so about Christmas.
Yeah, so just kind of getting to see him experience it. Even
though this wasn't his first Christmas, this was the first one he was more
aware of, so getting to see things of his experiences through kind of his
eyes, and it was just it was a lot. It was a lot
of fun getting to have him be with his cousins, and yeah, there's
a lot of great things. How about you, I want to you're but
for you personally? What was that? Is it? That was it?
Okay? Yeah, James, James Collins had the controls in our studio in
Dallas. What was your favorite thing about your Christmas experience? And by the
way I do these things, I often start the hour with a question because
I'm rhetorically asking you and the audience to sort of reflect on what it is
that were talking about. What did you get out of Christmas that was good?
Oh? I love the food. The food was fantastic, and you
know, it's always good. It's always a pleasure getting to sit with mom
and dad and let them cook all day and then I could eat the you
know, it's all like, no, they a sweet son, No do
you help clean? I do help clean. I do help clean quite a
bit. And you know, whenever they cook, I get to learn how
to cook a little bit just by watching them. So that's that's the beneficial
part. But now we had a fantastic rib roast and then a whole bunch
of other size mashed potato, you know, the fixings it was really good,
all right. So that's the ecumenicalized version of it. And you asked
me, yes. So I had my time here with my children and my
grandchildren and opening things up and the usual. There's stuff that gets shared and
some that doesn't when it comes to cousins and the things that get opened and
the things that don't. And it's just I had a long chat with both
my children, which I haven't had the two of them. Well, they
were at home a couple of weeks ago and we had chat. But they
wanted to have more conversation about the future. So they're they want to there.
I don't have concerns the right word, but they all want to know
that if something happens to me that everything will be okay. And you know,
so that settles a lot of people. And you know, me with
my attitude, it's the same. Doesn't mean it was at this age.
Whatever age we're at, was always around the corner. You don't know what's
going to happen, so you just kind of I think what they like is
to have me not all excited about it and all worked up about it.
It's just okay, we'll make sure we have plans we'll make sure things are
older, we'll make things. Yeah, but that's about it. And then
we had some silly things. I got some Brendan split had got. I
brought in a suitcase. So they're all looking at me, like, what's
in the suitcase? And I opened it up and I had a bunch of
sweatshirts that I had made with our name and some silly things on it.
And Brendan loves to aware stuff like that, so he was right at it.
And his wife Sophie said, oh, I'll wear that. She's very
conscious of as you know, Jay, you watch her on on Instagram,
very conscious of her style and how she looks, because that's her business.
So there was that. It's just it was good because I could do things
I didn't have to for three days. I didn't have to get up,
I didn't have to go to the farm, I didn't have to be on
the radio. I just what I did was become addicted to Doc Martin.
That's really the other than being with my children. I have become obsessed in
the right word. But if I could choose somebody to run away with,
it would be Doc Martin's wife. And I hadn't even I've never really seen
the show before, but there's I think most people know what I'm talking about,
right the PBS show called Doc Martin. Does everybody know what I'm talking
about? No idea what you're weare? I know, yeah, exactly.
That's well for those of you who watch the show is very popular with I
guess this certain age group. The woman who plays his wife, Louisa,
is just a darling. She's a doll. You can look around. Her
name is a Catherine Cruz, no cats k c A t Z, well
known British actris. But so so there's silly things that we have put together
from just the fact that they didn't have to get up. And that's a
you know, I feel you can hear in my voice. It's kind of
a wow E'ZAUI, you know that sort of thing. Today is the first
day of Kwanza. There's a professor of Black Studies at California State University in
Long Beach, doctor Karenga, who created this experience back in nineteen sixty six.
This was the beginning of the Black freedom movement. So what was what
came out of it was concern I guess that many people had for cultural grounding,
and this had been after the Watts riots. Did I say lots,
not Watts. The Watts riots say that fast hundred timeser Wats riots. In
La she was looking for ways to strengthen the community, which she called her
own. So she founded this organization, which is a cultural organization. Started
to research the celebrations that were native to the Africans that came to America.
She combined all kinds of different harvest celebrations from tribes like the Zulus and came
up with Kwansa. So at any rate, and that term means first fruits
in Swahili. That's the most commonly used African language, I think, and
I wonder if it is It was then probably still is, a matter of
fact. So anyway, I think this is something that people know little about.
And I'm going to sort of couch my comments about this, going back,
as I said, to the nineteen sixties. In the nineteen nineties,
Hallmark and in on it. Of course they did, right. The first
Kwanza Hallmark card got sold nineteen ninety two, and then this became kind of
an official So I remember, I think we started I started talking about on
the air late nineties. I think probably it's a non religious celebration, but
it's the same sort of thing, again focused on culture, and so people
from this experience celebrating both Christmas and Kwanza. Anyway, twelve and a half
Minyon Americans celebrate Quansa, it would seem, and that represents about twelve and
a half percent of our population in America is black, and so it would
seem that there ought to be like twice as many people celebrating. And I
would suggest one of the reasons that they don't is because they don't know about
it as much as anything else. It isn't really taught. It's not,
as I say, a religious experience. It's just one of those things.
And the politically correct among us would say, you know, it's important to
celebrate it because and you can fill in the cultural holes if you want.
I think that there is a I don't do it because I think it's politically
correct, because most of you know that I'm not really too interested in what's
politically correct. I'm interested in what it is that makes people tick. And
this is something that I think makes a lot of people tick. The people
who find themselves embroiled, if that's the right word. In the Black Lives
Matter movement. I think if you were to take hold in Jay you can
I would hope reflect on this if you have some thoughts. The Quansam movement
has nothing to do with Black Lives Matter, doesn't it. It could be
woven if people who were intellectually able to put aside their anger about things that
have been in black history. I think this sort of thing would help to
smooth out the rough edges because it's all about the culture and the culture.
We all have a cultural background one way or another, some of us.
I don't mean that you got culture. I just mean that we have all
of us history. If you've got an Irish background, you got a history.
If you have a Russian background, you have a history. Whatever you're
you know, we're all this melting pot. The mosaic that is America has
all kinds of different historical combinations that lead to who we are. Yeah,
what were you going to say? Yeah? Well, I mean definitely related
and not related, unrelated at the same time you have with Black Lives Matter,
that's about racism and fighting racism and fighting systemic racism. Even in Kwansa,
Kwansa is a celebration. Kwansa is honoring, and I honestly did not
know that until you were just giving the history and the timeline of everything that
it was so recent. Since I remember being in elementary school and when we
would do our winter programs, we did a lot of Christmas stuff. We
did Hanka stuff, and we did Kwansa stuff. I had no idea that
it was so recent that even as of nineteen ninety two, Hallmark was the
first time. That was the first year that there was a Quanza card.
Yeah. Interesting, I thought we ought to bring to terrybody's attention, so
that's why we did. We wish you were Merry Christmas. This is a
theme for John travolta fans, wishing his fans are very merry Christmas. So
he was sharing photos of his children, who are twenty three and thirteen,
celebrating together. This was an Instagram post and that's kind of why it makes
it into our focus here on social media. We like to talk about the
trending things in the people that are in the top ten, and certainly Travolta
with these pictures is in there. So I'm willing to tell you what came
out of this other than a wish for everybody to have a merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to everybody. We love you, was the caption under the post
that John Travolta published with Ben and Ella. They are children from his marriage
to Kelly Preston, who died what three years ago? I think she's been
gone for three years and then yeah, the two of them really were close.
They also lost a son during all of the Huzzarai of the nineties.
He had Kawasaki disease. You know that was I can't recall exactly what it
was, but I remember he had seizures seasons. Yeah, it was only
sixteen. He died in two thousand and nine, and it was while they
were at the family vacation home and the Bahamas. Yeah. Yeah, heartbreaking.
And then go ahead, Well, he's well known. He's obviously a
famous actor and an accomplished actor, but he also is a certified pilot and
he has his own planes and he parks them at his house. He's the
picture. If you look up John Droll, the slash plane or a Slash
pilot, you will see pictures of him. He has flown pretty much every
commercial airliner that there is, and he's been people British Airways Quantis. I'm
trying to think of some of the airlines that have used him as a pilot.
It is a promotional thing because he's certified to fly internationally. I think
that's an interesting part of his history. But I think more to the point
here, the skiing vacation that they went on, the two children, and
just kind of I think maybe it feels like it's the first time he wants
to be out and you know, just kind of they've gotten away from the
worry or a concern or what happens when somebody you love die. Sometimes it
takes a while to get it, you know, especially circumstance like this.
It takes a while to get over it. And he's lost some prominent women
in his life. Kristially, they always remain close. Olivia and John,
they always remain close, of course, his wife Kelly. Yeah, Yeah,
it's interesting because they both I forgotten whether he was what do you call
it, scientologist? Wasn't travolta scientologist for a while, it seems to me
he was. That's where he you know, I can't recall. I think
he was all right, So anyway, some thoughts from John Travolta. I'm
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any disease. It's Tuesday now day after Christmas, and all through the house,
not a creature is stirring everybody. Most people have this. This is
the second most popular week of the year to have vacation time, and it
started last Thursday with all the traveling. Although I will tell you I traveled
out here on Thursday night and it wasn't a hitch. I didn't find the
airport, you know, crazy crowded. The lines at the TSA were not
crazy people. I think the news media does a lot to get people worked
up for no good reason. We know that we talk about it with some
frequency here. So I guess what I'm thinking about is to put yourself in
the here and now. So with that advice, do I follow it?
Do I think, well, now Christmas is over, let's move on into
New Year's And yeah, that's okay. I was just thinking about all of
the decorations and how we don't just walk away from them the day after Christmas,
because there are a lot of people who work very hard to have a
magical Christmas. There is something on their lawn or something in their windows,
or something in their home, or maybe something in their business, and so
there are a lot of if you go across America. There are a lot
of Christmas towns. I was looking at something that came from the community.
It's Furthest West and Masters at Stockbridge, where there is it's one of the
thirty most Magical Christmas Towns, supposedly by the Hallmark folks. And I had
the house I live in now is considered a sort of Hallmark, a curryer
and knives thing, And people are always trying to get me to put Christmas
decorations up, and frankly, I don't have the time and I'm not really
interested in people paying a lot of attention. It's the way it sits on
the road, and it's the way it looks kind of surrounded by trees and
things, and it's nice. It feels very warm and comfortable, but it's
kind of for me. You know. There are people who want to sharew
I mean that does sound like a jerk, but I don't don't feel like
sharing it. Like, you know, I'm putting up lots of decorations,
plenty of decorations around and I think sometimes people get lost in what really is
the true meaning of Christmas? What is this all about? Is it about
compliments? Is it about good vibes. Is it about long lines that you
have to wait in for Christmas time? Is it about appreciating gifts? Some
people go my daughter and my daughter in law, I went to great,
and I ature you have people in your family too that went to great trouble
to wrap things just the right way, and then the kids get a hold
of it and they all rip. I used to drive everybody nuts because I
wanted to save the paper the packages were unwrapped, I'd save it for next
year. And the kids all thought, and I just said, it's kind
of wasteful. And I wasn't doing it too, you know, it wasn't.
I wasn't overbearing about it. I just said, let's, you know,
let's save it, because then then Megan would just rip everything apart just
to get me. And as adults, they are kind of the same.
They remember that stuff. Yeah, yeah, and I think some people,
you know, there are a lot of people that still do it, maybe
even if it's not necessarily with the paper, it's definitely with the bows or
the gift bags, the tissue paper. Yeah, so be careful to be
gentle with it because we're using that again next year. Mm hmmm, why
not? Well, yeah. Sometimes people who bought these these uh fake trees,
and they save them. I can't imagine putting up a take tree,
but some people do. A lot of people do. Actually, yeah,
we big fans. Yeah yeah, uh huh yeah, Okay. I just
think whatever it is that you If you're in a celebrating mood and a lot
of time and it's been fun so far, then keep it going. Why
not for the week at least and celebrate the new year and all the possibilities.
But put yourself into the here and now right, there's this time we
have, this time, this moment, yesterday's gone, Christmas is over.
You can hold on to the memories and every year we think about the fantasies
they go along with Christmas and the realities as well, the things that we
kind of choose to hold on to our common pastimes. You know, we're
the Los Angeles like a ghost town on Christmas Day. I love driving around
here because there's no traffic, none, zero, It's just you. You
know how I felt like I was the only one on the road. Yes,
they're driving from my son's house to my daughter's house and going around and
looking at things. There's nobody around it. Is nice, and you miss
this because back today, Well it's not so this week, but it'll catch
up a week from now, and you know, we're back to kind of
normal. But can we hold on to this spirit for a while. Can
we hold on to the good thoughts the good experience is just like for a
while? Please, let's do that. Let's think about it as a prominent
part of what we're doing, what our activities are all about. Here's the
story of a man from Arkansas who says he was tickled to death to find
out that a piece of what he thought was clear glass that he found at
the state park is actually a colorless four point eighty seven carot diamond. Okay,
so you gonna have to translate that for me, because I don't know
how it's a nice sized diamond. It's a nice size for diamond. I
don't know the answer to that one. Yeah, well I find that again,
this is something that some people value. It's often that you hear me
talking about how I wouldn't do this. I thought it was silly. But
this is the story of Jerry Evans. He went to a state park called
the Crater of Diamonds, which is in Murphreesboro, Arkansas. He's got a
kick out of the most people call it Murphy's. It's now there's an R
in there, Murphreesboro, Arkansas, Tennessee. Which that R is silent?
Yeah? Is it? No? This is the Arkansas Isn't it is?
Right? But I'm saying yeah, non pronunciation right? Got it? Okay,
Well do you know because you spend a lot of time down there anyway,
This is called the thirty seven acre field, and the visitors go in.
They often find diamonds from a crater, volcanic crater, because sometimes they
create the diamonds. You can find him there. He found this on the
top of a ridge and just put it in his pocket. So, okay,
a piece of glass, I'll check it out. He didn't pay much
attention to it. He sent the stone to a gemalogist for some kind of
identification and study, after thinking that it could be something other than just to
be said class And they called and told him it was real. Heither was.
This is kind of cool. So his son contacted the state park to
share the news, and the fellow who is the chief cook and bottle washer
at the park, the park superintendent, said, quote, well, I
get many emails from people wanting me to identify something they found here. To
my recollection, this is the first time somebody has contacted me after they've had
a diamond identified. So it's kind of a cool thing. So what's he
going to do with your Oh? I mean, he'd do anything. He
could keep it as is, keep it in the rough, get it put
on like a ring or in jewelry or something. But what's so cool is
it? Because most of the diamonds found here I think are kind of like
have a brown or yellow to it, so it's very rare to find a
near colorless one. That's why he thought it was glass. And this happened
a few years ago too, where somebody thought they found a chunk of glass
and ended up being a over at nine care brown diamond. They thought it
was a piece of like a bottle that broke or something. Yeah, right,
all right, well good, They've had a good Christmas season, for
sure. There's a lot of noise around al Gore today in terms of trending
things. He has sounded the alarm. Climate change, according to al could
displace a billion people, threatening global governance. So there are those who believe
what he has to say, and there are those who don't. He's a
very polarizing character. So you wonder, Okay, is this a value hearing
this from al Gore? Or is it just more are the same sort of
thing that Who needs to have any more info on this? Uh? You
know, I guess I'm just kind of curious as to what people think about
this or if you've even seen it. That's the that's the question that I
would have, you know, under the circumstances, and what is there about
what al Gore brings to the table that has value? I don't know.
I saw the headline that, yeah, well, I think more than one
thing can be true when it comes to this sort of thing. You know,
I think that there are problems and I think that I'm just actually I'm
truth be told. I'm reading this online and it's on I saw it on
a website that I haven't seen before, so I clicked on it. And
now all of the warnings, the bells and whistles that you can't hear,
but I'm watching this this whatever this wherever this appeared? First, this is
a some it's a website that has been hacked, and so this viruses on
top of virus is connected to it. So I wonder as much as the
story is what it is if people when they see it, because he is
such a polarizing character to people, I don't even know how they do this.
You'll have to give me the heads up on this, Jay, I
don't know how you how do you attach a virus? Or should we be
talking about this even on the air. Yeah, that's the I don't know
how to do that. That's one of those things that only those who are
doing it, all those hackers who are very intelligent people and should be using
their powers for good, not stuff like this. Right, But now,
I'm not going to open any email I get from you just to be safe.
Well, no, it's not for me. This came from This is
not my stuff. It came but if you open it, it can get
into your emails and then start sending emails to people. And it's like,
okay, follow that. It's a cool story, and I'm not going to
trust it. I'm going to start calling you for every email. Doug,
did you actually send this email to me? Really? That'll be the kind
of right before done anything what people do. That's the kind of stuff,
the damage that's done by people. They want to ruin things. And here's
somebody I'm following exactly. I know what went on here. This story get
posted and somebody didn't like it because it was attached to al Gore, and
they don't like the whole discussion of climate change. And there are millions of
people, tens of millions of people who think that this is a hoax or
a bunch of bunkom. So instead of just leaving it alone, they decide
to be nasty. They decided to be destructive. And so what do you
get out of that? What is there that you if you do that and
have done that sort of thing? What is there? What pleasure are you
deriving? Well, we want to straight. I don't like al Gore because
he doesn't tell the train. Okay, so you just delete it or you
just don't read it, or you just ignore it or whatever it is.
What is there? Now? I'm getting to be a captain curmudgeon here.
They have business, but come on, lost that stuff serious? We are
like people who do something because they want to bring awareness, but then we
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few weeks into twenty right. All right, let's see what's trending here social
media, celebrity news, that sort of thing. Ron Howard's daughter Bryce Dallas
Howard has been talking about her father and what family is like. What is
Christmas like for the Howard family? Director Ron Howard, who was Opie on
the How Long Ago was That? The Andy Griffith Show, and then he
played the son of Lauren Bacall in the Shootest Well, No, was he
in Happy Days too? I don't remember whether he was in Happy Days.
He may have been, but his he I think that he was really a
young kid when he was on with Andy Griffith. I don't remember whether he
was on Happy Days. I never really got excited about I didn't watch that
show. I love the theme, but I never really was into the show.
So I'll have to leave that to you. To figure it out.
Meanwhile, his daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, who is an actress of her.
I guess what has she been in? I don't know that much about her.
Oh, she was in the Jurassic Park remakes. She was in a
movie called The Help. She's been in one of the m Night Shyamalan movies.
Now I can't recall which one what it was called. He directed.
She's done a lot of stuff. Her father, Ron directed the movie Parenthood,
and that apparently that was Steve Martin's film that was She says, according
to Bryce, her Christmas feels exactly like Parenthood, but less dysfunctional. Yeah,
whatever that means. But we all have you seen the film. It's
the four adult siblings, who are I do actually the children? And yeah,
there's a little bit of dysfunction and chaos. And she says, it's
the same, just minus the dysfunction. There's a lot of family members around,
extended family members around, a lot of grandchildren. You have the chaos
in just how many people and different families, but you also have so much
love and all of that. So it's a lot like that film, just
minus the dysfunctional pieces. He her father directed how the Grinch Stole Christmas?
And I think did he direct one of the other Grench movies as well?
That I noticed that my grandson wanted to see The Grinch, the original what
they call the rid the kids know what, the original Grinch movie. There
are a bunch of Grinch movies out. I couldn't tell you which one the
original was, but my nine year old grandson knew which one was the original.
That's the only one he wanted to watch. So I thought that was
kind of interesting anyway. So basically what young Mssaurd has to say is that
it was fun. And you know, there's a whole business an you say
your life is like a movie, hers actually is like it is, Yeah,
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