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So every year the folks at Billboard Magazine, which has always been kind
of the Bible, there have been a few over the years since I remember
back to the sixties when I was playing music as a disc jockey, there
were several different record rating services, but Billboard always seemed to be the one
that most people paid attention to. I guess it depended on as much as
anything else, it depended on what your format was. But when it came
to visiting the Christmas music scene, Billboard had it then and has it now
as far as we're all of the songs, and I think James, I
sent you a list of what traditionally had been the most popular songs at Christmas
time, and we've been using them different versions. I think I said yesterday,
there's not a year that goes by when there isn't a new album that
features a traditional list of Christmas tunes that gets a lot of airplay. I've
listened to. I was listening to the station in Boston that plays the Christmas
music. Most of the time, what they're playing is really good, but
there are days when there I guess this happens no matter what format you listen
to. For some reason or another, it just they don't hit the mark,
and this is one of those. This is one of those years for
that station. Anyway. So the list of top twenty five Christmas songs,
the most played Christmas songs on US radio stations. The number one song after
sixty five years. This song came out sixty five years ago. Brenda Lee
and Rocking Around the Christmas Tree rated number one. Some of the reason not
bringing this up in a manner of speaking, I think last year was not
King Cole a Christmas song. It varies because it's these traditional songs and the
traditional artists that go with them that pretty much make up the list every year.
Sometimes there's some new versions of various songs, but for the most part,
Mariah Carey is well. Mariah Carey this year is number eleven. Interestingly
enough, that's there there has been in the lad there's been a burnout on
it, as there is I think on most of the other songs, right,
play them too much and they get cooked. Like one year was Sleigh
Ride I remember, which I think is one of the best. And then
there's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and you know you'll hear them
all. The Christmas song, as I said, last year, I think
was number one. So this year it's burh Lives Holly Jolly Christmas. That's
too. Bobby Helms is three, jingle Ball Rock. Number four is the
Christmas song John Lennon. I think this first time has been in the top
five. How long has it been this forty years ago? How long has
Lennon been dead? He was shot in nineteen eighty, right, so he've
been dead for twenty forty three years and this came out. I think the
song that he did that has gained so much traction came out I think the
year before he was dead. Then this. Of course, Andy Williams,
we were talking about that song yesterday, being cries. The traditional tunes are
the ones that do the best anyway, so I thought you would be interested
in that, and if you weren't, you just took an extra five minutes
to get Andy finally making number one with hers. I wonder how much social
media comes into play, because there's been a lot has been trending because people
are constantly reminded year after year, and it seemed more so this year that
she was only thirteen when she recorded that, right, yeah, and you
have a new generation that's really just realizing that's right. Yeah, yeah,
and it was really sweet. Mariah Carey sent Brenda Lee Flowers to celebrate her
Christmas song finally hitting number one. Nice, okay, that's cool. Yeah.
Yeah. December the twelfth, the third of the way through the month
of December, we got about about thirteen days, nearly eleventh's it's it's twelve
days until the action really gets started. Because Christmas Eve for some people is
more Christmas Eve than Christmas Day. People open the presence and they do their
things, and most people aim to get their Christmas things, whatever they may
be, including giving money away. There are a lot of people And I
was looking at a story yesterday. One of the radio stages that carries this
pro raised like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. In fact, they invited
me and now I didn't do it this year, but I'll do it next
year. They come up and they spend a whole day on Saturday, like
eight or nine hours on the air. These couple of guys that I know
that are on the station, and they raised for the community a lot of
money because people are giving. They really are open to that sort of thing
more this time of year. And I suppose it's natural, right, you
feel good, and then you sometimes feel better after you've given things. Sometimes
people are giving away toys, Sometimes they're giving away their clothing. Sometimes they're
giving away things that they don't need. But it's okay. If you don't
need them, why not put them to a good use. There are plenty
of charities helping people that are homeless. They don't have enough money. They
just have enough money to make it ends meet. Things are still in good
condition, yes, yeah, right, exactly, Yep, that's the thing,
good condition. All right. There's some court news here that we ought
to probably spend some time on the US Supreme Court. Yesterday Jay refused to
take up a case about whether state and local governments can enforce laws banning conversion
therapy for LGBTQ children. Now, first thing is to understand what conversion therapy
is. Enforcing laws banning it that is, and I know where I am
on this because I think there's too much focus on it. Public schools are
not the place for this, I don't think. But that's things have changed
a lot in public school education. I think's one of the disasters. One
of the main major disasters in our country now is the public education system.
It doesn't work well for everybody. And if everybody's paying the bill, if
we're all kicking in to throw tax dollars to have a public education system that
works for everybody, then we are failing miserably. There are youngsters on the
top that are doing very well, youngsters on the bottom that are doing very
well, but in the middle nothing. But this is not about that.
This is about the fact that the public school well, it's just government in
general, so you get the gist of this. There was the question that
was brought to the Supreme Court was whether or not a government agency can enforce
a law that had been passed by a government agency banning conversion therapy for children.
And we've heard these stories about eleven year old, telve year old,
thirteen year old kids say I want to be a girl and they're boys,
so they start conversion theory. No, well, conversion therapy is also just
even if you're gay people, This is a lack of unconditional love. Parents
are the ones who put their children through this, and the parents are the
ones saying pretty much, I don't love you unless you're straight. Yeah,
that's not what? Well, that what is going on? You're right about
that, and how can you love your children because they're your children. But
then in turning, you know, trying to turn the tide, if you
will, the court actually turned away. There were only three justices that dissented,
so there were six that were on this. So some of the people
on the right joined some of the people on the left. This was an
appeal from Washington State, where the law has been upheld. An appellate judge
down there struck down local bands. I think there was a problem in Florida
two unconstitutional restriction on counselor's speech. Huh. That's a dicey one, isn't
it. This is free speech, isn't for teachers and people in the school
system were supposed to do it, You're told, because that's what they're paid
to do. So if they don't do what they're paid to do, then
there's an issue, right people, don't you think do you. I don't
know if you talk about this with your friends and our jay. Is this
a confusing issue for people because there's so much disagreement, whether it be in
whether it's the court, whether it's the church, whether it's a school system.
I don't think it's confusing. I think people are pretty staunch and where
they stand, whether it's one way or another. It's kind of like like
abortion topics, where people are either for or against. And I don't think
that there anybody is confused on which way. You know, it's just yeah,
they're just one side or the other side. There's not really a lot
of at all. Put yourself in the place of a parent who would be
for this. That would be a parent who say, you've got a twelve
thirteen year old and this first and this young person feels like he or she
should be a different sex or maybe you don't. It's not go that far.
It's just bisection. Yeah, but how do you know at that age?
Really do you? Do? You really know? Some do at that
age? Yeah, but how do you approach to know who they are?
But again, I go back to the whole it's it's a matter of unconditional
love, m right and and so you recognize that, so that the therapy
that's needed is probably more for the adults, or at least some of it,
right, adults need to have some glove focus on this and somehow or
other he get it straight. Because I'm thinking that a lot of people who
are on this bandwagon not really too sure maybe, but even their own sexuality.
But I think it's so some of this stuff. There's so many issues
involved in this thing. There really are, and it's so personal. It
needs to be. It needs to be a family sort of thing, at
least that's the way I look at it. Anyway, it seems Elvis is
always on Priscilla Presley's mind, which is kind of interesting. She's seventy eight
years old. She's been talking about her marriage, mostly because of the way
it's portrayed in this movie that's out right now called Priscilla, referred to as
a roller coaster marriage. She says that there was something about him, and
something about spending time in Graceland, something about him and her life. The
spirit of Elvis is there. Some other things that she said and other things
about members of the family that I think are important and kind of interesting.
That's why they're trending, and that's why we're talking about them, and that's
why we'll continue to talk about them. So, Priscilla and Elvis had Lisa
Marie part of their being together for what was it ten years? Is that
what you said that they were marriage for ten No less than ten years.
They were only together for six years, which there is this this epic love
story and relationship that has stood the test of time, especially with rock and
roll, And then you think it was actually a little blimp of time.
It was only they were only married for six years, but she stayed so
iconic. Yeah, well, she stayed as part of his life. It
just wasn't she wasn't married to him. It kind of reminds me a little
of my own marriage. I was married for seven and a half almost eight
years, and when I was very young, and then after that they were
we all moved on, but we really didn't move on because of the children,
maybe as much, but I have always sad the children. I were
talking about this this weekend, how I loved your mother. That's why I
said to them more than I probably did anybody else that I've ever been anyway,
And I think that's true. It just was a stupid time and the
way we did it, and I think Priscilla and Elvis the same thing.
Elvis was immature in a lot of respects and she was very mature for her
age. Right, So the movie is called Priscilla, and she said that
she had her reservations about the film. She worked on it, and apparently
did she put a stamp of approval on it. I didn't act to Sophia
Coppola. Yeah, yeah, anyway, So it's interesting because Priscilla is very
involved. I believe in both both movies that came out about their lives,
Priscilla Elvis. What was very different with Austin Butler? Was it just called
Elvis? Yes? It was, yep. Yeah. So anyway, some
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we're in focusing on good things, but there are these continuing stories that you
hear about people doing things that are almost like who's these Who are these people?
There was a group meeting in Boston. Actually in one of the Boston
papers they call him here. They're deaf. It's a deaf group. Okay,
hearing impaired, Yeah yeah, yeah, but they're deaf. It's a
deaf group that has they've been meeting their most communities, most bigger communities have
these organizations that helped to cater and work with people who have various disabilities.
Sonya, this guy comes in with a gun. They were the deaf people
were collecting things to give to their own to share for Christmas, and this
thug comes in with a gun and he raids the place and cleans out all
of the things that we're in. Now, these things happen, But I
guess I was more outraged because there's a group of deaf people and the maybe
you know, a thug is a thug, right, a crook as a
crook somebody who he was arrested. Anyway, they found this kid, he's
nineteen years old. But just who thinks like that? Jay? Who thinks
that? And did he know who he was targeting with this constitute as a
hate crime? Well he did it because they couldn't hear him when he came
in. That's what that was the whole thing behind it. He said,
Okay, I'm gonna go rob them because they won't be able to hear me.
Oh yeah, yeah, all right, So he was caught. That's
good. Flu activity has increased around the country. Most of you have noted
this. I can't tell you how many people I know who have been sick
for sometimes a couple of days, three or four days I had it myself.
It's not COVID, it's not RSV. It's this. It's a strain
of the flu. Yeah, it's kind of like a cold. It's the
flu. I feel like we all forgot that the cold, like colds and
flus exist for a little bit. Our first thought, right typically is like,
is it COVID? I should take a COVID test really quickly. Yeah.
Well, when I got it, I did test myself for COVID because
I want to make sure it wasn't COVID, And it wasn't but something.
But it's so strong. From a lot of people that I know have had
it in four or five days or maybe longer. Somebody I knew last week
got it and still has it. So you build up your immune system by
taking lots of vitamin C, having lots of good food, lots of good
food, lots of good soup, that sort of thing, and make sure
you get plenty of sleep. That's as much as anything else. That is
the way to counter this. By having plenty of rest, have your body
in good shape. All right, Let's move to the outrage of the day
Texas Supreme Court is ruled against this woman who sought an abortion. She says,
listen, I've had enough with Texas. I'm going to go somewhere else.
The Texas Supreme Court. This is something again, This is so wrong
in so many different ways. This lady is already the mother of two and
she's twenty weeks pregnant with her third baby. She found out just after Thanksgiving
excuse me, that her fetus has a fatal disease and will die either in
her womb or upon being born. So she wanted to terminate the pregnancy to
protect her health and her future ability to have children, And so they wanted
to They wanted to get a court order to block the abortion band from applying
to her, as well it should and the sol medical situation. This isn't
somebody using abortion as a form of birth control. This is a person who
got pregnant, was thrilled with the pregnancy once the baby, had an earth
shattering realization to find out that her baby would not survive, and now basically
is being told by the state to wait until it becomes a life or death
situation in her sense, and right do they have the ability to children in
the future if she doesn't end up waiting? So she's going to cross state
lines and go go take care of herself. That's what she should do.
What business is it of the states? You know, they say they're protecting
the life of an unborn child in this case. That is so stupid.
They aren't. The doctors have all said, all of them, She's been
examined any number of times, and they all agree that either she'll die,
the baby when it's born will die, or both of them will die.
Are use that tone death to individual? The credence or lack thereof that these
people have for making decisions like this, I just it's beyond the fact.
There's no objective thinking here. Frankly, So this lady says, can't get
an abortion in Texas, okay, or go somewhere else. But why should
she have to? And again I say this because has Texas had a vote
on this? This year? Was Ohio? But there have been a number
of states because really the Supreme Court decision didn't change Roe v. Wade.
It's just put the power in the states right exactly. And every state that's
had a vote on it, I think when are there eleven, twelve,
thirteen states that are voted on it? Every single one of them have voted
to stay with in essence, the Roe v. Wade decision, and that's
the way I think it should be. Frankly, has nothing to do with
liberalism or conservatism, has to do with human decency and well. This is
also an example of the different needs for an abortion where I think a lot
of people in the argument of abortion, most people come back to who are
against abortion are against it because of people who use it as a form of
birth control, people who suddenly change their mind and want to terminate their pregnancy
at a relatively late dately twenty weeks pregnant is kind of late in this situation,
though. Her baby is going to die no matter what. The question
is, is she going to die? She could she die? Could she
be taken from her already the existing children? Could she lose the ability this
again, I kept saying this, But this is a woman who wanted this
child, who had her entire world shattered, her heart shattered when she found
out the fate of her child. Now she's just trying to protect herself,
to protect the mother of her children, and protect her future ability to have
to have more children. It's just, you know, it's an older somebody
seasoned in a veteran. In the various social wars that have taken place over
the last of fifty sixty years or so, this is one that's been consistently
handled poorly by many many people participating in the debate. So it's great business
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all of these thoughts and things that not only what we talk about here regarding
social media, the things that technically we encounter, but also some of the
stories about people who are trending and stories that are posted that we have on
our social media that you can comment on by just using at good Day Networks.
First focus here is on an Arizona woman who fell victim to a deep
fake Scamjay using celebrities on social media. So these are artificially generated. This
is AI altered images, videos, that sort of thing. It's becoming more
and more difficult to know what's true, what's real. So this lady was
making you an online purchase. She said, she did her research, but
she saw Oprah Winfrey with a product and so she was okay, Well,
I saw Oprah and that okay, this is good. If she backs it,
it'll be okay. So she ordered it. She bought a bottle of
Keito gummies. I guess at the website promises of weight loss and all that
stuff with the approval of Oprah. She paid forty nine bucks for this stuff,
and then she went to her bank account and she was charged two hundred
and fifty eight dollars. This is how these This is by the way,
even the legitimate companies that have auto or they call it auto draw or auto
shipper, yeah, the auto track. Yeah, never order anything things.
Yeah, no, you don't ever. You pay for what you use and
that's it. Don't allow them to keep sucking from you, because trying to
find them to cancel it, it'll take here a week. So this well,
they always offer these discounts, I think because I have done this before
where I was like, oh, I want the discounts, I'll subscribe and
then I'll cancel the subscri scription or I'll pause it or halt it or whatever,
and I forget entirely about it until all of a sudden I get the
notification. But a reputable company will not just draft it. They will send
you the notification of like, hey, your subscription order is about to ship.
If you want to make any changes, here you go. So I've
always had that reminder of oh, yeah, that's right. But a lot
of these companies they will not give you that. And Oprah has been very
open too about the fact that she's been used a lot, because she's been
very vocal about weight loss efforts through pretty much the entirety of her career.
She's been really big with weight Watchers and she has even said that is the
only one that she backs. And she's been used for all of these different
weight loss scams on social media. And this poy Arizona woman, her name's
Laura. She anytime she goes to buy something online, she does her research.
This one time she was like, oh, it's backed by Oprah,
It's totally legit didn't do any research. There are a lot of other celebrities
that have been used here. I know Tom Hanks is pretty upset about his
likeness being used for this sort of thing without permission. Obviously, there are
others who have gone on, whether it's weight loss stuff or whatever they're selling.
The number one thing is if they want your credit card number and they
say well, we'll automatically sell send this to you every month, just say
no, no, I'll take one and I'll try it and if I want
more, I'll get back to you. But in this case, this lady
experienced what so many of us have over the years when the you know,
they you sign up and good luck. She said. She called, send
emails, tried to get to the company to cancel the order. She was
given the run around, which is what happens so typically with these companies.
They're just they're deceitful, dishonest, and don't do business with me. It's
a scam. Yeah, they don't actually have any products to send to you.
They just wanted to take your money. Yep, all right, word
to the wise is sufficient. One of the questions that we have at Doug
Stephan, the Facebook page, the X page, all of our social media
Instagram, we were asking you to tell us about your favorite wintertime memory from
your childhood. Christina Miller says, outdoor ice skating. Yeah, she had
weak ankles and she had to have a strong guy tie the laces so that
she could skate. That's a great memory. I think I remember that.
Here's John Walzac, who's up in Buffalo, the blizzard of seventy seven.
He said, the snow was piled so high in front of the house it
was a He was four feet tall at the time, and that was when
he went to the second porch floor on his house he still had he could
he encountered the snow up there. So yeah, other good memories. Help
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