Speaker 1: Tell you what ken Brew is a tough act to follow.
Speaker 1: He had Elmo from Elmo and Patsy Grandma got run
Speaker 1: over by a reindeer. He had Lisa Lane from Vince
Speaker 1: Vans in the Valiance. All I want for Christmas is you.
Speaker 1: I got Mighty John Marshall, which we should be calling
Speaker 1: right now. Thank you, kensey, Mighty John Marshall may not
Speaker 1: have had a hit Christmas record, but he's got a
Speaker 1: list of.
Speaker 2: Great records.
Speaker 1: Vinyl that his moneymusic dot Com assesses and appraises for you,
Speaker 1: if you are a collector, if you've got a garage
Speaker 1: that was left you by an uncle who only drank
Speaker 1: and collected vinyl, or maybe he didn't drink at all,
Speaker 1: maybe he just collected vinyl. Or if you went two
Speaker 1: yard sales at some point, or maybe you had a turntable,
Speaker 1: but now you can't find a needle because you're afraid
Speaker 1: you can't find a clean needle and you don't want
Speaker 1: your records coming down with the virus that can't be cured,
Speaker 1: or something like that. Gary Jeff in for Bill Cunningham
Speaker 1: once again in for Will on The Bill Cunningham Show
Speaker 1: and This Christmas Eve and it's a special show, and
Speaker 1: I hope you will stick around for every single last
Speaker 1: minute of it.
Speaker 2: We have Dan Was find out who he is? Who
Speaker 2: was is?
Speaker 1: Just after one o'clock we have Flash Phelps with a
Speaker 1: Christmas travelogue. The guy has been to almost every county
Speaker 1: in the country and he's got some of the best
Speaker 1: Christmas towns and Christmas name towns that he'll kind of
Speaker 1: take you through on a tour. Today we have my
Speaker 1: friend Scott Powell, a great American historian, on the importance,
Speaker 1: the historical and the importance today of what Christmas means
Speaker 1: in this country in America. And the great One the King,
Speaker 1: Dusty Rhodes, who every year has one of the finest,
Speaker 1: if not the finest Christmas special and he's still doing it.
Speaker 1: And we'll get a little taste of what Dusty's got
Speaker 1: cooking for your Christmas music listening experience on this Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: But first and foremost we get Mighty John Marshall from
Speaker 1: Moneymusic dot Com in on the conversation. And by the way,
Speaker 1: in this hour, you are more than welcome to call
Speaker 1: in if you'd like. If you're a record collector and
Speaker 1: you've got questions about how much your vinyl is worth?
Speaker 1: This is the guy who can answer the question, and
Speaker 1: his website and the thumb drive that they sell can
Speaker 1: answer the question on a million different titles, hundreds or
Speaker 1: thousands of different artists. Moneymusic dot Com John Marshall, Merry
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve, How are you?
Speaker 3: I am Merry Christmas to you, and I've got a
Speaker 3: Christmas gift for all your listeners. Oh oh, you go
Speaker 3: to my website. No purchase necessary. We will send you
Speaker 3: the values for every Elvis, every Beatles record, over two
Speaker 3: thousand of them on the list. Just request it and
Speaker 3: we'll send it right to you. No purchase necessary.
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: No purchase necessary?
Speaker 3: That's correct. The Elvis record, every Beatles record, What they're worth?
Speaker 3: Over two thousand of them, two thousand of them on
Speaker 3: the list.
Speaker 1: My gosh, yeah, how magnanimous of you. What a great
Speaker 1: Christmas gift. Now, if people are in the eggnog early,
Speaker 1: so you've been in the eggnog early listen, it's it's
Speaker 1: ten after twelve. It's not early. It's perfect timing on
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve? You bet?
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Usually the thumb drive with over a million titles. What
Speaker 1: will that cost? This serious record collector.
Speaker 3: Twenty ninetive, over seventy five thousand different recording artists listed,
Speaker 3: over a million records listed from nineteen oh two to
Speaker 3: the present day. Whatever they're worth, you can find out
Speaker 3: right there.
Speaker 1: All right, Kensey, if you can on a conference these
Speaker 1: callers in, I'm gonna let you handle that if you're able.
Speaker 1: We have John and Erlanger already chomping at the bit
Speaker 1: before we get to John's latest top ten song records
Speaker 1: you'd like to have underneath your Christmas tree, and we've
Speaker 1: got some bonus Christmas tracks we're going to be previewing
Speaker 1: as well. But John from Erlanger, you're on the air
Speaker 1: with Mighty John Marshall. What is your question?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 5: Thank you very much. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 3: Okay, great, I'm.
Speaker 2: Sorry, John, you're you're you're cutting out? Brother.
Speaker 3: How's that? Is it better?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little better. Ask your question?
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 3: I have a beatle called the Beatles Frank Field.
Speaker 1: The what the Beatles with Frank Ifield? Okay, John Marshall,
Speaker 1: you're familiar with that?
Speaker 3: Oh yes, absolutely, listen to the answer.
Speaker 2: John.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, now, Frank, I don't know if you remember
Speaker 3: Frank Iyefield. He had a hit I remember you, I
Speaker 3: remember that's that. Yes, it's a.
Speaker 2: Great, great record. I love it. He's got that yodel
Speaker 2: like Slim Whitman.
Speaker 3: Heead Well. He was a big hit in England, not
Speaker 3: as much so over here. But VJ Records on the
Speaker 3: rights to the Beatles and they on the rights to
Speaker 3: Frank Ifield at the time, so they put together an
Speaker 3: album called The Beatles and Frank Ifield, went out in
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty four. Now, if it pictures Frank a jump
Speaker 3: what they call a picture of an English gentleman, a
Speaker 3: cartoon drawing on the cover, then you're up about five
Speaker 3: hundred dollars. But if it pictures the Beatles on the cover,
Speaker 3: then a monocopy is up to fifteen hundred dollars and
Speaker 3: a stereo copy is up to nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: What was the stereocopy, John, I'm.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Yes, stereocopy of the Beatles and Frank Ifield the Beatles, and.
Speaker 5: It's the very first by DJ Records.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the picture of the Beatles on the copy I
Speaker 3: saw that was sold in twenty twelve, twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Now we don't have anything there that's worth twenty grand, right.
Speaker 3: John, Well, we don't put that. We put the high
Speaker 3: end value for the stereo copy of the nine thousand.
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean somebody wouldn't pay more, but this is
Speaker 3: what we consider the value to be.
Speaker 1: John from Erlanger, Merry Christmas. We've got to move along.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and get a better phone. Beth and hope,
Speaker 1: hopefully there's one. Is this stocking? Beth and Florence. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Beth. Beth, have you got a question from
Speaker 1: Mighty John? And then we'll get to the top ten list.
Speaker 6: Hi, Mighty John, I'm calling because I have a question.
Speaker 6: I have some albums. I have gotten rid of a
Speaker 6: lot of my albums at a place in I think
Speaker 6: it's ear Linger called Morrow Records, and what I have
Speaker 6: left I haven't asked the question to them, but I have.
Speaker 7: I think it's called a a seventy eight.
Speaker 6: The size of it is a.
Speaker 5: Seventy eight eighty.
Speaker 6: It's a thicker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds sounds sounds like a seventy eight.
Speaker 6: Beth, Okay, so I have them.
Speaker 7: It has like Les Paul, it has different artists singing songs.
Speaker 7: Or seventy eight is worth anything? Because I have a
Speaker 7: a collection of well sleeves.
Speaker 1: That's an excellent question, John, What are seventy eighths worth generally?
Speaker 1: And there's certain a certain John.
Speaker 3: Remember, yeah, you want to remember that just because the
Speaker 3: record is old doesn't mean it's worth money. Seventy eighths
Speaker 3: can certainly be worth money if they're rock and roll,
Speaker 3: seventy eights country, seventy eight's the blues very collectible. On
Speaker 3: a seventy eight she mentioned Les Paul mary Ford very popular.
Speaker 3: There's seventy eighths generally selloped around thirty to forty dollars,
Speaker 3: depending on the condition. But the big, big, big money
Speaker 3: in seventy eight's is what we call pre war blues.
Speaker 3: These are blues records that came out prior to World
Speaker 3: War Two. They can sell for thousands of dollars, and
Speaker 3: a great way to look at them is generally they'll
Speaker 3: have the word blues somewhere in the title. So you
Speaker 3: know I've got the Gary Jeff Blues. Pick it up
Speaker 3: because it has losing the title.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if somebody had the Gary Jeff Blues pre World
Speaker 1: War two, that's a fine.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, they can be worth money. But because they're
Speaker 3: old is not the reason they're worth money.
Speaker 2: See there you go. All right, we'll get to Steven
Speaker 2: in just a moment.
Speaker 1: Let's do the latest moneymusic dot Com Top ten list.
Speaker 1: Let's get through a few of these in this half hour. John,
Speaker 1: John's with us still one o'clock, so you've got plenty
Speaker 1: of times if you've got a vinyl appraisal question you'd
Speaker 1: like to ask the main man. Here at number ten
Speaker 1: of valuable records you'd like to find under your Christmas tree?
Speaker 1: And these are all one thousand dollars or more.
Speaker 3: John, Yes, yep, I love to find them right under
Speaker 3: the tree, not near the fireplace, the doors. Their album
Speaker 3: Strange Days featuring You Know Hello, I Love You and
Speaker 3: their earlier hits a monocopy currently up to one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: By the stereo copy, it's still up to one hundred dollars,
Speaker 3: but the monocopy where you want to find it.
Speaker 2: People are strange.
Speaker 3: People are strange when you're a strange.
Speaker 4: Faces look ugly when you're alone.
Speaker 8: Willman sing when kid when you're un streets you when
Speaker 8: you're down.
Speaker 9: When straight.
Speaker 3: Faces come out?
Speaker 1: No, I remember his name, Mojoe Rising?
Speaker 2: What a what a? What a strange cat. Jim Morrison
Speaker 2: was right.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: The next one is very interesting to me because I
Speaker 1: did not know that this performer everyone knows recorded under
Speaker 1: this name. The name was Bonnie Joe Mason. But who
Speaker 1: was Bonnie Joe Mason?
Speaker 3: John, Hey, Bonnie Joe was Chaer?
Speaker 5: Your first record.
Speaker 3: WINGO I Love You current value up to one thousand dollars?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 3: And that was produced by Phil Spector on the Net
Speaker 3: record label and the Nets the dab of Expecord white down.
Speaker 2: All right, let's this is shared as Bonnie Joe Mason.
Speaker 4: Get you.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I saw the John.
Speaker 1: I saw the cover, all right, I guess the Uh
Speaker 1: they had a cover of the sleeve from that forty
Speaker 1: five and she looks she can't be more than sixteen
Speaker 1: or seventeen years old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, before the plastic surgery, before the boob job,
Speaker 1: all of that, Chaer was Bonnie Joe Mason, Which sounds
Speaker 1: like a great It sounds as it's almost as good
Speaker 1: a radio name as Gary Jeff Walker. I think John
Speaker 1: Marshall from moneymusic dot com. And let's go to Stephen
Speaker 1: and Dayton. He's got a question for you, John Steven,
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Stephen.
Speaker 10: Yeah the loop, Hey, I got I got a Peter
Speaker 10: Frampton comes alive and it's signed by Peter Frampton and
Speaker 10: it's also signed by the Emperor of America.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, nerdy dog, Merry Christmas. Steven, that's a joke.
Speaker 1: Call you can get him out of here. Uh, that's
Speaker 1: that's not worth anything, right John, Well.
Speaker 3: I can't give you the value for the autographs, but
Speaker 3: uh yeah, so many copies out there, millions of them,
Speaker 3: about thirty dollars.
Speaker 1: Okay, about thirty bucks, and an autograph does not increase
Speaker 1: the value of vinyl.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Well, you know a serious record collector, they don't like
Speaker 3: anything written on the of the sleeves, not even autographs.
Speaker 3: So we always tell people, if you have a chance
Speaker 3: to get an autograph, have the recording artist sign a
Speaker 3: slip separate piece of paper and then just stick it
Speaker 3: inside the cover, but don't write on the cover.
Speaker 1: Right and again, it would be an autograph collector who
Speaker 1: would be find that interesting. Let's go ahead and get
Speaker 1: number eight on the moneymusic dot com list of top
Speaker 1: ten records you like to find it into your Christmas
Speaker 1: tree worth a thousand bucks or more?
Speaker 2: What have we got at number eight?
Speaker 3: Well, one of the big hits from the early days
Speaker 3: of rock and roll, run Away by Del Shannon. The
Speaker 3: value for the album mono up to five hundred dollars,
Speaker 3: stereo up to one thousand dollars.
Speaker 11: Remembering Deller wrong, Hello, and.
Speaker 8: Still the things we've done together.
Speaker 2: I'm just waiting for the falsehetto.
Speaker 11: I'm rain the fillin, but wishing you here by me.
Speaker 4: In this misery I want?
Speaker 1: Is that probably the most valuable Dell Shannon record? Ben
Speaker 1: Joe all right, fantastic. Uh, let's we got time for
Speaker 1: one question and one more tune. Let's get Donna from
Speaker 1: col Raine on the air with a question for Mighty
Speaker 1: John Marshall.
Speaker 2: Donna, Hi, how are you doing? Fine? Merry Christmas?
Speaker 5: Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 12: So I have an very old Victorla and I have
Speaker 12: lots and lots of records.
Speaker 9: Are they worth anything?
Speaker 2: Well, it depends on what they are, Donna, John.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, right, Well again, just because they're old doesn't
Speaker 3: mean they're worth money. Do you have a couple of
Speaker 3: examples of what you have?
Speaker 5: Hello?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Donna? Do you have do you have a couple
Speaker 2: of examples of what you have?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Let me go in the other room here. Okay, we'll
Speaker 3: go with you what you would need.
Speaker 2: Sure, Sure, we're walking with Donna to the.
Speaker 3: Other room, by the way, walking in the rain though.
Speaker 2: No, we're not walking in the rain. This is this
Speaker 2: is compelling radio.
Speaker 3: Donna.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thanks for being prepared.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 13: All right, Let's.
Speaker 1: Well, I have.
Speaker 6: I mean, I've got a whole patroll of full so
Speaker 6: let me.
Speaker 3: Tell you some of what.
Speaker 1: Just give us some titles, babe, I have.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I don't even know what this is.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's a record, but it's in.
Speaker 3: Anticipation with different pictures on that.
Speaker 1: Of any titles there on the label. Look on the label,
Speaker 1: Donna or recording artist.
Speaker 6: No, there's not that.
Speaker 1: That's all it is.
Speaker 6: It says the whistlers, and it has a number on it.
Speaker 1: The Whistlers, and it has a number. All right, Donna,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if we've got an answer, I tell
Speaker 1: you what. Hang up and we'll listen off the air. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll give you an answer. Uh, if you had something
Speaker 1: that said the whistlers.
Speaker 3: Well, not that I know of. Right again, if we
Speaker 3: knew the name of the recording artist, titles and the
Speaker 3: little labels. We have a much better idea, but I
Speaker 3: get so many calls from people saying they have these
Speaker 3: old seventy eights. Well that's good or that's bad. It's
Speaker 3: rock and roll, country blues jazz that you want to
Speaker 3: concentrate on the big band. Overall, not too collectible, and
Speaker 3: the early days of vinyl wasn't even vinyl back then.
Speaker 3: Shellac and plastic generally not too collectible, but you might
Speaker 3: want to check with an antique dealer for any antique value.
Speaker 1: Well, let's close out here with one more from the
Speaker 1: money music dot com list of records you'd like to
Speaker 1: find under your Christmas tree worth a thousand bucks or more?
Speaker 2: What do we got?
Speaker 3: Very first forty five for Rush, the old Buddy Holly
Speaker 3: classic not fade away. Current value up to one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: I had no idea that Rush ever cut this.
Speaker 14: Listen to Getty Why.
Speaker 2: That's Ketty Lee. There's no questions.
Speaker 14: You love to do, meet me love.
Speaker 2: Every now and day.
Speaker 1: Love is not playing away, loves me not play away.
Speaker 2: Kick in with the drums, loves.
Speaker 14: I. Dare you see that? Rocks?
Speaker 9: That?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: John?
Speaker 1: If you'll hang around, we'll do some news here after
Speaker 1: a break and come back. And and by the way,
Speaker 1: if you've got a question for Don for John Uh,
Speaker 1: make sure you know what your question is and feel
Speaker 1: free to call five one three, seven fortnight, seven thousand.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas Eve. Moneymusic dot Com is the website. I'm
Speaker 1: Gary jeff walker In for William back in a moment
Speaker 1: on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 15: Meanwhile, in the intreged forest, Eddie and Rocky hunt pound something.
Speaker 2: It's a lamb with a genius. You'll grant whatever wishes
Speaker 2: we want.
Speaker 15: Just think of the good you could do.
Speaker 2: What do you mean you could?
Speaker 15: And Hunger bring world peace.
Speaker 1: Sam's thinking more like a solid gold alp with a
Speaker 1: money fountain, like Scrooge mcduk.
Speaker 15: How about one for your promo went oun sir. We'll
Speaker 15: see thanks a lot, pork Face.
Speaker 2: Eddie and rock this afternoon to three.
Speaker 15: On seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's Sney from on air with Ryan Seacrest. It's
Speaker 2: no surprise that people often gain.
Speaker 1: Your carry Christmas Eve to you, Gary jeff In for
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham on his Christmas Eve Day, December twenty fourth, Man.
Speaker 2: The anticipation is killing me.
Speaker 1: It's like waiting for Donna to go to the other
Speaker 1: room and check her records. Mighty John Marshall, Darlene Love
Speaker 1: Christmas Baby, Please Come Home, a woman who owes her
Speaker 1: entire Chris Ristmas hit record career to David Letterman who
Speaker 1: had her on the show and reintroduced her to the
Speaker 1: American public.
Speaker 2: Again. That's good stuff.
Speaker 1: We're working on our list of top ten records you'd
Speaker 1: like to find under your Christmas tree, plus some Christmas bonuses,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna We're on the Jet Express here to
Speaker 1: get to number one. My former producer Mine Alex Egan
Speaker 1: sent me a couple of photos of seventy eight's that
Speaker 1: he has on the Columbia label Blues My Naughty Sweetie
Speaker 1: gave me by the ted Lewis Jazz Band.
Speaker 2: Can you give me a value.
Speaker 3: On that John ted Lewis, Well, I think it's jazz.
Speaker 3: Not familiar with that particular record, but have him send
Speaker 3: me an email with a description on how do the
Speaker 3: research on them for.
Speaker 1: Free Moneymusic dot com is where you find the email address,
Speaker 1: and then there there's a on the RCA Victor label
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Blues by Ray Noble and his Orchestra.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ray Noble very popular orchestra, not too collectable, about
Speaker 3: twenty five dollars.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, so there you go.
Speaker 1: Alex next in our list is an actress famous at
Speaker 1: the time TV and movies. She didn't like her voice
Speaker 1: and she thought she sounded like garbage on this, but
Speaker 1: it was a big hit, nonetheless, and it's worth some money.
Speaker 3: Shelly February starred in three Elvis movies and had a
Speaker 3: hit record number one back in the early sixties. Johnny Angel,
Speaker 3: now here's the case with the value was one hundred
Speaker 3: percent just for the picture sleeve the record, maybe ten bucks.
Speaker 3: The sleeve by itself up to one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: She said, I couldn't sing a lick. I don't know
Speaker 2: how this was a hit. I think she does fine.
Speaker 1: I mean they didn't have like all of the vocal
Speaker 1: tricks three that they have now, right, she's pretty much
Speaker 1: pin Pitch Next is an album by the Beatles and
Speaker 1: right Now moneymusic dot Com and John announced it at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the program. If you're a collector of
Speaker 1: vinyl by Elvis, the Beatles, or who else.
Speaker 3: Just Elvis and the Beatles, just send us an email
Speaker 3: and we will send you the values for every Elvis record,
Speaker 3: every Beatles record, over two thousand of them. Moneymusic dot
Speaker 3: Com email address right there on the homepage.
Speaker 2: All right, so let's take a tour with the Fab
Speaker 2: four John.
Speaker 3: Yes, Magical Mystery Tour. Monocopy up to twelve hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Stereocopy up to seven hundred and fifty dollars. Now, these
Speaker 3: are for original issues. These albums have been reissued many
Speaker 3: times over the years. Collectors they want those original issues
Speaker 3: and you.
Speaker 2: How do you tell if you've got an original issue?
Speaker 3: Well, generally they'll change something, maybe the font of the print,
Speaker 3: the color of the label, something to identify it. In
Speaker 3: the guide that we put out, we list each individual
Speaker 3: issue and describe them so you'll know exactly which one
Speaker 3: you have.
Speaker 2: Let's roll up for.
Speaker 14: The misterature for just a.
Speaker 2: It's an invitation.
Speaker 1: To cash in if you're ready to do such a thing.
Speaker 1: A lot of people just they just want to know
Speaker 1: how much this vinyl is worth. They're not planning on
Speaker 1: spinning it off or you know, cashing in necessarily, but
Speaker 1: if you are, here's a helpful handy guide for you.
Speaker 1: Courtesy of Mighty John Marshall at moneymusic dot Com. Now
Speaker 1: I tell you I couldn't find a couple of the
Speaker 1: records that you had listed, which I mean it kind
Speaker 1: of tells you, Okay, if you can't find the record,
Speaker 1: it must be. And this next one, which is a
Speaker 1: forty five from nineteen seventy nine, this guy's name you
Speaker 1: don't associate with recorded music. You associate him with the
Speaker 1: being famously being beaten in the ring by Cassius Clay
Speaker 1: later Muhammad Ali.
Speaker 3: Right, good old Sonny Liston lost that fight right up
Speaker 3: here in Maine where I am. I'm a lover, not
Speaker 3: a fighter. How true? Carmeron value up to two thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: I've only seen one. I've never come across another word.
Speaker 3: I seen one.
Speaker 1: I searched on the interwebs today before we went on
Speaker 1: the air, John, and I could not find that one.
Speaker 3: Now it was on, it was online at one time.
Speaker 3: That's where I start, and it's been taken down.
Speaker 1: Apparently there's a reason it's worth about two thousand dollars
Speaker 1: if you can ever find one.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The next one kind of confused me because you have
Speaker 1: Spirit in the Sky as the title, and I think
Speaker 1: that was a it was a misprint. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: an original Bruce spring song that was later a hit
Speaker 1: for Manfred Man's Earth Band and released by them. But
Speaker 1: this is the original forty five on Columbia from nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy three. Tell me about this.
Speaker 3: Spirit in the Night? No pictures leave involved, just the
Speaker 3: forty five. Currently up to four thousand dollars. Wow, Brooks.
Speaker 14: Crazy, We're back Saturday.
Speaker 1: I'll dun it up for Saturday Night. Bruce Springsteen and
Speaker 1: the original of Spirit in the Night. All right, we're
Speaker 1: up to number two on this top ten list. And
Speaker 1: finally we've got a Christmas album worth one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: or more, and maybe a whole lot more if you've
Speaker 1: got the right copy of Elvis.
Speaker 3: Elvis is very first Christmas album nineteen fifty seven, black vinyl,
Speaker 3: up to one thousand dollars red vinyl, and we found
Speaker 3: six of them over the years doing radio interviews. Currently
Speaker 3: up to fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Fact, in previous years when I had you on the air,
Speaker 1: someone said that they had one called in and said
Speaker 1: that they had one in the red vinyl. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine I'm just all of a sudden you find out
Speaker 1: you've got a record worth fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Payoff for goods. Let's buy a new car, all right, numb.
Speaker 3: Buy a new car with the next one. That's for sure.
Speaker 1: That number one on this list is we're back to
Speaker 1: the Beatles again.
Speaker 3: Now this was what they call a special DJ release,
Speaker 3: not necessarily a promo copy, but these were all sent
Speaker 3: to radio stations with Anna on one side, Ask me why.
Speaker 3: On the flip side, it's up to thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: This is the nineteen sixty four VJ forty five special
Speaker 1: release by the Beatles.
Speaker 2: And look for Anna. Ask me why you could be
Speaker 2: sitting on thirty grand No kidding.
Speaker 4: You don't ask me.
Speaker 3: To sent you.
Speaker 15: Vegan Is say he loves you more than me.
Speaker 11: No, I was sent you.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 1: Now we've got a couple more questions John, and if
Speaker 1: we can get them, conference them properly. We'll get those
Speaker 1: out of the way, and then we've got some Christmas
Speaker 1: bonus records also worth quite a bit of money.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see al in Cleaves. Let's go to Alan Cleves
Speaker 1: first and.
Speaker 2: There we go. Al, what's your question for John Marshall?
Speaker 15: First of all, Merry Christmas to you and yours Merry Christmas.
Speaker 5: Gee, you're already anyway.
Speaker 16: I have a Pink Floyd album that's called and the
Speaker 16: Walls came down. I don't know what this stands forth,
Speaker 16: I've had it for years, all right, But do you
Speaker 16: have a.
Speaker 3: Right in front of you? Do you know what label
Speaker 3: it's on? What record label?
Speaker 5: Al?
Speaker 3: Can you hear me?
Speaker 5: Al?
Speaker 2: Do you know what record label it's on?
Speaker 16: Hold on a second, let me pull the uh pull
Speaker 16: the bio out and out there.
Speaker 5: Oh, okay, you're gonna love this.
Speaker 16: It doesn't have anything on the label, but it looks
Speaker 16: like something from Steve I'm not sure, some kind of cartoon.
Speaker 3: Well, I think you either have a bootleg or it doesn't.
Speaker 16: There's nothing on the label. Everything by anybody.
Speaker 1: You either have a bootleg or an import, he says,
Speaker 1: And in that case, you're so.
Speaker 2: O l al.
Speaker 3: It doesn't mean off.
Speaker 16: The other thing is I have a Pink Bloyd Dark
Speaker 16: Side of the Million that I bought in Germany of
Speaker 16: all places. Yeah, but it's probably not worth anything either.
Speaker 3: Well not true. Now, there's only established values loaning for
Speaker 3: issues sold in the US.
Speaker 1: Only established values for things sold in the US. L Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, thank you sir. And let's go to stew
Speaker 1: in Blue Ash. One more question and we'll get to
Speaker 1: the Christmas record. Ste what's your question for Mighty John Marshall.
Speaker 3: Hey, theres there you good?
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas?
Speaker 3: Stu? Al right, Merry Christmas? Do you?
Speaker 14: Hey?
Speaker 3: I have a cheating Chong album from the.
Speaker 1: You sound like you're on a cheach and Chong album
Speaker 1: from the seventies, Stu, No offense, I said, you sound
Speaker 1: like you're on a cheating Chong album from the seventies.
Speaker 3: No, right now, but it is the old album.
Speaker 16: Here, two of them, one never open, but the one
Speaker 16: album and the big giant rolling paper.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's the big Bamboo album.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is that what it is?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: John, tell me about the cheach and Chong Big Bamboo
Speaker 1: album with the rolling paper.
Speaker 3: Ball all right?
Speaker 5: I just want to just keep.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, Stu, let's let John answer the question and we'll.
Speaker 3: Let you know. Spoken word records generally not too collectible,
Speaker 3: and comedy records fall into that category. Without the rolling
Speaker 3: paper about twenty five dollars, with the rolling paper at
Speaker 3: another ten dollars.
Speaker 1: There you go, so the rolling paper will get you
Speaker 1: thirty five. All right?
Speaker 3: Are you fine?
Speaker 1: He sounded like he was driving in a fuzzy bus
Speaker 1: with Stacy Keats turning into a lizard climbing up the
Speaker 1: wall of the van.
Speaker 3: I thought it sounded like was using the rolling paper anyway, right.
Speaker 1: Stu, you would have had another ten bucks if you
Speaker 1: hadn't broke out the big dam boo paper.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, your friend, with the seventy eighth of
Speaker 3: ted Lewis. I found them on Columbia records. It is
Speaker 3: about ten of them, each of them worth up to
Speaker 3: two hundred dollars alex.
Speaker 1: There you go, each of the ted Lewis records up
Speaker 1: to about two.
Speaker 3: Hundred bucks on Columbia records.
Speaker 1: Let's do our bonus Christmas records that have some value. John, Well,
Speaker 1: well we got a few minutes.
Speaker 3: Well how about Bobby Helms the jingle bell rock that
Speaker 3: forty five with the pictures sleeve up to two hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty five dollars.
Speaker 1: Yep, and everybody sing alone, Jingle man, jingle jingle.
Speaker 4: Gee?
Speaker 2: How many times have you already heard that? This year?
Speaker 1: Like Brenda Lee, Man, it's ubiquitous it you can't escape it?
Speaker 2: All right, Uh, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Up next, this is one of my Wild's favorite songs
Speaker 1: and one of my most annoying noises.
Speaker 2: I've ever heard.
Speaker 3: I hope you hear it often this Christmas gala peetee.
Speaker 3: I want a hippopotamus for Christmas with pictures sleep but
Speaker 3: original up to two hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: Krista is marching around the house, right. Is he not
Speaker 1: feeling well? So I probably won't.
Speaker 2: But Krista, this is for you.
Speaker 5: Must for Christmas only.
Speaker 4: Hip the bottom ust we'll do.
Speaker 8: Don't want no dinky tink or toy.
Speaker 9: I want a hip a botta must away with and enjoy.
Speaker 3: I want a hipple bottomus for Christmas.
Speaker 5: I don't think Santa Claus will mind you. He won't
Speaker 5: have to use a dirty Jimney Blue to bring him
Speaker 5: through the front door.
Speaker 17: That's the easy thing to do.
Speaker 5: I can see me.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Instructions for Santa bringing the hippopotamus into the house, all right?
Speaker 2: Uh again.
Speaker 1: Money music dot com is the website you can buy
Speaker 1: their thumb drive with over a million titles for twenty
Speaker 1: nine ninety five. But if you go there and the
Speaker 1: email John today or anytime anytime this week, John.
Speaker 3: Through Christmas, through Christmas through tomorrow, tomorrow.
Speaker 1: All right, uh, he will say, and you a listing
Speaker 1: of the value of every Elvis and Beatles recording that
Speaker 1: there is, yep from the Moneymusic dot Coms.
Speaker 2: And you also have a YouTube shows that you do, right.
Speaker 3: John, YouTube's right there the Elvis fifteen thousand dollars record
Speaker 3: we talked about. You can watch our YouTube video right
Speaker 3: there on the home paint and see that.
Speaker 1: All right, from that Elvis Christmas album. We have one
Speaker 1: more bonus track to leave us off here. What do
Speaker 1: we got here?
Speaker 3: Well, big Christmas record for Elvis. I'll have a Blue
Speaker 3: Christmas without This is a promo copy. They didn't release
Speaker 3: it in fifty seven as a single until nineteen seventy two,
Speaker 3: So that blue Christmas promo copy three thousand dollars. Wow.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas and Merry Christmas to you, my friend. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Gary Jeff. Merry Christmas to you and your listeners.
Speaker 1: Moneymusic dot Com The mighty one John Marshall, I'm looking.
Speaker 14: Chris.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Opportunity, I have yourself a peanut
Speaker 2: buttery matter.
Speaker 3: Come on.
Speaker 1: And to another hour of this Bill Cunningham Show on
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve, Gary Jeff Walker and for Willie once again
Speaker 1: and a slight.
Speaker 2: Right turn on this Christmas Eve show.
Speaker 1: My friend Dan Was, who has been my friend in
Speaker 1: firearms for a long time, on my Nightcap programs and
Speaker 1: in the other shows that I've done, is always willing
Speaker 1: to come to my aid, providing great content for those
Speaker 1: of us who believe that the Second Amendment is in
Speaker 1: fact a God given right to every a birthright for
Speaker 1: every American citizen, as long as you're not you know,
Speaker 1: shooting people up, as long as you're not a felon,
Speaker 1: as long as you're not a criminal, because the criminals
Speaker 1: are going to get the guns regardless. And on this
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve, in the spirit of peace on earth and
Speaker 1: goodwill towards men, what could say that more than a
Speaker 1: firearm in every home, next to every hearth, protecting that
Speaker 1: family and ensuring piece a peace keeper if you will.
Speaker 1: And here is one of those peacekeepers that I was,
Speaker 1: the one I specifically was talking about once again, Dan Was,
Speaker 1: who is the author of the Good Gun, Bad Guy
Speaker 1: series of books and so many other things. Dan, Merry
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve, How are you.
Speaker 18: Hey, Gary?
Speaker 11: Jeff?
Speaker 18: Merry Christmas Eve as well to you. And yeah, I mean,
Speaker 18: what's better what's more American and more traditional and more
Speaker 18: just perfect than a firearm in every home to protect
Speaker 18: the family.
Speaker 1: If you were going to get a starter pistol, that's
Speaker 1: not a starter pistol. If you were going to get
Speaker 1: someone their first gun for Christmas, what would a Dan
Speaker 1: was recommend?
Speaker 3: Oh wow, good question.
Speaker 18: Well, I mean, if we're talking about handguns, there's a
Speaker 18: lot of a lot of good small, concealable nine millimeter
Speaker 18: which seems to be the go to. You know, there's
Speaker 18: there's the shield, and there's a there's a sig six.
Speaker 18: Sour makes a P three sixty five and I think
Speaker 18: that's what it was. The free three sixty five is
Speaker 18: the nine milimeters. So there's a wide variety of nine
Speaker 18: milimeters easily concealable handguns that you can find at your
Speaker 18: your local gun shop. And you know, and it's hard
Speaker 18: to advise because everybody's different. Everybody's got different size, hand
Speaker 18: different way they're going to be carrying. Women may carry
Speaker 18: different from men, So there's a lot.
Speaker 2: Of different That's an excellent point, Dark.
Speaker 1: That's an excellent point, Dan, because it's almost like buying
Speaker 1: a piece of clothing or an outfit. You want to
Speaker 1: try it on and see if it fits, which can
Speaker 1: be kind of dicey if you've to surprise somebody. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure that a gun is the best
Speaker 1: surprise for some people. I mean, they might be a
Speaker 1: little startled if they open up the package tomorrow morning
Speaker 1: and it's a gun. Is that they weren't expecting. But
Speaker 1: you kind of have an idea of who's a gun
Speaker 1: person and who's not. Number one and number two. Like
Speaker 1: I said, you want to find something that fits your
Speaker 1: hand that again you're comfortable with the recoil action on it.
Speaker 1: You know what kind of kick doesn't have and all
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 18: Right, Yeah, sure, yeah, yeah, and then you'd be surprised
Speaker 18: some of the smaller The smaller ones are more difficult
Speaker 18: to handle because of the kick and the weight. You know,
Speaker 18: there's a couple real lightweight handguns that I don't particularly
Speaker 18: care for because they're so small and they're hard to
Speaker 18: keep in your hand. But there's such a wide variety.
Speaker 18: I certainly wouldn't want to be the one to really
Speaker 18: recommend what's best for anybody, because everybody's different, and like
Speaker 18: I said, it depends on where you're going to be carrying,
Speaker 18: where on your body are you going to be carrying
Speaker 18: There's plenty of different places to carry.
Speaker 2: As well, So it is an accessory in essence, you know, like.
Speaker 18: Life saving accessory.
Speaker 2: Life saving accessory.
Speaker 1: What about what about shotguns and rifles for like home protection?
Speaker 1: You're not carrying that around, but something for the home.
Speaker 1: What's a good shotgun recommendation? Again, And you're not trying
Speaker 1: to recommend something that's a blanket. You know, one size
Speaker 1: fits all obviously, but you want something that can afford
Speaker 1: your family the kind of protection that ensures peace and tranquility,
Speaker 1: you know everyone.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 18: A shotgun is always a good idea I believe to
Speaker 18: have in the house. And there are so many different
Speaker 18: ways you can go with that. But yeah, again, I
Speaker 18: would definitely have a shotgun for that. As far as
Speaker 18: rifles go, I mean, there's there's plenty of rifles out
Speaker 18: there too. It people seem to like the AR fifty
Speaker 18: of course, because you know, you can do a lot
Speaker 18: with them. You can, you can make a lot of changes,
Speaker 18: and there's a lot of different accessories and stuff. So
Speaker 18: but there's a wide variety of of well, so to
Speaker 18: make a recommendation, I wouldn't want to do that, but
Speaker 18: just again, go to the go to your local gun
Speaker 18: shop and just have some fun and go down there
Speaker 18: and check out some of the stuff they have, because
Speaker 18: you'll you'll be shocked. There's a whole wide variety, a
Speaker 18: whole range of different shotguns and rifles and especially handguns.
Speaker 18: I mean, look in the glass counters that they have
Speaker 18: at the gun shops and you'll see all the different handguns.
Speaker 18: It's like it's like Christmas every day when I go there.
Speaker 1: And as you and I have talked before, Dan, was
Speaker 1: if guns were the problem, then there would be just
Speaker 1: massive bloodshed at these gun shows that people are always saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: we got to stop the illegal gun shows. We've got
Speaker 1: to stop. So tell me what's ahead in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: What do you think the side that's against the American
Speaker 1: citizen being armed and being protected with a peacekeeper of
Speaker 1: their own, And what's good, what's positive, and what's still
Speaker 1: working through the courts and what are you talking about
Speaker 1: these days?
Speaker 18: Well, I'm working on a bunch of stuff, but just
Speaker 18: kind of a basic reminder there are more guns in
Speaker 18: this country than there are people, and they're really only
Speaker 18: when you take out suicides only about eleven thousand deaths
Speaker 18: gun related deaths, and those are primarily due to gang violence.
Speaker 18: So the idea that guns are the cause of violence
Speaker 18: couldn't be further from the truth. And to the contrary,
Speaker 18: there's also up to two and a half million defensive
Speaker 18: gun uses per year. That means good people stopping violent
Speaker 18: acts of violence with their own personal gun, and nine
Speaker 18: five percent of the time the triggers never even pulled.
Speaker 18: It's just the mere presence of a gun that stops
Speaker 18: the bad guy. So the argument for guns in the
Speaker 18: hands of good people, it's a no brainer. We have
Speaker 18: all the data on our side, all the statistics on
Speaker 18: our side, so anything you hear that's coming from the
Speaker 18: anti gun side is usually skewed and false, false data.
Speaker 1: There was a big there was a big rush to
Speaker 1: judgment after this latest school shooting where I guess it
Speaker 1: was a fourteen or fifteen year old had some issue
Speaker 1: and how did they get guns. Let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about gun safety as a gun owner, as someone
Speaker 1: who was protecting their family and protecting their God given
Speaker 1: sacred right to own and bear a firearm in defense
Speaker 1: of themselves. What are good safety tips for people who
Speaker 1: own guns in the home. I mean, how did a
Speaker 1: fourteen year old get a hold of a firearm? This pistol.
Speaker 18: I always thought that it was the parent's responsibility to
Speaker 18: teach the kids and raise them in a productive if
Speaker 18: you're going to have firearms, I you're gonna you know,
Speaker 18: if your family uses firearms and has firearms, and to
Speaker 18: teach them early on, because somebody understand a lot of times,
Speaker 18: I think what's happening is, you know, whether it's fatherless
Speaker 18: homes or or whatever the case may be, a lot
Speaker 18: of kids just don't understand. And and not only do
Speaker 18: we have a problem with kids not being raised properly.
Speaker 18: So this isn't a gun issue, This is a this
Speaker 18: is a parental issue. This is a family issue, This
Speaker 18: is a societal issue. But there's also this lack of
Speaker 18: value of humanity I see in our in some of
Speaker 18: our youth. It's it's really disturbing. And I think that
Speaker 18: if we were to teach our kids the value of
Speaker 18: life and appreciation for life, and respect and appreciation for
Speaker 18: other people, along with basic firearm knowledge, a lot of
Speaker 18: these problems would go away. But I think it's a
Speaker 18: parenting issue. And when the anti gun crowd gets a
Speaker 18: hold of this conversation. They want to lock up guns
Speaker 18: in the home. I don't necessarily believe that's a good idea,
Speaker 18: because when you lock up guns in the home, you
Speaker 18: are basically helpless if you're under a home invasion. I
Speaker 18: would prefer children be taught. I would prefer it be
Speaker 18: taught in schools. I would prefer parents take their kids
Speaker 18: to the range on a daily basis. And I would
Speaker 18: prefer that the American tradition firearm culture in America is
Speaker 18: brought up and raised in our youth.
Speaker 1: Well, that's excellent education and also parental personal responsibility. But
Speaker 1: you know, some parents they don't want to have that responsibility,
Speaker 1: and so they want to blame something. And the first
Speaker 1: thing they blame, you usually is the instrument that does
Speaker 1: not get up on its own and shoot.
Speaker 18: And well, you know, and unfortunately they do want to
Speaker 18: blame the gun and gun owners. And my message to
Speaker 18: them is, look, it's not the gun owner's responsibility to
Speaker 18: cure all the ills of the world, you know, And
Speaker 18: we shouldn't have to give up our rights because other
Speaker 18: people are irresponsible. So fix the real problems. Let's get
Speaker 18: to the core of the issues, societal issues that we
Speaker 18: have but to keep your hands off my guns.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: See, that's that's why it's it's just so easy to
Speaker 1: just blame the gun and say, if we eliminate guns,
Speaker 1: this would not be happening.
Speaker 2: I wanted to.
Speaker 3: Tell you something that true.
Speaker 18: It's not even true because if their guns are not
Speaker 18: the catalyst for violence, you know, when a gun is
Speaker 18: not available, a knife is used, or a hammer or
Speaker 18: a baseball batter, a fist or anything. So that's the
Speaker 18: the other side of the argument that they they don't
Speaker 18: want to see because as you know, there was gun
Speaker 18: bands in Australia, big gun bands one in ninety six,
Speaker 18: and it was supposed to stop violence, it was supposed
Speaker 18: to stop suicide. It did nothing of the sort. All
Speaker 18: it did was make people more vulnerable.
Speaker 2: Huh amazing.
Speaker 1: So I wonder what the stats are from Australia since
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six on suicide and on murder and the
Speaker 1: rest of that would be interesting find.
Speaker 18: That basically the trajectory was on a slight downward trajectory
Speaker 18: and at the time before they did the gun band
Speaker 18: and it's the trajectory state exactly the same. It just
Speaker 18: continued slightly downward as it was as it had been
Speaker 18: for the previous years and police but policing had increased also,
Speaker 18: so there really was no change in the trajectory of violence.
Speaker 1: Or suitab Well, right now in this country, Dan was,
Speaker 1: we are still suffering from the defund the police movement,
Speaker 1: which many mayors and governors supported, and you know Washington
Speaker 1: politicians saying that it was police brutality and racism and
Speaker 1: this we need to reimagine the police, and that is
Speaker 1: only ratcheted up the violence on our streets in this
Speaker 1: country because of that. Hopefully this will change with the
Speaker 1: new administration and people are going to understand the true
Speaker 1: role of law enforcement and how important it is. But
Speaker 1: to police, most of the time, god bless them, are reactive.
Speaker 1: They're responding after the fact after something has happened. Whereas
Speaker 1: if you had someone who was threatening you, threatening your
Speaker 1: life or your family's life, or your property, and you
Speaker 1: had a firearm, as the constitution says you're entitled to have,
Speaker 1: then all the police have to do is, you know,
Speaker 1: clean up the mess after you've defended yourself.
Speaker 5: Basically, well, real.
Speaker 18: Quick on that, I don't know how much time we
Speaker 18: have a real on that point. You know, the real
Speaker 18: violence started in twenty twenty when when the political left
Speaker 18: was as you said, they were defunding that they were
Speaker 18: going they actually wanted to defund the police, while while
Speaker 18: violent left wing radical groups like BLM and Antifa were
Speaker 18: burning cities to the ground, and some and some mayors
Speaker 18: were joining in because they wanted to be woke and
Speaker 18: they wanted to be accepted by the.
Speaker 1: Thank god, thank god, our vice president is not going
Speaker 1: to be Tim Walls, whose wife enjoyed the smell of
Speaker 1: burning tires as Minneapolis burned, and the mayor.
Speaker 18: From Minneapolis too, he was joining ready. He was a
Speaker 18: real joke, sure, but just real quick. There was five
Speaker 18: million new firearm owners in twenty twenty because people who
Speaker 18: never owned a gun before realized that these left wingers
Speaker 18: are just crazy and they're putting everybody in danger. So
Speaker 18: five million new firearm owners in America the year twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Real quick.
Speaker 1: To wrap this up on a Christmas Eve, note, I
Speaker 1: just heard the story this morning that Bengals quarterback Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow got a very special interesting gifts for his offensive
Speaker 1: lineman for Christmas.
Speaker 2: He got them samurai swords. He said.
Speaker 1: They asked Joe, why why samurai swords, and he said, well,
Speaker 1: they wanted guns, but so I just went for the
Speaker 1: samurai sword. What do you think is safer for an
Speaker 1: NFL lineman to have in his possession a gun or
Speaker 1: a samurai sword.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 18: That sounds like a trick question. I can't answer that one,
Speaker 18: but I get I would. I would love to have
Speaker 18: you know, guns in my stocking Christmas Eve. I think,
Speaker 18: you know, rather than Santa went rather than cookies and milk,
Speaker 18: Santah wants you know, handguns and.
Speaker 1: AMMO good gunbadguy dot com Dan was thank you so much,
Speaker 1: and Merry Christmas to you and your family. I know
Speaker 1: you've got a big celebration you're cleaning up the house
Speaker 1: for right now, so.
Speaker 2: I'll let you go.
Speaker 18: Thanks Pal, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Very Christmas to you and our Christmas extravaganza
Speaker 1: continues in just a moment here on seven hundred WLW.
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Speaker 1: Go there's no Yeah, if you're not staying home for
Speaker 1: the holidays, where are you roaming to? We have Sirius
Speaker 1: XM sixties gold radio host and world traveler Flash Phelps
Speaker 1: to talk about some Christmas destinations, either towns that sound
Speaker 1: like Christmas or towns that really really resemble Christmas.
Speaker 2: And he's been to them all.
Speaker 1: So we figured that there's no better travelogue than the
Speaker 1: one that Flash Phelps is holding on to between his ears.
Speaker 1: So Flash, welcome on this Christmas Eve to the Bill
Speaker 1: Cunningham Show, Gary Jeff and for Willie with the one
Speaker 1: and only Flash Phelps. How many I know, all fifty states?
Speaker 1: How many counties are you missing across the country now, Flash.
Speaker 5: I'm missing two hundred and twenty two at this point. Yeah,
Speaker 5: there's thirty one hundred and forty four to twenty two
Speaker 5: to go. I've been over ninety one percent of the
Speaker 5: United States and all the counties and Ohio is complete.
Speaker 5: Indiana is now complete. Everything from Indiana the main Maine
Speaker 5: to South Carolina, that's all done. Florida is all complete.
Speaker 5: I just completed all of Oklahoma, all of the Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Speaker 5: all the parishes of Louisiana. I got all those done,
Speaker 5: many out west, so I'm twenty seven states. I've been
Speaker 5: in every county in twenty seven to fifty states.
Speaker 1: Well, and here's the thing. He's driven there, I mean
Speaker 1: except except for Hawaii. Obvious Hawaii. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: doing all five out.
Speaker 5: There was not the easiest because a lot of people
Speaker 5: will cover the four but the fifth one to go
Speaker 5: to Kalorado, smallest county anywhere in the United States. Can't
Speaker 5: drive there, either have to fly or hike in because
Speaker 5: and you can't even do it right now after the
Speaker 5: pandemic because of what goes on. That's where Hanson's disease is,
Speaker 5: right down to Calapapa Peninsula. They had to walk in
Speaker 5: years ago. Back in twenty seventeen, I did it to
Speaker 5: complete all of Hawaii. So that's how you do Hawaii.
Speaker 5: Five counties, so not an easy one.
Speaker 1: So I tell you what, flash, Let's talk about some
Speaker 1: Christmas name towns and some other towns that you've been
Speaker 1: to in your many journeys that have just a special
Speaker 1: Christmas feel. It's one of my favorite times of the year,
Speaker 1: and here we are on Christmas Eve. So maybe for
Speaker 1: next year if you're planning on traveling, flash, where should
Speaker 1: people go to get Christmas?
Speaker 2: That's not right around the corner.
Speaker 5: All right, Let's talk about some of the ones that
Speaker 5: are fun names.
Speaker 2: Tensil Town.
Speaker 5: I did that as a city of the day, so
Speaker 5: obviously Hollywood, not that it's real Christmas Eve there, but
Speaker 5: Tensiltown was fun because do you remember how terrible it
Speaker 5: was trying to use tensil and you get yelled at
Speaker 5: by your parents of trying to hang the tensil rivuy,
Speaker 5: but too many pieces that Dasher. I just went down
Speaker 5: this one Dasher, Georgia. So for Dasher, Dancer, Prance or
Speaker 5: Vixen comics, you it Donner Blitzen. You can go to Rudolph, Wisconsin.
Speaker 5: Or you can go to Dasher down in Georgia's right
Speaker 5: near Valdosta. They've assigned they do. This was a fun one.
Speaker 5: I was talking about how with the songs that are
Speaker 5: out there again Carols, I wanted to go to this
Speaker 5: town called Carrol's Washington. I used to live out in
Speaker 5: Washington State when I was on the radio, and there
Speaker 5: are Longview Kelso near everybody knows Mount Saint Helens when
Speaker 5: they are up in nineteen eighty. Just south of there,
Speaker 5: they get a town called Carol's as in I got
Speaker 5: Carols at the Spinet. So that was a fun photo op.
Speaker 5: In Washington State. How about this one Bells Tennessee. That's
Speaker 5: not too far away from Christmasville, Tennessee. So if you
Speaker 5: head down from Cincinnati on I seventy five, actually takes
Speaker 5: seventy one to sixty five go that way, and then
Speaker 5: once you get to Nashville, go a little west and
Speaker 5: north of Jackson you're gonna find bells, which I did
Speaker 5: for Carrol of the Bells.
Speaker 1: So I always try to find these fun Christmas. And
Speaker 1: there is a Christmas town in Tennessee. I didn't know that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got that. You have Christmas up on the
Speaker 5: upa Michigan. You have Christmas down in Florida in between
Speaker 5: Cape Canaverral and also Orlando. So many want to go
Speaker 5: over there, and they were getting their Christmas cards all
Speaker 5: stamped to be able to get it there. Joy, Illinois
Speaker 5: another good place, I tell by the cities of Illinois.
Speaker 5: And as you know, there's just some really go in
Speaker 5: Santa Claus Indiana, very close to many of us. Just
Speaker 5: to go down to Louisville and then head west and
Speaker 5: that is great year round. So that to go and
Speaker 5: as you know Frankenmuth, Michigan, it's Christmas year round. You
Speaker 5: go to Browners. That's always so much fun. There's also
Speaker 5: a Santa Claus in Georgia. A lot of people don't
Speaker 5: know about that one. No, they they sort of have
Speaker 5: they post office, but they sort of don't. Now, Santa Claus, Indiana,
Speaker 5: that's a real city, so your palstmarker is really going
Speaker 5: to be Santa Claus, Indiana. But Santa Claus, Georgia is
Speaker 5: actually incorporated by the It's called Claxton, Georgia. It's a
Speaker 5: little to the east. That's the home of the fruit cake.
Speaker 5: All fruitcakes that you get that seemed to all come
Speaker 5: out of Claxton, Georgia, far from Claus.
Speaker 2: I won't be going there.
Speaker 1: Fruitcake is one of my least favorite holiday deserve.
Speaker 5: Not a whole lot of people like that.
Speaker 1: They give fruit fruitcake. Fruitcake to me is the equivalent
Speaker 1: of a lump of coal.
Speaker 5: Okay, oh my gosh. And you know what, and you
Speaker 5: know what else was fun is Bedford Falls. Now many
Speaker 5: go Bedford Falls. You mean it's a Wonderful Life Yeah,
Speaker 5: Well is it a real place. Yeah, well it's Seneca.
Speaker 2: Falls, New York.
Speaker 5: This is where the Women's Right is there because they
Speaker 5: have the whole National Monument for that. But you go
Speaker 5: into this town of Seneca Falls. It's right at the
Speaker 5: top of the Finger Lakes, not too far from Rochester
Speaker 5: and Syracuse. So you go over in there and especially
Speaker 5: the middle of December, put this on your calendar for
Speaker 5: next year to look at the thing called It's a
Speaker 5: Wonderful Life Weekend. And they even had three of the kids.
Speaker 5: And I remember that movie was nineteen forty six, so
Speaker 5: these kids that were born in the early forties, they
Speaker 5: were able to attend in their mid eighties, so they
Speaker 5: were there. Zu zu Yeah, she always shows up. She's
Speaker 5: there every year for it. But you go to this
Speaker 5: town and they have on each side they have angel
Speaker 5: It says on one side of the bridge, and then
Speaker 5: you come to the other side and it'll say Bedford Falls,
Speaker 5: and then it'll say George Bailey and you walk on
Speaker 5: the bridge. Well, Frank Kaepra, who ends up writing the story,
Speaker 5: there's a monument that's on there it's a plaque and
Speaker 5: it says, at this point, there was somebody who jumped
Speaker 5: off this bridge to save the life of another, but
Speaker 5: they lost their lives. And everybody says, you know what,
Speaker 5: Frank Kaeper came to this town. This is what he did.
Speaker 5: This is the bridge, and it's the whole story. So
Speaker 5: if you ever get a chance to go to Seneca Falls,
Speaker 5: make sure you see the bridge and see all the
Speaker 5: signage as well. So well, I been having a good
Speaker 5: time going around seeing some things all about Christmas. Have
Speaker 5: you been doing the same?
Speaker 1: Have not done the light tour yet? I'm planning on
Speaker 1: getting out and just cruising some Christmas lights.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe tonight.
Speaker 1: Tonight's the night, I mean Christmas Eve, and you don't
Speaker 1: really have anything magical other than that plan, so tonight
Speaker 1: might be the perfect night to go and see the
Speaker 1: various and many and there are a lot of huge
Speaker 1: displays around here in the Cincinnati area. Flesh, it is
Speaker 1: really nice. I spent by the way, I spent Christmas
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. Got there on Christmas Day of twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: so just four years ago.
Speaker 5: I spent it in Cincinnati that day. Nothing will seem
Speaker 5: to be open. It was over on the east side.
Speaker 5: And then whenever I went to the Sign Museum, I
Speaker 5: wanted to see that. I had never been there before,
Speaker 5: so I did that on the day after Christmas. So
Speaker 5: when things are open like that. I'll tell you another
Speaker 5: fun thing Shadrack. If you go down towards Knoxville, you
Speaker 5: know I seventy five, and head right down and you
Speaker 5: hit the Pigeon Forge over in that area. At Shadrack,
Speaker 5: they do an incredible Christmas display. I did it when
Speaker 5: they did it over where the Tennessee Smokies played, but
Speaker 5: now they've moved it a little further south on the Parkway.
Speaker 5: It'll be right there on your right. So that's a
Speaker 5: good one. That'll be up there for a little while.
Speaker 5: What aout.
Speaker 2: What about Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 5: You've been there. That is a really cool one. I'll
Speaker 5: tell you what. I stopped in the post office there
Speaker 5: because everybody wants to get their their Christmas cards with
Speaker 5: a beth line. And by the way, nazare At Pennsylvania,
Speaker 5: which Martin Guitars is out in nazare At Pennsylvania. These
Speaker 5: two cities are only about five six miles apart, and
Speaker 5: it's just so Nazareth is just north of Bethlem. Many
Speaker 5: want to get their Christmas cards from both areas. And
Speaker 5: there's a Bethlehem, Georgia as well, near the University of
Speaker 5: Georgia the west of Athens. So a lot of people
Speaker 5: go to Bethlen over there. They all try to find them.
Speaker 5: But Bethlyn, Pennsylvania very cool, as you know from Allentown.
Speaker 5: It's called the Lehigh Valley Allentown, Bethlyn and east and
Speaker 5: Easton is home of Creola, the Philipsburg, New Jersey on
Speaker 5: the other side of the Delaware River. Well, Bethlehem just
Speaker 5: a beautiful town and their post office right in downtown's
Speaker 5: along the east side. And they even have a nitknee
Speaker 5: lion there that's sitting on the bench. They do the
Speaker 5: things I find driving around these towns.
Speaker 2: So where is the.
Speaker 1: Most elaborate Christmas display you've ever seen in your journey?
Speaker 5: I'll tell you, Well, there's so many that are just
Speaker 5: so big as well. One of my favorites that I
Speaker 5: just saw was cheek Wood because of cheek Wood, which
Speaker 5: is the west side of Nashville. So these aren't again
Speaker 5: too far away from our area right here, especially if
Speaker 5: you're branching out.
Speaker 1: And I know, being a former resident of Nashville, I
Speaker 1: know Cheekwood Botanical Gardens very very well and they do
Speaker 1: incredible stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they did the Christmas carollers. It really made
Speaker 5: me feel like Christmas when I went in and the
Speaker 5: Christmas carollers were singing and they were all dressed up,
Speaker 5: and there was something about that experience that was just
Speaker 5: so good. So yes, I would say that was one
Speaker 5: of my favorite places. Even right here, I'm not too
Speaker 5: far away from the DC area. So we got the
Speaker 5: National Christmas Tree now that stays up here around a
Speaker 5: lot of people don't know that, but if you go
Speaker 5: to Washington, DC any time of the year, south long
Speaker 5: of the White House, if you stand outside of it
Speaker 5: and look towards the Washington Monument, you're gonna see a
Speaker 5: tree and it stays there planet all year long and
Speaker 5: it's just been evergreen, and a lot of people't know
Speaker 5: that's the National Christmas Tree. Doesn't move unless it gets
Speaker 5: knocked over and then plant a new one, but that
Speaker 5: does stay up year round.
Speaker 2: And then they have the Capitol Christmas Tree.
Speaker 5: This year, they got this tree to go all the
Speaker 5: way from Alaska rang go Alaska to catch a cant
Speaker 5: put it on a boat. They got it down into
Speaker 5: Washington State, trucked all the way across the country, came
Speaker 5: north of View into Fort Wayne across northern Ohio. Then
Speaker 5: they got it over the Wheeling and then they brought
Speaker 5: it right down into Washington.
Speaker 2: So that's where that is from.
Speaker 5: That stands on the west side of the Capitol Building
Speaker 5: in DC. And then how about the one at Rockefeller
Speaker 5: Center that was from that's from West Stockbridge in Flash.
Speaker 5: I call it Flasher Chusetts. You may know it is Massachusetts,
Speaker 5: but yeah, so that's where Alice's restaurant was done. That's
Speaker 5: the real Alice's restaurant. And on the west side of town,
Speaker 5: that's where they had this tree. And then they found
Speaker 5: that they liked it cut down, they took it and
Speaker 5: that's the one currently standing at Rockefeller Center. If you
Speaker 5: go to New York City.
Speaker 1: Well many many people listening may be very familiar with.
Speaker 1: You talked about Nashville and what the display at Cheek
Speaker 1: would but the incredible displays inside the Gaylord hotels, including
Speaker 1: the Land Is if you've never been, you got to
Speaker 1: go right.
Speaker 5: And they do ice as well. And if you're listening
Speaker 5: on further parts away. Look for your galer and hotels
Speaker 5: is you know Texas as well as here in the Washington,
Speaker 5: DC area, we have the one at the National Harbor
Speaker 5: and they do it. They're doing Charlie Brown this year.
Speaker 5: I didn't look to see what the National one is
Speaker 5: doing with ice, but they keep at about ten degrees
Speaker 5: inside of there. It's really chilly and they'll give you
Speaker 5: a coat if you want to walk around. Hey, now,
Speaker 5: have you ever seen a Christmas story? You would know
Speaker 5: how good a Christmas story is? Right? Yeah, well many know.
Speaker 5: You go to Cleveland, then you can see the house
Speaker 5: where they filmed. The Bumpus House is next door. That
Speaker 5: is a Christmas story house. But they filmed some of
Speaker 5: it also in Ontario. It's up in the Niagara Falls area.
Speaker 5: Like when he gets his tongue stuck to the pole,
Speaker 5: that was actually done in Ontario. That's in the Niagara
Speaker 5: Falls area is where that is. But if you want
Speaker 5: to see the statue, because the whole story about Jean Shepherd,
Speaker 5: Jean Shepherd out of Hammond, Indiana. So this is the
Speaker 5: Chicago area. You're right up on eighty ninety four right there,
Speaker 5: and as soon as you get into that area, you're
Speaker 5: going to see at the visitors center. It's a exit
Speaker 5: three I think is what it is. And go there
Speaker 5: and they have a statue of what's called the pole
Speaker 5: Liquor and it's in with his tongue year round. You
Speaker 5: can just see the pole licker. Don't stick your tongue
Speaker 5: to that. But that statue is there because that town
Speaker 5: in Indiana, and that's Jean Shepherd's connection. I'll give you
Speaker 5: another cool one. The first leg lamp they claim was
Speaker 5: made down in Oklahoma. This is real and you can
Speaker 5: show and it's down in Chickashee is where this is.
Speaker 5: So if you're in Oklahoma City, go southwest on I
Speaker 5: forty four exit and go right to downtown Chickashet. When
Speaker 5: you're there, they have about I think it's about thirty
Speaker 5: feet tall, and it's the world's largest leg lamp and
Speaker 5: it says forje Lee on the bottom and it has
Speaker 5: the leg. Somebody was trying to figure out is that
Speaker 5: the right legger the left leg?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I can't see the foot and see the way that
Speaker 5: it's so high up and then it's got the whole top.
Speaker 5: So the world's largest leg Lamp, Lady leg Lamp, you
Speaker 5: go to Chickashee, Oklahoma. That's a really good one. I
Speaker 5: was like that. The Home Alone House is really cool
Speaker 5: north side of Chicago. I went there Christmas of last year.
Speaker 5: I can't believe how many people they had. By the way,
Speaker 5: they make that street one way and you go in there,
Speaker 5: you just bark and come on over. And they have
Speaker 5: places where you can do donations as well. But that
Speaker 5: that house is incredible to see the Home Alone House
Speaker 5: this time of the year. So that's another fun one.
Speaker 1: But hopefully when you walk into Home Alone House, Kevin
Speaker 1: doesn't have a booby trap for you.
Speaker 3: Kevin.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's always a good one. And by the way,
Speaker 5: you can see the tree house isn't there, but that's
Speaker 5: around the back. And if you look directly across the street,
Speaker 5: it's funny because you'll have other fans of Home Alone
Speaker 5: and you look across the street, go, that's the house
Speaker 5: they were robbing over there. There's some really cool things
Speaker 5: to see. Fort Christmas. This is a really a lot
Speaker 5: of people don't know about this place called Fort Christmas.
Speaker 5: They even have a place we descended. It's down in
Speaker 5: Florida and it's right to the east of Christmas, Florida,
Speaker 5: and it's a real fort that they built, and so
Speaker 5: you can actually visit Fort Christmas if you're down in Florida.
Speaker 5: They even do a sand Christmas tree down on the beaches.
Speaker 5: If you go further down into South Florida, they can
Speaker 5: somehow pack together sand, kind of like you would do
Speaker 5: any kind of sand sculpture. Yeah, and they make a
Speaker 5: Christmas tree out of it.
Speaker 2: Really amazing some.
Speaker 5: Of the things they do.
Speaker 1: Flash Phelps. This is incredible. And once again, our time
Speaker 1: has expired way too soon.
Speaker 2: Uh we could talk about the.
Speaker 5: Ice castles or the snow people in gatlin Burg.
Speaker 1: Oh no, next time, brother listen. Have a very merry Christmas,
Speaker 1: and you too. We look forward to hearing more about
Speaker 1: your travel logs on Sirius XM and hopefully on my
Speaker 1: show again.
Speaker 5: All Right, you got it. Always great to talk to.
Speaker 1: You, the incredible Flash Phelps Traveling America and uh, there's
Speaker 1: the there's the Christmas travel log for this year, Merry
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Speaker 2: Nope, we decided to call it off.
Speaker 15: Why you were both so excited to go?
Speaker 5: We were until we ran into this weirdo playing the banjo.
Speaker 15: But there are benjo players throughout the in tented forest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but this one said we had Partie Mail.
Speaker 15: Oh that guy, I guess he's out of jail.
Speaker 2: We figured it was better to get back to the
Speaker 2: station to do our show.
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Speaker 3: Here we are on Christmas.
Speaker 2: Ease into another hour of this Bill Cunningham Show. Garry
Speaker 2: jeffin for Willie once again didn't close.
Speaker 5: Giddy up.
Speaker 1: Santa Claus is coming to town, and so's another fantastic
Speaker 1: hour this afternoon for you. Coming up next, my friend
Speaker 1: historian philosopher h just a very very centered Christian guy
Speaker 1: and the author of Rediscovering America. Scott Powell with his
Speaker 1: thoughts on Christmas. Coming up next. Why I'm Jerry, the
Speaker 1: gingerbread man, the gingerbread woman.
Speaker 2: Those gingerbread people don't hang around that long this time
Speaker 2: of year.
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Speaker 1: Was the divine night over two thousand years ago, when
Speaker 1: the Son of God came to earth and formed a
Speaker 1: new covenant with God's people, A savior is born. It's
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. This is the Bill Cunningham Show. Gary Jeffinn
Speaker 1: for Willie and joining us. I can't think of anyone
Speaker 1: better to talk about the true meanings of Christmas and
Speaker 1: how it's important, so important to the United States of
Speaker 1: America than this guest, Scott Powell joins us, the author
Speaker 1: of Rediscovering America. My friend, Scott Powell, Merry Christmas Eve
Speaker 1: to you, Oh.
Speaker 12: Merry Christmas Eve to you, and especially to your great audience.
Speaker 1: All Right, so we're talking about what we're celebrating, and
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, in this country it is so fundamental
Speaker 1: to everything that this nation was built upon are Judea
Speaker 1: Christian roots and the celebration of the Christ Child's arrival
Speaker 1: on earth. The floor is yours, my friend, talk to me.
Speaker 12: Okay, Well, I think we could start out with what
Speaker 12: we might call the big picture, and when we think
Speaker 12: about what's common to everyone around the world, and we
Speaker 12: could say, really that across cultures, people have sought excuse
Speaker 12: me to flee oppression and escape persecution really from the
Speaker 12: beginning of recorded history, and a recurring theme in Western
Speaker 12: classical literature and in modern classics such as Superman and
Speaker 12: Disney Originals, which revolve around the struggle between good and evil.
Speaker 12: Is the need and the critical role for a rescuer
Speaker 12: or a savior. Everybody, everybody resonates with these themes, you know,
Speaker 12: these are And so when we think about that, the
Speaker 12: ultimate rescuer and savior for mankind would be a Messiah
Speaker 12: who would vanish, vanquish evil and oppression and falsehood once
Speaker 12: and for all. And it's no accident that only Christianity
Speaker 12: has its roots and its entire reason for being in
Speaker 12: the Messiah Jesus Christ. No other religion makes the claim
Speaker 12: that it was founded by Messiah. And so Christmas is
Speaker 12: the celebration of the birth of this Savior.
Speaker 13: And what an event I mean.
Speaker 12: You know, we know it's a magical time of year,
Speaker 12: you know, with all the wonderful music and the decorations
Speaker 12: and the Christmas lights. But the real meaning of it
Speaker 12: is that God came to the earth, took you know,
Speaker 12: took human form that we might be able to really
Speaker 12: understand and receive God himself. And of course through Easter
Speaker 12: and the resurrection, the death of Jesus that he died
Speaker 12: for our sins and was resurrected. Then that gives us
Speaker 12: an ongoing that that was the fulfillment of God's mission,
Speaker 12: was that his son would give his life for all
Speaker 12: of us. But Christmas is the big deal because it's
Speaker 12: just a very you know, joyous time, right the birth
Speaker 12: of the Savior. You know, a lot of people think
Speaker 12: approaching God's kind of difficult, impossible, but I.
Speaker 13: Would tell all your listeners that it's not so. As
Speaker 13: a matter of fact.
Speaker 12: In the Book of Matthew eleven thirty, Jesus says, my
Speaker 12: yoke is easy and my burden is light. And when
Speaker 12: I learned Jewish Pharisee, whose life revolved around living up
Speaker 12: to the stressful demands of the Mosaic Law. Asked Jesus,
Speaker 12: which was the greatest commandment in the law. Jesus answered
Speaker 12: simply that if we love God and love our neighbor
Speaker 12: as ourselves, we will have fulfilled all the laws.
Speaker 13: Now that sounds pretty simple. It's hard to do.
Speaker 2: It, but yeah, yes, it is difficult.
Speaker 1: In every day to day you get bogged down in
Speaker 1: this world's good and it's so easy to lose track
Speaker 1: of the things that are truly important, as far as
Speaker 1: Christmas is relevance and its importance to our country. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the whole world was given this gift by God, obviously,
Speaker 1: but I feel a lot of times like I believe
Speaker 1: that this country was a gift from God to just
Speaker 1: just as Israel as the Holy Land, this country was
Speaker 1: a gift from God, this form of governance that had
Speaker 1: never been tried anywhere else in the world, you know,
Speaker 1: where every individual is respected by God given rights and
Speaker 1: those rights are to be protected by this very special
Speaker 1: republic that we have in the United States.
Speaker 2: Any thoughts on that.
Speaker 12: Well, first of all, very well, said Gary, Jeff. You know,
Speaker 12: we could even go go so far as to say
Speaker 12: that there never would have been a constitutional government created
Speaker 12: in the way and time that it was in America
Speaker 12: without two necessary conditions. First, the foundation of recognizes man's
Speaker 12: unalienable rights of freedom and equality that came out of
Speaker 12: the direct teachings of Christ, and those were more fully
Speaker 12: recognized due to the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century.
Speaker 12: So the Reformation came really right about after Columbus discovered America.
Speaker 12: It was fifteen seventeen that sort of marks the Reformation.
Speaker 12: The Columbus discovered the New World in fourteen ninety two.
Speaker 12: A second, the unprecedented collection of Christian human genius that
Speaker 12: came together rather amazingly at the time people that we
Speaker 12: call the Founding Fathers, who were deeply influenced by Christianity.
Speaker 12: The Founders knew the potential depravity that exists in everyone
Speaker 12: can lead to abuse of power and tyranny, and it
Speaker 12: was for that reason that they set about structuring government
Speaker 12: with checks and balances between the three branches of government,
Speaker 12: but also through a federalist system, a division of power
Speaker 12: between the states and the federal government. And if I
Speaker 12: could segue here, this is really interesting and most people
Speaker 12: probably never heard his story. But you know, a constitutional
Speaker 12: convention that was going to create a government would be
Speaker 12: a very arduous process, a long process, a very difficult process.
Speaker 12: Can you imagine the current politician political class today embarking
Speaker 12: on such a venture, sent a mission to create out
Speaker 12: of to create a new constitution.
Speaker 13: They would they couldn't do it. But these people were different.
Speaker 12: And when the debates, you know when the convention began
Speaker 12: in May of seventeen eighty seven, and that's when the
Speaker 12: Constitution Convention convened, and it wasn't yet super hot, but
Speaker 12: they were going to be working through this during the
Speaker 12: hot Philadelphia summer. This is all in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But
Speaker 12: remember that, you know, there were conflects. These were thirteen
Speaker 12: different colonies of different sizes. They actually had become states
Speaker 12: by that time, but they were disparate states. They had
Speaker 12: different interest There were different sizes. Some were very populated,
Speaker 12: some were very unpopulated. There were small states like Rhode
Speaker 12: Island and Delaware in Connecticut, and then there were big
Speaker 12: states like Pennsylvania and Virginia and New York. How are
Speaker 12: they going to come up with something that would work
Speaker 12: for all those different states? Well, they couldn't come up
Speaker 12: with it. And they were about two and a half weeks,
Speaker 12: three weeks into the convention, and the convention was going
Speaker 12: to break down and disband and you know who stepped
Speaker 12: up and said, no, we're not going to give up.
Speaker 12: It was none other than Ben Franklin, the eldest statesman
Speaker 12: at the Constitutional Convention, a man whom many have called
Speaker 12: a Daist, that is to say, he doesn't really believe
Speaker 12: in a living God that that comes down and answers
Speaker 12: prayers and interacts with man. The Daists believe that God
Speaker 12: created the world and then set it in motion, and
Speaker 12: then he has nothing to do with us. That's who
Speaker 12: people have labeled Ben Franklin. Ben Franklin took, you know,
Speaker 12: took the leading role when it was going to when
Speaker 12: the convention was going to break down and call the
Speaker 12: convention to prayer, and they disbanded for a few days.
Speaker 13: And when they came back.
Speaker 12: There was a completely different spirit at that Constitutional Convention,
Speaker 12: and it was none other than Roger Sherman, a delegate
Speaker 12: from Connecticut, probably the most Christian man of all. He
Speaker 12: signed all of the founding documents, from the Declarations of
Speaker 12: the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution itself. Roger Sherman
Speaker 12: came up with a great compromise when which he said,
Speaker 12: we can do this. The small states and the big
Speaker 12: states can be accommodated. Every state shall get two senators
Speaker 12: in the upper chamber, and in the lower chamber there
Speaker 12: will be representative representatives. So large states that are very
Speaker 12: populated will have more representatives in the lower chamber. Now
Speaker 12: we just take that for granted, like, wow, that's of
Speaker 12: course that makes sense. But back then they didn't have
Speaker 12: that vision. But God gave them that vision. And so
Speaker 12: it was that that that impass was overcome and the
Speaker 12: spirit of the Constitution Convention proceeded with more accommodation and
Speaker 12: more congeniality and cooperation and willingness, you know, to compromise,
Speaker 12: because of course you have to compromise to get such
Speaker 12: an incredible.
Speaker 13: You know, uh agreement, a governing document.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: Well, Scott Powell, what is your favorite way to celebrate Christmas?
Speaker 12: Well? I I love Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3: For a couple of reason.
Speaker 12: One is this great anticipation, right, it's anticipation. And in
Speaker 12: going to church, I happen to go to a church
Speaker 12: that has a candlelight, candlelight ceremony, they're beautiful and wonderful
Speaker 12: Christmas Carol. So for me, that is the best way
Speaker 12: to prepare for Christmas Day. And then, of course, you
Speaker 12: know gifts giving, and the greatest gift to all.
Speaker 5: Of us is Jesus Christ.
Speaker 12: And in that spirit, though we like to give, the
Speaker 12: wise men brought gifts for Jesus, and we have carried
Speaker 12: on that tradition by giving gifts to our loved one.
Speaker 12: And it's and it's a great it's a it's a
Speaker 12: great tradition. Christian tradition is a great tradition.
Speaker 1: On this Christmas Eve in America, in Cincinnati and in
Speaker 1: the tri State, we wish you and yours a very
Speaker 1: merry Christmas and thank you for spending part of our time.
Speaker 2: With us today.
Speaker 1: Scott Powell Rediscovering America is a fantastic book, and Scott
Speaker 1: writes regularly for different publications. He is a senior fellow
Speaker 1: at the Discovery Institute, and we're proud to call him
Speaker 1: a friend.
Speaker 12: Merry Christmas, Scott, Oh, you're so kind, and Merry Christmas
Speaker 12: to your entire audience.
Speaker 13: Thank you, sir, and goodwill to all men.
Speaker 5: Amen.
Speaker 2: Amen, really awake.
Speaker 17: At night worrying about what to buy everyone on your
Speaker 17: holiday list.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's stressful and.
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