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Tony Marino and Chris Crock for filling in last week.
I hope you had a great Christmas. All I got
for Christmas was sick. That's not true. I actually did
get some presents too, but I got sick taken down
by some quasiflu. I'm not really sure what it was.
You could still hear it if you'd like. I can cough,
not into the mic because that would be gross, but
like towards the producers, I can do that. So you
just to you know, to confirm that I still love
a bunch of the crud hanging out in the Chestel
area a bit of a stuff he knows. But I'm okay,
I am okay. I have noticed a pattern, though, like
when I am on vacation, I get sick, or maybe
I schedule my sicknesses, or maybe the solution is I
just don't take any more vacation time ever again, and
this way I won't be sick ever again. The logic
is undeniable. Now I was able to monitor news from
my Nike will induced semi comatost bed. I was able
to do that, you know, because you're never really off
on vacation because if you, you know, the longer you're
out from this job, it's much like a hamster wheel
or a treadmill that once you get off, it's very
difficult to jump back on because it's still moving, you know.
I learned this after I was out when well, my
first stint at WBT, when I was a host was
let go in twenty eleven, and it was about six
months I take it back, about nine months before I
ended up back in radio up in Ashville. And in
the meantime, I had gone to work for a TV
station where I was covering local beat stories. Right, so
I realized being sort of out of the news cycle
off the treadmill for nine months. I spent so much
time trying to catch back up to what I was
not able to keep up with in real time, because
it's easier to just follow the headlines, keep up with
stuff as it's happening, then to unplug for a while
and then come back. And I like to this day
there are there are If there's a story that I'm
not aware of, or there's some reporting and I'm like,
I don't remember this, chances are it happened during that
nine month window. So that's why even when I'm sick,
even when I'm on vacation or a sick cation, as
I now apparently tend today, I still make an effort
to follow the news. And so one of the things
that I noticed from my deathbed was a Twitter account
called Jimmy Stewart Fans. Not a race car driver. Jimmy
Stewart was an actor and he was in the famous
Christmas movie It's a Wonderful Life, if not the best
movie of all time, it is my favorite movie. I've
said that for twenty years. It's my favorite movie. I
watch it every single Christmas. I get something new out
of it every time I watch it. And Jimmy Stewart
fans twitter account said, did literally everybody watch It's a
Wonderful Life this year? I don't think I've ever seen
so many tweets about it, But I'm not complaining, and
I have to admit I did see an unusual amount
of tweets from people who said that they had never
seen the movie but had watched it this year. There's
a professor of philosophies and he's a Catholic. His name
is Edward Fesser, and he said his guest would be
that the people that are watching it now may be
particularly wistful for the basic decency, community, spirit, and simplicity
of life that the movie represents. Yes, it's a movie
and life was never exactly like that, but what we
once idealized tells us much about what we once were. Right,
the thing like, that's what the thing that we are
drawn to, you know, it's the old gaze upon something
too long and you'll become like it, you know, that
kind of a deal. And the thing that people aspired
to be like versus, say, what's the modern incarnation in
the exact inverse would be what bad Santa? Something like that.
I've never seen the movie. I have no desire to
see the movie. I did see one movie this week
that I was pleasantly surprised at, which was Red One
with The Rock Dwayne the Rock Johnson. It was entertaining.
I mean it was entertaining. And Christy and I we
have a series of Christmas movies that we own on
DVD because she can never trust the streamers. At some point,
you know, they may pull the plug on one of Oh,
which reminds me. Did you hear about the controversy about
It's a Wonderful Life on Amazon Prime? Do you hear this?
Amazon Prime video came under fire for streaming a version
of Its Wonderful Life that omits about twenty two minutes. Okay,
so they edited out twenty two minutes. Well, okay, Amazon
Prime did not edit it out. If you had to
guess which twenty two minutes would have been edited out,
which do you think it would have been? Well, if
you guessed it's the entire portion of the alternate life
where George never existed, you would be correct. That was
the part that got edited out, which makes the movie
completely worthless, right because without that sequence you see George
Bailey punched in the face standing over a bridge asking
God to show him the way, and then he's gonna
jump off the bridge. But then Clarance, the Guardian Angel,
jumps off the spoiler alert by the way here jumps
off the bridge in order to save George, and which
he does. But that's all gone now, so they chop
that out, and the next thing you have George celebrating,
joyful to be alive and running back home. The whole
part called the Pottersville part. All of that that has gone, Hey,
what's the point of the movie then, So people obviously
became outraged, which I would be too if I had
known this was occurring at the time. I found out afterwards,
I mean, after my sickness and the fever broken. All
the missing sequence is largely regarded to be the emotional
core of the movie right now. The existence of this
abridged version is actually rooted in a creative choice not
made by Amazon, but in the film's famously tangled copyright history.
Plus you. For nearly two decades, television stations freely aired
the film because in nineteen seventy four, the distributor failed
to renew the movie's copyright, which means that it's now
in the public domain and now people can air it
without paying royalties. Okay, but that changed in the nineties.
While the film itself had fallen into the public domain,
the rights to two underlying elements had been properly maintained,
so they kept their paperwork up to date for two
underlying references. One was a short story called The Greatest
Gift by Philip van doren Stern and the musical score
by Dimitri Timokin. Republic Pictures was later acquired by Paramount.
They used those copyrights to effectively reclaim control over the
movie's distribution, saying any exhibition of the film required licensing
the copyrighted story and the music, and so the workaround
for these TV stations that wanted to air the movie
without paying the rights was to chop out the entire
Pottersville portion. That's how Amazon Prime came to air this version,
which is shorter, but they also did they were quick
to point out, like, we offer the longer version two.
But the problem was people didn't know which version they
were fixing to watch until they get to the bridge scene.
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also the WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick gmc
oh that sounds a lot better with the chest congestion, GMC.
Can we record that and isolate that? No, just kidding.
On the text line, Mary says, so glad you are back, Pete,
but things were broken while you were gone. It wasn't me,
that's I have Yes, I have heard. I have heard
of a great many things that got broken while I
wasn't here. Chris, welcome back. You've really been missed. Thank you, Chris,
and Concord. Billy says, I found out this year that
asbestos was used as snow in the movie It's a
Wonderful Life. I did not know that. That's man. I
bet that any survivors probably got paid big time with
the mesothelioma lawsuits. Right where the asbestos fell like rain
or in this case, snow, The snow is weird. I
did notice that this year. I don't know why. I've
never noticed it before, but the snow was weird. First off. Okay,
when I watch movies, I always go into it with
the understanding that these are professional liars, right, I mean,
that's what actors are. They're professional liars. They get paid
more if they are better liars. Okay, not all cases,
but some people get paid a lot of money and
they're not good liars, but it is difficult for me
to suspend disbelief. I just I go into all movies
like that. So one of the things that I always
notice in movies is the snow. And I got a
beef when people walk around in snow and they handle
the snow with bare hands and they act like, you know,
it's not freezing water, right, like it's not ice, when
it is, like, it's snow that's really cold. I grew
up in the Northeast, there was snow. Trust me, it's cold.
You don't last very long out in the snow if
you're getting all covered in it, because then it melts
on you and now you're cold and wet, and that's
how you'll catch your death. That's how you get the flu.
And I wasn't even anywhere near any snow and I
got it this year. So anyway, the snow I noticed
this year was weird because it doesn't melt on them,
and it was like puffy and it would just kind
of move all around, and I was just kind of wondering,
I wonder what that is. So thank you, Concord Billy.
I did not know it was asbestos can you still
use that for like a snow machine on your front yard.
It's outside. But Jordan says, I started listening to you,
Pete because of when the levy breaks as your theme song.
But I think as a native North Carolinian, it's cultural
appropriation for you to play wagon Wheel. Well, you know
you know who wrote wagon Wheel twas Bob Dylan, and
then an extra verse added by the Old Crow Medicine Show.
So I'd say there's probably equal claim North versus South
there Bob Dylan being from Minnesota a as he was.
Richie asks if I was actually I was gone last week. Yes,
in more ways than one, just completely out of it.
Dave says, this year I watched Fat Man. I had
never heard of it until this year. If you don't
mind dark comedies about Christmas, I recommend it. I've never
heard of it. Is that about Santa. We also last
year began a new tradition of rewatching gremlins, so we
watch that again this year, which one of the cops,
not the chief of the police, of the two man
police department, that were both drunk while the gremlins savaged
the city. The younger guy, the younger cop, you know
who that was Mike from Breaking Bed and better call
Saul the bald headed guy. That's who that was. And
by the way, both of them should be fired, complete
and utter drunken cowards. While they're watching these gremlins murder
people in the streets, they drive away, they flee cowards.
That's another takeaway I got out of that movie. Also,
I'm curious how how the old man from the guy
that sold the gremlin or had the gremlin stolen from
him by his grandson. I'm curiou how he tracked down
the gremlin at the house at the end of the
movie spoiler alert. Let me go over here and talk
with Alex. Sure, Alex, how are you Merry Christmas?
Speaker 2: Hey, Merry Christmas for your two Pete. Yeah, I just
want to say, I don't even watch the all the
modern crap on TV nowadays, the current stuff. I like
watching reruns of The Andy Griffiths Show and The Waltons
and guns Smoke. That's what I grew up watching, and
that's just it's almost like comfort food to me.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, that's that's fair. I get that. I will say, like,
like I tried going back and watching some of the
shows that were the pop culture shows when I was
a kid, and they just they were not good. Like
Miami Vice. I started watching some of those on some
rerun channel and they were just awful, just awful. But
I loved every when it was on. I love Miami Vice.
Quantum Leap was still good. I did like Quantum Leap.
That was good. You ever watched Quantum Leap basionally back then?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think and Andy Griffiths show, Will you know
That'll be funny one hundred years from now?
Speaker 1: Well, to each their own. I think it's Andy Griffin. Yeah,
is it the Andy Griffin Show?
Speaker 2: Griffith?
Speaker 1: No, I think it's Griffin. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2: Hello is Griffith like d W. Griffith the film director?
Speaker 1: No, I mean like there were two guys that did
the afternoons here at WBT for years and uh and
they they did deep dives on Andy Griffin episodes and yeah,
they were very out of it because they had that
same fight, Alex. I appreciate the call. I'm pretty sure
that's what inspires the Krantz taught me because, like I
grew up, I did not watch Andy Griffin. That was
kind of before my time. So one of the things
about It's a Wonderful Life that I learned this year.
Do you know? The FBI thought that it was communist
classic FBI, right, but you gotta remember the time too,
here right, this is nineteen forty six, okay, And according
to history dot com, FBI informants viewed It's a Wonderful
Life as potentially subversive. Why well, they argued that the
character of mister Potter, who, by the way, do you
know who mister Potter was? You know who he was
in real life? Lionel Barrymore, father of Drew Barrymore. So anyway,
they argued that mister Potter, who was described by George
Bailey as an old money grubbing buzzard, that he was
unfairly villainized or that no, sorry, he as this character
unfairly villainized bankers and the upper class. So, according to
the FBI, the picture deliberately maligned the upper class as
mean and despicable. The film represented a rather obvious attempt
to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a scrooge
type so that he would be the most hated man
in the picture. Well, I think, I mean it's kind
of stupid because the very fact that you describe him
as Scrooge type sort of gives away the stupidity here, right,
it's it's tapping into the Scrooge character from why am
I drawing a blank now on the Christmas carrot? Yeah,
Christmas Carol. Right, this is the Ebene's a Scrooge visited
by the three ghosts Christmas, Present, past, and future. So
that was that's how I always took his character, and
that you have to have the you know, man versus
man dynamic in the in the screenplay, you got the
versus himself and you have the man versus man. All right,
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the text line Jonathan and Gastonia says, I sprinkle asbestos
on my cereal in the morning. Well, I mean doesn't everybody?
Scott says the snow was not asbestos in It's a
Wonderful Life. It was a safer mix of fomite, soap flakes,
sugar and water. Asbestos was used pre nineteen forty in
movies like The Wizard of Oz. Interesting Ritchie is claiming
that it's Indy Griffith with a th that's not correct,
Dawn says Griffith with a no, that can't be correct.
Somebody sent to Wikipedia link. I don't click links, so
I'm not going to look at that. Uh. Somebody has
another link here. I'm not going to look at that.
H Lionel Barrymore was Drew Barrymore's great uncle, not her father,
says Stan, Thank you, Stan. Okay, so still related great
uncle or maybe not so great of an uncle. I
don't know, but they're related. So the the FBI informants,
who uh who attacked It's a Wonderful Life through their
uh their you know, reporting to the was It House
on American Affairs Committee, the h u a C or
the HUAC as I call it, which, by the way,
the hu AC ultimately did not take any action against
the movie It's a Wonderful Life, but the bureau targeted
the film's screenwriters, husband and wife team Francis Goodrich and
Albert Hackett, saying they quote practically lived with known communists
and were observed eating lunch daily with two communist screenwriters.
The bureau failed to mention that Dalton Trumbo, who penned
an earlier version of the script, and several uncredited script contributors,
including Albert Maltz, Michael Wilson, and Clifford Odetts, were current
or former Communist Party members, which is I'm just as
shocked as you are to find Communists in Hollywood. The
Committee's nineteen forty seven hearings led to the blacklisting of
the so called Hollywood Ten, and two of the ten
were Trumboe and Maltz, two of the people that worked
on this film. I would simply point out here for like,
I understand you got commies writing scripts, and sure be
aware of it. You know, want to always be on
guard for the I mean, look at the rewrite of
Animal Farm. Have you heard about this. They're redoing Animal
Farm in like a cartoon version, and they're making capitalism
the enemy, which is literally the exact opposite of what
Animal Farm was about. Right, So you should always be
on guard for you know, this kind of subliminal, underhanded,
ulterior kinds of injecting of these types of philosophies and ideas.
To be sure, but I would simply point out that
when watching the movie as a free market kind of guy,
see the difference is that the government did not force
George Bailey to make any of the sacrifices that he
made throughout his life. Gov Go didn't do that to him.
He did so on his own. Now, he didn't like it,
He fought against it. He didn't want to do these things,
but he did them out of a sense of loyalty
to his family, out of a sense of kindness, right
versus wrong. Dare I say there is more of a
religious reason for why he's doing these things, an ethical
code that he is following. He's not being forced to
give up his dreams of travel and building big bridges
and all of this stuff because the government says, no,
you got to go work for the old building and loan.
And he and his family marry and the kids. Right,
what do they do in the times of trouble is
they turned to God. There was a write up a
couple of years ago by a fella named Jason Fraley
at WTP and he named It's a Wonderful Life as
the number one Christmas film of all time. And I
agree with him. It's been my favorite, like I said,
for decades. And he wrote about it. He wrote this
about the film, It's become such a fixture in our
homes each holiday season. It's amazing how much Frank Capra's
It's a Wonderful Light still has the ability to shock
viewers with the same reaction quote, I forgot how dark
it is, how serious, how little it actually focuses on Christmas. Indeed,
Capra uses the holidays as a framing device for an
in depth character study into one man's life of disappointment,
As critic David Thompson writes, quote, the film that had
failed in nineteen forty seven had become a token of
uplifting fellowship. Yet it was a film noir full of regret,
self pity, and the temptation of suicide. How could so
many people convince themselves that it was cheery? The answer
can only be that Capra shines through the darkness with
such blinding truth. It's a fable of mankind's interconnectedness, where
each of us is an irremovable cause in a wheel,
where you can only take that which you have given,
and where no man is a failure who has friends.
The infamous Capracorn, as they called it, had finally found
its proper doses, providing proving rather that we need the darkness,
to see the light, the lows, to feel the highs,
the despair, to feel the inspiration, in my case this
past week, sickness, to feel healthy, to appreciate, to be
grateful for your health. Steven Spielberg called it a five
hanky movie tearjerker, saying it's one of the three movies
he watches before shooting every film. It was recently named
in the named the most inspirational film of all time
by the AFI. What better tribute than the fact that
Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart always considered this movie the
best film either of them had ever made in their lives.
There was a piece from twenty thirteen I still have it.
It's a piece by Matt Lewis written atthweek dot com
and this was republished recently in like twenty fifteen. I
think with the anniversary of Love Actually, which is okay,
movie not safe for kids, but I mean I like
it fine, Christy and I watch that movie every year
as well. Different kind of message. But it's a wonderful life.
In contrast to Love Actually, it's a wonderful life Actually
has good lessons ranging from moral to financial to practical.
Number One that your life has purpose. One of the
obvious points of the film is that without George Bailey around,
so many things would have been different. Right. The impact
of his life stretched far beyond the small town of
Bedford Falls, and so too does yours. Your life. You
have no idea how significant you are in the lives
of other people. You'll never know, Like, you will literally
never know what impact you have had on other people.
That's only part of the reason of value your life. Though,
aside from serving others, our lives should be viewed as
a gift. Right at exactly ten forty five tonight Earth time,
that man will be seriously thinking of throwing away God's
greatest gift. Oh no, says Clarence, right, like that's talking
about suicide. That's the like, that's the gift of your life.
Another lesson keeping up with the Joneses is for or SAPs.
This message message is subtly sprinkled throughout the film. What's
the matter with our car? Remember? Is it a good
enough for you? I don't do a good Jimmy Stewart impression.
Just sorry. George's ambition to be more than he is
creates a lot of his own problems and is the
cause for a lot of his restlessness and his unhappiness,
right constantly overlooking all of the things that he has
in his life because he wants to do these other things.
This is what I want. Is not to say you
shouldn't strive to be better, but that maturity requires that
you find a balance. Learning to fully appreciate the blessings
we have is a daily struggle for a lot of us.
But most of today's pop culture just reinforces consumerism and
naked ambition. The question is, how are we defining our
worth these days? It's a wonderful life leaves a with
a clear message that no man is a failure who
has friends? Right, So how do you define worth? Your worth?
How do you define your purpose? And are are you
being drawn to a purpose that you don't want to
do but maybe you should? All right, I'll pick it
up there with some more lessons from Matt Lewis, which
again I've kept this piece for now twelve years because
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I was told that during the week of my near
death flew at also Christmas vacation, that a lot of
the best of shows were all filled with very lighthearted topics,
and then you know, my best of was Raymond Ibrahim
talking about fourteen hundred years of violence between Muslims and Christs.
So okay, so this is me making a meen, but
it's not. I usually do this topic every year because
it again, I watch the movie every year and the
lessons I think are worth remembering as you start the
new year. In fact, there was another write by Tony Saruga,
who is a substack GUYE whistleblower investigator guy, and he
was talking about It's a Wonderful Life on Twitter and
he said, in connection to the points I made before
the break, he said, the film's deepest insight isn't just
that no man is a failure, who has a failure,
who has friends. It's that real impact is almost always
invisible in the moment. The lives that you steady, the
small kindnesses that you extend, the responsibilities that you shoulder
when nobody else will. These things ripple outward in a
way that you may never see. A strong sense of
purpose does not erase pain. It transforms it. The sense
of purpose transforms pain. It doesn't merely explain why hard
things happened. It asks what are you now responsible for
because they did happen. Faith at its best does the same.
It doesn't promise that everything was meant to be in
order to make suffering palatable. It invites you to look
at what has been entrusted to you in light of
what you have endured. He says. Georgie's story reminds us
that meaning is rarely found in the grand escape, but
in the faithful presence sticking around. The dreams we surrender
don't always vanish. They often become the raw material for
something more enduring than we even imagined. If you are
carrying the weight of roads not taken, of dreams deferred,
of a life that feels smaller than you once hoped,
watch this movie not as nostalgia but as revelation. You
may not see the full difference that you have made yet,
but it is there, and it matters more than you know.
Another lesson from Matt lewis bad guys don't always get punished.
And this has been when I read this twelve years ago,
Like this one has stuck with me ever since. Nothing
bad happens to Potter. He gets to keep Uncle Billy's
envelope of cash. Spoiler alert, The movie deserves credit for
not solving every problem with the tinkling of a bell.
Did you know that in the nineteen forties the Motion
Picture Production Code definitely stipulated that criminals must be punished
for their crimes. That was part of the rules. If
you were making a movie, you had to do that.
And the case has been made that mister Potter might
have been guilty of lars. In addition to avoiding a
predictably sappy trope, By the way, there is an alternate
ending that they found. It was first aired I don't know,
probably about ten or fifteen years ago. You can find
it too if you find just Google. It's a wonderful life.
Alternate ending Saturday Night Live, where Uncle Billy remembers that
Potter took the envelope and they go and they they
drag them through the streets. Anyway, in addition to avoiding
a predictably sappy trophe, he says, Capra also reminded us
that sometimes bad people get away with doing bad things. Also,
this is a very good lesson too. Don't hire someone
just because their family. This is admittedly more of a
practical maxim but with all the touchy feely lessons in
the film, it's important to cull some not so obvious
and not so pleasant realities as well. Uncle Billy, the
brother of George's father, nearly ruined the business. He drank
on the job. He didn't really seem to be a
very productive employee, you know, even in the best of times.
He had too many wild animals in his house too.
Like there's probably a lesson about like raby shots in
there too. So just because he's your uncle, if the
guy's drinking on the job and losing thousands of dollars
risking your very liberty, probably not wise to keep him
on the payroll. Also, appreciate how blessed you already are,
which is kind of related to an earlier point. But
his whole perspective, Bailey's whole perspective changes, right, because the
stuff that does matter, family, friends, faith, right has now
risen to such pre eminence in his life that all
the rest of it doesn't matter. Here's another lesson, how
to deliver a good toast. Remember when Martini moves into
the house, may help him move his help move Martini
into the house and into one of the Bailey homes.
And they give the toast. George and Mary deliver a
toast bread that this house may never know hunger, salt,
that life may always have flavor and wine, that joy
and prosperity may rain forever. That's a good toast. You
might want to like commit that to memory or something
for the next housewarming. I mean, you could swap out
the bread and salt, not the wine, obviously, but you
could swap out the bread and salt for something else.
But like, it's a good toast. Should always have a
good toast, you know, ready to go. And no I'm
not talking about the toast that you gave in college
at the drinking game. Okay. Also, marry the right person.
George's mother in the movie tells him that Mary is
the quote kind who will help you find your answers.
Mary was in town all along, right under his nose
the whole time. Once they get married, she sticks with
him through thick and thin. Romance is one of the themes
in the film, but not the dominant theme like it
is in the movie Love Actually, and the romance between
Mary and George is deeper and more palpable. Matt Lewis says,
I would argue This is because real romantic love transcends
the superficial love at first sight belooney that Hollywood sells us.
Now I have added to this list, I would add,
you know, don't mouth off to a stranger in a
bar unless you want to get your face punched. That's
a good lesson from the movie as well. Also a
lesson after watching it this year, I noticed this for
the first time. I've seen it obviously dozens of times,
but for some reason, I never really thought about it
much when i'd seen it before. But this year I
noticed it, and I thought, this is a lesson we
should take from this movie, which is, don't be like Bert,
the cop who shoots wildly into a crowd in order
to gun down George Bailey in the street as he's
running away. Like, first off, you're shooting a guy who's
running away, And what did he do to warrant you
to shoot him? Nothing? Like he didn't like he was
trying to get away. He's like, I'll get out of
my way, Bert, although I do think he punched Burt. Okay,
So there's another lesson. Don't punch a cop or you'll
get shot at Two good lessons from that one interaction
because that as Bailey runs down the street, Burt just
starts shooting out. He's just like firing his gun down
the street. I'm like, what is he doing? He could
kill somebody. But that's Pottersville, you know, it's a whole
different world than Bedford Falls. Spencer Claven he said, there's
no such thing as true schmaltz. Oh sorry, there is
such a thing as true schmaltz. And it's unendurable, right,
it's insufferable true schmaltz. But then there are sincerities so
tender and true that C. S. Lewis says, we take
our revenge on them by calling them names like sentimentalism
and naivete. People do this to the movie. It's a
wonderful life. People smear it. They make fun of it,
not because it's too saccharin, but because it is too profound.
It touches deeper where we hurt more. It touches deeper
than we care to admit. And I think that's why
people bash this movie. Although I have noticed there are
way fewer people that are willing to do so publicly
now than I remember twenty years ago. All right, that'll
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