35 Burst results for "Santa Claus"
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Did Your Parents Crush Your Santa Dreams at a Young Age?
"What age did you learn Santa Claus might not exist? I think 7 or 8. And I was devastated. I was there with my man. Devastated. How about you learn it from a kid at school? No, this is going to make my dad look so bad. He is my dad is the best. He did the most to try to make me believe in Santa Claus. I heard him say it to my older sister. I heard him say something like when are we going to tell Julie that the Easter Bunny in Santa aren't real and I was so sad. And then he went, no, no, no, I was just kidding. I was just kidding. Whatever back of the barn. That's interesting. I would think that parents would just allow it to evolve. Why did they have to sit down your child and say, listen, I just want you to know there's really no Santa. Really, what is the answer to that? I don't know. I think I agree. I mean, I guess if you're 13 and still believe in Santa, it's a little odd. But yeah, just let it just let it evolve. I agree. But I am as fascinated with this mythology idea as you are with one's nature. Well,
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
It Wasn't China's First Spy Balloon With Jim Carafano
"Let's just play because it horrified me. This is a one star air force general. Who's asked about Americans rights to know what the flip is going on. Cut 5 Patrick Reid at Brigadier rider. Position of the balloon classified? Phil right now, what we're not going to do is get into an hour by hour location of the balloon again. We're monitoring it closely. As I mentioned right now, it's over the center of the continental United States. That's about as specific as I'm going to get. I understand by being convenient, but as the public not have a right to know the public certainly has the ability to look up in the sky and see where the balloon is. Yeah, because you can see balloons at 60,000. So you can tell us where Santa Claus says, but you can't tell us where the balloon is. I mean, this is just ridiculous nonsense. So one of the to me, one of the stunning things here is that's come out today is they've acknowledged that the Chinese have done these balloons before. And not just here in Guam over military targets in Hawaii over military targets. Apparently there's one in Canada, which is where we have our strategic early warning system. So is this supposed to reassure us? Right. And all of a sudden, why did they tell us? And here's blinken was going to China today. Now, can reassure me that the U.S. government didn't know that this overflight was happening. And they were sending blink in the China and hoping that nobody actually noticed it.
Mark Levin
Shooting Down the Chinese Balloon Lies on Protecting Hunter Biden
"The balloon the spy balloon How did we allow this to cross onto our mainland of a country I'm just curious about that Aren't you curious about that Do we not have norad which tracks Santa Claus and all these other things that we didn't see this thing coming And really legit is it too high up in the sky Is that what it is Is that the problem Because it seems like if that is the case we have some major problems in the future If these balloons can go really really high up so high up that we can't see them let alone pop them could be a problem for us Ask yourself this question If Joe Biden was really concerned with this spy balloon and wanted to send a message to China would he do it Would he do it Ask yourself that question The answer of course lies in his son Hunter Biden Crackhead idiot's son who we know was on China's payroll The answer lies there I think China has so much on this guy and so much on this family This president would never dare stand up to China Would never dare Look I got news for you This is a big country We have a lot of undeveloped land We have a lot of rural land The idea that America doesn't have enough room for everybody that we need to stop having children because we don't have enough places to build houses It's all a lie There's plenty of room We could shoot this thing down very easily and nobody would even notice There was so much undeveloped rural land in this country with Woods and fields and farms and everything else And we have all these neat ways to track where it is so we could know hey it's going over a big gigantic farm And we can evacuate everybody and shoot at the hell down if we wanted to If we wanted to we don't
AP News Radio
Girl asks police to test cookie for DNA proof of Santa
"A young Rhode Island girl figures out how to determine if Santa Claus is real. DNA. The young crafty Cumberland resident sent a partially eaten cookie, as well as a couple of gnawed on carrot sticks to the towns police department to ask if they can be tested for DNA. Chief Matthew Benson says the note they got said, I took a sample of a cookie and carrots that I left for Santa and the reindeer on Christmas Eve, and I was wondering if you could take a sample of DNA and see if Santa is real. The chief says her evidence was sent to the lab, the charge could be failure to finish snacks, results are pending. I'm Julie Walker.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
YouTuber Chris Kohls Opens Up About His Career Path
"Your career path, Chris? Well, I decided to go into filmmaking and primarily as a writer. I wanted to write, I wanted to create worlds. I wanted to kind of do what we do, but in a more subtle way. Instead of doing a show where I talk about politics, I would make films in which the ethics of the characters were traditional values and they had the stories were moral or at least they had some kind of a moral core that you could that you could see and respect or maybe something that was ideal that you could want to be like want to emulate. So I wanted to make these sort of maybe old fashioned value films and TV shows and stuff like that. And so I came to LA to do that. Actually, my father has a very successful business up in Oregon. And one day he called me and he's like, hey, Chris, you're going to take over the business or what's going on. I'm like, no dad, I'm going to Los Angeles. I'm going to be a writer. So what was the reaction of your family that lives in the real world successful business father? What happened when you said, I'm going to make movies? You know what's funny about that is I've talked my brother's interest in my brother Nick. I called my brother once, and I said, hey, what do you think about what I'm doing? This is back when I was like a struggling writer, trying to get anybody that I could to get to read my stuff, which nobody ever really did. But I'm trying to get trying to figure that out. And I'm like, what do you think about this career path? And he goes, well, Chris, I can't imagine you doing anything else. Like ever since we were children, you were always coming up with stories, telling me, you know, we'd see Santa Claus on the roof of my neighbor's house. And I tell my brother, I'd come up with this like vast story about Santa that night and why he's up on the house that night and stuff. And because I had to figure up there. So I'd just come up with stories about anything. And I tell my brother these stories every night because we shared a room. And he's like, yeah, and he had more of a better insight than anybody else, because he was the one that had to hear the stories all the time. And so he was like, no, Kris, this is, of course, you have to do this. This is
AP News Radio
Finland Santa Claus-Santa intro and wrap
"Santa Claus is getting ready for another epic gift giving Christmas trip. The nerve center is in Santa Claus village just north of rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland, the preparations are going so well. But Santa says he's aware of what's going on around the world. Families are feeling financial pressures. Some are even dealing with war. Good afternoon, Santa Claus. Santa received a letter from a 6 year old Petro. We used to live in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, but now because of war, we live in western Ukraine. He asked Santa for toys for him and his sister and peace for his country, as for Santa's naughty and nice list. It's not too late to get on the nice list. Santa's Christmas wish. This lots of people without hope without place to go without place to live without place to sleep. So if you can see someone who needs help, please help. Santa also got in some practice runs with the reindeer before the big ride. I'm Ed Donahue
History That Doesn't Suck
"santa claus" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Because don't you know, Santa Claus is the spirit of Christmas. And ever and ever so many years ago, when the dear little baby was born after who we call Christmas and was cradled in a manger out in the stable because there was not room in the end, that spirit came into the world to soften the hearts of men and make them love one another. Therefore, that is the mark of the spirit to this day. Don't let anybody or anything rub it out. Then the rest doesn't matter. Let them tear Santa's white beard off at the Sunday school festival and growl in his bare skin coat. These are only his disguises. The steps of the real Santa Claus, you can trace all through the world as you have done here with me. And when you stand in the last of his tracks, you will find the blessed babe
History That Doesn't Suck
"santa claus" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Poor WAN lips, and the grass seemed greener in the treasury dooryard, and the sky bluer than it had been before. Even on that bright day. Perhaps, well, never mind. If anyone says anything to you about principles and giving alms, you tell him that Santa Claus takes care of the principles at Christmas, and not to be afraid. As for him, if you want to know, just ask the old woman on the treasure corner. And so, walking down that avenue of goodwill, I came to my train again and went home. But when I had time to think at all over, I remembered the letters in my pocket, which I had not opened. I took them out and read them. And among them were two cent to me and trust for Santa Claus himself, which I had to lay away with the editor's message until I got to do rubbed off my spectacles. One was from a great banker, and it contained a check for a $1000 to help buy a home for some poor children of the east side tenements in New York, where the chimneys are so small and mean that scarce even a letter will go up through them, so that ever so many little ones over there never get on Santa Claus's books at all. The other letter was from a lonely old widow. Almost as old as my dear mother in Denmark, and it contained a $2 bill. For years, she wrote, she had saved and saved, hoping some time to have $5, and then she would go with me to the homes of the very poor and be Santa Claus herself. And whenever you decided it was right to leave a trifle, that should be the place where it would be left. Read the letter. But now, she was so old that she could no longer think of such a trip, and so she sent the money she had saved. And I thought of a family in a one of those tenements where father and mother are both lying ill. With a boy who ought to be in school, fighting all alone to keep the wolf from the door and winning the fight. I guess he had been too busy to send any message up the chimney. If indeed, there is one in his house. But you ask him right now, whether he thinks there is a Santa Claus or not. No Santa Claus. Yes, my little man. There is a Santa Claus think God. Your father had just forgotten. The world would indeed be poor without one. It is true that he does not always wear a white beard and drive a reindeer team, not always, you know. But what does it matter? He is Santa Claus with the big, loving, Christmas heart for all that. Santa Claus with the kind thoughts for everyone that make children and grown up people being with happiness all day long. And shall I tell you a secret, which I did not learn at the post office, but it is true all the same. Of how you can always be sure your letters go to him straight by the chimney route. It is this. Send along with them a friendly thought for the boy you don't like. For Jack who punched you or Jim, who was mean to you. The meaner he was, the harder do you resolve to make it up? Not to bear him a grudge. That is the stamp for the letter to Santa. Nobody can stop it, not even across draft in the chimney when it has that on. Because don't you know, Santa Claus is the spirit of Christmas. And ever and ever so many years ago, when the dear little baby was born after whom we call Christmas and was cradled in a manger out in the stable because there was not room in the end, that spirit came into the world to soften the hearts of men and make them love one another. Therefore, that is the mark of the spirit to this day. Don't let anybody or anything rub it out. Then the rest doesn't matter. Let them tear Santa's white beard off at the Sunday school festival and growl in his bare skin coat. These are only his disguises. The steps of the real Santa Claus, you can trace all through the world as you have done here with me. And when you stand in the last of his tracks, you will find the blessed
History That Doesn't Suck
"santa claus" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"A lot of other letters. I didn't have time to read. And I thought, as I went to the depot, what a pity it was that my little Friends papa should have forgotten about Santa Claus. We big people do forget the strangest way. And then we haven't got a bit of a good time anymore. No Santa Claus. If you had asked that car full of people, I would have liked to hear the answers they would have given you. No, Santa Claus. Why there was scarce a man in the lot who didn't carry a bundle that looked as if it had just tumbled out of his sleigh. I felt of one slyly, and it was a boy's sled. A flexible flyer. I know, because he left one in our House, the Christmas before. And I distinctly heard the rattling of a pair of skates in that box in the next seat. They were all good natured, everyone, though the train was behind time. That is a sure sign of Christmas. The brake man wore a piece of mistletoe in his cap and a broad grin on his face, and he said Merry Christmas in a way to make a man feel good all the rest of the day. No Santa Claus is there. You just ask him. Then the train rolled into the city under the big gray dome, to which George Washington gave his name. And by and by, I went through a doorway, which all American boys would rather see than go to school a whole week, though they love their teacher dearly. It is true that last winter, my own little lad told the kind man whose house it is that he would rather ride up and down in the elevator at the hotel, but that was because he was so very little at the time and didn't know things rightly. And besides, it was his first experience with an elevator. As I was saying, I went through the door into a beautiful white hall with lofty pillars between which there were regular banks of Holly, with the red berries shining through, just as if it were out in the Woods. And from behind one of them, there came the merriest laugh you could ever think of. Do you think now it was that letter in my pocket that gave that guilty little throb against my heart when I heard it? Or what could it have been? I hadn't even time to ask myself the question for their stood my host all framed in Holly, and with the heartiest hand clasp. Come in. He said, and drew me after. The coffee is waiting. And he beamed upon the table, but the various Christmas face as he poured it out himself one cup for his dear wife and one for me. The children. Ah, you should have asked them if there was a Santa Claus. And so we sat and talked, and I told my kind friends that my own dear old mother, whom I have not seen for years, was very, very sick and far away Denmark, and longing for her boy, and a mist came into my hostess gentle eyes, and she said, let us cable over and tell her how much we think of her. Though she had never seen her. And it was no sooner said than done. In came a man with a writing pad, and while we drank our coffee, this message sped under the great stormy sea to the faraway country, where the day was shading into evening already. Though the sun was scarce two hours high in Washington. The White House, misses Reese, Reba, Denmark your son is breakfasting with us. We send you our love and sympathy. Theodore and Edith Roosevelt. For you see, the house with the Holly and the hall was The White House. And my host was the president of the United States. I have to tell it to you, or you might easily fall into the same air I came here falling into. I had to pinch myself to make sure that the president was not Santa Claus himself. I felt that he had in that moment giving me the very greatest Christmas gift any man ever received. My little mother's life. For really, what ailed her was that she was very old, and I know that when she got the president's dispatch, she must have become immediately ten years younger and got right out of bed. Don't you know mothers are that way when anyone makes much of their boys? I think Santa Claus must have brought them all in the beginning. The mothers, I mean. I would just give anything to see what happened in that old town. That is full of blessed memories to me when the telegraph ticked off that message. I will warrant the town hurried out. Burger master bishop beetle and all to do honor to my gentle old mother. No Santa Claus, eh? What was that then? That spanned two oceans with a breath of love and cheer. I should like to know. Tell me that. After the coffee, we sat together in the president's office for a little while, while he signed commissions, each and every one of which was just Santa Claus's gift to a grown-up boy who had been good in the year that was going. And before we parted, the president had lifted with so many strokes of his pen, clouds of sorrow and want, that weighed heavily on homes I knew of, to which Santa Claus had had hard work finding his way that Christmas. It seemed to me as I went out of the door, where the big policeman touched his hat and wished me a Merry Christmas that the sun never shone so brightly in May as it did then. I quite expected to see the crocuses in the John quills that make The White House garden so pretty out in full bloom. They were not, I suppose, only because they are official flowers and have a proper respect for the calendar that runs Congress and the executive department, too. I stopped on the way down the avenue at Uncle Sam's paymasters to see what he thought of it. And there he was, busy as could be, making ready for the commune of Santa Claus. No need of my asking any questions here. Men stood in line with banknotes in their hands asking for gold, new gold pieces, they said, most everyone. The paymaster, who had a sprig of Christmas green fixed in his desk, just like any other man, laughed, and shook his head and said Santa Claus. And the man in the line laughed, too, and nodded, and went away with their goals. One man who went out just ahead of me. I saw a stoop over a poor woman on the corner and thrust something into her hand, then walk hastily away. It was I who caught the light in the woman's eye, and the blessing upon her poor WAN lips, and the grass seemed greener in the treasury dooryard, and the sky bluer than it had been before. Even on that bright day. Perhaps, well, never mind. If anyone says anything to you about principles and giving alms, you tell him that Santa Claus takes care of the principles at Christmas, and not to be afraid. As for him, if you want to know, just ask the old woman on the treasure corner. And so, walking down that avenue of goodwill, I came to my train again and went home. But when I had time to think it all over, I remembered the letters in my pocket, which I had not opened. I took them out and read them. And among them were two cent to me and trust for Santa Claus himself, which I had to lay away with the editor's message until I got to do rubbed off my spectacles. One was from a great banker, and it contained a check for a $1000 to help buy a home for some poor children of the east side tenements in New York, where the chimneys are so small and mean that scarce even a letter will go up through them, so that ever so many little ones over there never get on Santa Claus's books at all. The other letter was from a lonely old widow. Almost as old as my dear mother in Denmark, and it contained a $2 bill. For years, she wrote, she had saved and saved hoping some time to have $5, and then she would go with me to the homes of the very poor and be Santa Claus herself. And whenever you decided it was right to leave a trifle, that should be the place where it would be left. Read the letter. But now, she was so old that she could no longer think of such a trip, and so she sent the money she had saved. And I thought of a family in one of those tenements where father and mother are both lying ill. With a boy who ought to be in school, fighting all alone to keep the wolf from the door and winning the fight. I guess he had been too busy to send any message up the chimney. If indeed, there is one in his house. But you ask him right now, whether he thinks there is a Santa Claus or not. No Santa Claus. Yes, my little man. There is a Santa Claus think God. Your father had just forgotten. The world would indeed be poor without one. It is true that he does not always wear a white beard and drive a reindeer team, not always, you know. But what does it matter? He is Santa Claus with the big, loving Christmas heart for all that. Santa Claus with the kind thoughts for everyone that make children and grown up people being with happiness all day long. And shall I tell you a secret, which I did not learn at the post office, but it is true all the same. Of how you can always be sure your letters go to him straight by the chimney route. It is this. Send along with them a friendly thought for the boy you don't like. For Jack who punched you or Jim, who is mean to you. The meaner he was, the harder do you resolve to make it up? Not to bear him a grudge. That is the stamp for the letter to Santa. Nobody can stop it, not even across draft in the chimney when it has that on.
AP News Radio
Children write to Santa Claus, sharing fears of Ukraine war
"The war in Ukraine is weighing heavily on the minds of some children who are asking Santa Claus for peace this year. At the Santa Claus main post office in a Christmas village in Finland. An elf is sorting through the mail that Santa receives. Kutcher reads aloud a letter from a 6 year old boy in Ukraine named Petra. We used to live in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, but now because of war, we live in western Ukraine. Please give peace to Ukraine. We love our country very much. Conscious as children from all across Europe are worried about the impact of the war on Santa. A little girl, 5 years old, ask from her mother, if Santa Claus has to go to war should be a war in Finland. Santa himself at this Christmas village says he appreciates the children's concern for his well-being. You have to remember that. This is my life. I'm Jackie Quinn
WTOP
"santa claus" Discussed on WTOP
"Going to the movies for many, Santa Claus and violence just do not mix at the movies. Santa, of course, a symbol of all that's good in the world, right? Well, the producers of this new movie disagree, it's called violent night. You ain't driving on you. I steer a little but the range of your muscles work. This is my full theory, the Santa. How about you? I started the whole damn thing. This morning film critic Christian chodo, with his take. Well, honestly, if the idea of a violent, bloody Santa Claus feature, is not your cup of tea. You really should stay far away from violent night because that's exactly what it is. And you know, we get so many movies each year that are sweet and kind and full of holiday cheer. But there's also sort of this subset of films that are just the opposite. They're dark, they're brooding. Sometimes they're extremely violent. That's where violent night falls. It's story about Santa Claus played by David Harbour from Stranger Things fame and he is a little bit burned out on Christmas. He's sick of the greed and all the materialism, but he has to push all that aside when he's enmeshed in this kidnapping situation. And it turns out that back in the day, this Santa Claus was a bit of a warrior and he has to kind of summon that inner warrior once more to save a family in extreme duress and that's where the bullets start flying and the blood starts spilling. This is a satirical, it's certainly darkly comic, but I also thought if that's the kind of movie you're looking for and the film makes no bones about it, then it's actually rather entertaining. Harbor is quite good as Santa Claus is mostly violent, but also as a little bit of twinkle in his eye. There is a small sentimental subplot going on here, which I thought shouldn't work in a movie like this, but actually kind of does. So if the description makes you want to look elsewhere, then by all means look elsewhere. But if you like a bit of a darker Santa Claus, a Christmas movie that isn't sticky and sentimental, then I think violent knight will kind of scratch that itch. Will Smith resurfaced this week on Trevor Noah's daily show and he did about a 20 minute interview and he talked about the Oscars lap and how he felt about it and that he was going through a tough time and he was enraged. But what struck me Christian is that he is currently doing a National Geographic show where he travels all around the world. He's starring in an upcoming film that you'll review for us later called Emancipation. It seems to me that for all the Führer back in March, Will Smith is back. I think I would gently disagree, which I don't often like to do with you, but he has suffered a sizable black eye
Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores
"santa claus" Discussed on Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores
"So that's his end and then krampus touches the sleigh because he notices it's from his relatives or family or race. I think he says and of the elder the kind of the good side of the gods version of him and he touches it and then he's like now it's mine and all the dogs turned demonic. It's black and red. But luckily Santa's back because lady dagmar tries attacking him and a few of the other people like Gunnar Mickelson who frees the children he would have been taken to the castle to primarily to be eaten because they are fattening those kids up, which is pretty messed up. And yeah, and they all struggle they can't defeat him. And then Santa jumps on in his fighting and he's like, no, I'm going to kill all the bad children. I'm going to eat all the bad children in Santa goes there are no bad children. And then he cuts his fucking head off. Amazing. And then this is in the upper atmosphere, because they fly up to the upper atmosphere. Cuts his head off, krampus becomes like a meteorite, crashes back down in grimsby, and Santa rides down triumphantly. And what a story what a story so much for and only 7 issues, so it's a good, I think it's a good amount of issues. It doesn't feel abrupt. Everything feels earned and it's enjoyable. It's fun. You can take your time with it, you can blitz through it. It's an absolute blast. And it's fun. And it's a really sweet and it's nice as well. It's action packed. It has the whole spirit of Christmas. I know this is an alternative Christmas season for the podcast but it is it's lovely. It's really charming and I just think it's beautiful. It's fun. It has everything you would want in a kind of a badass Santa tail. I've read a few of these kind of comics where it's like, oh, badass Santa. And I'm sure I'll be doing some more in the future. But I think this book is great. And then he the ending is that he lives out the rest of his life in Grimm's fig, not all of his life, but all of lady dagmar's life. And kind of adopts Jonas as his own son, but when she dies, he decides to go off and have various other adventures and be the Santa we all know him to be, basically. So, and I think that obviously will lead on to those other books that I've not read. If you want me to read them, let me know and I'll do I'll do the next one next year. I think there's three volumes I want to say, including this one. So yeah, go check it out, guys. If you've had fun, if it sounds like a book for you, if you've not read it, go give it a try. Again, I've not mentioned everything how can I? But there's a lot to be enjoyed there. There's a lot of fun and yeah, absolutely impeccable story. Go out and try it. I know they're all available on comics. Again, I can send a link over as well. I can leave that in the show notes as well. If you want to fund that KickStarter, if you want a big collection, I'm very, very tempted. I think I might do that because I've loved this story and a few others are even half as good as this.
Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores
"santa claus" Discussed on Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores
"These miners. There's another character in the book called Gunnar Mikkelsen, and we follow a lot of his family, like his son and daughter, and his wife and he kind of leads a rebellion Santa inspires them to rebel and then they set the coal mine on fire and, you know, they have to bully it out and all this other stuff. And again, like Magnus constantly clamping down. I have to talk about the artwork because it is gorgeous. This is the first work I've ever read of Dan Moore. I'm not sure how much he'd done before, but I thought it was absolutely beautiful and I know he's currently on the world's finest comic with Mark waid and that looks gorgeous every page and every bit of our work I see from him is absolutely amazing. It's such a, it's colorful. It's fun. It's vibrant. It's I think he's one of the better modern artists in comic books. In my opinion, I just think it's brilliant all the detail and the fun, the, from the panel placement, I think, is great as well. Such kinetic energy with things always happening and going and falling and jumping and fighting. You know, there's a really brutal punch that Santa gives in the book and it's really it's amazing. And there's a couple of other really brutal moments which are really great and just shown in all their glory. Again, it's not Uber violent as a book. It's quite it's soft and it's tender, but it has enough, I think, for people to enjoy. And I think kids could enjoy it. I don't think it's that violent. I think there are moments where it's like, it's maybe a bit on edge, but I think for like a mature ten year old, 11, 12, 13, I think. I think a kid can get a lot out of this because it's fun and it makes Santa a badass, I think, like young boys are especially would get a kick out of that necessarily, but girls as well, or whatever gender that you identify with. I think everyone can get something out of this book. And it's fun. And I just think it's bloody great. So if you haven't read it, go out and read it. It is brilliant, but I'll carry on spoiling it for you because that's what I do. Spoil it down. So yes, as I was saying, lord Magnus is whispering, this voice is whispering to him, and it apparently always has been like as long as he's kind of been alive. He's heard this voice. And there's something in the mind that's kind of whispering to him and telling him to do stuff. And we learn at the end what that is. But we have, we have a lot of kind of adventures and eventually they lay a trap for Santa. For Klaus, who it's written by his son Jonas and we, well, actually before that, we learned that lady Doug mar learns who Klaus is and they describe him as kind of wolf or winter spirit and people are either frightened or amazed or they're hopeful because it's this thing.
Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores
"santa claus" Discussed on Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores
"Toys and they have some kind of magical ability and some kind of they do very unusual things, basically. And because they've taken them all away, Santa, or Klaus, has to come up with a better way of coming and delivering those gifts. And what's really nice about the story is it slowly, but surely. Introduces all the facets of the Santa law, if you will, so the sled and the going down the chimneys and like I said, the red and the white that he wears and what it represents. And he draws like a big jewelry room, you know, like a Viking rune in the snow to say joy, which is a kind of a bit kind of superhero ish like the crow or something like that, which I really liked and people are like, Joey, why does he leave the room for joy? And the humbug that is kind of lord Magnus keeps, you know, clamping down. There's a curfew and Santa is kind of, again, try sneaking. He figures out he can drop the drop them in down through the chimney of the toys, and the I think he plays with the spirits again. They give him more abilities and strength and agility and things like that. So you get a lot of influences kind of come into this and work really well, so it does feel a little bit like Superman or Batman and Robin Hood.
Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores
"santa claus" Discussed on Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores
"Ever spectacular spider Dan, and in this podcast, I spotlight entertainment's best kept secrets that a mainstream audience may find boring. And a very warm, welcome back to alter nativity stories, a monthlong look at alternative stories set around the most wonderful time of year. That's right, we're back for my favorite season again and we're looking at those alter nativity stories. So it doesn't necessarily have to be Christmas. It's just around the festive period. New year's Hanukkah kwanzaa, you name it. Thanksgiving maybe, maybe I'll do some Thanksgiving stuff maybe next year. It kind of fits. It's somewhat fits. So yes, we are back, but today we are talking about Christmas and we're going to be talking about the secret origin of Santa Claus, the story is Klaus, how Santa Claus began. This was released and published by boom studios, written by grant Morrison and drawn by Dan Mora. Guys, I'm not going to bury the lead. I love this book. It is fantastic. It's gorgeous to look at the stories fun. It's simple. It turns kind of center into this action hero, and it works. Absolutely works. I love it to pieces. I was going to do it last year and then I decided against it I can't remember why, but I did something else. For whatever reason, I don't know. Who remembers a year ago? Fuck it. Still good last year. But this is fucking great. So guys, if you have not read this book, I recommend go out, order it now. In fact, at the moment, boom studios has a KickStarter. And what it is is they're going to make a giant omnibus of all the Klaus stories that have been written and drawn by Dan Mora, I believe they're all drawn by Dan Murray, could be wrong. But they all are definitely written by grant Morrison and they're all from boom studios. So if you want a big, solid collection of everything Klaus, go and start to fund that KickStarter. They're doing the dark crystal one as well and some other stuff. I'll leave a link in the show notes as well if you do fancy a hardcover. I've not read the other installments. I've only read the first story, which is what I'm going to talk about today. And it's great. If you like Santa, if you like good comic books, if you like, grant Morrison if you liked all star Superman. This is the book for you.
Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores
"santa claus" Discussed on Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores
"Another one that is on let me talk again oh that's. Hard means it will seem scar yeah. Better seeking that you let me throw you listen and all you saw were the spider down in the secret room. Prepare. Alter nativity story. Welcome to prattle world. I am your host, the ever amazing,
AP News Radio
Santa's back in town with inflation, inclusion on his mind
"After two holiday seasons with COVID-19 precautions, Santa Claus is coming to town. Merry Christmas to everyone. The jolly old elf is back this year in person without plastic partitions or faraway benches. And kids once again sitting on Santa's lap, except at Macy's in Herald square, where Santa sits behind a bench. The company hires Santa dot com, says there's been a 30% increase in bookings this year compared to the last two seasons. Although COVID fears are easing, inflation is taking some of the twinkle up. Santa's eyes, many of the portrayers are older. They live on fixed incomes and bending under the weight of higher prices. But at least one companies paying more around 5 to $12,000 for the holiday season. Sandra Booker say this year, there's a higher demand for inclusivity, meaning they're looking for santas who are black or Spanish speaking, and those who know sign language. I Jackie Quinn
AP News Radio
Palin nabs early lead in Alaska US House special primary
"Initial vote counts have been released in Alaska's special primary for the state's only U.S. House seat I'm Ben Thomas with the first numbers The Associated Press has not declared any winners but the initial results show Republican former governor Sarah Palin with 29.8% of the votes counted so far Republican Nick begich has 19.3% while independent Al gross has 12 and a half percent and Democrat Mary peltola 7.5% Another Republican Tara Sweeney has 5.3% in a candidate whose name is Santa Claus a self described independent progressive democratic socialist had 4.5% 48 candidates have been running for the seat held for 49 years by the late congressman Don young the top four will advance to in August special election The election was conducted primarily by mail and election officials planned several days of ballot counts I'm Ben Thomas
Live Behind The Veil
A highlight from Training By Fire - Steps To Your Purification
"Welcome to live behind the veil and atmosphere where men and women of God speak his word to this age and bring his kingdom to this earth. Do you have ears to hear and eyes to see what God is doing in this hour? Let us join our host and the family's conversation as the Holy Spirit is unfolding. The word behind the veil. Hello podcasters, I am Ron your host, and today we've got a brand new member of the family or actually part of the podcast. She's not a new member of the family, but she's a new member of the podcast. Hi Laurie, how are you? I'm doing great. Yeah, we love having you on here. We know your heart and we know how much of an expression you are. Boy, I expect that there's a lot of people who are going to meet the lord because of you being with us. Yeah, I'm really happy you're here, Lori. Yeah, we keep talking about a family, but it sound like a boys club for a long time. It really did. So it's wonderful. Just wonderful to have another lady on, especially somebody like Laurie this completely fill the full of the words. Awesome. And we also have another tree. We have a podcast guest. Hi Jim, how are you? Hey guys. Good to be here this evening. Love having you here. That's another opportunity for another aspect of the word that's going to come out. I anticipating tonight's cast because boy, it's just going to be wonderful. I'm just excited. I asked me to big time. Thank you so much. I believe it for the same thing. It's exciting to greet two more of those who have a unique gift and to hear and participate in that gift being exercised and appreciated. Well, that's for sure. We've known Lori and Jim and his wife pat for gosh. I don't know how many years, a long time. Two or three. Yeah, two or three years for sure. Decades, at least at least decades. Well, family. It's going to be an exciting night. We'll be talking about the Holy Spirit and fire. This dive into it. What is the fire? Is the fire God? Yes. That's a good point. It's a fire all consuming. Yes. Is the fire deadly? To our flesh and to everything that keeps us from standing in the presence of the lord. Our flesh is living. It won't live in its presence. We have to have the fire in us to consume that. I was thinking about the three Hebrew children when they went in the fire. What was consumed by the fire? Their bondage is, that's what was burned. Because they came out with not even a smell of fire on them. The presence of the lord is what the fire is. But the fire is something that we have to have working in our lives so that we can see that burn off. I thought long and hard about this question at first I didn't quite understand what the fire was and then I remembered when I very first accepted the lord. Everything was joyful. You go through this honeymoon experience. Then the lord starts putting his finger on things in your life. Yep. And so one way to look at the fire is the dealings and the process that God puts you through to purify your spirit and to purify your heart before him. Exactly. That was the simplest way I could think of to explain the fire spiritual warfare would be contained in that, because it's that warfare that brings the fire to our adamic nature or who we are and what Debbie's talking about in the flesh. But also dab I wanted to remind everybody that when the three Hebrew children were thrown into the fire, that those guards who threw them into the fire were consumed. Yeah, they were. The fire has a dual purpose. We hear this thing about hardening the clay or making the making the wax soft and pliable. And it's all dependent upon our reaction to the word, that is going to determine whether we're going to be softened or hardened by the fire. That's true. Your damn nature is going to be less and less. We receive the Holy Spirit. And this is the thing that he's to work in us until we can come to the point where we can stand before the father face to face. Right? Right. To have the blood of Christ is honest, but everything else has been burned out. That's what the Holy Spirit is bringing to us. Is that fire to take care of this a damn nature that, unfortunately, it was put on us, because of the sin of atom. Seems like there's an element of our choice as to how the fire is perceived. Exactly. There is an element of how the fire is applied. As well as perceived, and I think one thing that's important is the foundation of the fire. Christ, ministry began he came preaching the Holy Spirit and fire. From the very beginning, fire was of a very much a part of the word that Christ brought to the earth and as we have come into a greater revelation of who he is by virtue of walking in his footsteps were coming to understand a lot more about the fire. Right. Yeah. You know, I think one of the real wonderful things about the fire is the fact that if we were to wait until the final judgments, then we're going to be all burned up, and they're like dibs that there will be nothing left. But I think we go through little tidbits here and there, and it's like maybe it's only a match that's burning a piece of your nature. Right. Right. When you conquer that one thing, you've been through a portion of the fire and you've come out on the other side. It's like the thing of The Rock falling on us. We want to fall on The Rock and we'll be broken. But for those who The Rock is going to fall on, they're going to be crushed and completely destroyed. And that's why we want to go through it now. We want to go through the judgments where God gets control of our spirit. Gets control of us so that we can actually walk in his presence, look back on your lives and see, you know, when you first became a Christian, there were ups and downs in this trial, and that trial in testing. I know there are so many points in my life I'm going, okay, God, what are you doing today? Exactly. And as years later, as a season saint, you don't see as much of that. Right. Because God has worked in your spirit a lot of these things that were that he wanted removed. He's worked in your heart already. He may do a small part, have a small area like a match that burns up a small area. And then there may be larger areas as time goes on as you grow in the lord. You find more things falling off. More things being burnt, more things enabling you to stand in his presence for a longer period of time. What seems to be really clear here that we're all talking about, is that God is a consuming fire. Exactly. I think a lot of people miss that. They love the sweet and gentle Jesus. And they love when the lord helps them in blossom. Blesses them. Yep. But if you, if you won't walk into the fire, you're missing the father, you're missing. I mean, you can't just take part of somebody, right? Well, I know that person because they're always happy. Yeah. You're missing 90% of the person. And it's the same with God. You know, there are so many people out there that they accept so much of God, but they don't want to accept the dealings. They don't accept the fire on their lives and they run from the fire. They run from the dealings, and yet they still feel like they have this walk with God, and then what's the scripture say? They come to the last time in the lord lord and he goes, I don't know you. You did all these mighty works, but I don't know, yeah. 'cause you never allowed the fire to burn out the lawless thing within your nature. You know, the thing without the three heaver children. Okay, they were thrown into the fire. But they weren't in there alone. Right. There was a fourth person that was in there. That was the lord, and no matter what fire you go through, he's going through it with you. Right? He's going to bring you out the other side because that's his joy. That's right. I think we're going to raise a question for some people listening in the fact that what he talking about progressive judgments isn't there going to be one big judgment in the last day? Yeah, there's people who are going to bring this up and there's scriptural backing for what we're talking about. We talk about Daniel in different things and bring these things out and may not be a bad idea, there are those who believe that there's one time set for all, you know, maybe sometime we want to address that. But you know that one time set for all when it comes up to that time. Those that have gone through the fire in their lives are not going to be going through the judgments, judgment was never meant for the children of God. That's right. Though it was standing right in the midst of her floating right in the midst of judgment, but he wasn't touched. God gives us as children of God away to go through them, and when we come out the other side, we've been affected by it, but we have not partaken of it. The goring threw it to church talking about Ed, the scriptures very simply related to the agricultural days in which the scriptures were written. They planted the wheat, you know, this parable, long came a bad person, and so tears. They discovered them as they started to grow. Do we take out the tears now? No, wait till they mature. And that's where a lot of where we're living now is those tears are of matured, there being taken out, and what's left is the wheat. But the wheat is not usable the way it is. At the Shell, around the kernel, the life of the wheat, the chaff has to be removed, and that's what you're talking about in these judgments, judgment begins in the house of the lord, and that judgment that comes by the fire of the Christ was talking about is burning away the chaff, and what's left. That's a question, what's left? The colonel, the colonel of weight, the very center, the thing that God wants. To use. You know, I think when people think of fire, they're afraid of it because it's going to hurt them. It's going to bother them. It's going to affect them in a negative way. Instead of seeing it as the means of the lord has of getting rid of everything that keeps us from his presence. I'd like to throw some scriptures in here and James, the book of James is one of the most convicting books to read, but he does say here consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance and let endurance have its perfect result. That you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing and one of the things that the lord is looking for is where to become like him. As the Christian were to emulate and be Christ on the earth. The only way to do that is to go through the fire, exactly. That's perfect, Laura, because again, there are many people out there and I'm sure everyone's met them. That are trying to be christlike. You can't try to be christlike. Right. Doesn't work. It doesn't work. The lord has to come and burn out that which is not Christ like in you. He's the what they call, he's the Potter, and we're the clay, the process that the father gave us at Jesus gave us, at the Passover, the communion, and that's where, as we eat of his body and drink of his blood, we turn away. And that turning away is that separation, where the chaff is separated from the wheat. That turning away repenting or repentance as not an easy thing to do. But by partaking of his communion the power gives an in his blood, given in his body, makes it possible. It enables us I'm going to bring out hebrews, right? He was 12, do not regard lightly the discipline of the lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him. Does it hurt? Yeah, it does. Because you tell me one person, especially a young person who loves getting Spain. The discipline, it's not comfortable. Because he is changing our nature. And that's the issue. He's changing our nature. We have this wonderful story about a man we know, who, when his mother would grab a belt, he would grab a hole to her really tight because then she couldn't swing that belt. He knew how to not get hit so hard, the more you run from someone with a belt boy. That whiplash effect or the whip effect, boom, at hertz. Yep. You know, I think that a lot of this discipline, the scripture says all discipline for now for the time being is sorrowful, not joyful, but it produces how to say the righteous rights of God. He skirted every son whom he receives, the discipline that you endure God deals with you as with sons for what son is there, whom his father does not discipline the thing that I think is important to really realize is each step that we go through that we finally win a victory over. Yes. Yes. We then have authority in that particular area over Satan. He can't touch us in that realm any longer. That's true. Right. Are we perfect yet? Oh, no. We got a few more things to go through still. As each level is accomplished, he can't touch us anymore, and I think that's huge. That's something to really rejoice about. You know, we've been crying out for immunity. Yeah. You know, I mean, I know that people are crying out for immunity all over the earth from whatever you want to call it disease is sickness, all this type of stuff. How do you get there? Well, there you go. You go through the fire. Got test you, you go through the fire, you finally die out and overcome that specific thing on that specific level of life that you're living, and like Alan saying, then you walk in authority and dominion in that specific area of your life. But if you refuse the fire, you're refusing the very deliverance and the immunity. And the growth and the transformation that God's trying to bring to your life. You have to look at it through God's eyes because he's trying to perfect your spirit for eternity. He's trying to create a relationship with you for eternity and he's doing it through his fire. So you can stand in his presence and be in his kingdom. Getting close to him is the key to going through that fire. If you cry out to him and you reach into the fire, you reach in, you want that discipline. You kind of the place where you want that discipline. You want to be disciplined by the lord because you know that when you come through that, you're going to be able to have victory in that area. That's the one thing about God, you know? He starts putting you through the fire, and you say, no, no, no, I'm not going to do this and you walk away. Well, when you come back, you're going to get booked right back in that situation of the fire that you just left. Yep. Go through it when God gives it to you the first time. I think it brings us back to an understanding of hebrews three 15. It says today, if you hear my voice, do not harden your heart. And it's those who reject the fire or the chastening of the lord that pardon their heart and then they have a hard time with God any more after that. You know, it's by the grace of God that hopefully people open their hearts again. I love the details it's coming out as we're talking about this fire. Because it's a detail, this necessary in every step with God. It's exciting to know that the fire has a product. That it's not just an endless cycle, there is a promise, and that promise is the kingdom of God. That's what that fire is all about. So you press on. And as we get deeper and deeper into our walk with God, we go like David did. Created me a clean heart O God. Right. That very cry of David was all about the fire. All about burning off his flesh, his everything that was not pleasing to God. This is so, so important, you know, this is not a popular message in Christianity today. No. They just want the dear Jesus. You know, they're acting like gods and Santa Claus, but really what he's looking for is he wants all of you. Right. And the process of getting us so that we can even relate and see him as we have to be purified. Right. And this is the way to become purified so that you can see the lord. Have been kind of searching the scriptures a little bit while everybody's been talking. This is kind of a takeaway that I'm going to that I'm going to take with me from this conversation first Peter one 6 and 7. I'll just read it here for you. Though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith, of greater worth than gold. Which perishes even though refined by fire. May be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. And that is being revealed in me. As I receive and allow the fire to be applied to me and my nature. Experiencing the impartation of God's word through his family is life. As this time in his presence blessed you, then please subscribe to our podcast at live behind the veil dot com. If you would like to contact the family with questions or topics that you would like to discuss, you can email them to living epistles at live behind the veil dot com. Stay connected, tuned in and grow with the family as the lord unveils his word to us live. Behind the video.
The Mason Minute
Batteries Required (MM #3930)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. When I was growing up, I could pretty much guarantee you, if anything had batteries required attached to it, I wasn't getting it for Christmas. Back then it was a stigma about Christmas gifts with batteries. All the good toys had batteries and needed batteries and of course didn't come with them. But people didn't want to buy you the gift and the batteries. And it didn't matter if it was my parents or my grandmother, or even a Santa Claus brought them. You never got gifts with batteries, or at least I didn't. Nowadays, everything I buy for Christmas has batteries, or needs batteries, or has a USB attachment or electrified in some ways. We don't think about it anymore. Now battery technology today versus yesterday. It's like night and day. We're not dealing with de sized batteries anymore. Is there anything that runs in those batteries? Usually a double a, a triple-A, sometimes one of those square what is it 9 Volt batteries, but never sees or ds anymore. Batteries required isn't scary to people. It doesn't dissuade them from buying us those gifts. And of course now, all the things I get for Christmas always need, or at least have batteries
The Mason Minute
Batteries Required (MM #3930)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. When I was growing up, I could pretty much guarantee you, if anything had batteries required attached to it, I wasn't getting it for Christmas. Back then it was a stigma about Christmas gifts with batteries. All the good toys had batteries and needed batteries and of course didn't come with them. But people didn't want to buy you the gift and the batteries. And it didn't matter if it was my parents or my grandmother, or even a Santa Claus brought them. You never got gifts with batteries, or at least I didn't. Nowadays, everything I buy for Christmas has batteries, or needs batteries, or has a USB attachment or electrified in some ways. We don't think about it anymore. Now battery technology today versus yesterday. It's like night and day. We're not dealing with de sized batteries anymore. Is there anything that runs in those batteries? Usually a double a, a triple-A, sometimes one of those square what is it 9 Volt batteries, but never sees or ds anymore. Batteries required isn't scary to people. It doesn't dissuade them from buying us those gifts. And of course now, all the things I get for Christmas always need, or at least have batteries
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Why People on the Left Hate Joy
"So NBC News has an opinion. All of NBC News and opinion site in my opinion that doesn't matter. They have an official opinion site called think. So a woman wrote a piece in think regretting that she had ever allowed the idea of Santa into her house. I'm going to read to you because every year I do a pro Santa Claus hour and this woman, I want to thank for providing me with the thinking of the anti Santa Claus people. Let me preface it by saying the following. There's the woman is not discussed politics whatsoever. But I would bet. My audio system. Then that's really not only expensive. A love of my life. Not the love, but a love. That this woman is on the left. And do you know why I will read to you lines that pretty much reveal it? But there's another reason. People on the left don't like joy. I know that sounds incredible. Who doesn't like joy? But they suppress it. Do you know that the EPA wants to limit or ban race car driving because of the emissions from race cars? You got cruel that is? And stupid? How deep and effect on the climate to race cars have? But people enjoy it. There's too much joy in America. Let's get rid of it. Let's get into Thanksgiving and Christmas. Let's get rid of celebrating the founders. Let's get rid of the car. Too much independence in the car. Let's
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Philadelphia Residents Urged to Stay Home for Christmas Due to COVID-19 Surge
"The CDC is now forecasting 15,600 deaths per week from a variant where no one has lost their life. Not a single person has died that we know of from omicron. But now the CDC says we're going to be dealing with 15,600 people every week dying of the China virus and the variants. You've got people now in Philadelphia, this announcement just came out. They're asking people to refrain from gathering for Christmas. So they want to ban Christmas and Santa Claus in the city of brotherly love. And people are freaking out over all of this stuff.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Dr. Robert Jeffress: Biden Administration Is the Ungodliest in American History
"A good friend of this program is causing a big stir out there. Pastor Robert jeffress on Sunday made the following pronouncement that the Biden administration is the ungodliness administration in the history of our country. I don't care how many rosary beads they rob. A doctor Jeffers. Well, welcome to the show. You just really have a way with words. And by the way, there's nothing anti Catholic about that. If Joe Biden were professing baptist, I would say I don't care how many times he gets dunked. He is the ungodly head of an administration. We have ever had if you just look at his policies. Yes. And let's talk about that because again, you're catching a lot of fire for what you had to say. Why is Joe Biden the ungodly as president? Why is this the ungodly administration in American history? First of all, understand the context. I was not just popping off in the pulpit about Joe Biden or politics. I'm preaching through the book of acts and I was detailing the first Christian martyrs Steven and how that happened and how persecution began against the church in the first century. It didn't happen all at once. It happened incrementally. It started with the marginalization of Christians, then the isolation of Christians that led finally to the extermination of Christians. And I said, we shouldn't expect anything less. Jesus said in this world, you're going to have tribulation. And I believe that the Biden administration is starting a persecution, not against all people who call themselves Christians, but against Bible believing
AP News Radio
Macy's Thanksgiving parade returns, with all the trimmings
"Crimped by the corona virus pandemic last year the Macy's thanksgiving day parade was totally back this time there was a drumline at the university of Alabama's band spectators like this site Hey shut out in twenty twenty lined the route again feels really phenomenal to be here feels like New York is on its way to recovery which feels fantastic so many people and families out and they all got to enjoy balloons floats marching bands clowns and performers and of course Santa Claus I'm what turned out to be a beautiful day it was wonderful it was really exciting to see everyone out and about and go by there so big so it was exciting to see I'm Shelley Adler
CNBC's Fast Money
"santa claus" Discussed on CNBC's Fast Money
"6 p.m. Eastern Time right here on CNBC. Well, Sox going south, south of the border. The EW MSCI Mexico ETF losing one and a half percent of today's session as a Mexican peso dropped just about a 1% against the dollar. Options traders are all over this move in one whale is betting on a lot more pain ahead. Myco is the action Mike. Yeah, so EW traded 11 times its 20 day average put volume and puts outpaced calls by about two and a half to one. The trade we saw was a buy of 3000 of the January 43 puts the buyer of those was paying about a dollar ten for those, and then selling 4500 of the 40 strike puts. Same expiration at 50 cents. And the buyer of that ratio put spread is betting that EW is going to fall between those two strikes. That would be a decline of 8 to 13% over the course of the next 8 weeks. And as you point out, this does have a lot to do with the peso because ew is not a currency hedged ETF. Got to go to the EM specialists for his thoughts, Tim. Well, you've got that 4% dollar moving in November. You've had Mexico, which is, first of all, that ew has things like cell phone companies a couple banks in there. It's not a terribly sexy call it cyclically oriented ETF nor is that economy outside of oil. And I do think if you see oil prices stay here, I actually think Mexico remains an interesting investment. But look right now EM's under pressure with the dollar move it's making, and that's where option traders are making their bed here. All right, Mike, thanks for that, my co for more options, action, be sure to tune into the full show. That is next Friday. We're off this Friday. Next Friday 5 30 p.m. Eastern Time, still ahead. The table is set. We are gearing up for Thanksgiving by serving up a heaping helping of food stocks. The traders are filling their plates next. Do not go anywhere. You're watching fast money live in the NASDAQ market side in Times Square. Back right after this. Welcome back to fast money tomorrow families all across America will gather around the dinner table to celebrate Thanksgiving. So with food on our minds, we thought it'd be a perfect time to play a game of feast or fast, which food related stocks are traders gobbling up in which names are they leaving for leftovers. Here's how the game works, the rules are very simple if a trader likes the stock, he will say fees, and you'll hear that. If a trader does not like the stock, he will say fast and you will see and hear. That. So let's get going. We start off with chipotle losing a little bit of sizzle today. So Tim, you bite into this one? I got to tell you, I am going to fast on this one and look, I've been fasting on this one for a long time and I've been wrong. The valuation well, okay. The valuation has really not made sense for the last $1000 on the stock. Still trades north of 65, but relative to the peer group that's come up to me. Look, their pricing power, their ability to execute the growth, the menu, the margin, the loyalty, I get it. But I'm fasting. Guy, how about you? I think you know where I stand. I mean, the burrito blowout is alive and well, the stock has sold off from 1950 down to these levels. You have 30% EPS EPS growth, which I think justifies the valuation. Their digital model is probably best in breed right now. They did announce say we're going to reduce emissions by 50% by 2030. I thought that was one of the selling points of CMG, but who am I? I like it. I'm feasting. I can't decide which sound effect I like better. Let's move on to Darden Restaurants up about 25% this year. So Steve, does this look tasty? Yeah, this would be a feast for me. During the pandemic, people would people would order out and now as we're coming out of the pandemic, they're dining in the chart, looks like it wants to bounce. The street price targets have this thing up and around one 72, one 75 somewhere thereabouts. I would still be a feast of this one. I like the chain. I like the restaurants they have and I do think that the future is brighter than the present guy Darden. Fasting. I got a fast. I mean, listen, as half the time half Sicilian, the Olive Garden thing just doesn't do it for me. I did capital grill, but you know, this stock had that huge run. I think he had a blow off top. I think it trades down to one 38 before it makes new all time highs. Fast. Let's get to Hershey, Dan, do you have a sweet tooth on this one? I do not know. I want a fast. This is like if you're walking down the candy aisle here and you see a Hershey bar, but then you see a Twix just like a couple feet away. You're going for that Twix. They're just not that exciting here about Hershey. This thing is supposed to grow earnings and sales mid single digits next year. Trades about 24 times 2% dividend deal. The stock is traded very well. I mean, you know, it looks like a good technical setup if you're playing for a breakout. I just can't find a reason why I want to take a bite out of this one. I mean, dark chocolate kiss with an almond in the middle Tim, where are you on Hershey? Yeah. Yeah, look, I'm going to feast on this. And I know more about Milton Hershey than I care to having taken my son their last Friday. So look, Hershey, the reason you want to own it, because they're dominating every category they have. They have pricing power. They have margin. It's a case where the balance sheet is hardly constrained here. In fact, they're kind of one and a half times ebit debt to ebitda. I actually think they may be more aggressive. I think this is a great franchise and I had a great time a week ago. How about McDonald's? McDonald's hitting an all time high today, so guy feaster fast. Feast, absolutely feast and I got to tell you if I'm around a McDonald's on Friday, I'm definitely getting about 6 cheeseburgers, large frying and medium Coke..
CNBC's Fast Money
"santa claus" Discussed on CNBC's Fast Money
"Fell. Hey, Melissa, the good news for the airlines, it's been a smooth start to the holiday week and it's expected to continue all the way through Sunday and Monday. That's the good news. Also the fact that they are seeing record number of people fly for going back before the pandemic. In fact, if you look at the numbers last week, it was down just 13% compared to 2019 and improvement over the first half of November and an improvement over October. We're not back to 2019 levels, but it is improving. As for airfares, they are also ticking up, which is what the airlines like, but they are not quite the 2019 levels. UBS out with a note this morning and saying, well, three Q 21 and four Q 21 average advertised fares are up ten to 15% overall, average ticket prices remain down in the high teen range versus pre-pandemic levels. You take that, along with the fact that they are dealing with higher costs. We've talked about jet fuel being up 70% in the last year. It's the reason why when you look at the large airlines, the big four that we refer to them, the analysts are all expecting them to report some type of a loss in the fourth quarter. Now it should be an improvement over the third quarter, but it's still probably going to be a loss. And also, when you take a look at jet fuel, it has eased a bit. And there have been a few people who say, look, maybe we saw the worst of the jet fuel increase. Maybe we start to see things come back a little bit. So for all of the airlines, and we're showing you also Alaska JetBlue frontier as well as spirit, that would also buoy them, especially if we see the demand stay as robust as it is, Melissa, bottom line is this. This is the week that the airlines needed off to a great start. Now they need to see this continued through the rest of the holiday season. All right, Bill, thank you, Filippo, Chicago, O'Hare airport. Obviously, we trade the airlines here, but obviously people are going someplace. They're staying someplace. They're doing things when they get there. Grassley you highlighted some of these stocks earlier. Yeah, Mary a vacation club actually looks like a better buy to me as a setup on the chart versus Marriott hotels. Mario hotels actually looks like it's formed a head and shoulders pattern. It looks like it wants to come in about 10%. But as far as the airlines, they all look the same to me on a chart. They all look like they are ready to bounce. They've all ran up pretty recently. They've come off pretty substantially. And now they all look like they're bouncing right where they should Expedia actually had a pretty good run from one 57 or so to one 88. And then it stopped on a dime right at the 50% retracement. That one actually looks like it's due for a run as well. Expedia guy. You like that one, the E in the hope trade. Some believable. I trap steel trap your mind. Yes, you recall that properly. I'll throw one at you there. So look at the quarter that air-b-n-b put up a couple weeks ago. Very strong quarter the stock rallied ran into a huge double top at two 15. I think the prior high was back in May or thereabouts. If you get an opportunity down in the mid one 65, one 70 area, you buy this name with both hands. The quarter was very good. And when things do reopen in earnest, get I'm not sure who he is, but when it finally does happen, air-b-n-b, I think it's going significantly higher. So throw that one in your what do they call it on your shopping list or your wish list or whatever list it is? Whatever you want, you call it. That's what Friday list. My wife, everybody's yelling at me. I got people in the kitchen yelling at me to Yelp them. It's a craziness here in this country. Anyway. I'll come up. Retail wreck, big name sinking ahead of Black Friday, but are these stocks worth a tryon plus diamond in the rough that JPMorgan CEO walking back comments on China? It was a joke. Now it's.
AP News Radio
Virus Outbreak Busy Santa Malls Intro and Wrap
"Santa Claus is coming back to a mall near you after last year's absence because of code nineteen marry Christmas it might look a little different this year with Santa behind a plexiglas shield or wearing a facemask or Santa and the helpers are all vaccinated and we required that while in the shopping center people keep their masks on at the Hillsdale shopping center in San Mateo California marketing director Christine cook Jack says they're glad to have Santa back for the children Sonya black took her nieces well I haven't been getting back to normal you know kids is missing out on you know little little thing the number of jolly old elves available is down about fifteen percent in some areas leaving the remaining very busy for photos mall visits and whispered gift wishes I'm Jackie Quinn
The Dan Bongino Show
Don't Miss Bill O'Reilly's Limited Engagement National Tour With President Trump
"Bill O'Reilly Bill welcome back to the show How you doing Doing all right sir Welcome back So before we get to the questions here you have a tour with president Trump going on Bill O'Reilly dot com Tell us a little bit about it So we got four dates beginning in December 11th and for loaded in Florida Live arena for the Panthers play Next day in Orlando And then the win next weekend we open in Houston on the 18th of December and the 19th of the American Airlines center in Dallas So I just talked to Santa Claus He says he can't talk that he can not get top it can not no that's not Cole either right That's the real deal No coal there right Yeah greatest Christmas gift ever But it takes on Dan as you know More important now because of the collapse of the Biden administration So the reason I can see this in the first place is that I am a historian story in journalist And Iowa I looked at back about the four years that Trump is in the Oval Office I don't know what he did Because it was never reported It was always like let's kill him or let's make him a saint So you never really got the nuts and bolts of How did he get the facts How did he destroy ISIS What's up with Putin and Xi all of those specific things And that's what the tour is It will be a once in a lifetime We've sold about 30,000 tickets already but if you go to Bill O'Reilly dot com I'll link you right over to whatever box office you want And I really appreciate you mentioned it Dan very nice
Kottke Ride Home
"santa claus" Discussed on Kottke Ride Home
"A new species of dinosaur just dropped in England, which seems to be having a little bit of a dino fossil renaissance. The new dinosaur dubbed bright stoniest cement after the village of bright stone near the excavation site was discovered by retired general practitioner, Jeremy lockwood, who was now studying for a PhD at the university of Portsmouth and spent lockdown cataloging iguanodon bones discovered on the Isle of Wight. It was in the collections from the Natural History Museum in London and the dinosaur aisle museum on the Isle of Wight that lockwood found a unique looking specimen which had been in storage since 1970 8s. It was originally found by amateur collector Keith Simmons, hence the Simon Z part of the bright stony simmins name. The skull had several features that marked it apart from the two types of dinosaurs previously found on the Isle of Wight. Iguanodon Bernice our tensas and mantel asaurus, atheir field ends. Lockwood told The Guardian, quote, the number of teeth was a sign, mental asaurus has 23 or 24, but this has 28. It also had a bulbous nose, whereas the other species have very straight noses. Altogether, those and other small differences made it very obviously a new species. The new dinosaur bright stony is symmetry was also herbivorous and would have been about 8 meters long or over 26 feet. Quoting again from The Guardian, the discovery of this new species suggests that there were far more iguanodon dinosaurs in the early Cretaceous of the United Kingdom than previously thought, and that a long-standing convention of assigning fossils found on the isle of white to either the iguanodon or mental asaurus species should be reconsidered. It seems so unlikely to just have two animals being exactly the same for millions of years without change, said lockwood. Lockwood, who was involved in the discovery of another new species known as the hell Heron, said that the latest discoveries showed British dinosaurs were not done and dusted. Last year around this time I talked about all the creative ways that Santa Claus impersonators were pivoting to virtual visits from prerecorded greetings to scheduled zoom visits to fully immersive virtual adventures like Macy's Santa land at home. The Santa surrogate industry got creative last year. Well, this year, as many people and organizations return to in person Christmas celebrations, there is one crucial figure who may be absent. We've got a Santa shortage people. Like other shortages, it's a combination of high demand and COVID era supply issues. If you want to call working Santa's surrogates supply, the high demand is simply the effect of people being excited to gather again this holiday season. And the demand has not just bounced back since 2019, in some markets it has exceeded recent years. And then there's the shortage of Santa's, like other industries, Santa surrogates have chosen not to return to work this season or to retire early for a variety of reasons. Chief among Santa surrogates is health. Many of them often older, heavier set men are high risk. So being asked to attend a highly populated, often indoor event where they may be handed dozens of small, unvaccinated children, crying and slobbering all over them is not a risk they're willing to take. Others are finding ways to make it work, only saying yes to events that require vaccinations or only working events at venues they've worked with before and feel they can trust. But the number of santas who are sitting this one out has led to a real problem for anyone looking to book a Santa surrogate, quoting The Wall Street Journal. As.
Short and Curly
"santa claus" Discussed on Short and Curly
"So so so much to do to fueled pixie. Dust tank sleigh polish rudolph's nose and stopped the elves from unionizing. santa call. We've gotta hide. What are you doing. Certain set. It's may cuss myth. Remember me i send you a little every year kalle. What are you doing here. And how did you get past. The poll of is well to be honest. I didn't they threw me through a wall now white just one second this santa. Oh it's you daniels. He you know me. How could i forget the number one name on my naughty list. You mean this snotty list. This is wrong and you're using it to control us. I should destroy it right now to do anything. That nautilus molly. It's crucial to my whole operation. Is it now than i guess. It would be a shame if someone you know. Set it on fire every please don't now. Don't you realize the naughty list also tells me who's nice as in who gets presence so now nobody gets any presence. The you could make santa mad maly unless you've got a bright idea. Oh why don't you just give presents to everyone. Then we'd be giving gifts to naughty kids and rewarding bad behavior. I would be so naughty. If i knew i'd still get presents. Stop sucking up to santa kalle. Just let me think okay. What if we fake santas death then nobody would expect any. Presence perot soldo. That's not going to happen. Molly okay what if we sold the presence nor that's just a shopping center. Oh yes that's it. What seek okay. he me out. The beak ethical problem here is that we all feel pressured to act. Nice just to make sure we can get a present where let's a system that worked for a long time now by wouldn't it be great if there was one person we could count on not to judge us but to believe in us and support us no matter what what if we give presents to everyone not as a reward for their behavior but because we all make mistakes. I'm listening santa. What if you gave them as encouragement as a reminder to be kind and loving maybe it is time for a change okay. How's this for the next two years just as an experiment. We'll give everyone presence. What's the worst that could happen. No not least hell. I can do whatever i want and still get presents call. You've missed the whole point. Imagine the chaos. 'cause participates Sorry to regret. All of this is have been a huge mistake. This has been an abc. Podcast check out the abc kids. Listen app it's full of educational and entertaining order programs. My young friends let me see who has been good. Who is not hit. List is long this year. Kyle sloven just steen. Kelly all the sound engineers that. Abc radio national. All naughty some actually very noisy justyna. I'm looking at you. Yes surreal tara. But they're awesome names here on the nice list at least out brains trust from lynam primary school in gabbara whose children are simply wonderful. Nieve ashwin alice. Eva and sammy and of course a big. Thank you. twelve fantastic voice actor today. richard fidler. Oh look at this. There's a new category on my list. It's the best person ever list. And it says molly daniels cal. Smith and matt bid. This has been an abc podcast. Check out the abc kids. Listen at it's full of educational and entertaining order programs. Hey we want to tell you about a podcast you might like but it's not real right. What do you mean. The putt cost isn't real like it doesn't exist nor it's not real as in it's a story it's fiction Maybe you could have just said that. Macaroni uncovered is a fictional story series. Set in the quiet australian town of let me guess. Maccarone does such a good guess. It's about to fourteen year old friends who stopped to realize the some really weird stuff going on in the town and so they investigate. It's perfect for listening to on long school. Holiday caught tricks or just killed up with some headphones on the couch. Absolutely checkout maccarone uncovered five bit wherever you get your podcasts and if you like it tell everyone yard the truly every month..
Short and Curly
"santa claus" Discussed on Short and Curly
"Knows his polar bear. God's yet everyone knows said to hesitate of highly trained paula biz to protect his operation. Friends eight they yummy salmon. Good base. We try that door. It says staff only good idea. This place is. Have you ever seen a big christmas tree. The size of a blue whale must be ten thousand fairy lights on it look on my size gingerbread house it must be as big as three bowhead. Whales a using wales as a unit of measurement. Never mind now way. Is that not least call. I need you to go to santa's toy workshop and distract the elves hills. The gift makers themselves i'll go get their autographs and i'll sing some christmas carols and maybe we share some hot cocoa. I was thinking more. You could wrexham stuff but whatever. Just bay distracting. I always ask me my time to shine elves. What's up pretty sweet. Set up you've got here. I'm kyle and i'm so excited to be here. Oh no the remove biz. Was that good old. Cal always rely on him to be very distracting. Okay this sign points up the stairs and says observation deck wonder what that could be. This room is enormous and it's full of screens a look. Every screen has hundreds of little lines on and each line seems to be a child. what's going on here. The lines are going up and down depending on whether the kid is being naughty or nice. Oh this is very interesting. Look that kid picture noise and smeared it all over the new lounge chair and her line is going down and that boy just picked up some rubbish on the street. That wasn't even his his line is going up. This is so much bigger than i thought. Santer really does have is everywhere. Hey hamersley your buddy what happened. More polar bears didn't bribe big smash. Oh sorry cal. But good work on the distraction team. What are we doing. What matt what are you doing kia well. After we talked. I might have snuck into the back of the jet for a little nap and i woke up in the north pole. That explains why you're wearing thongs and show. It's in sub-zero temperatures okay. Well since he matt what do you think of santa's giants spy operation. You know it reminds me of a french philosopher called michelle fukuoka. He thought the two great ways to control someone's behavior to watch them and to judge them way. How can just watching someone or even judging them change their behavior because watching and judging are forms of power think about it school. How you teaches wants you to make sure you'll behaving and paying attention. And then they judge your work they give it a score and see. How will you're actually learning the material. Those kinds of things create some pressure in us. They make us feel like we have to pay attention and we have to get good grades. Will something bad's going to happen. Sure but that's a good thing overall right because we want people to let at school we do but controlling students like that might have some nasty side effects both at school and when someone like santer is doing it. What kind of side effects. Well for one thing. It's not always clear what we're being watched or judged four. Santa doesn't always tell us what counts is naughty. And what counts is nice. We have to guess. Let's say you serve yourself an extra big serving of ice cream for dessert. Like get a salad bowl and really fill it up. You're describing my every night right. So do you think that that makes you noti. According to santa's naughty list you don't know and that can make you feel on shore. Maybe even a little bit afraid. I'm never afraid of ice cream matthew. It's not the ice cream you're afraid of it's the judgment and that fear of judgment can mean that you might not do it even if it was okay all right but what you'll forgetting matt. Is that what most people love about. Christmas and santa is being excited to get awesome gifts and finding their favorite toys under the tree. If that means a little bit of spying than. That's a worth it isn't it actually. That's a good thing for all of us to think about how about one loss thinking question. Read my mind volley and here it is. There might be some downsides to santa watching us all the time but on the whole do you think it's worth it.
Short and Curly
"santa claus" Discussed on Short and Curly
"It will not be easy. My friends our enemy has is every way even now he could see us plotting against him. I weren't lie to you. Some of us will pay the ultimate price. Some of us will wake up on christmas morning to find no gifts waiting for us. No students video gates no cool little kroft things nothing but a sad lump of coal. Oh hey molly who. We going to war with today kalle. I thought that was obvious. We've that mysterious shadowy fieger who spends his life oppressing children And who is that. I'll give you a little clue. Shah pat telling you is coming. Hold on a second. You would go to war with santa claus yet. Of course i do. Santa is a bad dude. Moly center is like the literal embodiment of kindness and happiness and joy. What he loves he shakes his belly like a bowl full of jelly sent spies on us. He punishes us by taking presence away. When we make mistakes he labels kids as naughty or nice. Open your eyes man. Today on short and curly santa claus enemy of the children. The best thing that ever happens in my life.
TechStuff
"santa claus" Discussed on TechStuff
"Were just in the uk before the break. Now we're gonna take a trip across the english channel head over to the continent of europe. Uk is not included in this but intel recently announced that the company intends to invest as much as twenty billion dollars over the next several years to build out. Some chip manufacturing plants potentially in europe. The world is still in a semiconductor shortage. Which is largely because of the coronavirus. And how that completely disrupted the semiconductor supply chain over in the eu. The plan is to boost europe's market share of semiconductor manufacturing from ten percent where it is today to twenty percent by twenty thirty. That's pretty aggressive timeline. But the demand for. Semiconductors is definitely there because we're seeing industries from consumer electronics to the automotive industry struggling to find the chips that they need to produce finished products so we're seeing shortages and lots of industries because of semiconductor shortages intel executives have been meeting with various government officials in europe. Clearly feeling out where it might be most advantageous to establish manufacturing facilities now. This is a complicated process. One often sees companies play regions against each other in an effort to get the best deal l. The situation sometimes. I can get pretty ugly. We've seen it happened several times here. In the united states complicating matters. Is that the cost of business. In places like europe and the united states is higher than places like say china. Sometimes it's higher to the tune of around thirty percent more costly. of course that's partly because places like europe and the united states have tighter regulations in place to provide at least some level of protection to employees and places like china largely due not fun times on a related note. The verge reports that the pc market is easing back a little bit after having a pretty booming twenty twenty the market is still growing but it is growing at a reduced pace so it's growing more slowly than it was in twenty twenty and possible reasons for that include a slightly lower demand for p. c.'s. After the initial pandemic rush and the growing semiconductor chip shortage big part of a factor their businesses might be back into purchasing computers with more businesses reopening after a year plus of being shut down so that could change things a bit but on the consumer side. It could be that things are slowing down because people have already done bought their ding dang last year however we do have windows eleven launching later this year and that might end up driving more sales in the near future now again. I do want to stress. This doesn't mean we're seeing. The pc market suddenly get into trouble. The industry is still growing. quarter over. quarter is just doing so at a slower rate than what it was doing earlier. The company amazon continues in its quest for world domination and now has its sights set on santa claus. You heard it here. First because like santa amazon plans to know when you are sleeping and know when you're awake but since i think amazon is largely an amoral company. I suspect they don't actually care. If you've been bad or good. So i mean be good for goodness sake. Just you know as a favor to me. But i don't think amazon cares one way or the other..
GrowthBusters
"santa claus" Discussed on GrowthBusters
"While these are noble goals. Mike guest on the podcast. Today thinks they're unrealistic. If not totally crazy. Her name is megan seibert and she is executive director of the real green new deal project. Our conversation begins with an explanation of the project..