Mark and Rex reflect on the holiday season while addressing the true war on Christmas.

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Welcome to Jessup think I'm your host Mark Maher and your co host Rex Gurney and racks it is Christmas time. I

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am so excited. You can feel the crisp air outside. Here the jingle bells and hot cocoa. Oh my gosh, yeah.

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fireplace in

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the studio is the most wonderful time of the year.

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I do love Christmas, though. I mean, if you know me, then you know that I do have a Harper

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really all things Christmas. You're not one of those guys that starts playing Christmas music on July the fourth. Oh, no, I

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have a very strict Thanksgiving. Okay. Okay. Okay. But I do have a two step process to get me into the Christmas spirit. Okay, so after Halloween, November 1 starts what I like to call Sinatra season. So just kind of the standards, not Christmas music, but still Martin Sinatra, Tony Bennett, like, the classics, but just their standards. And then it kind of gets you into that. I don't know for me Why? Like,

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probably because this association with nostalgia. Yes, some ways. And Christmas is a very nostalgic season. Nothing bad about that. It's just

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yeah, I think it is. And I think you have something. And I was like, yeah, just some about that. Maybe the way the mid 20th century captured Christmas. Even if it was artificial. I still am nostalgic about the way they you know, and

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speaking about the mid 20th century and artificial things. Mark, what do you remember with your family of origin when you're growing up about what was just one of your favorite Christmas traditions in your family when you were growing up?

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I mean, I think the one that I remember the most is that on Christmas morning, and I'm the youngest of four. So I had three older siblings, older sister and two older brothers and there's you know, there's kind of a about seven or eight years in between all of us have span. And so when I'm kind of young Elementary, my oldest siblings are kind of high school, so and I could never understand why they would still be asleep on Christmas. Oh, yeah. Like how are they sleeping? We have presence but one thing that my family did is before we could open any present my dad had to read the Christmas story. Okay, out of Luke two okay. Out of the King James Version. And

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did you have a Charlie Brown music on I know I wish

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we probably having like Sinatra record. And that was back in the day when houses you had it wasn't retro yet. It was you still just had a record player in your rights right? There. Right. The you know, I try to tell people tell students now like my parents and grandparents were cool before cool even happen because they just had a record player that's right in their living room. That's right there. That's right. And so my dad would read it and I'm pretty certain that he read it as slowly as possible. I get fidgety. Like, I would just take forever guy. But it was also something that I really appreciated. And now even kind of carry that on with our family kind of make, you know, I've got it, you got to pass on the suffering. You can't just Okay, you got to extend that. But what about you? What are some?

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Well, um, so I grew up in New Mexico. And one of the things that was no, it depends, but often often there's snow, especially in northern New Mexico, right? elevation, right. It's mainly elevation. But there's sort of a tradition, it's kind of gone almost semi nationwide now, but it really sort of started in in northern New Mexico. And it's of lighting luminarias on Christmas Eve. Oh, and it's kind of an old Spanish tradition, basically, or at least Spanish American tradition. And what you do is you only do it really, one night of the year. Um, sometimes they'll do it on New Year's Eve. But that's seldom mismanages Christmas Eve because no electric lights are allowed on this to do it the right way. Right. You