I have spent a month trying to come up with a hook for the Christmas Eve edition and I have come up with nothing. 

So let’s take a trip back in time about 80 years and listen to what your parents or grandparents listened to at Christmas in the 1940s. Fibber McGee and Molly was one of the highest rated and longest running programs in the time before TV. So here is 3 hours and 18 minutes and 7 shows for your Christmas listening pleasure. Listen to a little or curl up and listen to them all.

One of the premises of Fibber McGee and Molly is the neighbors who come and go throughout the show. Remember this was 80 years ago so try not to be too judgmental.

Questions about holidays as MAGAs continued their assault on our government

A) Jackpot! Who has to pay $148 million in damages to people he slandered (I think) and that debt can not be discharged through bankruptcy?

B) OOPS! Looks like one of them “Dukes of Hazard” boys got hisself in a heap o trouble by doing what this week?

C) And what politician has been outed as pressuring canvassers in Wayne county, Michigan (Detroit) not to sign the certification for the 2020 election?

D) Now for some fun: When is Kwanzaa this year?

E) One of the hottest topics in politics this week concerns what personal problem of candidate Trump?

F) About how far back does the feast of Saturnalia (Roman Empire) go? 

G) Did SCOTUS decide to fast track or not to fast track the decision on Trump’s immunity from prosecution Friday?

H) Winter started last week, so days in the northern hemisphere will now be getting longer or shorter?

I) Inflation checked in at an annual 3.2% rate in November. Was that higher or lower than expected? 

J) Who is the little narc that reports back to Santa on what children have been naughty and what children are nice?

K) Thought I would never see this in my lifetime. What US presidential candidate actually quoted Hitler at a campaign appearance?

L) In “Christmas Story” Ralphie’s friend has to accept a “triple dog dare.” What happens because of this?

M) On a political ad before Iowa’s caucuses what politician is purported to favor Donald Trump despite their endorsement of Ron DeSantis?

N) In what real-life department store does the movie “Miracle on 34th Street” take place?

O) Perhaps the biggest political news of the week was what state banning Trump from their primary ballot because of his part in the January 6th insurrection?

P) “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer” was written as a sales gimmick in 1939 for what department store chain?

Q) What songwriter is credited for some of the best known Christmas songs such as “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer”, “Holly Jolly Christmas”, “Rocking Around The Christmas Tree”, “Silver and Gold” and “I Heard The Bells on Christmas Morn”?

R) Quietly this week the US Senate confirmed the last 11 promotions in the US military thus ended what senators hold on promotions?

S) Yule is a Nordic midwinter festival that starts with the winter solstice and lasts how many days?

T) What’s the name of the hot spiced cider that’s a yuletide tradition for many?

BONUS: What head of “Moms for Liberty” has had another sex tape surface in the police investigation of the rape charge against her husband?

I love days where Pope Francis enrages the fake Christians by acting like Jesus. – John Fugelsang

Answers:

A) Rudy Giuliani

B) John Schneider after losing on the Masked Singer tweeted that President Biden should be hung –  a threat of violence to the president

C) Donald Trump with an assist from national republican Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel

D) Starts Tuesday December 26th and ends January 1.

E) He stinks personally. His staff is trying to address the smelly issue

F) back to 497 BCE

G) NOT to fast track the issue

H) longer

I) lower

J) Elf on the shelf

K) Trump. Apparently this gave him a bump. Scary

L) Flick (Ralphie’s friend) gets his tongue stuck to the flagpole

M) Kim Reynolds

N) Macy’s in NYC

O) Colorado

P) Montgomery Ward

Q) Johnny Marks

R) Tommy Tuberville

S) 12

T) Wassail

BONUS: Bridget Ziegler

Republican women get abortions too. They’re not fooling anyone. – Lisa_liberal