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Hosted by Brian Kilmeade, Jimmy Failla, Will Cain and Guy Benson.

Join the FOX News Talk Radio team as they celebrate the most wonderful time of the year, in this one-hour special. Host of the Brian Kilmeade Show, Brian Kilmeade, Host of FOX Across America, Jimmy Failla, Host of The Guy Benson Show, Guy Benson, and Host of The Will Cain Show, Will Cain share their favorite Christmas memories and how they have continued their

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Hi everyone, I'm Brian Kilmeade. Merry Christmas. And it's time for me to reflect on my Christmases. And I thought to myself, how do I do that?

How do I start? Because I've had so many. And I thought, why not do it through the magic of moments in Christmas. Like magical movies in Christmas.

But first things first, I think the first magic is late night television. Even though it's terrible now for the most part, I've been hunting and searching for something that's Christmas related but yet has politics in it. And I found it with a Jimmy. Not Kimmel, he just hates Trump the whole time. That's not Christmassy, is it? How about Jimmy Fallon? Talking about suddenly, Joe Biden.

He's open game. Well guys, earlier tonight they had the National Christmas Tree lighting at the White House. Yeah, it was a fun night when President Biden came out.

All the kids were like, look the ghost of Christmas past. This year's tree will be supported by eight steel cables. These are the same cables the White House uses to walk Biden around the front lawn.

The exact same ones. Meanwhile, during tonight's ceremony the winds were over 40 miles an hour. Yeah, Biden's skin looked like when a bulldog sticks his head out of a car window. So it's amazing for the longest time, Joe Biden was a no-go zone.

Just like Barack Obama. I remember reading in the New York Times one time, we'd like to make fun of Barack Obama on late night television but according to reporting there's nothing funny about President Obama. There's something funny about everybody. But of course you couldn't joke about that. But looking back at Christmas also, I think when you go to SNL we're celebrating 50 years. Even Joe Biden, it was a pretty funny joke for a recent weekend on a weekend update.

Listen to this. The White House unveiled its Christmas decoration theme, a season of peace and light. Which is tough because Biden is always being told not to go towards the light. Exactly. And soon he's been invisible. We don't know when he's going to get to that light.

But we wish him the best. We know one thing, Joe Biden will end up on the beach. And one thing that's always struck me is that during my youth, and maybe your youth too, don't you remember they had every famous person do a Christmas special. And every Christmas special, that would be a time around 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock, 7 o'clock perhaps, for families to get around and watch that special.

Even if it's one you've seen before, the variety show would be different every year. Perry Como, who my mom thought walked on water, the greatest person ever, she'd get so upset because almost every special he had would be in a tropical climate. So Perry Como, who's known for Christmas and is crooning, would go to Hawaii, where of course you'd lose all sense of Christmas. I also remember an ole in the family when they went to California and there was no snow.

I found that hard to believe in my very limited New York upbringing. But having said all that, some Christmas movies did stand out. I remember the King family. Nobody remembers the King family unless, of course, Andy Williams was always on the King family. There was always Perry Como.

Jackie Gleason had some specials. But there was always those shows that you saw every year that reminds me of Christmas. Number one, my favorite all-time is Frosty the Snowman.

Number one, I don't know how that fit into the Bible or if I have to read it again, it didn't come up. But the scariest time for me, and I hate reliving this at the moment because it's traumatic, and if you think about it, they shouldn't have put it in, it's when Frosty goes against a diabolical person who's anti-Christmas and locks the snowman in the hothouse. Oh, don't cry, Karen. Frosty's not gone for good. You see, he was made out of Christmas snow, and Christmas snow can never disappear completely when a good jolly December wind kisses it. It'll turn into Christmas snow all over again. Come on, Frosty, we're all waiting for you.

Happy birthday! Frosty the Snowman is a fairytale, they say. He was made of snow and the children know how he came to life one day. So, Allison, I don't know if that really works for radio. But I think it does because most people have seen the movie and just watching actually like him melting and hearing her cry. Do you remember that? Do you know what I'm talking about?

I do, I do, and I might have rewatched it recently. And it does, you do still sort of get choked up because it's sad. It's sad, but he does come back. Right, but he's tricked. And by the way, if you are a snowman and you're listening, don't go into the hothouse. Yeah, don't, I mean, he could have left her there and walked out.

I mean, granted, the mean guy shut the door. And it's all that's left is the glasses and the nose. No, the hat's the magical hat. Oh, the hat, the magic hat, that was the key. That's the whole point, yes.

That was a good point. No neck, right? He's a snowman. No neck before, yes. No neck after.

Yeah. It's amazing that to put a snowman together, they're just three snowballs, one bigger than the next, one smaller than the next. You just stack them up, you got yourself a snowman. No one ever thought, let's build a neck. Would be interesting to see a snowman with a neck. It would, I feel like it would be harder to design just with snow.

It would be a lot of weight on a little neck. Yeah. We'd have to go to Illinois where it's snowing all the time or Boston where it snows a lot. There's no snow here enough now.

But by the way, he does come back. And so the other one is classic. Everybody watches it every single year. It's been on in my house at least three times when I walked in again last night. I don't want to say anything, but it's losing a little of its zest, but it matters a lot. Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life. I find fascinating that it wasn't even a big hit when it was in the theaters.

But man, it's a classic now. Here's a moment. My mouth's bleedin', Bert.

My mouth's bleedin'. Doo doo pedals. Doo doo. There they are. Bert!

What do you know about that? Merry Christmas! Well, Merry Christmas.

Merry... Hello, Bedford Falls. Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas, George! Merry Christmas, Booby! Hello! Merry Christmas, Emporium!

Merry Christmas, you wonderful, Billy and Lone! All right, so you know what happened. Of course, he has a near-death experience. He was going to commit suicide. He gets to see his life without him, and he sees how bad it is. And the people team up, including his brother, who he's relatively jealous of.

And they give him money, and they save the bank and loan. So it all ends up happily ever after. Sadly, every one of the movies now passed away.

But lastly, my favorite movie of all time. It reminds me of Christmas. Fred Claus. Here's a moment when all the famous... This is Fred, brother of Santa. Has to sit around with other famous siblings of famous brothers.

And they're in therapy. Watch. My name is Fred Claus. Hi, Fred.

I'm Santa Claus' brother. And I got a lot of stuff going on because of it. There's a lot of things.

There's a lot of juice in the tank over it. Is this a joke to you? Steven, by the way. Hi, Steven. Hey, guys. What's up? I mean, because this isn't funny to all of us here in the group. Because this is very serious to us.

And I'm feeling very uncomfortable with where you're coming from. Steven. Maybe to him, his brother is Santa Claus. I feel like my brother's Santa Claus. Yeah. I feel like my brother's Santa Claus.

Because my brother really is Santa Claus. All right. That's enough.

All right? You and I got a problem. Steven, easy. So what happened is there's Frank Stallone's in there. And that was Steven Baldwin's brothers.

Alec and Billy Baldwin. To me, it's absolutely hysterical. And Vince Vaughn is my acting idol. And I thought it was really cool. Great message, Fred Claus. He's going to show you.

If your brother's famous, you can still be famous, too. Those are my memories of Christmas. Hope we put a smile on your face. And you're with us. We hope you have a fantastic holiday.

And you're with us every single day in 2025. Merry Christmas, everyone. We'll be back with more of the Christmas Highlights Holiday Special from Fox News Talk.

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The home with Dunkin' is where you want to be. Welcome back to the Christmas Highlights Holiday Special from Fox News Talk. Here's the host of Fox Across America, Jimmy Fela. Hey, everybody. Jimmy Fela and Jenny Fela here.

Say hi, Jenny. I wanted to talk about our Christmas traditions. I mean, I would think the biggest one is fighting.

I'm kidding. Where the hell's the tape I'm trying to wrap down here? One goes out, they all go out.

Why the hell are they blinking? A lot of our traditions revolve around the car. I know this is going to sound crazy, but at a local level, we like to get hot chocolate, drive around and look at Christmas lights.

Look at other people's conflicts. You know what I mean? When you go, it's the one thing no one talks about. When you go by that house where the entirety of the lawn is covered in soldiers and astronauts and Santas and inflatables and lights and people are coming from 12 towns over, that was stressful. Oh, it had to be. I mean, just the mere fact of putting it up, let alone like the other things, like the storage of it, checking the lights. There's just so much that goes into it. There is no way.

That's not 18 fights. You know, those megawatt light displays, that donation box they have out front is for a divorce lawyer, divorce lawyer. So locally we do a lot of driving around looking at stuff, but even on an actual Christmas level. So we spend Christmas at our house Christmas morning, which usually means us getting up in the middle of the night, Christmas Eve, because for some reason Santa leaves a lot of Lincoln's toys outside or in the garage, doesn't always put them right under the tree. Santa likes to make us get extra exercise. So we set an alarm in the middle of the night and whatever Santa was nice enough to drop off, we then maybe assemble or put together, sometimes even wrap it, you know, if Santa's in a pinch. And we get that into the house. So when Lincoln wakes up, we have a present opening here. It's usually a bit of Nat King Cole.

Nat King Cole kind of gets the Christmas day nod, maybe the Sinatra Christmas album. I think the run up is a lot of Charlie Brown Christmas. Yeah. Big time.

That's like your go to. Then we'll get into like the eighties stuff. And it's weird because Christmas songs very rarely does a new one crack the rotation.

Very, very rarely. In your personal life and even in your public life, like most super Christmas playlist that you've been listening to, you've been listening to most of these songs for like 40 or 50 years. I would say the most recent and like what I can think that has really cracked the, like, it's just considered a classic, I think is the Mariah Carey, All I Want For Christmas Is You.

You know what I'm saying? It's the most played Christmas song on earth for the past 15 years. But in terms of a newer sounding song sticking. Right. Yeah, it's probably been 15 years. I can't think of a new one. Probably more than that.

Yeah, probably. So that one's big. So Christmas morning starts at our house, but it doesn't end at our house. Christmas morning then spills over to my mom's house where we have Christmas breakfast. And we open family presents with my siblings and eat ourselves senselessly. That's where the food happens.

Yeah. Our Christmas day is also local. Used to be at my aunt Fran's.

Now it's at my cousin Diana's house. And we spend two hours there looking for a place to sit. And then when we finally find a seat, it's time to leave for Ohio. We spend Christmas night driving out to Ohio to see Jenny's family. So we're back in the road again.

Right. We say we load up Santa's sleigh. Santa's sleigh ride. Just drive down 80. And we drive across Route 80. We're usually the only jackasses on the road in the middle of the night for real. Christmas night. And then, you know, at one point we'll stop off, you know, three, four in the morning to gas up halfway there.

It's us and some person without a family who's working at a BP gas station. Lincoln gets a snack bar. Lincoln likes it. He calls it the snack bar.

And he's called it that for as long as he's been old enough to talk. Like on the way to Ohio, when you stop at the gas station, we go to the snack bar and you get whatever the hell, you know, processed ridiculousness they're serving. But it's always great.

It always works. And then we drive over to Ohio. So our Christmas completes in Ohio. It starts in New York.

It middles somewhere on Long Island at my cousin's house. And then it ends at Ohio. So our Christmas Day is a marathon. Oh, yeah. And it goes. I mean, I can think of so many of these overnight drives we've taken back to like when I was a cab driver. We've taken this in a lot of different cars. Yeah.

Oh, it's always the same road. Yeah. Well, we've taken it in a lot of different cars.

We've taken it in a lot of different circumstances. We did this before we even had Lincoln. Yep. We've done this obviously with a young Lincoln. A baby Lincoln. Yeah. Like he was like a month, not even a month old.

I mean, I remember if you wanted to get specific one weekend, it was the weekend before Christmas. I was at the City Steam Brewery in Hartford doing standup. This is back in my crew cut era. I like to forget that era.

Yeah. It was a rough one. I looked so bad in that haircut. She used to send me out with mistletoe. She used to hand me one on the way out the door.

Like, see if you have any luck with this. Good luck up there in Hartford, playboy. But anyway, I can remember vividly driving from Hartford back to the city where we lived to pick you and what was a one month Lincoln up, one month old Lincoln up. And we drove to Ohio. That was a breastfeeding era of newborns. Oh yeah, we had to pull over so I could nurse him.

On the side of the road. It was like a thing. Yeah.

We actually slept outside of Stuckey's. Yeah. I remember that.

And it was like negative 20 degrees. Yeah. And then, you know, you put the top back on, zipped it up. Yeah. And then we finished the ride out to Ohio. But that to us is what Christmas really is.

It's a lot of family time in the car and a lot of music. Yeah. I mean, we always have one of our doggies with that.

You know, no matter what year a doggie comes. Yeah. We had a golden retriever, Bailey, who gave his 13 year run. Right.

Really a good 13 year run. So he made a lot of back and forths. He was in a he was in like a 30 year old Honda Accord, a beat up Nissan Murano.

But what all of these cars had in common was just a good music and a good vibe. Yep. A lot of dog hair.

A lot of dog hair and a lot of calories. We eat every inch of the road. So much so, OK, that in order to compete the trip back, complete the trip back from Ohio to New York, we sometimes stop at a place called Grandpa's Cheese Barn. Yeah. And I believe that's in like Marion, Ohio, out in that area. I could be wrong. It's near Royalton.

It's off Route 76. But in any event, Grandpa's Cheese Barn is a family owned, for all intents and purposes, like a dairy farm that has like a mega commitment to gifts. Yes. To chocolate. To chocolates, too. Yeah. Yeah.

To homemade, you know, candy things and deep fried things and wrapped things. You know what I mean? Delicious. And it really is. Yeah. It's phenomenal.

They make. I'm not kidding. A five pound peanut butter cup. It's so good. Yeah. A white chocolate peanut butter cup. I love the places where you can go with like the scoops. Yeah.

And you just scoop out like how much you want of each little delicacy. Yeah. It's.

Wouldn't it be better if. Slap the label on. Wouldn't it be better if instead of weighing the candy, they weighed the people? And then gave you an allotment. You're only allowed to have this much. Yeah. You come off.

They weigh you on the scale. You're like, all right, Grandpa said you could only have like one pound of the Cheese Barn. Don't let me catch you back here second time. It's an old lady with a rifle at the desk. But that's essentially what the holidays are for us. It's a lot of music. We listen to a lot of music. Jenny will play records in the house. This usually starts around December, you know, beginning of December.

Yep. And right through the weeknights. If you're in our house, you're probably going to hear music. You're probably going to eat and you're going to have somewhere to drive. And we've driven. I mean, December, as we record this right now, I have been not really driven, but we've flown.

We've driven to the airport. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. We've been to West Palm. We've been to Clearwater. We've been to New Hampshire. We were just in Utica.

The, you know, a lot of. And now we've got an Ohio trip yet to go. We might make it out to a Pittsburgh Steelers game this month. You know, so essentially, what is our holiday tradition? It's hating ourselves. We are really abusing ourselves behind the wheel of a car, but it's not true. We have the best time. I mean, I actually think that is probably my favorite thing about being us is those two, three in the morning moments where it's just three of us and a pet in the car. Yeah.

In the snow. No one else in the world, you know, to connect with. And we're just doing our thing. And it's so funny because it really, you know, doesn't sound like a tradition. You know, people think of traditions as like, well, we hang the star on this night. We do this, but as for as long as we've been a couple and as long as we've got a family, we have spent the holiday doing this thing, right? Well, I mean, I think it I mean, if you really look at it, it is a tradition because the reason we're driving this is we're seeing my family. So we're really connecting the two and we're making sure it's not like we don't do the whole this year at this family. It's like you're at that family. You know, the unity candle they light at a wedding. Yeah, it's just ours. The moms are coming up from different sides of the aisle that are 600 miles apart.

Yeah. The unity candle takes a little longer to light, but it gets lit every and a couple oil changes. A couple oil changes and a few tanks of gas, throw in a Rice Krispies treat at the snack bar and you got to Merry Christmas. Ho ho ho, everybody. Stay tuned for more of the Christmas highlights holiday special from Fox News Talk. Up next, host of the Guy Benson Show.

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I am Guy Benson. Thanks so much for tuning into this special. And as the song goes, it is the most wonderful time of the year. From Thanksgiving to New Year's, there's just something special in the air the holidays. For many people, it does revolve around Christmas. That's certainly the case here at this show. And we want to talk through some of our best memories and certain elements of the season that bring that joy and happiness and spark the wonder that we were just discussing. And I want to go around the horn with our team here at the Guy Benson Show and start with this conversation.

I think this can often be somewhat insightful about people's upbringing and what makes people tick. What is the best Christmas present? You can define best, however you want, maybe memorable, whatever it is, best Christmas present you ever received quickly and then why. Let's start with Dylan.

Dylan Yes. So the best Christmas present that I ever received, I would say, was at first it doesn't seem like a lot was a set of plane tickets to visit my then girlfriend, Mel, a couple of years ago. That was just from my parents. They covered my flights to go visit her. But on that trip, I ended up asking her parents for her hand in marriage. So even though, like as a gift materially, doesn't really offer me much now, sentimentally, I guess it just means a lot that whole trip, like changed my life and now I'm married to my beautiful wife, Mel. Yeah.

And that's the key payoff there for people who aren't familiar with the show. She said yes. The parents agreed. She said yes. Happily ever after. And the fact that your parents got you that gift also was a token of their support for the relationship as well. So I think that's a great answer. Justin, what about you?

Yeah. So when I was thinking about this, I don't have a really sentimental answer, which I'm mad about because I do get pretty gushy around the holiday season. But when I was 13, it was the first time I got an iPhone and it was the one thing that I asked my parents for for months. And I opened all my presents, didn't get it. And then from my stocking, I hear the phone ring and I realized that I got it. It was my first iPhone. It was just the most excited I've ever been as a kid.

And I have to go with that. I think the way that they revealed that gift is very clever. I think it's a separate discussion about whether middle schoolers should have smartphones, separate conversation that we will have on our show, but not really holiday friendly. Christine, best gift ever. Well, I know for you, this is going to be funny and ironic, but the best gift I actually remember like being so excited for was the My Little Pony castle.

It's like the ponies version of the Barbie dream house, but it was a huge castle and it came with all the little ponies. And I was so obsessed. And I just remember my mom saying like, I don't know if Santa could bring that, you know, something Santa thinks is just too expensive. And then I opened it up. I couldn't have been more than like four or five years old. And I still remember that moment. So in some ways it's haunting, especially the number of times you just said the word pony or ponies. And if you're familiar with our show, you know why. It's an inside joke. We won't belabor it here as we are celebrating a very special time of the year.

I'll just give my answer quickly. I was probably like six years old when my mom in particular, my parents together, but my mom did the heavy lifting here, put together this incredibly thoughtful, elaborate gift. I wanted to be a police officer.

That was my goal as a little kid. I thought it was so cool, like having a police car and the lights and the sirens and being a detective and getting the bad guys. I had a cops and robbers themed birthday party one year where we actually arrested someone. So I was all into it as a little kid and my mom curated and put together, she didn't go and buy something. She figured out all the elements and put together what she called a scene of the crime kit, which was in this wicker bag sort of.

And it had like a dusting for fingerprints brush and it had little fake handcuffs and all the things that a good detective or a cop would need to investigate a crime at the scene of the crime. And I was obsessed with this. I could not get enough of it. And looking back, I realized how much effort that took and how much thought that took for her.

And so I would say that was probably the most like bouncing off the walls, thrilled I was for a gift, at least as a kid. Before we go, let's go back around the horn one more time talking about favorite Christmas or holiday song. Let's go in the same order. Dylan, you're first.

Yes. So I would say honestly, my favorite holiday song is sleigh ride by the Ronettes. It's it's a classic sleigh ride obviously is a song that you hear a lot of choirs perform throughout the season, but I just like this take just kind of an old classic rock take on sleigh ride. It's fantastic. Let's hear it. When you mentioned this, I was like, I'm not sure I know that song for the Ronettes.

And then as soon as like the first note played, I'm like, oh, say no more. Of course. We know that. Yup.

A hundred percent. Justin. You startled the creator here from me as another joke to our last music segment on the Guy Betts and show.

But I went with Britney Spears, a pop version called Only Wish This Year. Very good song. I'm not familiar. Let's listen.

So it turns out fact check. I am familiar. I didn't know that was her. Didn't know that was the name of the song. But I have, of course, heard it. That's sort of in the same category as Mariah Carey, I would say. And Ariana Grande, I think, has, is it Santa Tell Me? Yeah.

She had to tell me. That's a good pop Christmas song. Far from classic. Not a classic, but catchy.

And you like to mix those in with some of the classics when you're listening. They need some variety because they play this Christmas music for a whole month. And in fact, it's far more than a month and it shouldn't be.

That's a separate annoyance that I have. I think that Christmas music should start at the earliest the day after Thanksgiving and probably December 1st. But that's still a month of this music.

And so you have to have some variety or else it gets a little too monotonous. Christine, I am bracing for impact on your answer to this question. Well, this is a song that I just discovered this year. It's an older song by Dolly Parton, who I absolutely love. Oh, she's a treasure. It's a sad Christmas song, but I love it so much. I've been listening to it on repeat. It's called Hard Candy Christmas.

All right. Me, I'll be just fine and dandy. Lord, it's like a hard candy Christmas.

I'm barely getting through tomorrow, but still I won't let sorrow bring me way down. Oh, well, I have never heard that before. It does sound a little melancholy. What an icon, though. Dolly Parton does no wrong in my book, so I applaud the choice. Last but not least for me, I love old school Christmas carols and hymns. My church does the Messiah Sing, handles Messiah every year for more than 50 years, which is beautiful.

We just had that a few weeks ago. I think my favorite Christmas carol is this one. Oh I wanted to start singing.

I was almost about to start singing. It's like the lead-in to Oh Come All Ye Faithful. Hark the herald angels sing, honorable mention, joy to the world.

There's a bunch, but I think if I had to pick one, that would be it. For those who celebrate, very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to everyone. Hear from our team at the Guy Benson Show. We'll be back with more of the Christmas Highlights Holiday Special from Fox News Talk. Up next, host of the Will Cain Show, Will Cain. Welcome back to the Christmas Highlights Holiday Special from Fox News Talk.

Here's the host of the Will Cain Show, Will Cain. Christmas with the Cains is a little bit like a corporate merger, a merger of businesses with legacy traditions. Long ago, my family made a trade, made a deal. My wife got Christmas, the Cains got Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving with my family is chock full of tradition now and I could lay out for you all the different ways in which Thanksgiving is a sequel to the year before. We love it though and my mom thinks Thanksgiving is the main holiday of the year for the Cains, so my wife's family got to dictate the terms of Christmas, but it is largely a merger. There are elements of the way I grew up and the way she grew up that have become the way that we celebrate Christmas and the way that my kids grow up. Let's talk about my Christmas. The traditions growing up for me in Sherman, Texas largely revolved around going to a candlelight service on Christmas Eve, reading Twas the Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve, receiving our stockings at our doorway when we woke up in the morning.

I think in retrospect, more as a delay tactic to keep us from barreling downstairs and waking up our parents before I don't remember what time, perhaps 7, 7 30 a.m. in the morning. Christmas morning I remember George Strait Christmas songs playing over the family stereo system. And I remember Santa Claus and his presence being unwrapped while any presents from your family were under the tree in boxes with wrapping paper.

And that's kind of what happened in the corporate merger. My wife's family really emphasized Christmas Eve. They opened a lot of presents on Christmas Eve. They had a huge Christmas Eve meal, Beef Wellington, Potatoes on Gratin. They sat around the dinner table in formal wear. They got dressed up on Christmas Eve to hang out with one another.

That would have never happened with the canes. They opened most of their presents on Christmas Eve and then I don't know really what happened on Christmas morning. But here as I stand today with two boys, and that's the way we've walked through Christmas together. It is usually a service on Christmas Eve. It is not very many presents opened on Christmas Eve. We get a fancy dinner though, just carry that tradition over it sometimes Beef Wellington. And we've at times mixed in Italian, which I'd like something that seems to fit about Italian and Christmas. And then they have their stockings waiting for them. They don't rush in and hopefully we get an extra 30 minutes to an hour of sleep. And Santa's presents are unwrapped while presents from your aunts and uncle are under the tree. That's sort of how it's gone, including the George Strait Christmas songs every Christmas morning.

What about the Welicia? Let's bring in two a days and tinfoil pat. I want to start with this guys. What is the least traditional thing your family has done on Christmas?

And I can start, if you like, I can kick off. My family really liked going to the movies when we were kids and we would go to the movie theater on Christmas. And I don't know if that's something that a lot of people do, but I distinctly remember waking up, not early.

It's usually in late afternoon after things have slowed down. I remember going to the movies and watching Godfather three on Christmas, just perfect for the, for the, the sentiments of Christmas. So I'm going to put it to you too. Like what's the least traditional thing you guys do on Christmas two a days, Dan. So we actually used to go on trips. Sometimes we went to Disney world one time for Christmas, even though it is Christmas themed, we did go down there.

And then one time we went to a dude ranch and I believe it was Arizona when I was very young, which was very interesting. So a little different off the beaten path. Well Dan, you're newly married. So the truth is most of your Christmas traditions are now in the negotiation stage of the corporate merger.

So it'll be like when you have kids, um, how much will be the way you grew up versus how much will be the way she grew up. And it's pretty fun actually. And if I can make one suggestion to you, Dan, I mean, you are literally like four or five, six months married. I actually think what we did is pretty good. Like instead of flip flopping it year after year, have one family take each, have one family take Thanksgiving and have one family take Christmas. And then you can set up traditions with those families.

I do. I don't think flip flopping it is bad, but it's harder to create consistency. Where are we this year? What are we doing and where are we going?

So that is the what's happening. So we did Thanksgiving with my family and Christmas with hers. The difference is her family's Canadian. So they have way different traditions than what I'm used to. It's more, you know, English and, and that kind of thing.

So there are going to be things. And I also got tired of the food that my family was making, just the ham and stuff. So I'll be happy to have newer food at different kinds at Christmas. So by default, because she's Canadian, you get Thanksgiving, but what do you get out of this merger to a Canadian?

Do you get like boxing day? Like what do they do in Canada that I don't even know about here in America? Well, they have these things called crackers where you like pop them open, apparently the English do it. And they wear crowns on top of their heads, which is a thing I didn't know.

I think mostly it's just different type of foods. Hmm. Yeah. Well, let's talk about that. So for you guys, what the traditional Christmas food, I think you named one, Dan ham.

Yeah. We, we do a ham, obviously. I mean, I like a ham covered in sugar and honey, the honey glazed ham.

Everyone does. I think that's the best form that are a smoked ham. What else I told you guys, and we've talked about this in the past, and I think Patrick, you've done this, this is my in-laws now that they're big on the beef Wellington around Christmas. And I like it. It's just very rich. It is a very, very, and I like rich food, but it is a very, very rich entree, the beef Wellington. Yeah.

That's what I want to do. I think my family's stuck in the Turkey cycle. So we just pretty much mimic Thanksgiving for Christmas as well, which I don't love.

But we do, we do mix up the sides a little bit. We have funeral potatoes or party potatoes, which are like cubed diced up potatoes. You do that for Christmas and not Thanksgiving. So I would really like to add the end to beef Wellington though. That's my dream. You mentioned this Will too earlier.

I would love to try the Italian Christmas food. I think that'd be great. So I'm a big fan.

Yeah. I'm a big fan. And I did it two ways, Dan. One of the things that we started to do when we lived in New York city, we don't live in New York now. So this has not been something that we, we continued, but we just went to dinner.

The four of us, like we went out often too. And we said to ourselves, this is going to be, there were times when my wife cooked, but when you live in a little apartment in New York, you'd go out to dinner, you know, so we'd get dressed up in the way her family tradition was, and we would go out to Italian and then, you know, New York being New York, one of our family friends were, were immigrants from Italy. And so they would invite us over on Christmas day and that was really fun. And they, they created these really traditional Italian meals. So like when you go out to a restaurant in America, you're getting a lot of like Americanized version of Italian or Mexican or whatever it may be. But on Christmas day, I would get like these really traditional, and I'm not going to be able to say the names or remember the dishes, but they were really fun.

It was really good. And there's something that fits. I don't know, Dan, there's something that fits about to me like Chinese food on Christmas is a mismatch, right? That doesn't, that doesn't fit tamales on Christmas. Cause growing up in Texas and living in Texas, again, that's a mix, that's a match tamales on Christmas, but Italian is a fit as well. It's hand in glove. I feel like Italian food and Christmas. Yeah.

I would love to try that. I'm excited to see what the Canadians do. I think they do some sort of ham and meat, but yeah, new traditions are good to start and you know, I'm starting a new family as you said, so we'll see. All right. We wish you the best of luck with your new family, Patrick's gigantic family and my corporate merger of families. And we wish you everyone listening as well. Merry Christmas with your family traditions, enjoying this time because that's what it's about in the end, no matter what you eat, no matter what you do. It's about being with your family and your God. Merry Christmas. Thank you for listening to the Christmas highlights holiday special from Fox news talk on Fox news radio. Jason in the house, the Jason Chaffetz podcast dive deeper than the headlines in the party lines as I take on American life politics and entertainment subscribe now on foxnewspodcast.com or wherever you download podcasts. Listen to the show and free on Fox news podcast plus on apple podcast, Amazon music with your prime membership or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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