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You start living you know that good city's premier $55.00 plus community Mr Dell sold is a beautiful good neighborhood with affordable at the ready manufactured obese homes are available in a variety of layoffs and the lot there are countless amenities a visit also is just minutes will often strip starting to active life I just 30 to 49 Philippe drivability call us at 924 for 4 key 322 that's 9 to 8 for the 3 to do . In. The Day joke corny groan worthy but also one of the simplest ways to share moment with your kids. Say money job to summer school. Anything so take a moment to make your kid laugh because dad jokes make your kid laugh today fatherhood that got brought you by the u.s. Department of Health and Human Services and the Ad Council. The choice. Ups Welcome back to k t o x 1340 am one of poor point one f.m. The call in number 855-586-9134. I thought I'd play a little piece of beach boys there. You know. I haven't played any Christmas music. Well last week I played. Maybe it's cold outside but that was actually more in regards to the weather. Yeah you know is the month rolls by I'm going to put some Christmas music into my bumpers. For those of you who are used to watching the k t o x website and the videos. I decided not to do one today I'm getting tired of fighting with bass book they keep muting the videos because we keep playing bumper music and they keep telling us we don't have the right the play music on Facebook. And they're not understanding this is a Absi seen license broadcast station we pay all of the theists the playing music on the air Ok we yes as a broadcast station we have to pay fees to play music. I sent them a letter explaining all of this to. Some information out of Wicca p.d. And a couple other things and they still I don't know if they get it or not. I know that during the week I'll get a notification on my Facebook page because I'm a publisher on the website not the website but the Facebook page and. Everyone every day. The drive by with Michael Hagwood gets some portion of it muted because they of course play bumper news or Queen all do was part of the industry it's an industry standard but. I started to set it all of today and I thought to myself you know what the heck with it I've I'm not going to do it today so we're not on Facebook I'm not podcast Dean I'm just doing this over the air and the Internet. This way here I don't have to worry about getting muted. My last caller Chuck appearing Linwood Washington. He brought up an interesting point how did Christmas get to what Christmas is today . I mean you know it's always been about commercialism I mean the little Christmas toys my very 1st Christmas I don't remember my very 1st Christmas I was like 13 days old and apparently my brother who was about 14 and a half at the time wrapped me up put a ribbon in Bow and put me under the Christmas tree. My parents got up and now me and a Christmas tree I don't know how that went over because I don't remember it I was only a few days old but nonetheless. Christmas. When I was a kid was of course about the presents and Santa Claus and you know all of that stuff. As I got older Christmas changed for me. My for my 1st year away from home at school. I didn't have resources to get myself back home and so I spent Christmas alone that year. And I think it gave me time to reflect on what Christmas was really about. And what Christmas is about is not the presents it's not the tree it's not running around the mall strain to see how badly you can bankrupt your credit card no it's about something more than that. And you see it I mean if you if you go out into the world you see it people act a little bit differently this time of year there will be friendlier they're a little bit kinder variable a bit more understanding. N. Christmas is not a holiday it's a feeling Ok. We work for the best in people come Christmas time. Except maybe for those crazy women in the malls that are fighting over the last toys or the last dress or the last whatever it is or fighting over. Because of Christmas of course being a capitalistic society that's what happens but the honest to goodness meaning of Christmas peace on earth goodwill towards all men to love your fellow man and to treat him in the same passion that Jesus Christ would have that's what Christmas is about it's about family. Now Christmas is an interesting holiday because it's got some Christianity in it and it's got some paganism in it the tree is pagan Ok 100 c. Years ago in Europe the pagan ritual of bringing a tree into the castle. Improved the smell inside the castle tremendously. The large raging fire of gigantic vs. Eating until you couldn't eat no more drinking till you dropped. Died knows what other debaucheries took place in these pagan rituals of the winter solstice. And some of that and some of Christianity got plenty together into this holiday which we now celebrate this Christmas. And I you know myself. I'm not into all the shop being in Christmas packages and all of that yes I buy presents for my family and my friends. But for the most part when I celebrate Christmas I'm celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ I'm celebrating the true meaning of the holiday which is goodwill towards all men. And I think a lot of us when we look at Christmas and we see what it is become we kind of long for the Christmas I'm talking about that Christmas of which we realize is the birth date of Jesus Christ and you know I think as long as you keep that in your heart. If you understand it in your head Christmas will always live in that in that passion we will always have that Christmas is Wong as we keep it within our hearts. The rest of it I can live without I can live without the shopping centers I can live without the malls I can live without the insanity of Christmas Ok but an Christmases self I look forward to every year. And I'm not a particularly religious guy I'm not a particularly sentimental guy but I hold that holiday near and dear to my heart for what it represents to me and hopefully some of you out there as well. Now if anybody wants to discuss this with me give me a call at 855-586-9134. We are in the last 45 minutes of the Steve Dowdy show. And in 45 minutes from now I will go home and sit down in front of the fireplace maybe they can use up a cuppa tea because it's getting cold out there and. Good work on next week's show I've already got a show put together for next week I know what I'm going to do. I'm not going to share with you right now I'm going to make it a surprise. And some of you may absolutely enjoy what I do and some of you may not. But what I'm going to do next Saturday I feel very strong about it's something that has always touched me deep. And it is even left me a little angry at times when I think about it but I want to share this with you so . Tunics sorry. But I put together all be entertaining and informative. We forget so many things in our history so many important moments that have happened in this country. We get I don't know. The passage of time does that I some years back wrote a book called Every man's law and it was a story about the vigilantes in San Francisco 856 in the opening of the book I point out how we live in invent and it is alive but once we are gone that then goes into the fog and it's hard to see it clearly through the bog he called an afternoon you're on the air with Steve yes and. How you doing buddy. My brother asked are a lot of church and there are kids got a. Yellow drink and he's an evangelical you know fundamentalist conservative and. I don't I grew up oh I want that kind of thing and most of even your uncles and I that I know back and they are kind of all saying Santa Claus' us a couple him say you can cos because it takes away the true meaning of Christmas is some in some respects he does yes but he also is there to represent the children need to behave themselves that's part of the reason Santa Claus. But that's just an even joke also you know like Baptists and servant of. The Protestants they don't really like to call it same thing cos. Because it's really like a pagan pagan type of thing yeah yeah now I'm Roman Catholic Ok I being boarded talian I was dipped in the holy water while I was still wet yap to Perth and I so I was raised as a Roman Catholic and you know I remember going to Sunday man our Christmas mass and there was never any discussion of Santa Claus in that mass but it wasn't till I was a young adult alone in college then I really began to realise the true meaning of Christmas what Christmas actually was all about and I'm thankful I had that experience Yes well I am I was I've been and a member of a number of different religions domination of Christianity and Mary and religion. Of a number of them I went to catechism or became a Catholic my father was it his parents were Irish Catholics but he. Became a pa Protestant and my gosh my mother her father was a probably raised Catholic he was a child in his family but. He left he left the Catholic Church I think and became a and episcopal which is what she is and which is like a Protestant type of Carousel Cism and same sort of thing they call father in the for the minister father in saying it's almost the same thing is. A Catholic and that's what my mother still has so I was raised Protestant but then I well I went to I went to a conservative Baptist Church pensionable church. The church I can't think of the name the church or the speak in tongues huge Intel and that sort of thing. I wasted your whole vision witnesses for a while and then I became about hi I'm a member of the by faith have you ever heard No I haven't yes I'm a member of the high faith. It's a worldwide religion headquarters isn't imo Oh and Israel we have we're on a lot of McConnell in Israel we have our main headquarters. And it's a worldwide religion we have about 7000000 members and that's a religion I feel most comfortable with wow out of all the different denominations I've done with well I'm not I'm non-denominational I don't I'm not really into organized religion but I do believe in God and I do believe in what Jesus Christ said that we have to treat each other as brother and sister with kindness and decency that I do in fact believe it anyway I'm going to let you go so I can let consumers and have a crack at thanks for the call. Hey ho you're on the air with Steve. Barrett now a growing out and I bother you tell me Oh you're not you. Are correct. You are not have to go that way canny. Let me understand where you are and right there yeah before I understand Kenny makes a mean steak. I heard that he's House was so dirty to people and yet up there said he had like before he left the house. Then that's cruel Don't pick on Kenny the nice guy he looked at me let you go I got a call he's waiting here you take care bye bye he call you're on the air with Steve. Here in Ca you doing. I've been listening to you I figured I might as well call him and I haven't called in a while give me a dirty joke something nasty about Santa Claus and the elves right. Now I just want to say about the Catholic religion you know. Chris we're all kind of our own Mark. You know well. You know it's interesting. I had a Catholic priest in the church I grew up in that was really a nice guy I mean never never a hint that there was anything strange with them that have you ever watched the Dirty Harry movie the original one I see them all when they're up on the rooftop Ok And they're looking through binoculars at the church and the priest is closing the door in the in the church. That was Father wherry he was an actual priest there in St Peter's and Paul's that's where I went back they went to school there is a boy. You know. You know millions and millions of dollars church all his. Own Yeah they did because there are some sick people that have gotten into the priesthood but not every priest has a pair of bile in fact there was a priest in the same period from Paul's father to stance up Ok and the story about public a stance was it he went through North Beach blessing the old widows he got caught they sent him back to the Vatican the deal with his research of pus they had to bring him back. To work you know you know. A couple of years ago oh our pope is an idiot why would all the furnish the streams of holy water. Pumps of holes. Yeah yeah got it in there can graduations. Or oh. Yeah I got a little color hanging in there somewhere let you go thanks for the call well. Then I'll try one of those folks Sickles when I get home. Hey good afternoon you're on the air with Steve. Oh you silly you wish Krampus. Crimper Yeah that's the anti Santa Clause is it not. The German Christmas theme actually. Might be. All over Europe but I know it's definitely a German saying well I am familiar with Mr Hanky. Well . Like as you said with Santa being a means to control he behavior of children that is more to the point where practice was. Yes Yeah if you did something bad Krampus was coming and you were in big trouble if he would take on the child and. Maybe even. Kidnap the mother for something. Well you know Santa Claus and most people don't realize this that Santa Claus if you were a bad boy he would leave you a lump of coal and leave your parents a big container of switches Hickory switches that they would get then get to use on your backside because you were misbehaving. Yeah I remember the kid oh yeah I think I told you that once or twice when you were growing up Stevie you're going to end up getting called for Christmas with my mom and I are getting this which is. Here told me there at least once and pretty sure I or least once Sure. Then so your. Tongue tied made sure you were a good little boy. And I did my best well easy then that's all I ever asked for haha. Yeah dad was a very guy at least I tried to be. The last time. There were 20 where I would look at what he did is unfair and again I was a kid. Well you know this I tried to explain to you and your brothers you growing up this was not a democracy this was a totalitarianism and I was the dictator and what I said went and it was that way when I was a kid you know. If it's just seems to me that the guy that goes out to earn the paycheck to pay the bills to keep a roof over everybody's head the lights on in the in the refrigerator. He's in charge he gets to make the rules because he's the one doing all the hard work to make it possible for everybody else to enjoy life. Or less. Yeah yeah well when you're 910 years old that doesn't seem fair though does it. Mean come on when your kid. And your parent you know he seems. So you actually look at it technically Yeah yeah well what do you know there's an old saying it was it was around when I was young and the saying is that when my when I was 17 my father was incredibly stupid by the time I was 27 I was amazed at how much he had learned. I think I made you mention once or twice yeah you can honestly say when you were 17 you thought your partner was the dumbest man in the world by the time you were 27 you were amazed at how much I knew. I wasn't one of the teenagers Yeah actually we were you were a lot easier than your brothers I got to give you credit you gave me a lot less headaches neither one of them did. Wow I'm a bad boy here I'm 9 minutes behind my marker I go go to a commercial I so it's still a new solution well thank you Stephen Na a thank you for the call Son I love you bye bye you know from lovely to you 5 by. Hey we're going to do a commercial because well I'm behind schedule by 9 minutes shame on me I'm not going to get my Christmas present I'm going to get a lump of cool and my wife is going to get a bag of switches darn. The River Cities entertainment podcast is an arts and entertainment show bringing you the best of local entertainment news and current events the show airs every Saturday morning at 8 am right here on Ciccio at It will take to bring us back in. Man I can't believe I let myself get that far behind schedule and I guess I was just having fun that last caller that's my youngest son Stephen. Stevie Jr. He came into my life been 1987. I I wanted a daughter Ok and I already had to do 2 boys and when my wife being a real good sport decided she does let me try one more time and well we had Stevie and well that's where we stopped but you know I wouldn't trade my boys in for a mountain of gold I love each and every one of them each one is a little bit different they own house all have their own personalities and they're my sons and I love all 3 of them let me go to the phones Hey good afternoon caller you're on the air with Steve man I'm sorry state so it's 187 you had to start well just Deni procreation and of it. Ok the rest of it was all recreation. Ok. It's when you're lining up your Christmas music maybe for next week or whatever I request for you don't play at one of my one of my all time favorites because I happened to personally know this girl and I just loved her it killed me when she died that would be Karen Carpenter's Merry Christmas darling. Ella see if I can find that. But it's very hard on you too I'm sure it is I'm sure it is well I mean you know I'm not going to get into the Christmas music until we get a little closer to Christmas I hate it I hate it. I bet I go out to Wal-Mart it's the day after Thanksgiving and they're playing Christmas music Wait a minute before they were doing their crap before Thanksgiving Yeah I know and it drives me nuts I mean you know can't we wait till Christmas for the Christmas music . It's like religion on have Valentine's candy already Yeah really I've got Christmas movies Ok I've got like Miracle on 34th Street I've got. A Christmas Carol with Alexander Sims the original 1950 s. Version. You know and I break those out come Christmas I break those out and I want to but I don't want him till Christmas. It's just you know your yeah yeah I've got a movie that I play every year on the port to July it's called $776.00 and it's based on a play and it's about the writing of the Declaration of Independence it's a musical because I said it's based on a play but it's really a good movie it's even educational and you know I don't play that per Christmas I pay that per the 4th of July you know. I am watching Christmas movies did you know the die hard as Christmas movie. Oh yeah I know. All of them or. At least one of. The Hearst Christmas time yeah the 1st 2 or Christmas movies they take place during the Christmas holiday yeah when when they would have to go that church or whatever outside the airport where they were sure I don't want planes Yeah yeah that's that's the 2nd one in his wife's up in a plane and then we thought weapon the 1st lethal weapon is a Christmas movie it takes place at Christmas. You know so those are Christmas music music movies. You go and I have to get one more time I'm sure I've said it before Ok say it again on the air it's. In my humble opinion. I think that your show. Is the best. Kate talks well thank you I really do you know because you ta