THE REASON FOR THE GIVING SEASON - Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday 12-1

            Good Day…it’s the middle of the week… Wednesday…

 

            Well, we all get packed in here to the little small studio for the magic moments when we take to the airwaves. And then after all that glory is gone… we head out to the water cooler… or the ice cream bar fridge… for a little refreshment.

 

            Some days things have gone better than others in the radio recording world.  We’re a pretty close knit bunch… and although my friends from Playfair see most things as I do – I suppose there’s a host of things we see differently.  At least we express them differently.

 

            Right now though… things are quiet. There seems to be something of a disconnect between their political heroes… if you’d term them that way.  They – my bait shop friends seem comfortable with that kind of terminology… I’m not always.  I do want to be fair.  And occasionally I have garnered a note from the “unconvinced” – and that’s fine … as long as civility prevails.  I’m not much for being interrupted … or for interrupting.  I wasn’t trained to debate that way… and early training sticks with you I guess…  I didn’t have occasion to debate during college – except informally… and even there we were polite with one another. So… to hear all this ‘talking over top’ one another, especially on broadcasts… well.. it cuts across the grain – like fingernails on a chalkboard.

 

            So I haven’t a lot of sympathy for those who engage in it… either GOP or Democrat; Liberal or Republican – I think respect and civility makes the understanding machine work.  Of course if your goal is simply to turn over the pop- corn machine… or cause a scene… Well, opinions are expressed that way… but I think it’s pretty certain to be a losing tactic in the long and short runs.

 

            All that to say… I’m just not very tolerant of deliberate impoliteness.  Perhaps that puts me at a disadvantage – but in the long run I think not.  Anyway I don’t plan to change.  So… for a little while I’m having to steer clear of the current debates and collage on the airways.  I’ve heard about 16 times more than I need to know about the former top golfer in the world.  I’m sure it will take him a long way.  We just are not walking along parallel paths.

 

            So… that’s the comment for today. I’ll look for you Friday.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

THE REASON  FOR THE GIVING SEASON

MizP: Just a Minute --   Everbody… you ‘member las year ‘bout this time we relized we wuz jist about in th’ season.

Homer: At’s rite Miz Pearl – I do ‘member tha-ut

BB: Ah was plannin’ on a new fishin boat… but hit won’t much good ‘cause th’ lake was too low.

Jack: And as I remember you said you didn’t know which you wanted most… the boat or the motor.

BB: Yeah an you said one wasn’t much good ‘thout th’ other…

MizP: At’s whut r’minded me ‘bout th’ woman who sole her long hair…

Homer: Rite… she sole her hair ta' buy a watch chain an he sole his watch so’s he cud buy her some purty combs fer her hair.

Jack: That kinda left them stranded didn’t it

MizP: That was cawled th’ gift of majic wasn’t hit?

BB: Naw Miz Pearl… hit was th’ gift of the Magi… like th’ three wise men…

Homer: Th’ ones tole ‘bout in th’ Christmas story in th’ Bible… a-bringing’ gifs ta' th’ Christ chile.

MizP: Ah “member now… tha-ut  story  was written by O. Henry – born in North Carolina an buried rite up heah in Asheville.

Jack: Exactly right,  Miz Pearl.  You’ve got a good memory.

Homer: But th’ awthur wasn’t really O. Henry…

MizP: Naw-- his name was William Sydney Porter – real name .

Jack: He wrote a lot of short stories about hard livin’ in New York. I think it was his short-stories that first

                               attracted me to writing – and that’s how we got JUST A MINUTE.

MizP: Ah guess Jist A Minit is a short story ain’t hit.

Jack: I guess so.  Well, you know, winter will be here before next Wednesday – so we better get a move on. 

 MizP: the Christmas story – about Jesus and givin’ an all – get’s my eyes all teary.

 BB: Rite… We better ‘member -- Jesus is the reason for the season.

Jack: And it’s a good idea to remember the less fortunate –

Homer: An those as has given so much for our country.

Jack: Good show Homer, Billy-Bob, Miz Pearl… see you all next week.  – I’m Jack Buttram

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