Morning Wire - Merry Christmas From Team Morning Wire I 12.25.22

Episode Date: December 25, 2022

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Good morning and Merry Christmas, Georgia. I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. We hope you are having a lovely day with your family and friends. It's December 25th, and as a little treat, we've put together a special Christmas Day episode. Today we're stepping back from the news and instead sharing with you some personal holiday messages from our reporters that you've gotten to know from the show. Hey, Morning Wire listeners, it's Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce, and I hope you are having a very merry holiday season. as I'm probably somersaulting my way down a ski slope, I wanted you to know that I'm very grateful that you decide to tune into us. Enjoy the season and I can't wait to be back giving you the news you need to know. Merry Christmas.

I'm Daily Wire reporter Amanda Presto Giacomo. Some of the best holiday memories for me come from working at my parents' Italian bakery on Christmas Eve with my three siblings. It was chaotic and fun and unique and something I'm still really grateful for. And after we fought each other for the showers and cleaned up, we'd rush up. off to my grandparents' house with our big extended family to celebrate the greatest gift of all, the birth of our Savior. This is Cabot Phillips Daily Wire senior editor. To me, Christmas is about spending time with family, eating way, way too much food, and celebrating

the birth of Jesus. Growing up every year, my mom would actually bake a birthday cake, and my siblings and I would sit on the steps and sing happy birthday to Jesus before we got to open presents. It is my favorite holiday memory, and I hope all of you have a one. wonderful holiday season as well. Hi, this is Ash Short, Daily Wire, Senior Editor and Reporter for Morning Wire. Christmas is special to me because it is a time for family. My family celebrates on Christmas Eve, opening presents one by one so everyone can see what each other gets and share in the joy. It's an hours-long process, but it's my favorite time of year because we're all together. Merry Christmas,

everyone. Hi, Merry Christmas. This is Charlotte Pence Bond, and I'm a reporter, writer for the Daily Wire. To me, Christmas is a time to celebrate God giving the gift of his son to the world. And it's always been a time to just slow down, unplug, reflect, and really connect to what's going on around me in my life and in the lives of other people. It's also a moment to thank God for the past year and for what I have and just ask him what his plans are for me. Hey, Michael Whitaker here. Now, I'm a Florida man. Well, my mother's family is from Philadelphia, So every Christmas Eve, my family would take the pilgrimage up I-95 to spend Christmas with our cousins. There's nothing quite like driving until one in the morning, knowing that family and presents are on the other side waiting for you.

Merry Christmas, everyone. I'm Megan Basham, Daily Wire Culture Reporter. As soon as Carols start playing every year, I start thinking about the second best gift I ever received. At 24, I was a new Christian attending a new church. And our very large congregation had this. tradition of putting on an event similar to a Renaissance festival. Only instead of Shakespeare, it recreated the Roman world at the birth of Christ. And I was recruited to play a part in a little skit titled The Princess and the Potion Cellar. Well, I noticed the good-looking guy playing

the potion seller a few times, but I didn't know much about him beyond his name. Over the course of those rehearsals, though, which he didn't take nearly as seriously as I thought he should, I got to know that guy a lot better. By Christmas Eve, we were dating. By Easter, we were engaged. So whenever I'm tempted to doubt whether I have a father in heaven who rewards those who earnestly seek him, I think of his second greatest gift to me. That crazy potion seller who still doesn't take life too seriously,

but continues to make my life joyful year after New Year. Hope you'll all have a wonderful Christmas and happy new year. I'm Daily Wire contributor David Marcus, wishing you a Merry Christmas. Christmas is a sensory wonderland, the dazzling colored light sights, the alluring smell of cookies, roasts, and pine, the flavor of candy canes and spirit-laced eggnog. But it's also a season of sounds, the carols, the bells, the soft crunch of snow under boot. But for me, the sound of Christmas will always be one voice, that of Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti.

In 1980, when I was six, PBS first broadcast its Christmas special with the world's greatest tenor. His Ave Maria and O Holy Night would become staples of my Christmas childhood. Each year, this impossible sound, made by one great man, and a choir of children, would sing me to my Yuletide rest. The love of opera and choral music may be the greatest Christmas present I ever received, though my toy Star Wars Adat was a close second. Christ's birth is a story of love, a story of life, but let us never forget it is also and always a story of beauty. Merry Christmas. I'm Maraida Lorty, and this Christmas I hope all of you in our Daily Wire family have a moment of peace and joy.

In my family, that moment often comes during midnight mass, where we quietly welcome Christ into creation with candles and song. I'm so blessed that in this country I'm free to share my Christmas joy. with all of you. Merry Christmas. When I think of Christmas, I still think of waking up at the crack of dawn with my siblings, tiptoeing downstairs, full of excitement, and then spending all morning in pajamas, reveling in family and cinnamon roll heaven. As I got older, the excitement of sneaking downstairs was replaced by the excitement of finding the perfect, extraordinarily niche gag gift for my sister, and then socking it away for months until the big, hilarious reveal. But in my first,

my 32nd year of life, I experienced a fairly miraculous string of events, which in part led to my voice greeting you each day, but more importantly, led to me becoming a radical believer in God and his miracles. So today, in addition to soaking up precious family time and probably screeching with laughter when my siblings opened their gifts, I'll be taking time to be quietly but profoundly grateful for the momentous miracle that kick-started this wonderful season and this joyful day. And I guess I'll wrap this whole thing up. When I think of Christmas at our home growing up, two images come to my mind. The first is my mom toiling for days to make her trademark Christmas cookies. When I say she made cookies, I mean she made tray after tray of cookies, shortbread cookies, candy canes, what she called fruit drop and melt in your mouth cookies. There were all recipes passed down to her from her dad. Every year she'd spend days preparing and then hours and hours baking and decorating and packaging these cookies.

What's left such an impression on me is the joy she had in baking them for all of us. It's to me the embodiment of selflessness and service to others. The joy of bringing others joy. The second images of my dad with the family gathered round in the den, reading in his wonderful literature professor's voice, the story of the birth of Christ from the gospel of Luke, grounding the day and what it was all actually about. The two images together are Christmas to me, and they're precious.

That's all the time we have this morning. Now we'll let you go so you can get started with your celebrations. But first, did you get me a gift, Georgia? John, your gift is getting to work with me all year round. Be grateful. Thanks again for sharing your morning with us. From all of us here at Morning Wire, Merry Christmas. We'll be back tomorrow with the news you need to know.