(Andrew laughs) - So, it's Christmas. ♪ It's beginning ♪ ♪ to look a lot like ♪
- That's how you ♪ Christmas ♪ ♪ Everywhere we go. ♪ Anyway, it's Merry Christmas, everybody. It's the Dinner Conversations'
Christmas special. - This is the Christmas special. - Don't you love this? - I was gonna say. (laughs) - You know, I bought the jacket
for $100 off the internet and then a friend of mine took it and she put beads all over it. She must have used Elmer's Glue because some of them have fallen off so everywhere I go I
leave a trail of sequins. - I would say - Which is a nice, happy
way to spend your Christmas. - I would say everywhere
you go, you leave. - A trail. - So we're very excited about
this special, aren't we? - Yeah. I love it because it's going to be
more focused on music. - Yeah. - Than probably we usually do. It's still gonna have conversations but conversations through some of our favorite
songs and our favorite people. - Who are we starting with? I'm excited. - We're gonna start with me. (laughs) - Oh! This would be a good time
to go to the restroom. (Andrew laughs) No! What are you singing? - "Go Tell It On the Mountain"
with our good friend, it's redeemable
- Oh, Cindy - Our good friend, Cindy Morgan. So we're gonna kick it off with a little (bells jingle) - All right, here he is. (applause) ♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪ ♪ Over the hills and everywhere ♪ ♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪ ♪ That Jesus Christ is born ♪ ♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪ ♪ Over the hills and everywhere ♪ ♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪ ♪ That Jesus Christ is born ♪ ♪ While shepherds kept their watchin' ♪ ♪ O'er silent flocks by night ♪ ♪ Behold throughout the heavens ♪ ♪ There shown a holy light ♪ ♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪ ♪ Over the hills and everywhere ♪ ♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪ ♪ That Jesus Christ is born ♪ Give it up for Mr. Travis Patton (applause) ♪ Down in a lowly manger ♪ ♪ The humble Christ was born ♪ ♪ And God sent us salvation ♪ ♪ That blessed Christmas morn ♪ ♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪ ♪ O'er the hills and everywhere ♪ ♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪ ♪ That Jesus Christ is born ♪ ♪ Now I said ♪ ♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪ ♪ O'er the hills and everywhere ♪ ♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪ ♪ That Jesus Christ is born ♪ ♪ Oh Oh ♪ ♪ Jesus Christ is born ♪ ♪ Oh Oh ♪ ♪ Jesus Christ is born ♪ (applause) Hey, I'm Mark Schultz. Mark and Andrew, thanks so much for having me
on your Christmas special. This song "Different Kind of Christmas" was actually inspired by my wife. Growing up in her house at Christmas time ever
since she could remember, she and her dad would go to
the fireplace on Christmas Eve and leave milk and cookies and the next morning she would come and there'd be a letter from
Santa Claus that would say, "Hey, I was coming down
the chimney last night "and I bumped into your dad, "and he told me he thinks
you're about the greatest thing "that ever happened to him." So my wife loved to get those letters every Christmas from Santa Claus. Even when she was in college she would to go home and write a note to
Santa the night before. Even when we got married, the notes changed a little bit, but she still got notes. They'd be like "Hey,
I bumped into your dad "coming down the chimney last night. "He thinks you're the
greatest thing in the world. "Your husband needs to learn how "to fix some things around the house." He was a huge part of Christmas to her. So after he passed away, she was walking into
my office and she said, "You know what?" She said, "We've got the Christmas tinsel "and we've got the Christmas lights "and we've got all the things
we decorate the tree with. "Those are all the same. "But Daddy's gone, "and it's a different kind
of Christmas this year." ♪ Snow is falling Christmas Eve ♪ ♪ Lights are coming on
up and down the street ♪ ♪ The sound of carols fill the air ♪ ♪ People rushing home,
families everywhere ♪ ♪ Putting candles in the windows ♪ ♪ Lights upon the tree ♪ ♪ But there's no laughter in this house ♪ ♪ Not like there used to be ♪ ♪ There's just a million little memories ♪ ♪ That remind me you're not here ♪ ♪ It's just a different kind
of Christmas this year ♪ ♪ In the evening fires glow ♪ ♪ Dancing underneath the mistletoe ♪ ♪ A letter left from Santa Claus ♪ ♪ Won't be the same this
year in this house because ♪ ♪ There's one less
place set at the table ♪ ♪ One less gift under the tree ♪ ♪ And a brand new way to take
their place inside of me ♪ ♪ I'm unwrapping all these memories ♪ ♪ Fighting back the tears ♪ ♪ It's just a different kind
of Christmas this year ♪ ♪ Now there's voices in the driveway ♪ ♪ Families right outside the door ♪ ♪ And we'll try to make this Christmas ♪ ♪ Like the ones we've had before ♪ ♪ As we gather round the table, ♪ ♪ I see joy on every face ♪ ♪ And I realize what's still
alive is the legacy you made ♪ ♪ It's time to put the
candles in the windows, ♪ ♪ The lights upon the tree ♪ ♪ It's time to fill this
house with laughter ♪ ♪ Like it used to be ♪ ♪ Just because you're up in heaven ♪ ♪ Doesn't mean you're not near ♪ ♪ It's just a different
kind of Christmas ♪ ♪ It's just a different kind
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and worth fighting for. - [Mark] They said it was
the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring not even a - [Children in Unison] Mouse! - Oh, but hours before there was much stirring then, for Piper the mouse was
the hyper-est he'd been. He tried to be good but his patience grew thin. He wanted it Christmas
right there and right then. He starred at those presents, like catfish to bait. What was inside them? He just couldn't wait. One gift was marked "Piper" so trying to peek he pulled on the ribbon
stretching it with his feet but instead of it breaking it snapped with a force
- Snapped! catapulting poor Piper in the air and of course the window was open so out Piper flew! There's no telling how many
red lights he flew through. (children laughing) The church doors were open. He flew right inside, past
the pews and the pastor. What a wonderful ride! He landed smack dab in a pillow of hay, then realized he was now in their Christmas Eve play. There was Mary and Joseph,
the shepherds and sheep. They were saying their lines, he didn't dare make a peep. They said that God loved
us and gave us his Son. So at Christmas, it's giving not getting that's fun. Piper looked right beside him, and there on the hay, lay the most precious baby ever born to this day. He jumped off that manger
and ran to his house. Breaking all the speed limits
that applied to a mouse. He got his one gift and he dragged it four miles to the church, to the stage, to the manger and smiled. He gave it to Jesus,
it was all he could do. But then the angels said,
"Jesus would rather have you." The play was now over. The cast took their bows. Piper took one himself with
the sheep and the cows. And he walked home that night with something new to believe, for he'd learned it's much
better to give than receive. When he got to his house,
he did not make a peep. He just made gifts for his loved ones then fell fast asleep. So! (laughter) That night before Christmas that's why all through the house not a creature was stirring not even a mouse. - All right, so one of my favorite things. - Oh no, he loves a Christmas quote y'all. Quotes! - I love quotes in general. Yeah, 'cause people have to.
- I do too. - You do? - I do but I don't love 'em. - You don't like mine. - I don't, like, write them down and carry them around with me. (laughing) - Okay, see if you can
guess who said this. You ready? "He who has not Christmas in his heart "will never find it under a tree." - I have no idea. - What do you mean. (laughs) Guess. That's the game. - Benjamin Franklin. - No, Roy L. Smith. - Well, who's that? - (laughs) I don't know. - Oh I'm shedding again. - Okay, here's. - Look I shed Christmas
everywhere I go, it just sheds. - (laughs) Gosh. - Go ahead. - All right, Christmas,
you will know this name. "Christmas is not a time, nor a season, "but a state of mind, "to cherish peace and good will. "To be plenteous in
mercy is to have the real "Spirit of Christmas." - Pee-wee Herman. - Gosh, close. Calvin Coolidge. - Oh. - Okay. Here's a good one. "Christmas, my child, is love in action." - Mother Teresa. - Close. - Dale Evans. - Oh, Roy's wife? - Yeah, which is kinda like
a Mother Teresa figure. - Okay. Here's the last one. I love this one. - Oh, good. - "Blessed is the season "which engages the whole world "in a conspiracy of love." - "Blessed is the season." - "Which engages the whole world "in a conspiracy of love." - "Conspiracy" is an interesting word. - Yes it is. - I don't know, who? (laughs) - I don't know? - Hamilton Wright Mabie. - Never heard of him, either. Have you? - No. - Okay. There's our Christmas quotes. Now back to the music! (applause) - In this great, ever-expanding universe, how are we going to find God? He found us! (crowd assents) But you know what, he came through the back door. He came through a virgin girl. My college professor said
she was 13 years of age. Now I don't know where
he got that in the Bible, but I learned a lot of
things in Bible college I never read in the Bible. (audience laughs) But we do know that
she was a virgin maiden and she was young. Now I wouldn't have come, if I had been God and
I was coming to Earth, that's not the way that I'da come. I'da had a big, golden
staircase comin' outa the sky. Ida have cherubim singin'
and seraphim swingin' and Gabriel playing a Dixieland
melody on that trumpet, and I'd let them know I'm coming to Earth and when I get here I'm
gonna kick some tail. (audience laughter) 'Cause I'm a Baptist. (audience laughter) But that's not the way God came. You know who I feel sorry for? The people that were in the motel while God was being born in the barn. Just a few barnyard animals got to witness the entrance of the King. And a virgin maiden and her spouse, her husband Joseph. And then she got to grow up with Him. Isn't that cool? I mean, she got to grow. Now my dad's here tonight and my dad believes Jesus knew who He was the second He was conceived. I don't. And when Daddy does his concert,
he can say what he wants. (audience laughs) I said, "Daddy, if Jesus knew who He was "the second He was conceived, "then He was fakin' all
those diaper changes." 'Cause Mary changed God's diapers. Mary got to have God nurse at her breast. Mary taught God how to talk. Mary taught God how to walk. Because when our God came to Earth He set aside His omniscience,
His omnipresence, and wrapped Himself in flesh and became one of us so we could know Him. (applause) ♪ Mary did you know ♪ ♪ That your baby boy ♪ ♪ Will one day walk on water? ♪ ♪ Mary did you know that your baby boy ♪ ♪ Will save our sons and daughters? ♪ ♪ Did you know that your baby boy ♪ ♪ Has come to make you new? ♪ ♪ This child that you've delivered ♪ ♪ Will soon deliver you ♪ ♪ Mary did you know that your baby boy ♪ ♪ Will give sight to the blind man? ♪ ♪ Mary did you know that your baby boy ♪ ♪ He will calm the storm with His hand? ♪ ♪ Did you know your baby boy ♪ ♪ Has walked where angels trod? ♪ ♪ When you kiss your little baby, ♪ ♪ You have kissed the face of God ♪ ♪ The blind will see ♪ ♪ And the deaf will hear ♪ ♪ The dead will live again ♪ ♪ The lame will leap ♪ ♪ The dumb will speak ♪ ♪ The praises of the lamb ♪ ♪ Mary did you know ♪ ♪ That your baby boy is
Lord of all creation? ♪ ♪ Oh, Mary, did you know ♪ ♪ Your baby boy ♪ ♪ Will one day rule the nations? ♪ ♪ Did you know your baby boy
is heaven's perfect lamb? ♪ ♪ And the sleeping child
that you're holding ♪ ♪ He's the great I am ♪ Here's the Christmas story from Luke 2 in the Message Bible. At that time Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be
taken throughout the Empire. This was the first census when Quirinius was governor of Syria. Everyone had to travel to
his own ancestral hometown to be accounted for. So Joseph went from the
Galilean town of Nazareth up to Bethlehem in Judah, David's town, for the census. As a descendant of David,
he had to go there. He went with Mary, his
fiancée, who was pregnant. While they were there, the time came for her to give birth. She gave birth to a son, her firstborn. She wrapped Him in a blanket
and laid him in a manger, because there was no room in the hostel. - There were sheepherders
camping in the neighborhood. They had set night
watches over their sheep when suddenly, God's
angel stood among them and God's glory blazed around them. And they were terrified. The angel said, "Don't be afraid. "I'm here to announce a
great and joyful event "that is meant for everybody, worldwide, "A Savior has just been
born in David's town, "a Savior who is Messiah and Master. "This is what you're to look for, "a baby wrapped in a blanket
and lying in a manger." At once the angel was joined
by a huge angelic choir singing God's praises. Glory to God in the heavenly heights, Peace to all men and women
on earth who please him. - As the angel choir withdrew into heaven, the sheepherders talked it over. "Let's get over to
Bethlehem as fast as we can "and see for ourselves what
God has revealed to us." They left, running, and
found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger. Seeing was believing. They told everyone they met what the angels had said about this child. All who heard the
sheepherders were impressed. Mary kept all these things to herself, holding them dear and deep within herself. The sheepherders returned and let loose, glorifying and praising God for everything they had heard and seen. It turned out exactly the
way they had been told! You start us off. - All right. ♪ Silent night, holy night! ♪ ♪ All is calm, all is bright. ♪ ♪ Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child. ♪ ♪ Holy infant so tender and mild, ♪ ♪ Sleep in heavenly peace, ♪ ♪ Sleep in heavenly peace ♪ ♪ Silent night, holy night! ♪ ♪ Son of God ♪ ♪ Love's pure light. ♪ ♪ Radiant beams from Thy holy face ♪ ♪ With the dawn of redeeming grace, ♪ ♪ Jesus Lord, at Thy birth ♪ ♪ Jesus Lord, at Thy birth ♪ (humming) - Dinner Conversations is
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and worth fighting for. - One, two, three, four ♪ O by golly ♪ ♪ Have a holly, jolly Christmas ♪ ♪ This year. ♪ - Merry Christmas, everybody. - No, that
Pretty good, it's pretty good. - I also have a couple Christmas quotes, You know me lovin' my quotes. - [Staff] We don't have Brene Brown. - No, no, no! (laughter) - Shut up! - Cheers to you. - Shut up! - Chris, give him a microphone! (laughter) Put a microphone on that man. - Who's the President
of the United States? Just say it. - God! - Yay! God is the President of the United States? Donald Trump. (laughter) - You don't know. - You're only gonna know Dale Evans. - I'm not gonna know, don't tell me! Okay, okay. We're gonna really do this. I don't plan ahead. - I know. - You're strange that way.
