National starwhackers Christmas vacation, the six billion dollar man and my life as a Ramone + this day in history w/desperate Venezuelans and our song of the year by Iyah May on your #MorningMonarchy for December 19, 2025.
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#PumpUpThaVolume: Christmas Music Special – December 18, 2025 ♬
https://mediamonarchy.com/20251218pumpupthavolume/
A Very Monarchy Christmas ♬ A compilation from all of our annual all-Christmas episodes!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4cFl90VZwsO3j60AL55ft9
Audio: “Everything’s Fine” and the #BestOf2025 ♬ @ 1PM MT
https://discord.com/events/311625265627529216/1436177486902984774
Video: “Everything’s Fine” and the #BestOf2025 ♬ A special video version of the #BestOf2025 with live takes and alternate cuts @ 7PM MT
https://discord.com/events/311625265627529216/1450012842106425497
Last Monday Hangout #36 @ 9AM MT Mon Dec 29
https://discord.com/events/311625265627529216/1436141117216129155
#NewWorldNextWeek: New World Next Year 2026
https://x.com/shartstorm8d8/status/2001856202939208187
Video: US President Donald Trump signed an order to reclassify marijuana; The reclassification could reshape the cannabis industry, ease penalties (Audio)
https://x.com/WIONews/status/2001936552616997232
Brown University and MIT shooting suspect found dead; identified as former grad student
https://abcnews.go.com/US/brown-mass-shooting-mit-professor-murder-linked-sources/story?id=128530691
Video: America’s Untold Stories: Reiner Murder Mystery EXPLODES – Obama Ties Revealed (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/live/Kx_LP-iqPwo&t=703
Who’s running the LAPD? Chief’s style draws mixed reviews in first year
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-18/lapd-chief-jim-mcdonnells-first-year
Thomas Noguchi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Noguchi
Nick Reiner makes first court appearance after parents’ killings; The 32-year-old son of Hollywood legends Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner could face life in prison or the death penalty if convicted of murder.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/17/nick-reiner-court-appearance-plea-delayed/
DC Police Chief Forced Staff to Underreport Crime Counts, Subordinates Testify to House Oversight
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2025/12/15/dc-police-chief-forced-staff-underreport-crime-counts
Gil Gerard dead: Buck Rogers star leaves heartfelt posthumous message
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/gil-gerard-dead-buck-rogers-star-leaves-heartfelt-posthumous-message/ar-AA1SvNnA
North Carolina rep ‘devastated’ by deaths of NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, family
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/north-carolina-rep-devastated-by-deaths-of-nascar-driver-greg-biffle-family/ar-AA1SCLht
Video: tHE gROOMBOB mOVIE: sEARCH fOR cHEESE pIZZA // Ice Spice at a screening for ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants’ in NYC. (Audio)
https://x.com/mediamonarchy/status/2001855731012899157 // https://x.com/PopCrave/status/2001702437519003959
21 Savage Told Drake Not to Get Involved in Kendrick Battle: ‘There’s No Way You Can Win’; The rapper said he also believed Drake’s reputation was still intact during an appearance on the Perspektives With Bank podcast
https://archive.is/JW2uj
Lizzo Dancers Push for Trial in Sex Harassment Case: Banana Incident Was Not ‘Creative Expression’; A lawyer for Lizzo’s ex-dancers says under her reading of the First Amendment, Johnny Cash would be free to shoot “a man in Reno just to watch him die.”
https://archive.is/Vm3F7
King Charles III Shares His Cancer Treatment Will Be “Reduced” in 2026; King Charles III announced that “thanks to early diagnosis, effective intervention and adherence to ‘doctors’ orders, my own schedule of cancer treatment can be reduced” in 2026.
https://www.eonline.com/news/1426152/king-charles-iii-cancer-treatment-to-be-reduced-in-2026
‘Unconscionable’: Liam Neeson Faces Intense Scrutiny Over Role In New Anti-Vax Doc; The “Naked Gun” actor has attempted to distance himself from his part in the RFK Jr.-linked film.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-neeson-anti-vaccine-documentary-rfk_n_693b5fd6e4b0898f02fe583d
Sharon Osbourne Reveals Why She Didn’t Follow Through on Assisted Suicide Pact with Ozzy When He Died
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/sharon-osbourne-reveals-why-she-211500106.html
Beating ‘Ozempic face’: how Sharon Osbourne and Scott Disick could have used dermal fillers and face yoga to overcome side effects of weight-loss drug used to treat type 2 diabetes
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/beauty/wellness/article/3301097/beating-ozempic-face-how-sharon-osbourne-and-scott-disick-could-have-used-dermal-fillers-and-face
Peter Greene, character actor known for iconic villains, dies at 60
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peter-greene-dies-actor-villain-the-mask-pulp-fiction/
Video: Peter Greene, Known for ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘The Mask,’ Dies at 60 (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKTt8xI73I8
Manic Street Preachers – “Critical Thinking” (Audio)
‘Critical Thinking’
Columbia / Sony Music – February 14, 2025
*#PumpUpThaVolume/#TruthMusic: Manic Street Preachers – “Critical Thinking” https://youtu.be/Vv1ePHLccb8 // What happened to your critical thinking? Title track from the 15th album by Manic Street Preachers, available now via Columbia / Sony Music.*
Catholics And Orthodox Finally Unite To Denounce Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’
https://babylonbee.com/news/catholics-and-protestants-finally-unite-to-denounce-whams-last-christmas
Video: Trump Releases Surprise Christmas Album (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cugYsKcM9KU
Morgan Wallen Is Billboard’s Top Artist of 2025; It’s the first time Wallen is the year’s top artist, and he’s the first male country act to achieve the feat in more than 30 years.
https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/morgan-wallen-billboard-top-artist-2025-1236129874/
Video: Mark McGrath’s Brilliant Theory On Why We’re So Nostalgic For The 90’s (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USeRXI7iPgs
YouTube Wins Exclusive Global Rights to the Oscars and Other Motion Picture Academy Content Starting in 2029; The Oscars have been telecast on ABC continuously since 1976.
https://www.billboard.com/pro/youtube-exclusive-global-rights-to-oscars-starting-in-2029/
Jared Kushner’s firm backs out of Paramount’s Warner Bros. bid
https://archive.is/1PpRv
Video: Hollywood is in the middle of a global takeover battle; The bid for Warner Bros Discovery has turned political, with President Donald Trump signalling he may intervene (Audio)
https://x.com/WIONews/status/1999360873631220000
The Six Billion Dollar Man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Billion_Dollar_Man
Video: THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN: Julian Assange and the Price of Truth – OFFICIAL TRAILER (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih7nLzyTaoI
Iyah May – “Good Citizen” (Audio)
Digital Single
YouTube – Dec. 4, 2025
*#PumpUpThaVolume/#TruthMusic: Iyah May – “Good Citizen” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41SawyuIyYg // “so They killed Charlie/and They killed Marley/both the kennedys and marilyn/they Killed Dianna/And They killed Jackson/we are their legacy/this is their anthem/Stay silent, stay violent/Stay plugged in and divided”*
“On Rolls the Wheel” and the #BestOf2025 ♬ Unofficial #PumpUpThaVolume
https://discord.com/channels/311625265627529216/414602331305279488/1442600940157927554
#BookSmarts: Marky Ramone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marky_Ramone
#BookSmarts: ‘Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone’ By Marky Ramone and Rich Herschlag
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/punk-rock-blitzkrieg-my-life-as-a-ramone_richard-herschlag_marky-ramone/10044400/#edition=8436647&idiq=9349103
#BookSmarts: Sheila & Dan In The Morning: Marky Ramone – January 14, 2015 (Audio)
https://soundcloud.com/kinkfm/kink-mornings-marky-ramone
#BookSmarts/Video: Motörhead – “R.A.M.O.N.E.S.” (Audio)
‘1916’
WTG Records – Feb. 26, 1991
*Motörhead – “R.A.M.O.N.E.S.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjalt83wU-A // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.A.M.O.N.E.S. // “R.A.M.O.N.E.S.” is a song first recorded by the British rock band Motörhead on their 1991 album 1916 as a tribute to their friends and contemporaries, the Ramones. The bands were long-standing admirers of each other’s work.*
#ThisDayInHistory/#MorningMonarchy: December 19, 2016 – Desperate Venezuelans loot food lorries as economic woes deepen (Audio)
https://mediamonarchy.com/20161219morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: December 19, 2016 ♬ BDAY BOYS Phil Ochs & Edith Piaf
https://mediamonarchy.com/20161219pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: December 19, 2017 – San Francisco #SPCA deploys robot security guard // A FEW MOMENTS LATER :: Humans Fight Back: San Fran Security Robot Attacked, Knocked Over, Smeared With Feces
https://mediamonarchy.com/20171219morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: December 19, 2017 ♬ Venus Hum – “Suzy Snowflake” & Run The Jewels – “A Christmas Fucking Miracle”
https://mediamonarchy.com/20171219pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: December 19, 2019 – We are in an age where “reality TV meets impeachment hearings”
https://mediamonarchy.com/20191219morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: December 19, 2019 ♬ The Bee Gees – “I Started A Joke” on Japanese Vinyl & Eerie Family – “Everybody Disappear”
https://mediamonarchy.com/20191219pumpupthavolume/
#NewWorldNextWeek: New World Next Year 2020
https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw396-video/ // https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw396-audio/
“Don’t Go Outside” and the #BestOf2020
https://mediamonarchy.com/best-of-2020/
#MorningMonarchy: December 19, 2023 – “Private Citizen” Obama Proposes “Digital Fingerprints” On Content To Combat “Misinformation”
https://mediamonarchy.com/20231219morningmonarchy/
#MorningMonarchy: December 19, 2023 – Bing Crosby – “Jingle Bells” w/Andrews Sisters on 78RPM & Ladytron – “All Over By Xmas”
https://mediamonarchy.com/20231219pumpupthavolume/
#PumpUpThaVolume/#NewMusicFriday: #December19 w/”There are no Featured New Releases for this week. Please check back again.” lol ♬
https://www.allmusic.com/newreleases/20251219
Iyah May – “Everything’s Fine” (Audio)
Digital Single
Teamwrk Records – July 4, 2025
*#PumpUpThaVolume/#TruthMusic: Iyah May – “Everything’s Fine” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlqCLBNVzvg // The second single by Australian singer-songwriter, Iyah May, who was dropped by her label and management because she wouldn’t change the lyrics of her debut single, “Karmageddon” (which we played on the January 20, 2025 #MorningMonarchy). The single is available via Teamwrk Records.*