Hi, it's sound like you're in a pretty good mood and that's what sets us apart, obviously
your parents didn't just visit for a week, actually I just brought them back to the airport
today. Yeah, they leave tomorrow.
I just want you for my own, more than you could ever know.
Make my wish come true.
All I want for Christmas is you.
I don't want a lot for Christmas, there is just one thing I need.
Don't care about the Christmas, I need the Christmas tree.
I don't need to mend my stockings, build upon the fireplace.
I just want you for my own, more than you could ever know.
Make my wish come true.
All I want for Christmas is you.
When did Mariah Carey become the queen of Christmas?
I mean, she is. When did all this happen?
I think I knew when it happened but you came out with this song and the album cover.
I think it made her the queen of Christmas but she knows how to take care of her audience.
She treats her audience like they're in charge of everything and I think a lot of performers
should keep that in mind because the audience controls everything.
I mean they'll control your success or your failure and I think Mariah Carey treated her audience
like they're in complete control and I think that's why she's so popular.
Because she had Christmas time, when she was back in a beginning of November, she said,
I'll let you know when it's Christmas time.
She was releasing some new stuff, new songs.
She wasn't actually the first person to do this song.
It was Vince Vance and the Baldyns, the first person to do this, the first group to do this song.
But the audience is not everybody plays.
Yeah, she is the queen of Christmas Mariah Carey.
It's 6 down here at WRJ and Radio.
I'm Don Rosen.
Thank you for joining us here today.
Showers in our forecast for the high near 39 degrees tonight.
More showers.
Lowes around 37.
Cloudy on Saturday with the high near 42.
Doesn't get better for Sunday.
Rain with the high near 43.
The next peak of the sun.
Monday.
Partly sunny with the high near 41 right now.
It's cloudy in 43 degrees and a very pleasant good morning coming up at seven o'clock.
We get a full hour at seven o'clock.
It's action.
We'll have Jim Messier and three guests.
Carlotta Miller, Robert Mayer.
And there's a fourth person on the list here whose name I do have here, but I don't know how to pronounce it.
Doug Shaw say I'm going to I'm going to ask Doug how to pronounce the name when he comes in.
They're going to be talking about the spirit of recene entrepreneur's exhibit taking place at the 16th Street Studios here in Racine.
And also a book called Lost and Found in Racine, which should be interesting.
That's all coming up at seven 730.
Brett Hoffman from Marcus theaters will be here to talk about the four.
I think there's four new movies opening up this weekend.
And then at seven 50, we will talk to Mike Clemens, our sports director.
And he will fill us in on what happened on Thanksgiving Day with the Packers.
A preview of the Kansas City game at Green Bay.
He'll be on Taylor Swift Watch.
To see if she'll stay up at the game.
I can't believe that's actually in the news.
Whether Taylor is going to show up in Green Bay.
It's like everybody's on Taylor Watch.
And of course, I've got some bucks news and I've got two fun facts for Mike.
See if he knows what they are.
And that's coming up at the seven o'clock hour in the six o'clock hour.
This is you and me at WRJN at six 11 right now.
All right.
The annual reports out on the cost of the stuff in the song the 12 days of Christmas.
This comes out every year.
They they take each item and they appraise it.
They'll tell you what it costs to have a partridge and a pear tree.
If you want to give somebody two turtle doves, three French ends.
We've got the cost here.
This year, it's $46,730.
But wait, that's all if you give them one each.
But remember in the song, they keep repeating them.
So on the first day, you get the partridge and a pear tree on the second eight,
three turtle doves and a partridge and a pear tree, three French ends,
two turtle doves and a partridge.
So it keeps repeating itself.
And then the price goes to over $201,000 this year if you keep buying them over
and over like the song says.
All right.
Let's start at the bottom here.
How much is a partridge and a pear tree, $319?
The price of the bird stayed flat.
The tree, well, that went up by 15%.
Two turtle doves, $750.
That's up a whopping 25% from last year.
Three French ends.
Remember years ago, somebody said, how much is a French horn?
I say, no, it's three French ends, $330 for calling birds.
I don't know what they are, but there's 600 bucks.
Five gold rings, $1,245.
That's for five 14-carat gold rings, according to a national jewelry chain.
Six geese are laying, $780.
Seven swans are swimming, $13,125.
Can't you just go to a lake and get a couple of swans, seven swans?
You know what?
You don't need seven.
You've got to keep repeating them.
So there's going to be a lot of swans in there, I forgot.
Eight maids are milking, $58.
We're gift, but the cheapest on the list.
That's eight women milking cows for an hour at the federal minimum wage of $7.25.
Nine ladies dancing, $8,000, I'm sorry, $8,308.
It's based on hiring nine women from a modern dance company in Philadelphia.
Ten lords are leaping, $14,539.
It's the most expensive gift on the list.
It's based on how much it would cost to hire 10 dancers again from the Philadelphia Ballet.
11 pipers piping, $3,207.
And 12 drummers drumming, $3,468 to hire them.
The only one you don't have to repeat over and over is the 12 drummers drumming.
The 11 pipers piping obviously got to repeat twice.
Nine ladies dancing three times and you know you gotta keep repeating them.
So I guess if you have $201,000 laying around, that would be a nice gift to give somebody
for 12 days of Christmas.
Or if you want to go to the cheaper out, just give everybody everything in one shot, $46,730.
They come out with this list every year.
I guess they know what they're doing.
It's interesting they tell us this year where they're getting the dancers from the Philadelphia Ballet.
And they're not cheap.
They're not the Philadelphia Ballet.
They're expensive.
Today is your last day to save any old Gmail accounts before they get deleted.
Google announced back in May.
They were going to start deleting accounts that have been logged on to in over two years.
That process begins today.
You want to save it?
Just sign in today, read or send an email.
And that should be good.
But you got to use it.
Use it or lose it.
They say here's where a lot of the accounts are from.
People who passed away.
You know what somebody dies?
They're accounts that don't vanish.
I know I got rid of someone by mom's accounts.
My dad never had any social media stuff.
He didn't care about it.
But my mom did.
She was social media on everything except I didn't have all her passwords.
She wrote them down.
And I found some of them.
But I couldn't find all of them.
So I did delete some of her accounts.
But some live on forever.
And they say in about 50 years, more people with 50 years, 20 of 20 years.
More people on Facebook, Facebook will be dead than alive.
I mean, go through your phone directory on your cell phone.
I have like 12 people that are dead.
But I'm afraid to get rid of their numbers.
And I talked to other people in the same predicament I am.
They're afraid to get rid of the phone numbers.
It's like, I don't want to know.
It's not fair to get rid of their numbers.
Well, they're not around.
You're never going to call them.
Yeah, but once you disconnect the number,
then you get rid of them for good.
They're for good gone.
I have several friends who worked here at this radio station.
Two of them that are on my phone right now that I can never call again
because they passed away.
But I'm afraid to get rid of the numbers.
With my mom's, I still have her phone number here.
My mother-in-law who passed away,
I still have her phone number on here.
My dad didn't have a cell phone.
My mother-in-law, that stuff.
I can't get rid of my mother-in-law and I can't get rid of my mom's.
They're still on there.
And there's some other people too who passed away.
A friend I just spoke to his funeral two weeks ago.
He's still on there.
I won't get rid of him.
But there were a lot of dead people on there.
And I checked my mom's account sometimes to see if anybody's kind of hacking into it.
And once they did, they duplicated her account.
But yeah.
So an accident this morning on the way in.
They ran at the corner of 16th and Memorial Drive.
The truck looks like it crashed into a house.
The whole front of the truck was smashed into sitting on their front lawn.
It looked like it crashed into the house.
There were police cars everywhere with their lights on.
And I got through okay.
But yeah, it looks like that pickup truck smashed right into the front of the house.
And it's scary looking.
Excuse me.
So take care of that Google account today.
If you have one and you haven't used it in two years,
probably if you haven't used it in two years,
you probably don't need it.
You know, I will have to clean up in my basement.
I have to throw stuff out.
And I hate to throw it out.
But if you haven't used it in years,
there's stuff I moved into that house 17 years ago that I still haven't used or opened up a box.
I probably will never need it.
I threw out boxes of every 45 RPM record I own one that the last year I dumped them into the garbage.
What am I going to do with them?
I mean, there's no reason to have them anymore.
I don't even have a record player.
I have them, but I haven't used in so many years.
It doesn't work anymore.
Hey, so that's your warning today with Google.
If you don't use your Gmail account, you will lose it.
But most people, if it's important to you,
you're probably used in the past two years.
It's 618 at WRJN radio.
I'm Don Rosen at WRJN 1400 AM 99.9 FM and Racine 98.1 FM in Kenosha.
Showers today with the Heiner 39.
Same for tonight.
Lose 37.
Cloudy tomorrow with the Heiner 42.
Sunday looks like rain with the Heiner 43.
And Monday the sun back out.
Partly sunny with the Heiner 41 degrees.
You can keep it right here.
And Racine's hometown radio refreshed.
Civic media.
WRJN.
WRJN.
WRJN.
Dancing in the night with a tail as big as a kite.
With a tail as big as a kite.
Send the little lamb to the shepherd boy.
Do you hear what I hear?
Bringing through the sky shepherd boy.
Do you hear what I hear?
My song, my song.
You know how that song was written?
I should probably bring it up and quote the story accurately.
But it was written during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
And during that time we didn't know who missiles were going to be fired on the United States.
Russia had the missiles set up in Cuba.
And President Kennedy said take them down.
And there was a standoff for a while.
And this song was written at that time.
Do you hear what I hear?
All about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Send the little lamb to the shepherd boy.
Send the little lamb to the shepherd boy.
Do you hear what I hear?
Do you hear what I hear?
I should probably bring it up and quote the story accurately.
Send the little lamb to the shepherd boy.
Send the little lamb to the shepherd boy.
Send the little lamb to the shepherd boy.
Send the little lamb to the shepherd boy.
Kennedy called his bluff and it worked.
He will bring us goodness and light.
He will bring us goodness and light.
That's a nice version of that song by Ben Skill.
You know, we mentioned that people are on Taylor Watch at Lambo Field to see if Taylor Swift is going to show up at the Kansas City Chiefs game for her boyfriend.
And speaking about Taylor and the rich getting richer, Taylor Swift was the most streamed artist in America and worldwide on Spotify.
So what a year. Her eras tour, I think, was the most successful tour ever.
Her movie, the eras tour, was the most successful concert film in the history of motion pictures.
And now Taylor Swift, the most streamed artist in America and worldwide on Spotify.
It doesn't stop for Taylor Swift.
And I think now she owns all her music and one time she didn't.
But nothing now she does. She owns it all. She publishes it.
She writes it all and she performs it all.
Wow.
Talk about the triple or quadruple threat good for her.
I see craft mac and cheese is coming out with a new product called not mac and cheese featuring a vegan dairy free alternative to its usual cheese.
It will be showing up in store soon. It comes in two varieties original and white shatter with shells.
Could you imagine somebody picking that up in a hurry, bringing it home and not realizing it's the vegan kind.
They'll taste it.
What happened to mac and cheese? This doesn't taste like they pick up the box vegan.
Can you imagine that fight going on in the house?
A new expose claims the golden bachelor. Have you been watching that?
I haven't watched the bachelor in years because it became so scripted and I didn't want to watch it.
Anyway, the golden bachelor was on this year for seniors is basically what it is.
Jerry Turner was the golden bachelor.
And it turns out he's not such a nice guy after all.
He had several girlfriends since his wife passed away.
He claimed he hadn't dated in 45 years.
But you know, there's going to be people looking this stuff up and they did and he's a liar.
Then they said he hasn't been in the restaurant business since 2006.
Actually, he hasn't been in the restaurant business since the mid 80s.
You lied there too. They're going to catch you.
You got to lie on national television.
It's not going to work for a salesperson.
Here's how not to get clients or advertisers.
Elon Musk sent a message to advertisers the other day who were abandoning his abandoning ex formerly known as Twitter.
And he didn't do it in writing. He did an audio.
He told him, I can't tell you what he told him because we have regulations on radio.
But he cursed at his advertisers.
That's how not to get people to sign up to advertise it.
It never works.
I think that's going to be gone soon anyway.
I don't think it can survive.
You know, he's got billions, but I don't think he's going to throw money down the rabbit hole.
And I don't think that's going to work eventually.
This isn't fair.
The study found that the one thing that guarantees a successful career is good looks.
Researchers found good looks had more but impact on people's success than IQ education or their parents education.
Wow.
Now wonder why I wasn't getting all the jobs I wanted.
Now I know a survey has people what embarrassing things they would do for $16.
$16 were talking about here.
22% would eat dog food.
19% would go streaking.
Remember streaking back in the 70s.
Kids are running across campuses.
Somebody ran across the Academy Awards live on TV naked.
15% would kiss their boss regardless of gender.
8% would wax their entire body including their head.
And that's all for $16.
I live in fear of what they would do for $100.
30% of Americans say they're hosting holiday parties this month and they'll spend around $760 on those holiday parties.
They're serving $760.
You can get that not mac and cheese for probably about a box of box.
Get about $10.
It's $10.
It's served everybody.
That's how it works.
All right.
Good morning at WRJN.
We're thank you for joining us here this morning as always.
Always.
We love when you join us.
Showers today.
Highs near 39 degrees.
Showers tonight.
Lowes 37.
Tomorrow looks like a cloudy day with a high-tier 42 someday rain.
Highs near 43.
And partly sunny on Monday to kick off the work week with a high-tier 41.
And hopefully a great attitude.
Okay.
I have one of those.
They're hard to come by these days.
It had $629.
I'm Don Rose and a WRJN 1400 am 99.9 FM and 98.1 FM.
Civic media.
Home town radio.
Refreshed.
Different here in New York.
Totally different.
Like you asked directions in New York.
You say, excuse me.
Where's the hospital?
What do you sick?
You know, down where I'm from is like, excuse me.
Where's the hospital?
Well, you're going to get in the car.
And you're going to drive about 45 or 50.
How far?
Oh.
How far is he going to go?
To the hospital.
To The Hot Fed.
To The Hot Fed.
To The Hot Fed.
To The Hot Fed.
To The Hot Fed.
The Hot Fed.
About 45 minutes down to where the water tower used to be.
Then you're going to turn left or right.
URENT!
Well, ask your wife.
URENT!
Would you hurry up?
He's bleeding.
I don't know what happened to him.
What happened to you?
He got stout!
Stout!
You did?
I'd go to the hospital if I were you.
Get him to run away.
Twinkle in the night,
The chill is in the air
The carols everywhere
Close your eyes, it's so close to you
Candles and corks
In favorite movie scenes
The smell of everything
I specialize, it's always me
And I have a dream or two
And maybe they will come true
Said in a wrong sort of big story night
We'll wake up to a world of wild
And it's going to be a Christmas
Do you remember?
Night of the five days of Matthew Cole
Always in the middle of Don't you know
That it's going to be a Christmas
Do you remember?
That's Amy Grant, a Christmas to remember.
637 at WRJN, I'm Don Rosen
Thank you for joining us here this morning.
From our new center,
Stuart Wattles put together our news for you this morning.
Locally, the public is welcome to witness a new
Racine police getting sworn in today.
Alex Ramirez officially takes over the department
With a ceremony at City Hall at three o'clock today.
He's the first Latino chief of police in Racine
Taking over from Maurice Robinson
Who left earlier this year.
Ramirez was a finalist to get the job
Before the city ultimately decided on Robinson
Two years ago.
Someone has been picked to try and fill the robe
Of retired Kenosan judge Bruce Schroeder.
Frank Gagliarney has been appointed by the governor
Governor Evers to take over the open branch three
Seat on the Kenosan County Circuit Court.
Gagliarney mentions the retired Schroeder
And his statement saying that he's honored to follow the man
Who has been the longest serving judge in the state.
He's been a partner at the Gagliarney law firm since 2006
Where he focused on personal injury and family law litigation.
But once it closes on Monday, the state's street lift bridge
In Racine won't be back open until April.
City's performing plant structural repairs and painting on the bridge
Resulting in the closure of vehicular traffic from Monday
Through April first throughout the construction period.
East on westbound traffic on state street will be redirected by a hamilton street.
Racine native has been appointed to a vacancy in the Racine County Circuit Court.
Governor Tony Evers has appointed Tony Young to fill the branch three opening
Following judge Maureen Martinez.
Resignation Young's term will run until July 31st, 2024.
Young has an extensive legal background including roles at the Wisconsin state public defender's office
And in private practice a statement says that young expresses gratitude for the appointment
And is valid to prioritize equal access to the justice during your tenure on the bench.
A health care dispute could impact coverage the Milwaukee Business Journal reports
That freighter itself and anthem blue cross blue shield are in a public dispute over contract term
To the 2024 health plan year affecting anthem ensured patients access to doctors at freighter's south.
The disagreement centers on payment rates with freighter south accusing anthem of refusing to pay fair rates.
While anthem claims had freighter south is seeking significant cost increases without a commitment to improving care quality.
Both parties still negotiating the Canadian Pacific holiday train returns this weekend bringing live music to each stop.
The train aims to collect food and funds for local food banks raising awareness about the fight against hunger.
It's raised over $22 million in collected more than five million pounds of food since 1999.
They were seeing county stops our Sunday with two scheduled one and stirred event at the Amtrak station at 645.
Then in Caledonia at 805.
Tonight is the inaugural Christmas tree lighting at petrifying springs in the park in Kenosha.
The festivities begin at 430 with the beer garden offering wine beer and hot chocolate.
Kids will be decorating biodegradable tree ornaments with county executive Samantha Kirkman lighting the tree at 530 p.m.
Along with a visit of course from Santa Claus.
We get our water from there.
My wife drinks up the bottle of water from petrified springs.
I don't she does, but it's really a nice park.
A lot of people use it as a dog walking park petrified springs.
It's a beautiful place.
I mean, even when it's cold outside, it's still beautiful to walk around.
I never took my dog there, but I probably should have.
I thought we did it one time, but maybe we did.
Maybe we didn't.
I'm not quite sure because we had a whole bunch of dogs at one time.
So that's the news from the new center and I'll put together this morning by Stuart J. Waddle sour news director.
Thank you.
Okay, coming up at seven o'clock this morning.
We're going to talk about what's going on at the 16th Street studios here in Racine.
Of course, on 16th Street, they have an open house this Saturday.
Robert Meyer and Mayor, rather, and Carlotta Miller will be talking about the open house for the entire building.
And then we have Jim Bessier is going to be talking about the spirit of Racine enterprises.
Entrepreneurs exhibit, excuse me, which contains old Racine historical memorabilia.
And Doug Shalsay, I hope I'm saying that right.
Doug, if I'm not, please correct me when I come in.
He'll be talking about his new book called Lost and Found in Racine.
So they'll be in at seven o'clock this morning.
And then at seven thirty, we've got Brett Hoffman coming in from Marcus theaters to tell us about the four new movies opening up this weekend.
I think there are four including another concert film.
Beyonce's got a new concert film coming out right on the heels of Taylor Swift's concert film.
Beyonce's got one too.
Hey, let's see what else we've got coming up.
Oh, we at seven fifty from Lambo from Green Bay live.
We're going to talk to my Clemens, our sports director.
It's a big medium.
So should be fun.
I've got two little fun facts for him.
And I'll share those with him and you coming up just before it's eight o'clock this morning at seven fifty.
Okay, look at him real quickly at the weather showers with a hundred thirty nine today.
Showers tonight lows around thirty seven Saturday cloudy with a hundred forty two.
Rain on Sunday with a high near forty three partly sunny at the beginning of the work week Monday with a hundred forty one.
It's cloudy and forty three degrees.
We should expect some light showers shortly.
So get ready for that.
All right, you've bought lottery tickets in the past, right?
Well, this guy had a dream a few years ago that he won the lottery.
It was just a dream.
He remembered the numbers on the winning ticket in his dream and he's been using them as real lottery numbers ever since.
They just hit he won three point four million dollars.
Why don't I dream about that?
And I can't remember a lot of my dreams.
They say to keep a little recorder on the side of your bed.
And when you wake up, just talk into it real quickly and then go back because your dreams fade.
It's that REM that just gets rid of your dreams for you.
And that guy's case.
He got three point four million dollars based on a dream.
You ever wake up in a bad mood?
No.
Well, you'll probably do.
We wake up at a bad mood 300 days a year according to a new study.
That's basically five or six days out of every week.
You're waking up grumpy.
That's not good.
Well, if you're like me, excuse me, you might have gained a little weight over the holidays and your dog might as well.
A new study found even our dogs overeat this time of year.
But obviously it's not their fault.
It is our fault over 70% of dog owners admit to giving them more table scraps during the holidays.
We've been given their dog a special holiday meal around Thanksgiving or Christmas.
You know what it's time for?
Taking your dog for a walk.
Maybe an extensive walk.
You and your dog work off that food.
Believe it or not, there are health benefits with having a Christmas spirit this time of year.
Just be happy.
Getting a spirit.
Well, this is according to science.
It lowers your blood pressure.
It reduces stress.
Makes you happier.
And it gives your pleasure setters and your brain a boost just by being in the Christmas spirit.
You know what put me in the Christmas spirit this year?
My wife put together a little Christmas scene in our house.
We have some of those, I don't know what to call them, Christmas villages, you know, the ceramic houses with lights inside and people dancing around whatever.
She put those on a table in the living room with a big sheet of cotton that could look like snow.
And some of the ones that are my favorite, she put them all there.
And I love it.
And it put me in the Christmas spirit this year.
And she put some Christmas stuff toys that she collected over the years in front of them.
And I watch, I took a picture of it the other night.
Actually the other morning before I left to come here.
And it just puts me in a good spirit to look at it.
Christmas spirit.
I love that.
Of course, the Christmas music always does that.
All right.
I've got some fascinating facts about your favorite holiday movies.
You're ready?
The Muppet Christmas Carol.
I think we've all seen that.
I know I used to show it to my daughter when she was small.
It was the first Muppet movie to be made without Jim Henson.
He passed away in the year 1992 years before that in 1988.
The movie came out.
About a Charlie Brown Christmas.
Originally supposed to have a laugh track to it.
But Charles Schultz nicks that.
He said no laugh track.
Good choice.
And the FBI issued a memo in 1947 about the movie.
It's a wonderful life being a possible infiltration.
By communists into the movie industry.
The movie also did terrible.
The box office put the director Frank Capra.
$525,000 in debt.
It was his company Liberty Films that made the movie.
It's hard to believe that one of the most treasured Christmas movies of all time.
One way we watch every year.
Was a big flop when it first came out.
I think it opened a Radio City musical and it was a big flop.
Hard to have a flop at Radio City.
All right.
It's the first week of December.
Today is December 1.
If someone said Merry Christmas to you today, would you say it back?
A new poll asked when it's acceptable to start saying Merry Christmas.
Almost three and four people think it's still too early.
Thirty percent said not until mid-December.
Another 28 percent said only during the week of Christmas.
Seven percent said not until Christmas day, really.
28 percent said it's acceptable right now.
21 percent said December 1st is the best time to do it.
Five percent said sometime in November and two percent who think people should be allowed to say Merry Christmas 365 days a year.
Kind of strange too.
Say that to somebody on the 4th of July.
Merry Christmas.
Although people do that Christmas and July stuff, don't they?
Yeah, you see that every year.
Christmas and July.
But maybe in August it's not okay.
You know, getting sunstroke out there and somebody says Merry Christmas.
Moving on.
A list of the best Christmas songs out there.
We played one just to kick off the show today at six o'clock.
Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas is you came out as one of the best Christmas songs.
Bobby Elms, Jingle Bell Rock.
Also was on the list.
Now the worst ones they said the singing dogs with jingle bells.
Remember that the barking dogs and gala PVs.
I want to hit upon him is for Christmas.
People love that song.
There was requesting to play a hippo song the hippopotamus song.
Gala PV.
I want to hit upon him is for Christmas.
Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas is you by the way is the first holiday song to hit ten million in sales.
That's why she's the queen of Christmas.
A guy suits a company after they fired him for being no fun.
He soon is old company after they fired him for not being fun enough.
He got canned after refusing to attend mandatory parties where there was heavy drinking.
Now they might have to pony up five hundred thousand dollars in damages.
If that's possible, I'd probably be fired.
Rosen, you know, fun.
Get out.
He's been doing a great job.
The ratings are really good.
You know, fun.
Leave.
Rolling stone, put together a list of the one hundred best TV songs TV theme songs of all time.
Number six on the list was the twilight zone from 1959 to 1964.
Wiley zone theme.
Let's see.
There was also a, I think they also made a hit song out of that Mr. Rogers neighborhood from 1968 to 2001.
That was a long run for him.
Crazy ex-girlfriend.
I don't remember that one.
Sanford in Sun from 1972 to 1977.
A tie at number two between the Brady bunch from 1969 to 1974 in Gilligan's Island.
From 64 to 67.
But number one, the Jefferson's from 1975 to 1985.
We're moving on up.
That is a good theme song.
All right.
It's 649 at WRJ and...
I love that song.
Walk it in.
We have to wonder.
All right.
Keep it right here at WRJ.
I'm dreaming tonight.
I'm dreaming tonight.
I'm dreaming tonight.
I'm dreaming tonight.
Of a place I love.
Even more than I usually do.
And although I know it's a long road back.
I promise you.
I'll be home for Christmas.
You can count on me.
651 at WRJ and with Barbara Streisand.
I'll be home for Christmas.
If you just flew back from Thanksgiving,
maybe you're visiting somebody.
You might have some strong opinions.
Somebody just pulled people on airline etiquette.
Should the person in the window seat have total control over the window shade?
45% said yes, complete control.
55% said no.
Other people in the road should get a same whether it's up or down.
I agree.
If it's somebody trying to sleep in the sun beating on their face,
they should have something to say about it.
Is it okay to ask a stranger to switch seats with you so you can sit with someone else?
70% said it's never acceptable.
11% think it's always okay to ask and everyone else thinks it depends.
It's okay to ask.
They can always say no.
How much do you want to talk to the strangers next to you on a plane?
Only 11% don't want to talk at all.
That would be me.
Most people think it's a bit a little bit okay.
But keep it to a minimum.
4% said they hope the person talks their ear off on the whole flight.
See, that's the problem.
I don't want to talk in my ear and I talk a lot.
But on the plane, I just want to relax.
Everyone's a little nervous on a plane.
I'm not worried about the plane problem.
I'm worried about the nuts on the plane.
I don't know who gets on these planes.
I think you should have a psych test before you get on a plane these days.
I'm looking to suffer the nuts but open up the emergency door this week.
The guy who went up and started punching out the staff on the plane.
You should have to have a psychiatrist meet with you before you board the plane.
Make sure you're okay.
Got a couch?
Most people do.
New research has found that the average couch last eight years has witnessed 311 arguments,
suffered 316 drink spillages, has been the site of 286 makeup sessions,
not 10 to memories with that couch.
Woman in Florida filed a $5 million lawsuit against the makers of El Vida's
microwavable shells and cheese cups.
Lady here, why?
Because they said it's ready in three and a half minutes,
but it actually takes longer than that.
The lawsuit says how long it took Amanda to fully complete all the steps,
craft hasn't commented, but it's more than three and a half minutes.
You believe somebody filed a lawsuit?
$5 million lawsuit, no less.
It's a matter with these people.
It's like the guy who sued the company for firing because he was no fun.
That, you know, he might have a case there.
All right, here are the five most annoying questions.
Flight attendants speaking about flying.
Flight attendants have got asked all the time.
Can I be the first one off the plane?
Can I have some water before we take off?
What are we flying over?
I asked that question.
I think I'm my first flight.
I was in high school and I took a flight all by myself from Chicago to New York.
And I remember asking, what are we flying over?
Can I change seats?
And listen to this one.
Can I hang out with you in the back for a while?
Could you imagine asking a flight attendant that don't be questioned?
Here's a few random Christmas history facts for you.
People 100 years ago argued about whether to wish you a Merry Christmas
or a cherry Christmas.
Not like cherry Christmas.
Oyster stew used to be a common Christmas dinner dish.
Santa, as we know him today, might be thanks to a Coca-Cola ad.
Santa's red suit can be attributed to a guy named Thomas Nast,
who worked for Harper's Weekly magazine back in the late 19th century.
Before that, Santa often wore a tan suit.
But it was a series of ads from Coca-Cola in the 1930s
that really made the image of Santa popular in a red suit.
Thank you, Coca-Cola.
23% of people say they cannot wait until Christmas morning to open their gifts.
They start busting into them on Christmas Eve.
I don't think I've ever in my life opened Christmas presents on Christmas Eve.
A lot of people do.
That's their tradition.
And I guess it's okay.
But, you know, a lot of people wait for Christmas morning.
Here are some scams you should be on the lookout for during this holiday season.
Social media gift exchanges, which are usually just pyramid schemes.
Online retailers asking for unusual forms of payment,
like prepaid debit cards, gift cards, or wire transfers.
And fake shipping notifications was trick you into entering personal information
and passwords.
Now, they all go to my spam.
And I'm not exaggerating when I say,
give it 20 of those a day,
UPS couldn't deliver your package,
and you want you to click there and actually put in new information about your,
you know, credit card and everything.
It's hard to believe what people fall for that stuff.
The first one I ever got a couple of years ago,
I actually called UPS and they said, that's a scam.
So it goes to your spam mail and, you know,
you shouldn't really answer those.
Believe me, if there's a problem,
UPS will put a note on your front door.
On the fence about sending out Christmas cards,
is here in a poll, 89% of Americans
are receiving holiday cards brings them joy,
including me.
I love doing it.
I don't do as much as I used to,
but I still do them.
Let's bring you a little joy to do that.
I like that.
Remember when several categories were removed
from the 2022 Oscar telecast?
Well, they're putting them back.
And also, here's a, here's a holiday tidbit.
I don't know why I haven't put that in there.
53% of Americans will decorate this year.
48% will bake 25% will attend a religious service.
10% will do singalongs or grow caroling,
only 6% of us plan to do absolutely nothing
for the holidays.
Bah humbug.
And feel good story time when we take the break.
105 year old woman in Cheerybill, North Carolina
just had her first birthday party this month.
She's 105.
She never had a birthday party until now.
So her senior living center went big,
line dancers, a pony,
and a visit from the mayor.
She also hoping to get 105 birthday cards.
She ended up with 1,200 birthday cards.
Good for her.
It's 657 at WRJN.
Thanks for joining us.
I'm Don Rosen.
Got a great action packed hour for you coming up next.
Don't mess it.
We're talking about the 16th Street Artists Studios.
Right here on 16th Street in Racine.
We got a big open house this weekend.
That's coming up next.
Thank you.