You ever notice the further north you go the more obsessed people are with
summer? Like in February I was in Bangor, Maine and everyone was talking about
summer. Everyone I met they're like you got come back during summer you got to
come back. Which is a strange way to greet someone. Hi, how are you? Come back
later. And it was everyone or you got to come back during summer you got to
yeah but I'm here now. Just make sure you come back. I didn't want to come
the first time. But I love how northern cities sell summer lunch. Summer here
is unbelievable. It's perfect for one-twelfth of the year. It's ideal. Otherwise
it's a tundra filled with alcohol. That's meant to pressure. But for those thirteen
odd days it's worth it.
Oh Christmas. There is just one thing I need. I don't care about the presents underneath
the Christmas tree. I just want you for my own. More than you could ever know. Make my wish come to me.
All I want for Christmas is you.
I don't want a lot for Christmas. There is just one thing I need. I don't care about the presents.
I need to Christmas tree. I don't need to make my stuff.
You can do it upon the fireplace. And the clothes make me happy.
You can do it on Christmas day. I just want you for my own. More than you could ever know.
Make my wish come to me. All I want for Christmas is you.
Hit 708 at WRJN Radio. I'm Don Rose and thanks for joining us here on
Home Town Radio Refreshed. Look at for Sunshine today with a
Heineer 41. Clear tonight. Lose around 27. Sunshine tomorrow with a Heineer 50.
Hold on a second. Is that correct? That's correct. 50 degrees. I don't have a clear
sky. It is 23 degrees in the Racine area.
There are two people I feel bad for. People name Karen because of that whole
Karen thing that went on. People saying, oh, you're a Karen.
I feel bad for those people. And the second group, not as much, but a little bit.
People named Alexa because people always make fun of them.
They say, Alexa, can you get me a cup of coffee? Alexa, what's the square root of?
And my guest is Alexa Hagg. We're going to call her Ali.
Because they make fun of you a little bit. Don't they, Ali?
A little bit, but that's okay. At least I'm not needed to Karen.
You're right. You know, when I was in school, there, oh, there comes Donald Duck.
You know, come on. And then later on, oh, there's Ronald McDonald, you know, so,
but I was always Donald Duck. They come in. Oh, yes, Donald Duck.
Yeah. Well, you're stupid and ugly. So I'm, but I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever
bounces off me sticks to you. And that's remember that.
Ali is the, the president and CEO of United Way of Racine County. And it says here,
the first female leader in the organization's history. Congratulations. Another ceiling broken,
right? Yeah. Thank you. Done over a hundred years. I'm pretty excited about that.
Yeah. And you know, what's really strange to we have a, we have a woman vice president,
female vice president. And now we're talking about a woman president, possibly a Republican nominee.
And there's nothing said about it. Just okay. She's president. She's president. But it used
to be a big deal. Now it's not a big deal anymore. All right. That should be president. We had a
woman vice president. So let's go for the president. It used to be a big deal. Now it's not a
big deal anymore. Congratulations to you. That's great. The United Way of Racine County. Everybody
knows they hear United Way, but maybe they don't really know what the United Way of Racine County
is. Why don't you tell us? Sure. So United Way of Racine County, we fight for the health,
education and financial stability of every person in Racine County. And what does that mean?
We are a historical organization for over a hundred years. We've been in Racine County.
We raise money and invest dollars into programs that serve and support Racine County residents.
We are part of a global affiliation. So there's about 1100 of us located across the world.
And what makes us all similar is that we focus on the focus areas of education,
financial stability and health. But what makes us different is that we are all doing that in a
direct response to our specific communities. So when we raise money for Racine County,
99 cents on every dollar stays in Racine County to support the people here. And we create programs
and initiatives and support organizations that are working to achieve goals that we've identified
in our community as the biggest needs in the areas that we need to focus on.
You know, and that's important. How many cents of every dollar donated get to where
they're supposed to be going. And you can check this out for yourself. There's a website
charity navigator.com and organizations like the United Way always do great on there.
Always get the five stars. And that's just fantastic when that is good because there are some
organizations that don't do that. So yeah, and it's good to know. And organizations like the
United Way Racine County are audited to make sure that the money is going where it's supposed to
be going. And that's great. Now you do you do give to other organizations. You're like you get
the money and you make sure it's funneled out to the people who do the work and can help.
Yeah, sorry. Yeah, we do we do invest in many different programs. So historically,
we have what we call our community fund. That's our large annual investment fund. We put
about 1.5 million into Racine County every year through that fund. And that's what United
Way is historically known for is going out to the community and asking you to invest in us,
which is right now is our annual campaign season. It's usually I'll fall through through December.
And we ask individuals to donate to us. And then what the reason why people invest in us is
that's because we can take their money and invest it, but because we do it wisely. So we
we have high accountability standards for our partnerships. We support the organizations that we
are investing in through training. We ensure that we have monthly reporting. And then we also
look at their final financials. So similarly to what you mentioned before that we're audited on
a yearly basis. We actually have an entire committee called SIFT that's made up of financial
representatives that reviews the organization's financials that are applying for funding to make
sure that they're in a good place financially that they're making a sound financial decision.
We want to make sure that we are taking the investments given to us in a very serious manner.
And so we need therefore have high accountability standards and we invest back into the community
through specific programming that reaches outcomes. But then we also have our own initiatives that
help to address gaps. That maybe some programs aren't, there's not programs out there that help to
affect those specific areas. So we've created programs and we have internal programs. But
we invest in about 25 different organizations, about 37 different programs through our general fund
investment process. Now I just looked you up a charity navigator.
Yes.
You have one of the highest ratings. Nobody gets a hundred percent. Nobody's perfect.
You got 97% four stars and it says the word great underneath it, which is good. You are the
highest you can possibly be with accountability and finance. I mean that's good. 97%. I looked up the
I looked at the Salvation Army once and I think they're about the same as you and they're listed as
one of the the best organizations to give money to where most of the money goes to where it's
supposed to be going. And I think you're right up there for now. I've seen two star charities.
You want to avoid those people because they're not really getting the money to where it's supposed
to go. And you know, we all know there's administrative cost when you do with charities.
You know, you have to pay for thing, mailings, cost money, employees that do the mail.
You have to have something. You can't, you know, not a hundred percent of the money. 97% excellent.
Who is some of the what are some of the organizations that benefit from United Way? We're seeing county.
Oh, we have tons of partners locally. And I think I mentioned this before, but we also have
multiple different funding sources. So I'm going to focus on the partners that we've invested
in through our general fund, which is what we are talking about right now. And that would include
organizations like belief survivors, children's, Wisconsin, focus on community.
The Racine County Food Bank, Halo, Girl Scout. Racine County, or Racine Zoo, Racine Literacy
Council, the YMCA, Safe Haven, UW Extension. There's just tons of them out there.
I didn't realize that all those organizations benefit from United Way.
And if anybody's interested in learning more about organizations and programs that we support,
because we are investing in organizations that we fund programs. So when organizations
spend in a proposal reviewing their proposal for specific programming that helps to meet objectives
that we're looking to achieve, you can, you can see a full list of all of the organizations that we
fund on our website, which is WWW.UnitedWay Racine.org. And so we have a full list of our impact
partners as well as our funding partners. Okay. Now you mentioned you don't actually want to raise
money all year long, but the end of the year fund drive is very important. And why should people
give the United Way? Why not give to charities direct? Why give to the United Way? Now I know
the answer to this week is like an attorney, you never ask a question, you don't know the answer to.
Why should people get to the United Way direct? So I think that, you know, there's misperceptions
that United Way's, what we've talked a little bit about already is that, you know, a large
percentage of your donation goes nationally or even globally. And in fact, the exact opposite
is true. We are hyper-local, like 99 cents stays in Racine County. So when you, many times,
people have a focus on supporting their own local community. So that's huge. The other
piece is what I mentioned before is our accountability standards. We have a two-prong approach. So we,
we not only want to support and invest in impacted communities in our community and the programs
that serve them. And we want to hold those programs accountable, right? But it's also a partnership.
So it's not a sense of us having organizations come in and receive funding from us and saying,
you have to achieve X, Y, D, now go out and figure it out. We work in partnership with the
organizations that we invest in on a yearly basis. So we are meeting with you. We're ensuring that
what you're applying for makes sense. We are ensuring that the goals that you've created,
you know, are an alignment with what you are really doing in your program and that they're
going to make a difference. If you're struggling to meet your outcomes or your financials are
questionable, we sit down and we talk about what it is that you are struggling with where your barriers
are. And we really try to work through that with the organizations. Because we're only as successful
as the organizations that we are investing in. And we want our community to be vibrant and healthy.
So supporting the organizations that we are partners with is a very important part of that.
So it's a collaboration and it's a community leader.
All right, I'll hold it right there. I got a quick break. We'll be right back. Allie,
from United Way of Racing Counties here. Don't move. WRJ and Radio.
Allie Hanks here. She's president and CEO of the United Way of Racine County,
and we're talking about giving a little bit. You know, you should, if you're doing well in life,
you should give back a little bit and a lot of people do. And you don't have to give a lot.
I mean, I give to a lot of animal charities. I have boys town I give to and some disabled
veterans charities. It's not a lot of money. I just every quarter, I give them each five dollars.
It's not a lot of money every, they hit the save, but it sounds so cliche every little bit helps.
But you don't have to give a thousand dollars, although it's nice if you could,
but five, ten dollars. I mean, if everybody did that, it would be great. And people feel good
this time of year. So if you're doing well in life, maybe give a little back. How do people
give to the United Way, by the way? So there's many different ways you can give on our website.
So if you're just an individual that wants to donate to our organization, you can go to
unitedwayroutine.org and click on the give button that is in the upper left corner of our website.
And it'll take you through, you can give through credit card. You can do installment payments.
We can invoice you. You can also give some stock, things like that.
One of the most popular ways that people have historically given to United
Ways is through workplace campaign. So if you have an employer that this time of year
asks for you to consider investing in United Way, consider making a donation and one of the
most popular ways to do that is through payroll deduction. It makes it a lot easier to spread that
donation out throughout the year. And we have over a hundred local companies that support us on
an annual basis for us to be able to make impact in the community. So those are probably two
most popular ways that you can donate to us. Now I remember at this radio station,
somebody from the United Way actually coming in to speak to the employees gave a presentation
and handed out forms where you can have it a payroll deduction. Do you still do that?
You actually go into companies if you have a large group of employees and give a pitch?
Absolutely. I think that having we go into multiple companies throughout the year and specifically
through this timing period and one of the best ways for us to be able to make connections with
people is to have us go in and talk about what we do because many people have heard of United Way
but really what we do is complex and deep and layered. And so having the opportunity to get
exposure to employees directly and say, hey, this is what we're doing for you right in your own
backyard. Would you consider investing in us? Has a huge impact? So yeah, we love it. We'll go
anywhere anybody asked us to. And so if somebody wants to have a representative from the United
Way, we're seeing County visit their workplace. How do they go about that?
Oh, it's actually very simple. So they could go on to our website and it's there's a listing on
the left hand side and you could click on our partners and it says you run United Way campaign and
it will put you in direct contact with one of our investor relations managers who are the people
that hold the relationships with the companies. You could also go into about us and click on our
employee list and it has all of our emails. So if you feel more comfortable contacting me directly,
my picture's on there. You can click on Ali Hand and email me directly and say, hey, I'm interested
in getting involved and I'll put you in connection with appropriate people. Equity through technology
fund. This is a partnership with Microsoft. What's that about? Oh, we are so excited about this.
So over the years, we have been really lucky to partner with multiple entities in order to
provide specific funds. I think I mentioned earlier. We are now at a point where we have multiple
different funding opportunities for organizations. Not just our traditional community
test or community grants that we we're doing right now, but equity through technology is a
partnership with Microsoft that allows us to provide support to organizations that are working
to address equitable outcomes and reduce disparities through access to technology. They've given
us $150,000 to invest locally in individuals and programs to help reduce opportunity gaps in
our community. So we are super excited to fund just open this month and we are rolling it out
and announcing that to the community and hopefully we will get a bunch of organizations to apply.
They're doing great work in the community. A lot going on. This is behind the scenes where people
don't see all this stuff happening. They hear united way. You see the ads. You hear the ads.
But you don't know what's going on. Now each January, the United Way of Racine County hosts a
celebration of the previous year's fundraising campaign called Victory. Once a celebration coming
up this year, but next year actually. Yeah, we were super excited about it. So Victory Celebration
is a way for us to kind of wrap up like you mentioned our yearly campaign now granted. We
fundraise all year round, but this is a heavy time for us. We are very busy going to different
companies and talking to individuals and trying to get the community to invest back into Racine
County. So this is a way for us to bring the entire community together and say, hey,
this is what you've done. You have helped us and supported us. So we talk a little bit about our
impact. We give out some awards to some of our top volunteers. And that's taking place on
Thursday, January 25th. We're holding it at Festival Hall. Individuals can sign up for it by
visiting our website once again, United Way Racine.org. If there is a link to our Victory Celebration
on our homepage, so you just click on that and sign up for it. It costs $50 per person.
Or if somebody wanted to buy a table at $450 for a table, we have sponsorships for the event.
So if you're interested, you can even click on the interested in sponsorship link on our
Victory page. And we can connect you to opportunities to support the event. So far,
Johnson Financial Group Educators Credit Union Gateway Technical College and Raymack are supporting
us. So we're very thankful for that. But it's just a pure celebration. It really is. It's a way
for us to say thank you, community, for all that you do, for us and for Racine. And let's celebrate
what we're able to do together and accomplish together. Ali Hagg, I didn't read your bio here,
but I'm reading it now. She graduated with honors from Al Verno College with a degree in community
leadership and development, which I guess has worked very well with your chosen profession.
Has worked in many different capacities in the non-profit sector, including leading the United
Way's Everettian diversity, equity and inclusion. And since 2019, the president and CEO of the
United Way of Racine County, well, you know, you went to college for a particular job,
and you got it. And it doesn't get bigger than president CEO. I guess, no, it doesn't get
biter than that. That's about it. Hey, Ali, thank you very much. I do appreciate you,
stopping by for, let's see, for it, give me a 30 second pitch. So people can get the United
Way a 30 second commercial right now. Okay. So if you want to invest in your neighbors,
your children, your family, your co-workers, in a way that's impactful, measurable and great.
You can invest in the United Way of Racine County. We are an organization that takes pride in
the work that we do, and we're only able to accomplish it through investments like yours
and volunteers like individuals in this community. We are a blessed community, our organization,
we're thankful to be here. So thank you so much, Don, for having me and allowing us to talk a
little bit about our work. And you know what? You have an open invitation. Anytime you want to
promote something or you need some extra push for a campaign, you come here to WRJ and give me a
call. You got my phone number. Just give me a call. And we'll find it opening for you. Okay, Ali?
We'll be calling weekly. Okay. That's no problem. Thank you, Ali Hague, who is the president CEO of
United Way of Racine County. Can always use your help, especially this time of year. Thank you,
Ali. Thank you, Don. Bye-bye. All right.
And 729 at WRJN Radio. Keep it right here.
Body shop. Oh my God. That is the perfect last minute thoughtless gift warehouse.
You can shop there with your eyes closed. Great fruit bath gel. Let's see. My mom eats
great fruit. She bathes. Boom. Nice bottle. No need to buy wrapping paper. Total shopping time.
Nine seconds. But if you're going to send someone a present, send it federal express,
oh my God, they're unbelievable. You call up FedEx, you're like, kind of something on delivered.
It's there already? I haven't even put it in the box yet.
Now I'm actually looking at it right now. It's on my kitchen table. Oh my God, it's gone.
That was good work. Well, my dad likes the sweater. He's trying it on. It's too big on him.
You're going to fly him to Macy's to exchange it. But the receipt is it. Oh, thank you.
Yeah, you know, I want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas for at least not be that I
put it in the floor to everyone. Yeah, and a happy new year for us, but I don't
need to say take a break.
it's
at W R J N Radio, looking for sunshine today with a
hinder 41 degrees, a clear sky tonight, lows 27 sunny
tomorrow with a high near. I know it's hard to believe
50 degrees right now at sunny and 22 degrees around the
Racine area. I'm Don Rose and at Civic Media Radio W R J N
hometown radio refreshed. Ideally, you'd only give Christmas
gifts to people you like, but that's not always the case. Now
sometimes you have to give one to a bad coworker, random
family members or that awful couple you guys still hang out
with for some odd reason. So what do you give them? Survey
of the top 10 presents we give to people we don't really like
a bad box of chocolates, a bottle of wine that's been sitting
around your house bubble bath. You're regifting book you've
read and don't want to keep. Here's that socks again, people
giving out socks DVDs you've watched and don't like cheap
perfume work alone, a scarf cheap soap that looks
expensive and CDs of bad music. Come on, you really would
give those people those kind of items. You know, when I
was a kid, we used to give a teacher on the last day of
school before Christmas break, we used to give presents to
the teacher. For the most part, everybody gave her a bottle of
perfume this back in the 1960s before they had gift cards
and everything. So they used to give bottles of perfume. You
know she didn't use all that perfume. You know, was cheap
perfume. It didn't smell good. But she used to have all
these bottles on her desk when she opened it up because
everybody gave a bottle of perfume. Some people gave scarves
which were very nice. But for the most part, that was it
perfume. You know, she threw them out. I wish you could go
back now and talk to some of the teachers that I had. Most
of them aren't around anymore. But I'd love to talk to
them and say, what do you do with all that perfume? And you
got it every year. It's not like you just got it one year
every year. Boxes of that stuff. Now this dangerous time of
the year is Christmas time for all members of the family,
especially kids. Kids have a lot of fun around the holidays,
but it's also a time when they find new and interesting ways
to hurt themselves. There are ways to look out if you have a
small kids ordinance. Anything small and shiny is like a
magnet for little kids. So you'll have small kids tearing
around your house this year. Don't put any glass ornaments
near the bottom of the tree or anything that might be a
choking hazard candles. Make sure they're high enough so far
away from the edge of the table. The kids can't reach them. Same
goes for anything else that might burn them like a cup of
coffee or hot chocolate. Christmas lights in garlands. Now
you can get wrapped up around you. You can make them wrap it
around their neck if you're not paying attention. So again,
make sure they're out of reach. Christmas tree, the Christmas
tree itself has to be sturdy enough. So it won't fall over if a
kid starts yanking on the branches or something and little
kids yank on things, including the family dog fireplaces. Why
kids show up at the ER with burns on their hands during the
holidays. It's not because they put their hands in the actual
fire. It's because they touch the metal screen that you put in
front of fireplace to block the sparks. So gotta be careful
out there. Here's the ultimate question for anyone who's on
the verge of ending their relationship. Should you break up
now or stick it through through Christmas and then end it.
All right, no right answer for that question, but there's
definitely an analyzed, uh, an illustration of that when
people change their Facebook relationship status from I'm
in a relationship to single and the peak time of the entire
year is right now. Right now, uh, mid December. Yeah, I'm
just looking at the top of this mid December. And it's like,
it's like ripping the bandaid off and dump now. Yeah, that's
that feels bad dumping somebody around Christmas time. A
study, um, uh, said that this is the most, you know, not
what's where I'm looking for here. The time of the year when
people do it. Most relationships, experts say you should end
things now instead of waiting because you're not doing any
way favor by staying in it. No matter what happens, the
memories of Christmas will be ruined. Might as well ruin
them early. And I don't have to deal with a bunch of
activities together and give each other gifts. But no one
dumps anyone on Christmas. And as the lowest breakup rate of
the year, that's a nasty thing to do to break up somebody right
out with Christmas day. Millions of people are going to fly
somewhere over the next couple of weeks and somehow all the
worst ones are going to be on your flight. That's sir, they
found the top 10 things we hate most about flying. The thing I
hate most is sitting on this list. I checked the list over. It's
not on here. So we'll make that number 11. Not enough leg room.
Now I'm six foot three and there's never enough leg room,
even for short people, other people being allowed on the plane
screaming children. The person next to you taking up too much
space. Oh, yeah, who gets those armrests? If you got somebody
on the right of you and left of you and they take up the arm
rest, what does that leave you? The person in front of you
reclining their seat into you. What I do is I give them a knock
with my knee. I make it annoying for them so they put it back
up. Sometimes they'll give me the look. But what am I going to
do? Will you want me to put my feet? I mean, I got to put a
somewhere. Other people coughing or being sick. Oh, don't you
hate that? I hear that in church all the time, too. People
hacking away and sneezing. Other people miss behaving on the
flight. Rude cabin crew members. I have very rare. I don't think
I've ever run into a rude cabin crew member dirty bathrooms. I
don't use them on plane. So I don't know. And that in that
room for carry on bags. There's never enough room for carry
on bags. People take their luggage and bring it with them
on the plane. Now the one that's not on here are the crazy
passengers lately. And I don't know if this always happened
or just recently has become an epidemic. But there are people
picking fights on the plane with other passengers and the crew
members punching the crew members. I have never in my entire
life seen something like that before, but they're they're
sucking crew members. They're arguing with the flight crew.
They're picking fights with other people on the plane,
especially during COVID with the mask situation. People
didn't want to wear masks. They have a rule on the plane. You
got to wear the mask. And plus you're sitting next to people
in a tube. I mean, you want to protect yourself, protect
them, put the mask on. You know, my wife, this is way before
COVID used to come on the plane with a mask. And that way,
nobody would sit next to her. But now you wear a mask, people
want to sit next to funny other things change. Yeah, the
crazy people, then you get the people who try to open the
emergency door in mid flight, just about two weeks ago, they
were on the tarmac. They just boarded the plane. Some idiot
opens up the emergency door, jumps on to the wing and jumps
on to the tarmac. I don't want to be on a plane with these
crazy people. And then they serve alcohol to drunk people on
planes. And they get loud and, you know, pugilistic, they
want to start fights. So I don't fly. I'll drive a walk. If I
have to go to Europe, I'll take a canoe and paddle my way
across there, but I don't want to fly. And again, the planes
are fine. It's the people on the plane. We had that comedian
early today said, he gets nervous about flying, not the fact
that he's flying, but he doesn't want to disappear like in
that Malaysian flight that just disappeared. He said, I don't
mind, you know, being on a flight is going down, but I just
don't want to disappear. They never found that Malaysian
flight. Remember that? It went down to the ocean and never
heard from again, they don't know where it is. I want to say
it took off from Australia. Is that where it went or took on
from and just went down and never heard from again, people
still at the bottom of the ocean. I'm sure one day, somebody
will find it by accident, but still it's pretty deep. So it
can't be a diver. You got to be some kind of apparatus
looking for it. But yeah, and then you've got the crazy
occasionally we'll find an crazy pilot. They had the pilot
recently who went nuts on the flight, the cold pilot had to
take over. And you got the guy who drove the flu, the plane
ran into a mountain. Yeah, this is why I don't fly. Yeah.
I'll walk. Hey, if you're like most people, you'll make it
through Christmas morning just fine. Then by midday, you'll be
on the verge of losing it. A survey pinpointed the exact
time when fighting over the holidays is at its peak. It's
at 318 PM on Christmas day. And that doesn't matter which
time zone you're in. It's 318 PM. Two thirds of people say
there's absolutely no chance the family will get through the
day with at least one solid argument. Here are the eight
things we fight about during the holidays who gets to
control the remote TV remote. Who has to watch the dishes
was cheating at board games. It was at meme wants to show
the monopoly game laying all over the room. And it said,
obviously a game played at Christmas time. What to eat for
Christmas dinner? Well, person cooking should decide that.
How the tree should be decorated, how the house should be
decorated, who has to cook the dinner and bad Christmas
presents. Yeah, that'll do it. Also, going to the movies is a
big time on Christmas day. And I guess maybe fighting over,
you know,
which movie to pick. That could be another one on there. Christmas
fun facts. I love these. The average person will lose about
three pounds preparing for Christmas, but will gain six pounds
by the end of the year. 3% of Americans who celebrate
Christmas will not exchange gifts. 95% of Americans celebrate
Christmas, only 62% of Americans will go to church on
Christmas, evil Christmas day. 62% of people say they'll read the
whole long Christmas letter. 24% will at least skim it. 14%
apparently don't care what your family has accomplished this
year. You ever get those Christmas letters from family members
that talk about the entire year and review? Some people don't
care. The majority of people say hosting Christmas is more
stressful than going to the dentist. Why disagree with that?
And finally, 6% of people say they'd rather be alone.
In the desert, they're at home with their family at Christmas
time. Oh, really, they really annoy you that much.
If you can give your younger self two words of advice, if I can
go back to maybe a 16 year old Donald Rosen, what advice would
I say? Here's what people came up with. Ignore idiots. Think
first, stay single. No, I don't like that one. Don't smoke. I
never have. Marry money. Not her planned better. And here's my
favorite one by Apple. That makes sense. That's the remember
that in the graduate. The obviously the movie with Dustin
Hoppen, the guy walks up to him and he says, plastics. That's
what you got to remember. Plastics. You have by Apple. That would
be great. But you have to, you know, you have to know that they
would, first of all, be an Apple. And when it first appeared that
it was going to be such a success. Sunshine today with a high
year 51 degrees, a clear sky tonight lows around 27 tomorrow,
sunny with a high year 50 right now. Sunshine, 22 degrees. It's
640 at 748. Where am I looking at? 748 at WRJ and radio. I'm
John Rosen at Civic Media. Oh, down radio. Refreshed.
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mist of the rest night. Oh, what a man. He's on his bed. He's dead.
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originate.
So, my amy kids and Santa Claus at WRJ and radio. Thanks for joining us here.
It's 753 at WRJ and looking for sunshine today with a high air 41 degrees tomorrow.
High near 50 for sunshine. Is this winter? Look, look, right now you'll see
sunshine in 22 degrees. How about a true falls Santa Claus quiz? I don't think
Santa Claus quiz. See how much you know. The first time Santa visited a mall or
a department store was in 1948. True or false? The answer false. A Massachusetts
business owner named James Edgar is credited for coming up with the idea that
in 1890. True or false, Santa was a bachelor until the mid 1800s. Absolutely true.
Mrs. Claus was first mentioned in a short story in 1849, but she became well-known
after she was included in a popular poem published in 1889. True or false. He
will have been writing about Santa's reindeer since the early 1700s. Well, that's
false. The reindeer were introduced in Clement Moore's 1822 poem, A Visit
from St. Nicholas, which is more commonly known as, was the night before Christmas
and Rudolph. He wasn't even around. Took another hundred years for him to get
around 1939. True or false, because of the different time zones, Santa actually has
31 hours to deliver all his presents. Absolutely true. Some physics teacher
estimated works out to about 4.2 million homes every hour. Well, that's that's
working hard. True or false Canada gave Santa his own zip code. That's true
back in 1982. It's H zero, H zero, H zero. H skim figured out it spells Ho Ho Ho.
And that's his own zip code in Canada. How'd you do with that test? We grade on a
curve. Over a third of Americans will take a trip during this holiday season that
requires at least one overnight stay. Top 10 things people dread about staying with
family this time of year. Being walking up before you want to be walking up, having to
wait in line to use the bathroom, getting into an argument. What happens if you
really got to use the bathroom and somebody's in there? That could be terrible.
Getting into an argument with a relative happens all the time, eating a meal made
by someone who can't cook, being forced to participate in weird family traditions.
I don't even know what those are. Your kids finding their presents early, long
conversations with relatives you do not like, having to sleep on an air mattress on
the floor, having to share a room with a relative and accidentally seeing a family member
naked. Oof. That's not good at all. All right. This isn't exactly in the Christmas
spirit, but whatever. We want to get to think back on the worst Christmas presents you've
ever received. Now this was asked on a poll. And here's what people came up with. I got
a used gift card with only $3.75 left on it. When I was seven years old, my grandma bought
my cousin a PlayStation 2. Now I'm the exact age and she got me a Shrek lunch box playing
favorites, I guess. I was unemployed and got a large gift wrap box for my parents. It
was a stack of job applications from local businesses, not a bad gift. When I was seven,
I unwrapped a gift and found a dust buster box. I thought my president was inside the box
and turned out my president was the dust busters. I can vacuum the stairs easier. We have a
dust buster. We got it as a family gift last year. My mom gave me a jar of sugar with a
note about how sweet I was. And two days later, I came home and found she had used the sugar
to bake cookies. So much for your gift. My great aunt had a living caretaker. He unexpectedly
passed away the next year when I was seven. I got a VHS copy of his funeral for Christmas.
My grandpa gives that. My grandpa gave every one of the family bright orange
rape whistles for Christmas, even the men. You know, they are. It's a whistle. Women wear
around their neck and if somebody unsavory is coming toward them, you blow the whistle. So the
guy's even got one of those. And a guy where I was dating gave me a self-help book for women
with daddy issues. It was dead serious. He insisted I was molested as a child and I was not.
So I never got a bad gift. I really did. I got gifts which I haven't used. I never got a bad
gift before where I said, really? What is this all about? I got a gift. We did a secret Santa
thing here once at the radio station. And I got a DVD of the three stooches. And I said,
this is great. I love this gift. And unfortunately, the person who gave it to me went on to
other things in life. And I had to meet her at an adult club where she was performing. The
thank her very much for that gift. So I do thank her. I watch it all the time. There's three stooches
on DVD. I mean, she knew me. And that was it. That's what I like. All right.
I'm Don Rose. That's so story. I'm Don Rose. I want to thank you for joining me today.
Coming up tomorrow, we're talking PBS public broadcast television. And we'll have somebody from
the local PBS station, Channel 10 and 36, where I hosted the auction up there for 37 years,
could be 36 years. So we'll talk about that tomorrow. I'm Don Rose and Civic Media Radio.
Home Down Radio refreshed. WRJN. I want to thank you for joining us today. Stay tuned. More coming up.