People always know someone who looks like me wherever I go once a week someone will call it to me go
I know someone that looks like you. I never know what to say. Well, tell them high
Courage them to wear sunscreen
And this person who looks like me never doing something impressive with their life
Yeah, he mows our lawn
We don't even pay him. He just does it
That sounds like my gene pool
Occasionally on social media, I'll be sent photos of babies who supposedly look like me
This baby looks like Jim Gaffigan
People think it's hysterical that I look like a pale pudgy bald infant
Who poops in a diaper
Sometimes people get too cute. They're like, hey, why does our baby son look like Jim Gaffigan?
I'm like, cuz I slept with your wife
Santa Claus is coming to town
He's making a list and checking it twice
Gonna find out who's naughty and nice
Santa Claus coming to town
Yeah, Santa Claus coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you are awake
He knows you've been better
So be good for goodness
Or you better watch out
Or you better not cry
Better not come until you are
Santa Claus is coming to town
Yeah, Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
That's Michael Jackson, little Michael Jackson, with his brothers that Jackson Vs and Claus has come to town
608 at WRG and I'm Don Rose
And I want to thank you for joining us here at hometown radio
We're fresh, 1400 AM, 99.9 FM and Racine 98.1 FM canoeship
For today a beautiful sun, shiny day with a high-tier 42
Cloudy tonight lows around 33 tomorrow
Cloudy chance of rain with a high-tier 43 right now
It's clear and 30 degrees
Is this supposed to be in the 40s in December?
I can't remember from last year
Are we supposed to be in the 40s? I thought we were supposed to be like in the low 30s 20s
During the day time I know January is pretty cold
But I don't remember it ever being this warm before
I'm not going to tell you it's warm now
Enjoy it while you can
All right, we're going to make your day awesome
Everyone's looking for an awesome day
And when did awesome become the word of the day
But anyway, we're going to make your day awesome
Here are some tips for doing such such
Eat the same breakfast every morning
That's what they claim
Because your morning is less stressful if your first meals are already decided
I never had a stress decision in the morning about breakfast
I just looked around whatever hit me hit me and never stressed me out
You're supposed to make it healthy too like oatmeal or an omelette
And by the way, if you don't know how to make an omelette
Call me up, I'll tell you how to do it
And I make the best omelettes
Last minute choices tend to be stuff like donuts
Which aren't too healthy
Saber your morning, you're a saber your morning coffee
Sounds crazy to slow down in the morning
Because you got things to do
But experts claim that you should try to enjoy what you're drinking
Instead of mindlessly just gulping it down
Write out an ignore list
Now this is pretty much the opposite of a to-do list
Make a list of all the non-essential stuff that you can ignore
Like emails that you don't need to answer
Vacuuming or I can push that out of the way really easy
And anything else that you can postpone
Take some time to zone out
Are you supposed to get a place where you're not thinking about anything?
Don't make it that complicated
Just let yourself listen to music play a game or watch TV guilt-free
Hopefully not at the office
When you ask someone, how are you?
Actually listen to what they say
It's a throwaway question a lot of the times
Who don't really pay attention to what people say in response
But try to, it's supposed to lift your spirits and help you connect
So how are you?
Never mind nobody cares
All right
The holidays are full of dinners and dinner parties
So here's a guide to keep things from getting awkward
Or if you're in the mood to entertain yourself and alienate others
Here's a way to help you make every dinner awkward
Now, not just holiday dinners to before Christmas
You know, after Christmas people have dinners and parties
Living up to New Year's Eve
According to this survey of 1,000 Americans here
The top conversation topics you should never bring up at dinner
You're a sex life or anyone else's for that matter
Asking people about their income
Openly talking about your money
The state of your relationship or marriage
Religion, politics, race, Facebook
Or anything online dating profiles
How many Facebook friends or Twitter followers you have?
Death, not a good topic at a party
And serious health issues
You know, we care about your health issues
But can you leave them be for one day, for one night?
We have to hear about your rashes and your swelling and your infections
At the dinner party
No
Also, here's something else you can't talk about
The amount of Christmas music being played on the radio
I had a good friend of mine
And he always has to say
There were three things you can't discuss in mixed company
Politics, religion, and the amount of Christmas music to play on the radio
Because everyone's got a different opinion on it
Rest in peace, Bill
He used to say that to me all the time
All right, did you know?
These are some fun facts we dug up
There are 170 million insects alive for every person alive today
And I think they are all in my backyard during the summer
The Flintstones was the first show ever to feature the sound of a flushing toilet on television
And also the first show to show a couple sleeping in the same bed and prime time
Those, do you know what the first non animated show was to show a toilet bowl?
It was Leave It To Beaver
Wally in the B for having a conversation
And you saw the toilet tank in the background
And it had never ever been shown on television before
It would show to the movies, but never on TV
So the Flintstones and Leave It To Beaver cutting-edge shows
The original name of the Bank of America was Bank of Italy
Now, I heard this story many decades ago
Let me see if I remember it
This was during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
San Francisco was devastated, it was just in rubble
And somebody from the Bank of Italy, I believe it was, set up a little table
And started loaning out money to people in San Francisco who had nothing
And that was the beginning of the Bank of America
I think that's how it started
I don't know why that story stuck in my head
This is really interesting
You know at one time, one point in time, you were the youngest person on the planet Earth
Isn't that really interesting?
And it's so true, you were the youngest person at one point in time on planet Earth
Everybody was at one time
No one knows who invented the fire hydrant because the patent was lost in a fire
Isn't that ironic?
Facebook has ruined the office Christmas party
You say, how did that happen?
Well, according to this survey, 80% of people say they have toned down any potential wildness or drunkenness at a company holiday party
Because they're afraid the photos will wind up on Facebook
That being said, 40% of people say free booze is the key to a good office Christmas party
So you got a juxtaposition
In the past 3500 years, excuse me, in the past 3500 years
There have been approximately 230 years of world peace
In other words, there's been at least one war going on for 93% of human history
Something more we can relay to America drinks the most mountain dew of any country on the planet
I can attest to that
Donald Duck's middle name is Funtil Roy
Who knew that?
I was named after Donald Duck, by the way
It would take a person approximately, by the way, this next thing here, why do they tell me now?
I want that to find this out and I was like 10 years old
It would take a person approximately 15 to 18 years to do all the training you need to become Batman
Now at my age now, that's a little too late
But if they would have told me that information at age 10 and I could just start training
By age 25, I could have been Batman
Perfect
Imagine all the women swimming around me when I was Batman
Yeah
We're going to talk about Batman coming up a little later on because Peach Schwabba is going to be my guest
Peach Schwabba is from Nightline, Nightlight rather
He ran WWWRJ and he's does Nightlight every night from 8 till 10 pm
And he was talking about Batman the other day
And I've got some Batman stuff for him
But did you know that George Clooney said there's not enough drugs in the world to get him to do Batman again?
Batman again
I, the only Batman movies I liked with a dark night and the dark night returns or whatever the second one was
But the dark night was probably the best Batman one I've ever seen
And I've seen them all
All right are you counting down the days until you get off from work for the holidays?
Sometime around December 28th you'll be counting down the days until you can get away from your crazy family
And back to that sweet relief of work
56% of people say they usually need a vacation from their holiday vacation
Price line did the survey that means that's why they need a vacation
That means that more than half of us find the holidays that stressful
More than half of the people in the survey said they'd rather stay at a hotel
Family members house for the holidays
29% of people secretly wish at least one family member wouldn't show up on Christmas
That's probably the me they wish wouldn't show up
And 43% of people at the fake holiday cheer at least once this month
No, I'm pretty cheerful around the holidays I think I am
There's always something that's going to bother me but I think I'm pretty cheerful
That's strange
The people feel that way about the holidays
You don't want to stay over somebody's house or rather stay at a hotel
I would only in if it was that crowded I wouldn't want to be a burden
You know sleeping in the closet or something or sleeping on the floor
Then you know you go to a you go to a hotel
But I mean I there's nobody I my family I wish wouldn't show up
They party it's 618 at WRJN the weather forecast for today looks pretty nice
Sunny with a hindier 42 degrees I'll take it cloudy loads around 33 tonight
Cloudy chance of rain tomorrow with a hindier 43 right now it's clear
And 30 degrees and receipt and by the way I took a peak at Christmas day
Rain likely Christmas day which is better than snow because if you have to go visit somebody
It's easier to drive in the rain than the snow right
Alright so as I said nightline with Pete Schwabba 8 to 10 pm right here at WRJN
Pete Schwabba is going to be my guest he's a writer producer director of motion pictures
Talk about that as well we're lucky to have mere civic media
Old town radio refresh WRJN 1,400 am 99.9 FM and receive 98.1 FM in Kenosha
I'm Don Rose and more to come stay where we are
Oh
Children sleep
Snow is softly falling
Dreams are calling
Like bells in the distance
We were dreamers not so long ago
But one by one we all had to grow up
When it seems the magic slipped away
We find it all again on Christmas day
Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe
Trains move quickly
To the journey's end
Destinations
Are where we begin again
Ships go sailing far across the sea
Trusting starlight
To get where they need to be
When it seems that we have lost our way
We find ourselves again on Christmas day
Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe
I think I'm going to watch that tonight
The polar Express
That's where that song comes from
That's just grooving
He sang it at the end of the movie
Over the credits
I love that song
What a great movie
I have a 3D version of that
I have the regular version
But I saw it in the bin once
At a store a couple of years ago
It's at 3D and it's at 3D
It's got 3D glasses in it
It's not that great 3D
But I mean, you know
Nothing to do but those cardboard glasses on your face
Always hurts the bridge of your nose
You know what bad about 3D glasses
Like me I have to wear glasses
And it never quite
You know, never quite mastered that
How you can put that over your regular glasses
I put your regular glasses over the 3D glasses
I remember Roger Ebert
Once had a special pair of glasses made
It was his regular glasses
But he had a special pair with the 3D film
The 3D covering right over the lenses
So he just puts on his regular glasses
And the 3D was right on there
Now I can't afford to take a pair of my glasses
And just put that 3D cellophane all over my glasses
But it's not a bad idea
If you're going to watch a lot of 3D I guess
Anyway, Josh Groven
That's from the Polar Express and believe
624 at WRJ and I'm Don Rose
And I want to thank him for joining us here today
Stuart J. Wattles, our news director
And the news center today providing our news this morning
The investigation into a fire
At an uptown Racine apartment complex
Monday is ongoing
Fire cost significant damage to the building
Where fire fighters were injured
About 30 residents were out of
Without a place to live
The Red Cross is open to shelter
At Grace Church to assist those affected by the fire
Heavy thick smoke was due to insulation burning
After the leadership changes
At the Raymond School District
Parents are pushing for the ousting of two more board members
The district superintendent Michael Garvey
resigned due to toxic environment
Following the dismissal of principal Jeff Peterson
Who claims he was fired
During a recent board meeting
Parents handed in a petition
To recall Gwen Keller
And Janelle Wise citing
Transparency concerned
Certified signatures are needed before
Recall election can be scheduled
President Biden speaking today
At the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce
And West Fleet Street in Milwaukee
Prepared for traffic impacts
In the late morning in the afternoon
As well in the area
The interstate will be shut down for the motorcade
Usually not open to the general public
This marks the president Biden's third visit
To Wisconsin in 2023
And here the president remarks live
On this civic media station
Inmates in Racine County
Got into the Christmas spirit
Officials say those incarcerated at the
Ellsworth Correctional Center
Collaborated on a unique fundraiser
Where they had the opportunity to help a local charity
Through a food-based effort
Just over $1,400 was raised
And that's going to the voices of
Black mothers united
An organization focused on promoting healing events
Raising gun violence awareness
And supporting victims
And finally there's more than a dime difference
In the Milwaukee and Kenosha gas price
Triple A as the Milwaukee average at
$2.58 today
It's $2.71 on average in Kenosha
And that's the news from Stuart J. Wattles
In our news center this morning
He'll be keeping track of all the news throughout the day
Right here at WRJN Radio
I was going to say something about the
Gas prices there
I never understood how gas prices
Couldn't vary by more than a dime
From one street to the other
Like on Main Street
It might be 260 a gallon
But on Spring Street it's
280 something a gallon
Somebody told me that the rent
Maybe higher on Spring Street
So therefore they have to charge more
For the gasoline
10 cents a gallon
I don't know
That's kind of a lot
That fire we talked about at the beginning of the news
I saw somebody on
On not Facebook
But there was some kind of warning thing about the fire
And I went to go look out the window
To see if I could see the black smoke
I forgot to look at it
But apparently it was worse than
Then I thought
Well I hope everybody's okay
I hope nobody
Got injured in the fire
It's 627
628 at WRJN Radio
Sunshine today with a
Cloudy lows around 33
Tonight cloudy chance of rain tomorrow
With a Hire 43 right now
Clear and 30 degrees in
Racine coming up at 706 this morning
We'll be talking to Peach Schwabba from
Nightlight here on WRJN Radio
And the Civic Media Network
8 till 10 p.m.
And a whole bunch of topics to talk about with him
It's very good by the way
It's very show busy
I like show business stuff
And very show busy
We talk to Peach Schwabba
He himself has been in show business
He's a writer, producer, director of movies
He did the Godfather of Green Bay
More than a few years ago
That was a pretty popular movie
He was the guy running the whole show
In that movie
So we'll talk to Peach Schwabba this morning
And that's coming up at
All right, got a full list of
Shows next week and this is going to be
Some action packed stuff going on
Tomorrow Shake King from the public library
We'll be here in the studio
Todd Clark will be on the air with us
He is the guy who runs the Wisconsin
Inter-scholastic Association
That's all the high school sports
We'll be talking to him as well
That's all, tomorrow right here
WRJN Radio with me Don Rosen
629 right now
We'll be here in a few days
We'll be here in a few days
Later on
We'll conspire as we dream
By the fire
To face
Unafraid of plans
That we need walking
In a winter underland
Anthony Dominic Benedetto
We just lost him in July of this year
On July 21
Doni Benedetto
An American jazz and traditional pop singer
He received many accolades
He passed away
He won 20 Grammy Awards
A Lifetime Achievement Award
Two Primetime Emmy Awards
He was named the NEA Janusmaster
in a Kennedy Center honoree
And he founded the French and Opera School of the Arts
and a story of Queens in New York
He sold more than 50 million records
Worldwide and has a star
We'll crawl again play
The ice come away
Just walking in the moon
Talking and then
And then a crazy
We're a war in the land
Tony Bennett
Wow
He was 96 years old when he passed away
He's people living older nowadays
I told this story before
We had a radio station
It worked out in Atlanta, Georgia
Had a party for him
Is a wine
Cheese and Coca-Cola party
Everything was Coca-Cola in Atlanta
So we had this party for him
And he stayed
And took pictures and talked to every one of our contest winners
After the party was over
I have a picture with him
He's dressed in a beautiful tuxedo
I am wearing a leisure suit
Again, it was 1970
We're a leisure suit
Oh, and I have big hair
Of course we're 1977
And it looked awful
He looked great
I didn't look good at all in the picture
637 and WRJN just tuning in
Coming up this morning at 706
Peach Waba from night light
Right here on WRJN 8-10pm
We'll be my guest with talking showbiz
I love talking showbiz
Especially with somebody who's in showbizness
Like Peach Waba
It's movies, wrote him, produced him
And now he's a radio star
We'll talk with Peach coming up at 706 this morning
There are Christmas films
You know what they are
Christmas story, home alone
Miracle on 34th Street
Then there are films that really aren't
Christmas movies
And if you hate getting into the holiday spirit
With watching cheesy straight up
Christmas movies
You'd rather see movies that maybe have some inkling
Of a Christmas spirit in them
Here were the movies, trading places
That was with Dan Acroid
And Eddie Murphy
And I guess it takes place at Christmas time
Guy Hard
Now this has always been one of those movies
People are controversial about
They say, well it's not really a Christmas movie
Some people, it is a Christmas movie
Takes place in Christmas Eve
Bruce Willis plays a cop who has to save the day
When a terrorist takes over his skyscraper
Doing a Christmas party
Cremlins
He was pretty much the worst Christmas present ever
Litha weapon
Is this a Christmas movie?
I don't know, starts off with jingle bell rock
Over the opening credits
While you were sleeping with Sandra Bullock
Takes a guy from dying on some train tracks
And is mistaken by his family
Where his fiance
And he can't correct you since
He's in the hospital unconscious
I guess does it take place at Christmas time
I guess so, I've seen the movie
My wife's, I've seen it too, I think it's one of her favorites
It's a hotel
A 19th century immigrant story featuring mice
In the place of Hebrews
Even starts off with a Hanukkah celebration
An American tale, five old amounts
The family stone
A family drama that takes place over two
Christmases with a cast that includes
Diane Keaton, Craig T Nelson
Dermont Mulroney
Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Claire Daines
And Rachel McAdams, what a cast
Now the French Connection
You say, French Connection, a Christmas movie
Gene Hackman Roy Shiders
Start in the movie
It begins with Gene Hackman chasing down a perp
While wearing a Santa Claus outfit
Not a Santa Christmas movie
But it's got a tinge of Christmas in it
The movie Rent
I just saw the stage play
At the stage musical that they were seeing theater guild
I love the movie too, Rent
From 2005
Starts out on Christmas Eve
1989 ends on the same night
A year later
If you don't know your Broadway musical
And struggling with the fact that at least one of them
As AIDS, good movie rent, good Broadway musical
And meet me in St. Louis now
This is not a Christmas movie
It stars Judy Garland
It was directed by Vintaminelli
And it talks about the world's fair in St. Louis
However
In one scene
Judy Garland sits on a step
And sings
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
To little
Margaret O'Brien
Judy Garland and Vintaminelli
He was the director of the movie in real life
They married the following year after the movie
And created Liza Minelli
So those are movies that
Are really not Christmas movies
So if you don't like those hallmark type movies
Or the Lifetime Christmas movies
Maybe
Maybe you'll like the
I like Christmas movies
Here's my list of favorite Christmas movies
And TV shows Charlie Brown Christmas
That's a dead giveaway
The Polar Express
Here's one that
When I mentioned it to people
They don't remember it
Mr. Mugu's Christmas Carol
When I was a kid
Every year
NBC ran it
And it was brought to you by TimeX
And they even
Got the logo of TimeX
Somehow into the animation of the film
I don't know how they did it
But Mr. Mugu's Christmas Carol
Love that movie
Also a movie called The Snowman
You've got to watch this movie
It's only about a half hour
It was produced by Channel 4 in England
It's based upon the book
Children's book The Snowman
The animation
And the music is so good in this
Maybe the public library has a copy of it
Watch the snowman
Watch it with your kids
You'll get lost in the animation
What are the Christmas movies
Oh, don't bunch of them
I can't think of them off the top of my head
Of course, oh, it's a wonderful life
We have the DVD if it's a wonderful life
I love that
They try to colorize it
No, I've got to watch them black and white
I never get tired of watching that movie
It's a wonderful life
Because you feel good at the end
It's just a feel good movie
But here's a guy that wants to end his life
Because everything is going the wrong way
And he realized
He's got friends
No money, but he's got friends
Anyway, a good movie
James Stewart
I'm just ran over James Stewart
I think I told his story
He was in California on business
And we were in San Diego
And I convinced the two guys
I was with on the business
We had to listen to a radio station in San Diego
This is before the internet
And after we listened to the station
For an hour or whatever
Tour of the stars homes
And they were against it
And I said, I'll drive
So we get there
And there's always somebody selling a map
So a kid was sitting on a
Blanche chair or whatever
On the corner
Leading at the Beverly Hills selling maps
Or five bucks a piece
We bought a map
And we're driving around
And this lady crosses the street
With her dog
She crosses the street
Two, he's wearing like a salad cap
Pulled down
And he waves for me to go on
And I start to go
And he steps into the street
And I stop
And he waves me on again
But then he starts walking a little bit more into the street
And I rolled down my window
And I said, Mr. Stewart
Please go first
And he gave me a little salute
He gave me an idiot
From Wisconsin
Kills a national
International icon
Now, he was very nice
He just gave me a salute and walked across the street
James Stewart
And that was his wife
With the dog, by the way
That's why I mentioned it
All right, so
Oh, with the Christmas we were talking about Christmas movies
There's some others we have too
And I can't think them off
It's not the radio show
But the TV show, the Jack Benny show
And it takes place in a department store
And he's looking for gifts
For his family
And we watch that every year
It's so funny, Jack Benny is hilarious
Trying to buy gifts for his family
And we watch that too
And there's a whole bunch of Christmas stuff we watch
You know what I didn't watch this year?
And I have it at home
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
And it's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown
Because even though it's a past Thanksgiving
Who cares? I'll watch it anyway
644 WRJN radios
Sunshine today with a high-deer 42 degrees
Clotty tonight, loads around 33
Tomorrow, clotty with a chance of rain
And a high-deer 43 right now
It's 30 and clear in Racine
I call this segment Idiots on Parade
I don't know why I called it that
But I did, gotten Florida
Here's a helicopter last week
And assume that cops were coming
To bust him for growing marijuana
Call 911 and turn himself in first
Only the helicopter wasn't for him
The cops did show up and arrested him anyway
All right
Here's a fun fact for you
Americans check their cell phones
A total of eight billion times every day
That's collectively by the way
The average person checks their phone
46 times a day
I think that's low
I think I check it more than 46 times a day
47% of people say they've sent someone a nude photo of themselves
And the crazy thing is
When I first saw that number
It seemed kind of low
That's how generous people have gotten with pictures
Of themselves naked
Here's some more stats from this survey
27% of people have sent a nude photo to someone they've never met
In real life
And one out of five people
Have a naked picture of themselves on their phone right now
I can tell you right I do not
I do not have a naked picture of myself
Nor have I ever sent one
Nor have I intend to do intent to send one
This is interesting
Frank Sinatra had a fatal heart attack
On May 14, 1998
Right as
Seinfeld's finale was going on
Since so many people were inside watching
The traffic of Los Angeles was light
And they were able to get Frank Sinatra to the hospital faster than usual
Unfortunately, it didn't help. He did pass away
But the power of the Seinfeld TV show
A town in North Carolina has rejected his solar power farm
Because get this the people were afraid it would take all the energy from the sun
And make plants die
Are they kidding
Obviously it doesn't work like that
City Council still turned it down
I hope for another reason other than that
If you're getting into the holiday spirit
Oh wait we did that already didn't we
Yeah, we did that story
I'm sorry
These papers are sticking together
Oh he's an interesting trivia question
You remember VHS tapes
Could you remember that far back
The first three movies ever released on VHS in America
They were all from 20th century Fox
The sound of music
Patton and Mash
Their very first movie ever released on DVD
Twister
I used to know the the last movie released on VHS
I can't think of it now but it was a non-descript film
It wasn't that big a movie
The gopher sound
And candy shack was the same dolphin sound on the TV show flipper
Remember flipper on NBC
That sound of the flipper
That was the same sound effect they used in candy shack
Jim Carrey got paid 140 times more than Jeff Daniels for dumb and dumb
And Jim Carrey got seven million Daniels got
50,000 dollars
That had to be a bonus contention
And two silent movies
And this is an interesting fact
Let's worry bring this up with Pichoba
Two silent movies have one best picture
Wings
At the very first Academy Awards
In 1929
And the artist
83 years later in 2011
That was a good movie the artist
And yeah it was a silent movie
Though
We have time for one more fun fact
All right fun fact for you
Every single US president but one
Is distantly related to George Washington even president Obama
Is George Washington's 9th cousin six times removed
The only president who is not related
The George Washington was Gerald Ford
And this one I don't get horses and sharks are ticklish
Although maybe you shouldn't go around tickling sharks and test it out but how do they know sharks and ticklish
They laugh
They giggle when you do that
Horses maybe I can sing
All right we got more coming up for you
Just a few moments here at WRJN Radio
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Keep it right here okay don't move
The first no well the angel did say
Was to certain push ever
And feels as they lay
And feels where they lay
Keeping their sheep
On a golden day's night
That was so deep
No hell, no hell, no hell, no hell, no hell
Boy is the king of Israel
They look it up and saw a star
Shining in the east, beyond them far
And through the earth it gave great light
And saw it continue both day and night
No hell, no hell, no hell, no hell, no hell
Boy is the king of Israel
Some of my favorite Christmas albums are
Johnny Mathis Christmas album
Also the Andy Williams Christmas album
Those two are two of my favorites
I got to meet Johnny Mathis
I introduced him on stage at the Riverside Theatre
He was performing in Milwaukee
Very shy guy
We took some pictures backstage
He really didn't say much
He's very shy
He gets on stage too
But we have some pictures
I don't have the picture
Friend of mine Rich Washer has the photograph
I was over his house decades ago
It was hanging on his refrigerator
I got to see if he still has it
Nice man, Johnny Mathis
Very nice
He just very shy though
Our forecast here for receiving Sunday today
With a hundred forty-two
Clotty tonight lows around thirty-three
Tomorrow Clotty with a chance of rain and a hundred forty-three
The other for Christmas
If you want to go that far in advance
They say rain likely on Christmas day
Currently sunshine
And thirty degrees
In receipt six forty
Make it six fifty-three
Six fifty-three of WRJN radio
Nightlight with Peach Schwabba
Every night eight to ten p.m. on WRJN
Peach Schwabba going to be my guest at 706 this morning
But right now I've got a true false quest
Quiz about the Rockefeller Christmas tree
The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree
They do a special every year on NBC
A two-hour spectacular
I remember growing up
They used to show it on the channel four when I was in New York
Fifteen minutes
It was just before the five o'clock news
It was four forty-five to five o'clock
And they used to
At one speech by the mayor
Light the tree and it was all over
Times of change
We used to go see that Christmas tree every year
Used to go into Manhattan and take a look at the Christmas tree
I got to tell you something it's bigger in person
TV it is huge
You can't believe how big it is
And all the lights on it on TV
Doesn't do it justice true false quiz
Let's start they put on top of the tree
Ways five hundred fifty pounds true false
Well, that's true
They'd be using the same ones since twenty oh four
It's made of twenty five thousand
Swarovski crystals
Worth an estimated one point five million dollars
The main building at Rockefeller Center
Is the second oldest skyscraper in America true of false
As false the earliest skyscrapers
Will build in the late eighteen hundreds construction
A Rockefeller center didn't start until nineteen thirty
The famous black and white photo of construction workers
Having lunch on a steel beam was taken while Rockefeller center was being built
Yes, it was it was called lunch atop a skyscraper was taken in
1932 the wood from the Rockefeller center Christmas tree
Will be used to build a house
Yes, it will they donate all the lumber to habitat for humanity
They've done it for many years now
They haven't said where the house will be probably in New York last year's house
Tree came from Pennsylvania
So all that wood was used in a house in Philadelphia
That's good to know they put it to good use
Excellent
If you're looking for an excuse to get out of decorating your house for Christmas
And a lot of people don't do that
Until like Christmas Eve believe it or not
Here's some excuses for you
Beside being lazy
Your Christmas lights could screw up your Wi-Fi
A British tech company study how Christmas lights affect your Wi-Fi
They found that
Electromagnetic interference from the lights might slow it down
So if your Netflix gets choppy
Maybe it's your decorations
They also might not since there's a ton of factors to play here
But they might
Let's see here
Oh, is there any possibility that's more frightening than having your
Wi-Fi screwed up
They say things like baby monitors and micro waves
Can also mess up your internet speed
So I guess let your baby fend for itself and stop eating hot pockets
People don't care if they have holiday parties at work
I had one just last weekend
It's the first one I've had in years
I haven't had one in a long time
It's everybody's society for human resources
Matt has been found that only 65% of companies are playing the whole holiday parties
That's down from 72%
The old time high of 83% was in 1998
Main reason isn't financial either
So they're not having a party for budget reasons
Only about 6% say that
The main reason is
They found that their employees don't really want one
Companies have found that when they cut the parties
People don't really seem to complain
They think it's because employees have a lot of stuff going on this time of year
So a mandatory awkward party isn't really a priority
Maybe they're afraid to complain
They ever think about that
I loved our party
It was nice we had it up at the Chula Vista in Wisconsin Dells
It was very nice
All right, there's an 80 year old guy near Toronto
It was constantly mistaken for Santa Claus
By the little kids
And instead of being annoyed by it
He goes into Santa mode
He gives out red pens
And they say, you know, Santa Claus is other pens
He tells them to write them a letter
With that red pen
You know what, if you look like Santa embrace it
Have some fun
A guy in Seattle
Name Jack McDonald
He passed away at the age of 98
At everyone who knew him thought he was a poor man
It turns out, you ready for this
He had $188 million
And he left it to three charities
According to his stepdaughter
He preferred letting people think he was broken
And why he didn't want them
Hitting him up all the time for money
So they thought he was broken
He had $188 million
How do you hide something like that
I just had not leak out
Did you have that kind of money
All right, coming up at 706
We'll be talking to Pete Schwabba
From Nightlight with Pete Schwabba
Here on WRJN Radio
And the Civic Media Network
That's all straight ahead
Real quickly, sunny today with a hundred and forty-two
Clotty tonight, lowest thirty-three
Clotty chance of raining, highs forty-three tomorrow
Right now, sunny and thirty
At 658 at WRJN Radio
I want to thank you for joining us here
To be continued