Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at 975 FM 1320 AM WF HR locally grown radio. It is 8.05 on the clock.
Got your host James J behind the mic. I am joined by Seth Hevacker. Good morning. And
Beth Hevacker. Good morning. We got you both together. It's awesome. That's fun. And
we're not alone. We got a good friend, Mr. Paul Chomley, from the weather. I weather
center joining us. Good morning, sir. Yes, good. What did you guys? Paul, how are you doing
this morning? Doing well. How are things going there? Doing good over here. Doing good.
Some nice clear skies out there today. Not a bad start to a Wednesday. What else is
from on the nature garden store for us? Yeah, still looking at the sunshined and joy out there
today and still with some of you. So warmer temps. Just getting warmer as the day weeks go.
As the days go on here for us, 38th for the high today with an east wind at 5 to 10.
Some increasing clouds tonight, 28th and then more clouds Thursday still pushing about 40,
though with an east wind 10 to 15. 31 Thursday night, maybe a couple of rain showers with low
temperatures still hanging close enough for a little mixed precip chance early Friday. Otherwise
cloudy, light rain showers Friday with a high at 40. 35 shower chance at a Friday evening.
We'll break in the rain chances here for the first half of the weekend. Then 45,
some clouds Saturday, 39th, Saturday nights and then Sunday, cloudy skies,
rain chances built in, especially late Sunday, Sunday night with a height about 50 rain and Sunday
night, 43 showers Monday, some shower chances at Tuesday, 50 on Christmas day, 42 for high Tuesday.
As we work our way into a wet Christmas holiday, one one here this year as well. Wow.
My dad and I are trying to figure out how we can do snowball flights with this,
with it is just nothing. It's so much easier. I want to know who order an Easter weather for Christmas.
Yeah, yeah, 50 on Christmas day, 50. Wow.
Does that mean on Easter it's going to be snowing? Does that mean it's? Exactly.
Well, it is on March 31st, so there's a very good life ahead.
Exactly. But I have to wait till then to get our winter.
There you go. This time of year, we understand that when we order something,
it doesn't always show up on time. We appreciate you, Paul. Thanks so much for the time.
You take care. We'll talk tomorrow. All right, sounds good. Do you guys do?
All right, favorites over there. Whether I wear the sun or business, good talking with them.
Beth and Seth here with us, of course, this is going to be a lot of fun. We haven't got to do this
in a while. We're going to get into some fun topics today. We got a couple of good ones lined
up for you. Along with Misty's many birthday and anniversary club, I want to get into the weekend
science. We've got some science news that I wanted to touch on. That's really interesting stuff
involving science. Don't mind me with it. I actually watched that video over the weekend.
I had to, I couldn't remember how it held up. Doesn't.
So 80s. So 80s. We have, as we have, we're wrapping up in our Christmas stories and all these
different Christmas things I have. I have more Christmas album essentials to add to your playlist.
We will touch on that. That is going to be a fun one. Of course, it's a Wednesday. You know what that
means. We're going to be joined by our friends from Quality Plus printing, getting your words out
here in Wisconsin Rapids. They'll join us in towards the end of the hour here with our
Wicked Awesome Word of Wednesday. Wonderful. Looking forward to that. Entertainment-wise,
I want to tell you about some great auditions coming up, not ones that I'm going to Friday,
but actually ones that's much more locally important that's coming up. I'm just excited. I have
back-to-back auditions on Friday. Wow. So jacked. So jacked. Thank you very much. Thank you.
And we're going to get into also in the 9 o'clock hour. Things younger people don't get about
the past decades. Shouldn't be good. That'll be fun. That'll be fun. That'll be fun.
If you've noticed the theme with our shows, of course, it is a serious comedy. It's what we do
around here. And also starting our shows off on a positive note. And I got another one for us here.
Still Water Minnesota, we go to. Couldn't imagine why I chose Minnesota.
They are hosting their third annual World Snow Sculptures championship with artists from
eight different countries. The event sanctioned by the Association International
Deskala Sculptor, or they're now. Wow. And that's Finland that I was trying to do.
They also finished there. Yeah. No offense to our finish listeners. No, no. We say a big shout
on good afternoon, I believe, to our friends and friends. Yes, that's correct.
And they also have world class snow sculptures from Turkey, Finland, France, Wales, Canada,
Mexico, and Ecuador. Wow. And the US is competing as well. Very cool. Shout out to Ecuador.
How do you trade for something like that? They do have the mountains there. Yeah.
They do have the the Andes. So there's the edge of time to go up higher to get to their
side. We spent a lot of time in the freezer. Yeah. The world snow sculpting championship will
be celebrated with a week long festival events and entertainment and activities for people of all ages.
Some of the spectacular sculptures erected during the event include the whimsical endramatic.
And when I say like great snow sculptures, I mean, you're not kidding, man. They're phenomenal.
Yeah. You don't travel from Ecuador to Minnesota because your average at this, you know,
that it's really, I haven't really amazing stuff. That's true. Like that's true art. It is.
So the detail is just phenomenal. Really cool. That's really, I always think it's pretty cool.
What one of the things that I've always wanted to do is learn glass blowing. No, okay.
The way that we, the way we can create art out of these things and then just who thinks of that
stuff. I love the way the artistic brain works. My brain is very creative and I have an imagination
that does not run out of ammunition. But my brain thinks very 2D. I don't think very 3D. And so
when I took the creative world, the artist like this and stuff, I just and I think it's so darn
cool. And I had to share this one as well. This is this is also a little top, a little no-worthy.
There's been plenty of father, daughter, dance videos from wedding receptions. They're beautiful,
they're wonderful. I'm very thankful that the last wedding, I was at Bria's. It was a big,
it was very important to her that we went up there and had our dance. We danced to Cat Stevens if
you want to sing loud. That was a good choice. We had fun. That was a good time. It was a good time.
But this is a little different and I kind of feel like if we knew about this, she might have
thought about this one. I don't know if anybody has ever seen a mother son lightsaber duel.
Oh, love it. Love it. Now this wedding was from last summer but the clip is just now going viral.
I am going to show Beth and Seth this. I encourage you to go ahead and look this one up everybody.
It is awesome. It is a beautiful reception area that they have. There's a lot of space. It is a
really pretty looking building. But the mom and son are going all in. They're all in on this.
They got the costumes and everything. It is awesome. They didn't just go out there in the costumes
or like just swing these swords around. You can tell they practice. They choreograph this.
Absolutely. And if you watch closely, I'm 90% sure this is the final battle between Anakin and
Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan. Yeah, you may be right. It's very similar. You have to take the high ground.
Never take the high ground. You got the force. Just pull them down. Just pull them down. I don't understand.
Or if you're Anakin, just pull them around. Why don't we? I don't know. Anyway.
Have you ever been in a lightsaber duel? You know how hard that is, man. Been in a lot of fights.
Never been in a lightsaber duel. You got to be on that one. It's just a reminder. You never
mess with Mama. Yeah. Yeah. Like she has a lightsaber. The son does a really nice job with it.
And he did great. The mom kills this. Yeah, she is. She does. I love my mom. But I don't know if
my mom would do that. I don't know. That's a pretty cool. That's a pretty cool mom right there.
Okay. I'm so planting the seed with our boys. Oh, no. Something like this would be so much fun.
You are not alone on this, Beth. I thought about your boys too.
And I go, I put this out there. Maybe it'll happen. Because I'm hoping to be invited to the wedding,
of course. This wedding, 20-some 30 years. If you were to, for your guys' wedding, if you were
to have something unique or special like that, or did you have anything unique and special like that,
to put you on the spot? No. Not really. I don't have anything specific like that. I'm more
surprised by that. Just two of the more creative people I know. The unique thing we did was with
the desserts more than anything because of his love of pie. Yes, even back then it was well-developed.
Oh, yes, sure. Yes, it was. And he does not like cheesecake. And that's one of my favorites.
Oh, I love it. Yeah, I'm on with you. Our actual wedding cake, he caved and he let us do a double
layer. And the top layer was a red velvet cake. And then the bottom layer was cheesecake.
Awesome. But we got a very small one. So instead of doing the big elaborate and then everybody
eats that, we had 10 tables of guests with the reception and each table had its own dessert.
So we had a theater theme. So five tables had star-shaped cakes and then five had different types
of pie. Oh, cool. Oh, cool. Very cool. Well, the idea was to get people to go to each table,
you know, to sample them and to talk to people. Maybe they hadn't met before. You know, we're new too.
So that was, that was part of the idea too. I love when people take that extra step.
Right. No, we had, but we were later in that same year. We were in a wedding of our friends that
there's was pirate themed. Oh, wow. And I mean, everything was pirate themed. We were dressed up
and everything because we were as part of the wedding party. Yeah. And and their reception,
they, they created the front half of a, it was a ball of a ship on the stage that they were,
yeah. Well, the groomsmen gifts were sorts. They actually got sabers from the couple.
I want to be in that wedding. So yeah, something like that. There were no sword fights at the
reception, but the, the woman in the, in the relationship, she was, she's a Highland dancer.
Oh, she brought her Highland dance troupe and they did a number on the stage, which was really
cool. That was a wedding to go to. Yeah. And sometimes you're like, oh, we got to go to the
Smith wedding. Yeah, right, right. That one, you're looking forward to going to that one.
That is pretty cool. You really got to love pirates. Well, you really, I mean, like 20,
though, you know, everything goes right and stuff. You're looking at those wedding pictures,
20, 30 years from now and everything, like, what were we thinking? You know, people have
their wedding picture, like in a frame and the in the hallway and stuff. Do you have that? You're
just walking, what the? Hey, well, if you ever met our, our Fred Michael Kent, you'd understand.
Yeah, absolutely. That was all him. More power, too. Yeah. That's good. I mean, I'm a,
a big fan of traditional wedding certainly in that. But I, I think, especially as we go forward
here, we're only going to see more of these. I think so, yeah. Because it to be quite blunt about
it. And I'm saying this is a foolish romantic. And not as many people are getting married,
not as many people are doing that. I think when they're going to go through with it,
for one, they're going to make it memorable and probably affordable.
Yes, we will come back and we're going to actually celebrate marriage a little bit,
because we got the anniversaries coming up. We got birthdays and anniversaries coming up with
Misty's menu on the morning show here at WFA chart.
It's time to do some celebrate with our great friends over at Misty's menu. We encourage you
to treat yourself. Get on over to Misty's not today. Close today. But back there,
bear back open tomorrow. Get on over to 9041. Still out way 13 South in Wisconsin.
Rapids and wish him a great day from all of us at WFA chart. Misty's again. We'll be back
open on Thursday, Friday, Thursday through Tuesday. So Wednesday's not open up until the end of the year.
Not till next, not next week because of being Christmas. Yeah, it's right. Yeah, until I think
Sunday. So be looking for that in the coming new year. And more on Misty's menu,
coming up the later this week. We'll touch on some of the things going on with our friends and
Misty's do want to get into my minding you did. We want your birthdays and anniversaries.
Get them to us, everybody. Send them to info at wfhr.com. James.maylove at civicmedia.us.
You can direct messages on our Facebook pages as well. And of course, call up. Join the conversation.
715-424-2600-424-2600. You can always call us up on the civic media app. Appreciate
everybody downloading that. Get in those birthdays and anniversaries, everyone. Let's see here. I
got two names on the list. I need a one or a two, Beth. Oh, uh, two. All right. Give us that
qualifier when you're right. And to celebrate. Hi, panic to set three. Uh, zero. I'm not used to
have to make that decision anymore. Tony Howard, we wish a happy birthday too. Happy birthday, Tony.
Enjoy your day, Tony. Hope it's a good one for you. Have a great one. And our qualifier today,
Marge Gaws. Happy birthday, Marge. Happy birthday, Marge. I am a sucker for the name Marge.
I wonder why. Such a great name. Uh, Marge, that's a beautiful name. Until your day, Marge,
and your qualifier. Yeah, congratulations. Getting these birthdays or anniversaries in at the
last minute, because as we're wrapping up the final days of December, we all know that we're
going to announce our winner for January coming up. Yeah. Marge just got her name in the running.
Get yours in the running. Get us those birthdays and anniversaries. Indeed. Yes.
Going to be honest with the audience. Then list, uh, when it comes to the celebrities here.
But we're going to get to some of them, like Peter Chris is 77 today. Oh, okay.
Former drummer from Kiss. And he wants to make sure that you know he's a former drummer from
the camman. So I think like with certain big iconic bands, there are members of the band that
stand out and then there's the other members. I, to me, and I'm not the most gigantic kiss fan in
the world or anything like that. But I, some of my best friends are. And the first real show I ever
went to was seeing Kiss and Madison during their 90s at the Cole Center during their 96, 97,
was going to be their comeback tour in their last tour. Of course.
They all four of those guys had moments during the show where they got to, like, during a good
play a monologue, where they had their moments. And obviously Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley
incredible. I actually, I always like Paul Stanley. I came out of that concert. I think Paul
Stanley is one of the 10 best frontmen I've ever seen. Wow. He is incredible, emcee, incredible.
The way he worked with the crowd, what he was doing, the way that he was able to just not only sing,
but do all the different things he was doing. He was incredible. I didn't know he was that good.
And I knew Ace Freely was amazing. I already knew that. You know, my father, the way is with
tar players. I didn't know that Peter Chris was so darn good. I didn't know. I really didn't
until hearing him live and seeing his solo and everything. The Catman, from Kiss. Happy birthday
to Peter Chris. Yeah. Let's see here. We also got Deandre Fox is 25. A wonderful basketball
player for this Sacramento Kings. He's a good one. Isabel Durant is 31, TV actress. Probably seen
her around. She's been in a couple of things, but she's done pretty good stuff. Let's see here.
I told you, it's then. It's not it's not about the people celebrating birthdays,
obviously. You're seeing a lot of names. That's all. I didn't mean that as a. Yeah. It might have
sounded bad. Jonah Hill is 39 today. Oh, okay. Oh, wonderful actor. Yes. Another another
fellow alumni of the new school. Yeah. He was at their drama, drama department.
Jonah's gotten into one of these horrible kind of things that happens to actors, especially actors
of the different size. The Hollywood cast you wants you as that guy. Be the fat funny guy in that
kind of. Yeah. But you are also in an image business and around image people and living in an
image world when it comes to that game. And I can only imagine how much that plays on it. You also
have a type of actor and Jonah Hill and actors like him that want to play different roles,
want to try different stuff. Don't want to just be stuck in the same box all the time.
How do you do that? How do you change your appearance in that regard? You get thinner.
It's what you do. And then all of a sudden it turns out nobody wants you anymore because you've
done. Yeah. And so he went through this kind of back and forth with that and everything that
had nothing to do with his talent. Just, you know, a casting thing. Yeah. Yeah. Where were that
when he's been working more recently and that's been great to see. He is he's a very funny good
good actor. I enjoy his work. I enjoy his work. And looking forward to seeing more of it coming up.
Let's see here. Killian Mimbapé is 24. You may not know that name, but literally every other
country in the world knows that name. Mbapé is probably the greatest soccer player in the world
right now. Listen to how Messi is certainly still the goat. He's still one. Yeah. But Messi is also
up there. Mbapé is turning 24 and just hitting his prime. This kid in his footwork is insane.
Every time I think, oh, well, I saw the best. I saw Paley. No.
Paley was amazing. Paley was a legend. Paley was arguably the goat. But man, when you see some of
these guys in their footwork with Messi and some of them in Mbapé, we'll be hearing about him
for many years to come. Yeah. And we're going to be talking about him here in North America as we
are hosting the World Cup coming up. Yeah. Next one. Yes. Very excited about that. That is going
to be pretty cool. Madison Fisher is 31 actor and YouTube star. And I believe that is the end of
our list. Yeah. That's it. I told you. Oh, JoJo JoJo R&B singer JoJo is 32 today. Get that one in
there. It's a thin list. Yeah. Not much of my celebrities. What's going on? I was trying to
look into something because we always look at celebrity birthdays. What about like celebrity
anniversaries? Like anybody selling it. I really hear about those. There's not enough.
It's a bad joke. It's a bad joke. We do one more time. I want to remind everybody to treat
themselves and head on over to Misty's when they're open again tomorrow. And as long as we've got
them. Oh, you got something? I do. And I'm glad thank you Facebook because she has not shared
this with me, but a newer face to the WRCT backstage area. Happy birthday, Judy Rinker.
Oh, happy birthday, Judy. Happy birthday, Judy. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome.
Hope it's a great day. Yeah. I wish you a great day, Judy. Hope it's a really good one for you.
I do want to rewind for one second because yesterday in the list that I had, it did not have,
it left out a birthday. If somebody who would have been celebrating a birthday yesterday, Reggie
White, the minister of defense. And dancing with a star champion. That's right. Reggie White was
totally right butler. Oh, no, no, no, no, Donald driver. Donald driver was, yeah, a former packer
that I don't remember Reggie ever doing that. But yeah, Reggie White born in this day in
night, born yesterday in 1961 in Chen, Nuga, Tennessee. As a kid, being a diehard Randall
Cunningham fan, biggest Randall Cunningham fan ever, I watched a lot of Eagles games. So you've got
to see a lot of Reggie too. Yeah. And I got to see arguably the, I mean, and I'm saying this as a
bare fan too, maybe the greatest defensive line I've ever seen. Jerome Brown, Reggie White,
White Simmons. Yeah. Maybe that defense, how they didn't win. I don't know. I don't know that either.
He had body rye in there. And like a great, great. I don't know. Reggie famously in this state,
of course, Reggie becomes a free agent, biggest free agent of the time. Where's he going to go?
Went where nobody in the world thought he was going to go. Yeah. God told him to go to Green Bay.
And Reggie took his, him and his, his passion to Green Bay. Yeah.
Yesterday, I heard a beautiful story from Leroy Butler. And, and he's talking about Reggie
when he first, he's with the team and Reggie wants to do services on Sundays. He believes it'll
be good for the players, good for the young players and good for bonding. And, and Reggie sets this
up and nobody shows up. And he's, he's hurt by this. And he, he's talking to Leroy Butler about
it. And Leroy's like, Reggie, you gotta, you gotta go where they are. You gotta do what Jesus did.
You gotta go to where the people are. They're at the bar. And Reggie's, I'm not going to a bar.
I'm, you know, he's got that beautiful, dark, deep voice and everything. I'm not going to a bar.
So you got, you don't have to have a drink. You just got to go. You just got to show up.
So the next Saturday or Sunday or Saturday or whatever it was, Saturday night,
the guys are at the bar and everything who comes in. Reggie White comes in, sits down,
stayed for exactly an hour. God the left, but was very nice. Came and showed up and everything.
The very next day and through the rest of Reggie's run at Green Bay, they'd have 50 to 100 people
at those services. Wow. All 58 guys would show up. How about that? Just a cool story. Yeah.
Really cool story. And, and the, the Reggie White signing in Green Bay move changed free agency.
But in football, the Green Bay Packers deserve credit for this too because part of the reason
Reggie coming here, Reggie said, look, you want African Americans to come here, that's cool.
You got to have like, where am I going to go to get my hair cut? Where am I going to go to get my
food? There's certain things that me and my people like that you guys don't have here in Green Bay.
Now they do. Yeah. Now, an African American free agent of any sports franchise,
signs in Green Bay or, or Milwaukee or something like that. It isn't as big of a deal. It doesn't
matter anymore. It's like, okay, yeah, yeah, that happens all the time now. Yeah. Before Reggie,
did not happen hardly at all. That's, that's really remarkable. We will get out of here. But one more
time, we want to wish very happy birthdays to our quality, our, our, our, to Tony Howard. Happy
birthday, Tony. Happy birthday, Tony. And our qualifier, Marge Goss. Happy birthday, Marge.
And, uh, uh, Judy. And Judy Rinker. Yeah. Yeah.
We'll get you in there one more time. Get us those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody. Like,
maybe this caller is good morning here on the show. I would just like to remind everybody that
countdown is on for a couple days for Festivus for the rest of us.
All right. Thank you for that, brother. Thank you for that. We will definitely be celebrating
that. Yeah. We got to get to break. We'll come back and have some more fun right here on
locally grown radio, W F H R.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at W F H R locally grown radio.
Get your host, James. Join by Beth and Seth. We hope you guys are having a good one out there.
Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. Getting that Christmas spirit going with, of course,
our great bumpers, Seth put together with a bunch of Christmas classics and some, some fun ones
in there too, Seth. Yeah, it's a fun, traditional ones. Yeah.
Got a couple of interesting ones in there. And that's where we're going. We're going Christmas
music with our next topic here. And we have some more essential stuff for your playlist.
All right. All right. More Christmas album essentials to add to your playlist.
Our good friends over at the onion, their AV club put this together.
And they put this together as kind of a counter to what entertainment we weekly put together.
Okay. They put together a good one. And there wasn't anything against that list, just a different
more eclectic list. Yeah. Off the top of your head, do you have any random favorite like Christmas
songs or Christmas covers that you love that maybe not everybody knows or likes? Oh, yeah,
definitely. The lead singer of everything but the girl, Tracy Thorn. Yeah.
She released several years ago, released a Christmas album of like non-traditional Christmas
songs. She has an awesome version of Dolly Parton's Hard Candy Christmas that I absolutely love.
One of my favorite voices of high school was Tracy Thorn. And I did not know that. Yeah,
and I am making a bookmark of that. I am looking that up. It's, I don't know if it's like
called an alternative Christmas song. I can't remember what it's called, but it's great.
It's got some really good. It's got a song by the great Minnesota band Low in there.
Throwing out the Christmas tree. That's a great song too. But yeah, Low really underappreciated.
And yeah, there's a great band. Great story too about that band. Yeah. That's a good one.
That's a good one. Beth. For me, it's going back to classic at what I would consider
a classic country of version of by Billy Gilman, of there's a new kid in town.
So it's again, it's not your traditional Christmas Carol, but I just really appreciate that one.
But if you were to ask my boys, our dot gets a lot of play on the straight notation version
of the 12 days of Christmas. So nice. Yeah. That's a good one. I like the entertaining version.
For the Christmas can can. I enjoyed that one too. Oh, yeah.
It's good about that one. Mine's pretty boring. I just I listened to a nightmare before Christmas
soundtrack from like October until the end of the year. There you go. Just covers both
bases. You know, I wish they would have a Thanksgiving song in there. They really, really
have their company. There you go. I mentioned to Beth, we were driving around looking at lights
the other day. And I was like, I want to see a house where they left up their Halloween
decorations. And they just put a Santa hat on it. You know, that's. Look, it's just good enough.
Yeah. I know. For me, and it's not new, but when I was a kid, I went out and bought
the CD of like Vincent Vigoldi. Vince Garaldi. Yes.
Vince Garaldi. I was combining his name. Yeah. That Charlie Brown classic.
All of that. And that's a must this time of year. We have that in one of our vehicles.
We do. We have the CD as well. Yeah. That's right. I miss listening back in the 80s to all of
the parody songs. The 80s and 90s, you know, the 12 panes of Christmas and walking around
and women's underwear. Yeah. There's a lot of good ones. Oh, there were some great ones.
And I think we got some good ones for you right here. So the AV again put together this kind of,
you know, different list of cut Christmas songs to kind of maybe change, you know,
put a little freshness in your playlist, if you will. Like this is in no particular order,
just in the way that they have these lined up. I dream of Christmas, but from Nora Jones from 2021.
Ooh. She's got a great voice. Yes, she does. I don't believe that there's anything Nora Jones
couldn't do. And in a sneaky way, if you're a jazz artist, there's a lot of Christmas songs that
are almost tailored to your voice. Oh, absolutely. I'm bad. I can see I can see her being very good
with that. And number nine from 2017, cheap trick, Christmas Christmas. I did not hear this.
I didn't remember this with this game. Love the video. Yeah, they're Marianettes. I love that.
And the movies from the 70s freaked you out. Oh, I don't know that I've ever heard this one.
I don't think I have. I love that. I don't care what anybody says. I don't care what anybody.
I love that. I love it. I love the video. I love the song. I didn't hear the album, but the song,
this song I remember, as soon as they started getting into it, it's a great video too.
Marianettes, where you got a dream police outfit. I love that. Shout out to cheap trick.
They're awesome. Those guys treated me nice. They treated me good. Was it the 60s that had like,
was it the Thunderbirds? What they were called? Thunderbirds. That was not that was not
Marianettes. That was super Marianation. No, sorry. No one's right. Thank you. Thank you for
thank you for noting that stuff. Yeah. Got reference though.
Much cargo. Yeah. There's a whole bunch of shows like that. Yeah. Every Wednesday we are joined by
our great friends from Quality Plus printing, getting your words out here in Wisconsin Rapids with
our wicked awesome word of Wednesday. We're going to put a pause in that topic and get right to
them because they cut you know, hey, hey, advertisement's come first. Yeah. Phil, how are you? I don't know,
I like the whole Thunderbirds. Thank you. We appreciate Phil. I don't mean to put you on
the spot, but do you have any any favorite like Christmas songs that you know, not everybody knows
or a little more eclectic if you will? Sure. So this one made me finally listen to it and that's
bear naked ladies and Michael Booblade and it's called an elf lament ELF. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, I forgot. Michael Booblade's Canadian. They're all Canadians, yeah. They're Canadian too.
But it's a tremendous, tremendous, funny song and they've put a spin on what Christmas season does
to in a house. Oh, I like that. Find it out and play it. But it's a really high spirit. It's a fun song.
But bear naked ladies, they're not going to open their word play in their music. Yes, they are, yeah.
Yeah, and they do a great job with it. So it's a fun one that we dig out every Christmas there.
Very cool house. Very cool. Phil, we don't want to make the audience wait too long here.
What is our wicked awesome word of Wednesday? All right, we get out some word of Wednesday this
week. Again, we're trying to go with the season and pick something festive here. Jocken.
J-O-C-U-N-D-Jocken. It needs to be married or happy in high spirits. Oh, perfect choice.
A couple of different words. Do you think of Jockularity or... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay. I think they all kind of fit together there. Yeah, I think you're right. Wow.
Yeah. I don't like that. I mean, you don't hear everything. Jocken. No, not at all.
I was just going to say that's what we don't hear though. I like that. I like that.
You should see with an accent, right? Yeah. Yes, yes. Yeah, I watch it. It looks like it should be
sweet if I jocken. Or German, yeah. It has a little bit of that feel to it. Yeah, yeah.
How'd you come across this one, Phil? You know, I just typed in words for
being in a good mood or something. Send them a sort of... Send them for happiness.
Oh, no, that's cool. That's cool. It went down and found this one. So, yeah, I think we get
to, again, a lot going on, but keep your head up and move forward, right? Absolutely. Phil,
we've been doing this for a while. With these words, have you found yourself randomly
they just show up in your lexicon now and you're talking to somebody and you say one of them or
mention them? There's another good word. I'm going to write that one down. Hold on.
Yeah. And of course, I tell the people at work here, our team uses what word I'm choosing.
And of course, then it gets randomly barred, passed around throughout the week.
Yeah. Can you use the word we write it on the whiteboard in the back, usually?
Oh, cool. Very cool. Can anybody stop by and put a word up there on that whiteboard?
I've told James this in the past and you guys said, I'm not keeping track of these.
So, yeah, right. Might not be a bad idea, but you know, so many of that is.
Apparently, along the way, my old age is going to kick in and I'm not going to remember if I said
something or not. If you repeat a word, we're just going to go with it.
We're going to go with it. We don't remember either. We're right with you, man.
What you do is for 2024, are you keep track? And then in the back of the adult coloring book
that James is suggesting, you write down all of these words and all of the
definitions. That'd be great. That's really good. I like that idea too, as long as you do it.
Exactly. I have my new assignment. I got you.
How are things going over at the shop?
Really good. We're slammed, which is good. More days, people getting things out,
you know, last second, which happens, right? Sure, the week after Christmas, we're busy
with people trying to get stuff out before a new year. Different forms, different,
you know, different, like we said before, Christmas letters we've been doing and then
a lot of and books and different things and calendars for people
and copying some pictures and stuff. So we're very busy and some bigger projects too,
obviously. Like we've talked about four work commercial, we specialize in doing thousands of
things for local businesses and the industry, but also we're very happy that we can wait on
people that come in and just need to separate some people off the, some things off their phone
or whatever helps some people. We've got a lot of technology, challenge people come in.
And in the mechanics, you know, younger than me, so that's good news.
You can help them sort through some of the technology that might up the other push through
and then we can make some stuff for them and so we're happy to do that. I mean, that's part of
being a business and part of what we do, but yeah, Christmas is a good month for us and
we're happy to help out. Really good to hear Phil. And as we're wrapping up here,
I did want to just rewind for a second and congratulate you on a wonderful run with a candle
in the window, the seasonal WRCT show. And other people want to tell you too, Phil. Other people
are calling you up right now. I told them to call you right now when we're on the air.
Yeah, calling in, they're calling in. Understandable. You guys had a great run.
Oh, no, that was good. It went really well in it. It was not a need to play. It's a lot of
happiness for that play. A lot of sad things happening and then people get reminded of what
life's really about. I heard great things about the performance from Melissa and some others,
and you guys did a great job. You can go into the next year feeling really good about that, Phil.
Thanks a lot. I know I'm looking forward to seeing Seth play coming up here as soon.
Yeah, and I get the tinted hair to play my character. Yes, if you saw me right now, I get to go.
Nice. I get frosty, frosty ends because I was playing an age artist, so I went there.
Oh, good. Nice. You did a very well, Phil.
I'm taking both of them, whether I keep a going or not.
I'm bursting my daughter to them when I walk in the house and without telling anyone.
She just said, really dad?
Yeah, that's what I like to say.
I like to why you don't like it, Rand. It's like, to me, it says, why do you, dad?
Well, there's one vote for no.
That kind of commitment is the kind of commitment you get to call it.
Post-privileged. That's right.
That is right there.
Appreciate you, Phil. We'll talk more. We got one more of these for the year.
We got one more, so we'll do it next month's day.
Yeah, we'll have to keep our eyes.
Keep our eyes near as open if anybody's got suggestions and give a holler.
All right.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Phil. We'll talk next week.
To all you as well, Merry Christmas, all right?
Take care. Thank you for everything.
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So we're getting into a little bit of this more kind of like
more at Christmas album essentials for your playlist.
Maybe some more fun stuff to add.
Fill through a song in there and that was fun.
That was a good one.
And I got another one for you right here unless you had some Seth.
No, I'm going to.
I always turn away from you and I worry like,
James, I'm going to see you.
We got to get into a raising head.
Maybe I don't know.
Everyone smells okay to ignore him, James.
Lots of practice.
Lots of practice.
He has a lot of room.
We wrote that that broke me.
That was good.
We wrapped up what our last song we touched on was Christmas Christmas
from Cheap Trick from 2017.
Really like that one.
That was fun.
A very Casey Christmas from Casey Musgraves from 2016.
I've heard that one.
Casey Christmas.
I'm not I'm not sure I haven't heard that one already.
No, I like the title.
They have here a very special Christmas featuring very artists
from various artists from 1987.
And I'm not a 100% of which what they're there.
There's a lot of stuff that could be there.
Yeah, great.
I tried to look it up and there was a number of different things,
but I believe that it was the one that was raised a bunch of money.
There was a ton.
There was a Bob Seager doing a little drummer boy on there.
There was a bunch of other stuff.
That was a Jertie album.
A couple of them that way they did.
Yeah, I don't remember that.
The Pointer Sisters at Santa is coming.
Whitney Houston, do you hear what I hear?
The pretenders that have yourself a Merry Christmas.
Gabriel's message from Sting.
Bruce Springsteen doing Merry Christmas, baby.
The Arithmix Winter Wonderland.
Famously on this album is Christmas and Hollis from Run DMC.
Yes.
Which really was the biggest seller on the album.
I think that's right.
And still one of my go-to songs every Christmas.
Get out my Adidas.
Politicalizes.
On the other end of the spectrum possibly you could look at.
Here is this one from Kenny Rogers and Dalley Parton from 1984.
Once upon a Christmas.
Once upon a Christmas far away in Bethlehem.
Merry being great with child and no place to lie down.
So Joseph found a statement in which Mary had her child.
Once upon a Christmas was the birth of Jesus Christ.
Once upon a Christmas in a major far away a key was born.
His palace was a major feel with him.
I don't feel right pulling her voice down.
I never do.
I know we got a show to do here and everything but it just doesn't feel right.
He was just going to keep going.
Yeah.
It really doesn't feel right pulling you a dolly voice down.
It's a little more of a spoken word kind of thing.
Yeah.
With that and stuff.
That was interesting.
I didn't even heard that.
I do remember the special I feel like.
I do remember.
My family big Dalley Parton fans.
If she had a special on we watched it.
We saw it.
I encourage people to find this video because the looks on their faces.
There's a difference between being solemn and being stoic.
She just looked very ticked off.
And until she started singing.
It's like I have to wait.
I want to say no.
Shut up Kenny.
Stop talking.
You know, I listen to stream.
I'm done with it.
It seemed like they wanted to make sure that we understood they were taking this serious.
Right.
Yeah, but they're almost like taking it too serious.
Yeah, right.
It's like it's a great definite definitive between those two.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, really good.
I wouldn't have thought of that.
But I love those two.
Maybe not the most cheery version of that.
A Motown Christmas from various artists from 1973.
That was a classic.
That's a good one.
Really good one.
What's good stuff there?
This one I think a bit of a forgotten one.
Snowfall, the Tony Bennett Christmas album from 1968.
Snowfall, the sun, the gently drift down.
Wow.
A bit more of a jazz feel to it.
Certainly his first love and his first art.
That's right.
He was a jazz singer first.
And that's really cool.
I don't think I've ever heard that before.
That's that's fact.
I don't listen to much Tony Bennett.
It's probably do I, but that's kind of cool.
Another one of those ones in our house.
A lot of Tony Bennett.
A lot of Tony Bennett.
Yeah, I think you'd imagine.
Yeah, you are.
If there was an Italian singer,
we promoted them in our house, yeah.
That's a really good album.
And again, if you are a lover of jazz,
I think that you really dig that album,
especially this time of year.
Coming up next on this was
have a Holly Jolly Christmas from burlives from 1965.
Oh, that would kind of consider more of a standard.
Yeah, that seems to be in like the main rotation.
Like a huge stand.
Yeah, like I don't understand how that would show that.
I mean, I dig it because I am distantly related to him.
So, you know, I want to make sure that gets in there.
Because that never gets dropped at all.
If you don't mention it, I will.
It's fine.
It's fine.
Still, you know, so one of the standards.
I don't know if you can technically celebrate Christmas
without hearing a burlive song.
Right. Exactly.
I'm pretty sure that like,
silvering gold or that one?
Or, yeah, I mean, come on.
But I'm wondering if burlives is one of the voices
of one of the we've kind of lost over the years.
We don't play as much, maybe that's it?
I don't know because I was a little surprised to see that on there.
At number two on this list,
and again, this is not in any chronological order,
just in an order.
From 1963, Johnny Cash, The Christmas Spirit.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day.
They're all familiar carols playing.
And wild and sweet, the word's repeat.
Of peace on earth, goodwill to men.
I can't get enough of him.
And I love Johnny.
You know, there are certain songs that just sound weird.
I mean, it's not bad.
It's just weird hearing him sing it.
It's just, yeah.
I want to hear Johnny Duoh on the manger.
I would like to sing songs.
I just want to hear his version of.
Because I feel like, you know, certain ones, you know, he nailed.
You know, he heard him nail.
We heard him do a good job of it.
Like, some like that.
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's interesting.
Also, I think in this album,
this is the album where he gets to kind of like show off his voice a little bit.
Like just the range wise.
Yeah, a little if I remember that right.
I think it was that album.
And we wrap up, of course, with one of the greatest voices of all time,
Ella Fitzgerald.
Ella wishes you a swing in Christmas from 1960.
The album covers really cool too.
Yeah, that was great.
It's just nuts roasting on an open fire.
Check for a sniffing at your nose.
You take care of being sung by a choir.
And folks dressed up like asking for everybody.
We're going to let Ella play us into the break here.
All right.
But feel free to call up and join the conversation next hour.
Everybody, after our break, we're going to have some fun in that 9 o'clock hour.
We've got good things on the way for you right here with Seth Beth in James,
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