Anything Can Be a Tree Topper (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wizcatson.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us here at WFHR.

Got your host, James Jam behind the mic?

I am joined by our head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.

Good morning.

Our head of production and co-host, Seth Habacker.

Good morning.

And the best listen is in radio.

Thanks for being here, everybody.

We hope you're having a good start to your Monday out there.

Let's go ahead and kick things off with our good friend,

Brittany Relo.

Hopefully.

Brittany, you there?

Yeah, I was afraid of that.

Oh, no.

Brittany said she just messaged me like a second before,

as the intro music was playing, that she's getting a busy signal.

So it wasn't able to message her back right away.

But we do have some flurries.

In man of all the days, we could really use to talk to Brittany.

You know, it's going on.

We will work on that.

Look to get that fixed and get you an update on the forecast right away.

But if you've been listening, been paying attention at all,

the Mother Nature is up to some business today.

So be careful out there.

Now that is an expert take on weather, by the way, everybody.

I do watch the weather channel pretty consistently.

All right.

So that's pretty expert.

You don't get that every day.

Usually you got, you know, the fine tune, you know,

well polished to weather and every day.

The person went to school for it.

Yeah, you know, that whole thing.

Every once in a while, you get by weather.

You get by weather.

Be careful.

I'm sure quarterback.

That's what that's called.

Exactly.

Well done, Melissa.

Nicely done.

Yeah, it's going to be that kind of show.

It's a short week, everybody.

We understand that.

We're going to have some fun with you during it.

We got a couple of places to get a couple of things to get into this morning.

We got the LCAP birthday anniversary club coming up.

That'll be right around the corner.

And also, where do you put your, what do you typically put on the top of your Christmas

street?

Ooh.

I wanted to, I did this story in part because I wanted to hear from you too, but of course

our audience.

I hope the films are working.

Let's hold the film.

They're working.

Yeah, you're open.

Plenty more where that came from.

We'll also get into the 12 days of Christmas and how much they cost.

We haven't done that yet this year.

Okay.

We got to do it every year.

I love it.

Love it.

All that coming up.

Not a clock hour.

We're going to kick things off the way we like to with our kitchen's open segment.

Yeah.

Looking forward to that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We're looking forward to that.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

And we'll have some entertainment news in there for you as well.

And for a wrap up, a couple of other big Christmas topics for you.

The weirdest Christmas movies of all time.

There's a few.

And we got some other random holiday stuff we got to get in because, you know, of course,

these are our Christmas is, of course, right around the corner.

Got to get all of our Christmas stories in.

Get them all in.

And we are a news station.

So while we have to, you know, kind of do serious comedy to start your day,

we try to walk that line of keeping you informed while also, you know,

getting having some fun while we're at it.

We do want to remind all you parents.

And by that, I mean, kids out there.

The Nordic tracker.

Nordic Santa tracker.

I have it up in front of me at NordicSanta.org.

It every year, they update this thing and it looks better and better.

Yeah, they've really like put a nice landing page on there.

Kind of graphics there.

Santa's village.

My goodness.

So I didn't, Fred and I didn't really get any sleep or anything was up pretty early on Saturday.

And I got, I got going and everything.

I started to realize, wait, there's no Saturday morning cartoons.

And I'm looking around and looking around for and I couldn't find them.

We'll talk more about that next week and everything.

But it got me thinking about, but I wasn't, I haven't been nostalgic about many things.

And I don't see kids toys and think, well, I wish they didn't have those kind of toys when I was a kid.

I don't do that really often.

But I look at the Nordic tracker.

They're like, man, that had been cool to have back in the day.

It really would have been.

It's up.

I mean, you could have it up for you.

Not only does it have the Santa tracker countdown, which kids were at 18 hours,

54 minutes and 49 seconds.

Wow.

It is, it is getting to be row time.

Santa's putting in his last workouts right now.

He's just getting that last bit of, you know, and so.

But they've got the chat.

You can chat with radar.

You can do that.

They've got music playing.

Oh my gosh.

It's a shout out.

It is, it is so cool the way that it says.

And I thought that this was quite interesting.

But I don't know about if this is maybe more people know this than I realized.

I did not know where this started.

Where the Nordic tracker became from.

What the history of it was.

And all am I glad I did this at one in the morning last night.

Because like a lot of ideas at one of the morning, it seems like a good idea.

But you don't know until the early morning if it actually is.

Was it really, was it really?

Yeah.

Pancake hat.

What is that pancake?

What was I think you get to in the morning?

Oh no.

That was a circle drip down.

It'll taste good.

I think it's a great idea.

That's an idea that I'm still working up.

Still working up.

You'll be honest with everybody.

But this was a great one.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command or Nordic, Santa Tracker, began in 1955.

And it began when a child misdialled a number in a newspaper ad and reached the Continental

Air Defense Command Operations Center.

Oh no.

Oh that's funny.

Oh my gosh.

That's a coincidental misdial.

Wow.

Colorado Springs newspaper ran an ad from Santa telling children to call a number to

speak with him.

However, the number was misprinted and connected them to the, to the, to the, to the CAD.

So instead, it wasn't the kids fault.

It was the news.

Right.

This part of the ad.

Oh my gosh.

Air Force Colonel Harry Schoep, the commander on duty, answered the call from a young child

who wanted to know where Santa was.

Schoep assured the child that Santa would be safe and the tradition was born.

Look at that.

It's awesome.

Oh my gosh.

That's so cool.

Great thinking by that person.

Very fast, quick thinking.

Yeah.

Awesome.

And it's, it's been done ever since.

Wow.

Wow.

They, they use some incredible high-tech cameras to keep track of this and everything.

That's really cool.

And for those that don't know, Santa's workshop works with Nordic on this, which is a really

cool partnership.

Like that's Synergy 101.

You're, you're just, you're just blowing up both groups right there.

Both groups say, you know, a rising boat raises all that.

That's right.

That's one of my ideas.

I just thought this was a really cool, like, how this all started.

And how many great traditions start kind of accidentally or, or just, you know, that's,

that's quite interesting.

This is a great example, but I love how they just kind of ran with it, you know, just

totally got all in on it.

Now this is where we're at.

It's so cool.

Well, and, and I bring up the Saturday morning cartoons and how some traditions kind

of go away.

We, we understand that.

We've talked about that a lot with, you know, a trick or treating or some of these things.

Matt, this is only getting stronger this, and how, not that they necessarily, obviously,

as you could tell from the story, saw this coming.

But how in line with today's day and age is this where so many of the traditions, this

has been around.

This is pretty much our, our, at least our siblings were kids.

Yeah.

I don't remember if we necessarily had this, we were really little.

No, no.

But it's been around for quite some time.

It has been.

It really has been.

1955.

Yeah.

Longer than you thought.

Yeah.

But it's still, not only is it still a tradition, but it's one that's actually like way, actually

kind of ahead of its time in many ways, that doesn't happen, especially with Christmas

traditions.

That's not, that's just quite interesting.

It really did see that.

That's really cool.

Yeah.

There's a lot to that.

And I'm curious out, let's go ahead and test the phone lights.

Let's go and test them right now.

Let's get this out of the way.

Rip the bad date off.

All right.

All right.

I should go ahead and give us a call.

How long, what are your memories of this?

How long you've been doing this?

And is there anything you'd add to it?

Is there anything you would add to this?

Because I was wrecking my brain.

I'm like, what could I do creatively as a creative?

How could I add to this or anything?

And I got, I got very little.

Yeah.

I really don't have much on this.

It's animated.

They've got elves bopping around on it.

You can choose the language so kids all around the world can use.

That's correct.

Which is so cool.

You can also go on to the YouTube page, the Facebook page.

There's all kinds of social media apps on it and everything.

And I don't want to click on the chatty with radar thing, because I don't want to waste

the accidentally clicked on it.

Let's go ahead and try to take a phone call here, everybody.

Let's see how this goes.

Good morning, you're on the air.

Hi, game.

Hey, bud.

Thanks for calling it.

How you doing?

Good.

Good.

You got a joke for this one?

Yeah.

All right.

Do you know how the Christmas alphabet differs from the vector alphabet?

Huh.

The Christmas alphabet from the regular alphabet.

I don't know.

I don't know.

The Christmas alphabet has no elves.

Christmas alphabet has no elves.

It's a good one.

That's a good one.

But thank you.

Thank you so much for calling and brightening it up our day, buddy.

You have a good morning.

You too.

You're right.

And our phone lines are working.

They're working.

They're working.

Yeah.

Awesome.

Excellent.

We found out in the best way possible.

Yeah.

That's right.

The best listeners radio.

Thank you so much for that.

Yeah.

I would love to hear from you guys about this one.

And of course, a little bit later, we're going to be asking you what you're putting

at the top of your tree.

Top of your tree.

We want to hear that for you.

We want to hear that one too.

All of that coming up for you right here.

Our mornings at WFHR holiday parties are coming up quick.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday.

It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at L Cafe and the Birthday

and Anniversary Club.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

But tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

Yeah.

Head on over to L Cafe with their Birthday and Anniversary Club and wish them a great

day from all of us here at WFHR.

They do have some great specials open this week and I'm double checking here because I

wasn't sure if they'd be open tomorrow and I'm not sure if they are everybody.

I see their specials for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

So after double checking on that one, they might be taking a couple of days off here.

So yeah.

Thankfully, Melissa and I will be here tomorrow.

We'll be able to let you guys know tomorrow how that played out for sure.

For right now, keep in mind that you can make plans.

Head on over to L Cafe, especially if you get done with the holiday here and you want

to have.

I don't want to cook.

I want something good.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Get on over to L Cafe and wish them a great one from all of us, everybody.

Buy local support, local.

And get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

We want them from you.

Send them to info at WFHR.com.

You can get us that way.

You can of course direct messages on our Facebook pages.

Hit us up on WFHR or WIRise Facebook page.

Keep that in mind.

And of course, you can call up.

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715-424-2600.

Colin, wish your happy birthday or anniversary live on air.

Why did I sing that?

Why not?

I don't know what's going on with me today.

We got two possible qualifiers, Seth.

I need a one or two.

One today.

All right.

It gives us the qualifier.

And we dive right into the celebrate.

And then we first up.

One of wish a very happy birthday to Dean Langoff.

Happy birthday, Dean.

Happy birthday, Dean.

Enjoy your day, Dean.

Hope it's a good one for you.

Have a great one.

And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier, Kathy Moran.

Happy birthday, Kathy.

Happy birthday, Kathy.

Enjoy the day, Kathy.

We hope it's a great one for you.

We encourage you to randomly tell people,

as well as telling your friends and families,

exactly.

You're going to be getting together with a lot of people

over the holidays here.

It's a great icebreaker.

Hey, by the way, I was just going right ahead.

Just shoe-hearted in there.

Yeah, just find a way.

Find a way.

Bragg, Bragg, do everybody.

And you guys, I have to brag for a minute.

Can I throw an audible here?

Yeah, sure.

I won an LKFA dinner giveaway.

You did?

I did.

I was just scrolling through their Facebook page.

And five days ago, they posted, here's the winners

for the dinner raffle.

We held this month.

Dinner for one.

Melissa Gaye.

Oh, awesome.

Wait, wait, wait.

You have the winner, Bill.

Yeah.

Another winner, dinner for two Nancy Shore.

And a family dinner for six, Jimmy C.

Oh, right.

Oh, cool.

That's very cool.

And then I've never heard of any of our other local restaurants

doing this.

No, no, I haven't either.

That'd be so cool.

I want a dinner.

I want a dinner.

That's so excited.

Sorry.

That's a beer.

Tear it up here.

That's above a beot.

That's really cool in there.

That's really cool in there.

I don't blame you, Melissa.

No, that's very cool.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't think any of us, I don't think any of us

really are used to winning things very often.

Oh, no.

You win something.

You win something.

I don't care what it is.

Yeah.

It's exciting.

I love that I ran across this right now over here

on the morning show talking about that cafe.

See, I didn't realize.

So you're just finding out right now?

Yeah.

Oh, exactly.

Even better.

Even better.

This is the catch with you, though, Bill,

because you're too good of an actor.

So at first, I'm like, oh, she's,

well, she's really excited about this.

It's like, no, this is real excitement, James.

I am not acting.

That's awesome.

That's really cool.

Congratulations.

And a big tip of that to LKFA.

That's very cool.

That's very cool.

That's pretty good.

Exactly.

That's cool.

Awesome that they're doing that.

And thank you again to everybody who got us these birthdays and adversaries.

Keep in coming, everyone.

We take a look at our celebrity list in a little out of order than usual.

But I have to put this one first.

Actor Harry Sheer is 81 today.

Mr. Sheer is of course famous for, I would say this is spinal tap.

You know, that would probably be the first thing that most people know him from.

He's player for the band, I believe.

Yep, that's right.

But of course, most of us know him as one of the many voices on the Simpsons.

Simpsons beginning one of the originals on the Simpsons.

He was.

Probably most famously Reverend Lovejoy.

He is one of his voices.

Principal Skinner.

Yes.

Mr. Burns.

Oh, God, Mr. Burns.

Yes.

Excellent.

Yes.

In a great comedic writer, a stand-up comedian, all of that.

Like many people on the Simpsons, Harry Sheer.

Well, the actor as well.

He was a, he was in a couple of big movies when he was a kid as well.

So he's had quite a career.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And he appeared on a couple of Dawson's Creek episodes as the school principal.

I didn't know that.

Really interesting.

Interesting.

Art imitating.

Art, I guess.

Yeah.

I think if somebody wanted to tell me this was the greatest soap opera actress of all time,

I would not fight them on it.

The great Susan Lucci is 78 today.

There have been a lot of, a lot of great actors in soap opera history.

A lot of your favorite actors have gotten their start in soap operas.

But there is only one Susan Lucci.

There is only one.

Yeah.

Her acting stands out.

She has stuck with this gig for her whole career.

And of course, famously went quite some time without winning a daytime Emmy until she finally did win one.

Yes.

It was like 12 or 13 nominations before she got one.

Yeah.

I think she's incredible, though.

I think she's a very good actor.

Yeah.

And while yes, I could talk, I could bring up Meryl Streep.

I could bring up Jody Foster, Natalie Portman, or some of my favorite actresses.

None of them have fought a bear.

None of them had to fight a bear on daytime TV and make it look believable.

Oh, good.

Go back and watch that scene.

You look at Susan Lucci, give it to her all for that scene.

I swear to you, I'm not even kidding.

Amazing.

I'm not even kidding.

She just goes all in on it.

Amazing.

You can't ask for much more from an actor that, hey, believe the scene.

Yeah.

And she does.

She does with those.

Telling you know, I'm doing this a little tongue in cheek, but I do want to give respect

to a great legend in daytime TV and she really is.

That's right.

Good actor, too.

All my children.

Yeah.

I never watched that one.

I watched days of my life, our days of our lives for a few years when I was a housekeeper.

True story.

I'm a kid and I asked my Nana why she only watches general hospital.

And she tells me, well, this one's set in a hospital.

It's more realistic.

It's more realistic by this set.

But yeah, with a dead, a straight face, like those other ones are all fake.

Those are all weird.

Those are all fake.

Fake and weird.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know.

One of the better rockers of our generation and songwriters, I think.

Eddie Vetter is 60 today.

Well, Eddie Vetter is 60.

Wow.

Wow.

That hit me.

Oh, 90s kids.

Feel old, everybody.

Yeah.

Feel old.

Great act.

A great, great singer songwriter.

And his had a really, I think, great career solo-wise as well as with Pearl Jam.

Is kind of shown when he can do both ways.

Very distinct voice.

Don't forget about Temple of the Dog or Bad Radio.

Yeah.

Oh, no.

We don't read about that.

How many times WFHR audiences have heard Temple of the Dog because of me or Seth?

That's right.

Yeah.

They're one hit.

And we play it.

Yeah.

Actor Finn Wolford is 22 today.

Oh, my gosh.

He was, he was on, actually, as a young actor was on a, played a page on NBC Senate Live,

which helped him get noticed and get a break onto the, of course, Stranger Things.

Stranger Things.

Yeah.

He's kind of the lead.

As far as the kids go, he's kind of the lead actor of the kids.

I don't know that that's shown necessarily as a lead actor.

David Harbourroll.

David Harbourroll.

Yeah.

No, it's more of an ensemble.

Yeah.

Oh, a Millie Bobby Brown, of course.

Yeah.

That's true, yeah.

Yes, of course.

But he, I would say, I thought of her as an adult.

I have to be honest.

I thought of her and her kid.

The way she plays that character and everything up until later seasons and stuff.

You know, I guess I was thinking of the original carnation, but you're in the first season.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She needs to be mentioned.

Yeah.

Especially because that whole cast is great.

Yeah.

They don't have any weak links on that cast.

It's all great.

Those kids are amazing.

I'm looking forward to seeing what those kids do.

And including him.

He was on Ghostbusters.

And then those.

That's after life.

Yeah.

He's also in the Ghostbusters Frozen.

That's coming out.

Oh, Frozen Empire.

Frozen Empire.

Yeah.

Frozen Empire.

And I don't make, I don't make it, I don't mean, I don't want to make this sound like it's easier

because I don't know.

I'm not a child actor.

So I don't, I don't want to pretend to know.

And I think we do a little bit too much of that in society, including myself raising my hand,

where we, we assume things or we just say things when we think we know what a person's going through or what it's like.

None of us know what it's like to be a child actor.

Oh, no.

But I do think that it is so much better nowadays.

And there's so much more of a success rate and the opportunity for a success rate for a young actor like him.

He's 22.

Like, I mean, the things that he has already accomplished and has, you know, had been thrust into at this age.

Oh, man.

You know, let along with the last season of Stranger Things is coming out.

And that's just going to put that on a whole other level.

Exactly.

I think they have such a better chance than a Drew Barrymore or a Shirley Temple or, you know, just going from multiple different decades and everything.

Right.

Right.

I'm taking a look at this here list.

Let's see, Adrian below from King Crimson is 75.

Oh, great guitarist.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I had to mention him.

Let's see here.

Actor, Annie Marie Perez from Hannah Montana is 34 today.

Oh, geez.

Actor, Spencer Daniels is 32 today, too.

Well, somebody, yeah, somebody from Hannah Montana is 34.

I know.

Oh, man, a second there.

This is just the 90s killing us here.

And some people no longer with us.

Cory Hame.

Cory Hame would have been celebrating a birthday today.

Oh, good.

Because you have a child actor that, you know, not so good things happen to boy.

And I did not see his name on the list.

So I wasn't saying that it's a precursor or anything, but yeah, that is, I mean, everything I was talking about.

Exactly.

And, you know, what saddest is, I'm not going to word this right.

He was in some ways one of the success stories, even though he had a very difficult childhood

and adult, you know, middle early 20s and all that and everything.

The fact that he lived as long as he did.

Yeah.

You know, there's a handful of jobs where we look at it.

We're like, oh, they're still here.

That's great.

So we did this football players nowadays and professional wrestlers and stuff.

And we do it to a degree, which child actors.

Those are the only jobs.

No, but those are some of the bigger jobs that we think of.

And I have to give like Cory Hame and Cory Feldman a lot of credit for coming and letting people know what it's like

and the struggles that they had and being open about it.

Cory Feldman especially has come out and talked a lot about that.

And I think that's, I think given people an idea of how tough it is for child actor was.

And like you said, James, it has gotten better because I think there's been a real effort to make it better for him.

Yeah. Well, with them speaking out and actually like being up front about it,

like this is what really happens.

And people are like, whoa, no, that's not okay.

These are kids.

Yeah.

And one of the earliest acting stories I heard was the way that they would treat Shirley Temple.

And some of the child actors back then, this has been around as long as we've been filming people.

And it's something that's gotten a lot better.

Yeah.

But it's something that we, I don't know that we can ever take our foot off the gas when it comes to this.

This is something that we've always got to be keeping an eye on.

We've always got to be careful of.

We do.

Especially with kids because every, no kid chooses this life.

Okay, I was seven and I knew I wanted to be an actor.

I had no idea.

I had no idea what I wanted.

It had my parents been like, oh, I can't want to be an actor.

Get out there, kid.

And you're going to do it and everything.

And then all of a sudden, like any seven year old in the universe of all time,

like, wait a minute, this is a lot harder than I thought it would be.

Or this is more than I expected.

Or I just want to go play with my toys.

No, you signed a contract.

Get out there and get into your job, right?

That's not cool.

It's gotten a lot better about this.

And it has to be because no child has ever chosen this life.

You can tell me all up and down.

Well, the kid wants it.

The kid wants it.

You can again point to me.

And even then I will tell you, I didn't know what I was asking for.

Because you can't.

You're too young now.

But hey, you can make an argument.

Teenage actors.

It's no different than casting them in these things,

a 13 or 14 or 16 year old, anything like that.

We're not letting them vote.

Don't tell me the thing.

They can know all these things or anything.

And that's not on them.

That's life.

That's just how the way this works.

Yeah.

And if I could just take this in a slightly different direction for a second, James,

it also speaks to how the voice of the people are the ones who said,

no, that's not okay that we're doing this to children.

Because guess what?

Those giant corporations and Hollywood would have continued to take advantage

of these children had the people not stepped up and said, no, this is not okay.

That's right.

So remember, our voice matters.

Yeah.

The child labor laws weren't brought on by the head of MGM.

I knew.

You know, yeah.

No.

And let's look at who is trying to roll back those child labor laws.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Good point.

Never let it be lost in the shuffle here.

Everything is about protecting children.

Everything is about creating a future for them.

Yeah.

That is what this whole game is about.

We are important.

We matter just not as much.

If we're not doing those things.

And because we have more agency than they do, we have more agency because of laws

and everything and also because they're still children and they're still growing up.

Hey.

You like staying up late?

You like being able to jump on the bed?

Like being able to eat junk food late at night?

That's what you get for being an adult.

There's certain things to come with it.

There's certain responsibilities.

That's what you get for being an adult.

Wait a minute.

Jump on that box.

Okay.

I'll give you that.

I think it would break.

I'm not going to.

My folks are out of town.

I don't have much of a life.

This is something.

There's temptations just too strong.

I couldn't help it.

I couldn't help it.

We'll be back with more fun on the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

With the kids jingle belling and everyone telling you be a good cheer.

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

Head to do it.

Snow coming down.

It's perfect.

Head to play along.

Head to play along with Mother Nature.

Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

Thank you so much for playing along with us.

We appreciate you joining the conversation, everybody.

Got fun things lined up for you.

Take it to the top of the hour.

One of them right now.

A new poll asks people what they use for a Christmas tree topper.

And most people go with your average things that you can guess off the top of your head I imagine.

45% of people say that they have some kind of star.

21% have an angel.

Those are the most conventional toppers.

Okay.

We will go through the list here.

But as we are going through this, we would love audience participation.

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And as a side note, want to thank everybody who downloaded the app, who played along last.

Oh, yes.

With a Civic Media text-to-win contest.

That was a lot of fun.

That was a lot of fun.

For sure.

So looking at this poll, 11% of people say something else.

They put on top of their tree.

Oh.

Okay.

6% of us say that they go the bald route.

Nothing on top.

None.

None.

Hey.

Opless tree, so to speak.

No percentage of how many bald people do that.

No many percentage on that.

14% don't even have a Christmas tree.

Oh, well.

2% of people are not sure what they put on top of their tree.

Wait.

Huh.

They don't know what they put on top of their own tree.

Breathe.

What it will.

Yeah.

Okay.

I love that idea.

I don't know.

I mean, I was just dying.

I don't know.

I mean, I could have looked at the top of the tree, but I mean, raising my neck up seems like a lot of effort.

I am a solidarity with my dog.

They can't look up.

I'm not going to either.

I'm like, what are we doing?

Well, how do you not know what's on top of your tree?

They didn't ask what something else might be, but there's a conversation online where people

talk about their unique toppers.

Okay.

And again, we want to hear from you about from yours, but here are some of the more unique ones people are putting up there.

Okay.

Like a bow.

A bow.

That makes sense.

Yeah.

I can see that one.

Yeah.

Not bad.

Let's go ahead and take a phone call.

Good morning.

You're on the air.

Hello.

Hello.

Okay.

Let's try again here.

Good morning.

You're on the show.

Yeah.

It's a kid growing up.

We had a glass ornament about three inches in diameter, six inches tall.

Came to a spike and had a hole in it.

Actually was made for the top.

Oh.

I remember those.

Oh, I think I know what he's talking about.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Those are cool.

That works well.

I forgot about that.

That's a little different.

Thank you for that, sir.

Yeah.

Have a good morning.

Keep those calls coming.

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Join the conversation.

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We actually have an oddball story coming up in a little bit here that one of our listeners just texted it.

Yeah.

I saw this one.

We got to talk about that one.

Okay.

Awesome.

Awesome.

Good morning.

You're on the show.

Before we get off topic here, I want to say Merry Christmas to you and your families out there.

Oh.

And now hopefully everybody has a great and happy Christmas.

Yeah.

Oh, thank you, too.

Awesome.

Yeah.

Appreciate that, Kevin.

Appreciate the call.

Now I'm going to need you to save your voice because I'm alone on playmakers tonight.

I'm going to need somebody to call it up.

Did you guys have a traditional thing that you put on top of your tree or did you think of?

I mean, obviously we had the traditional, you know, the star.

You know, at one time we had a white one, all white.

Why was colored?

But right now it's not top of my tree.

It's a homemade angel that my mom did.

That much she was doing her graphene and all that.

I mean, it's not lit up or nothing like that.

It's a beautiful angel that she made.

And that's it's not top of my tree right now.

It's a piece of stuff.

That's a good one.

Very cool.

That's really cool.

That's a good one.

Yeah.

That's cool.

And then you're as Merry Christmas and happy holidays as well, sir.

You have a good one.

Steve travels out there, especially today, man.

Be careful.

Yeah.

Yes, but now Merry Christmas, everybody.

Thank you.

Merry Christmas.

Appreciate you.

Nothing like those homemade ornaments.

Those are the best because they have all the memories that are attached to them.

So we made a star.

The first star that we had on our tree and everything.

We made one by sister and I and we used that for a long time.

I don't know what I think we've lost in one of the moves, you know, but we did use that for a long time.

All right.

Getting more calls.

Oh, wow.

I love it.

I love it.

Good morning, you're on the show.

Good morning.

I would like to turn some graces then.

Oh, perfect.

Oh, okay.

Just one second here.

Let me, we'll get those in.

All right.

Ready.

December 26th.

Marv M-A-R-V Fuller.

Marv Fuller.

Oh, okay.

Very after.

Two days after.

Carol Mindy M-O-N-G-E.

Oh, okay.

And the 30th Bill Fuller.

Okay.

All right.

A little bit of the camera.

Well, the 7th birthday is nice.

Yeah.

Got those written down.

We will add them to the list.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

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Everybody call up and join the conversation.

So the first one.

So it's done.

Okay.

First one on there is a bow.

Okay.

Okay.

Next to snowflake.

That makes sense as well.

Yeah.

We've seen these before.

You can make a snowflake kind of like a star too.

Yeah.

I've seen snowflake stars.

Yeah.

That's right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How about Rudolph's head?

Wait a minute.

Whoa.

Oh.

Oh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Curve ball.

Yeah.

Santa hat or Santa Claus's head up there?

Santa hat.

That's a good one.

Yeah.

It's a little weird.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know, but I really like the Santa hat though.

I like that.

I like that one.

I've never seen that.

There is also somebody that puts our last name initial.

Oh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They're wriggling your own tree.

I really like that one actually.

That's a good one.

I like that.

Cut up toilet paper rolls covered in glitter.

So, these are some people that are just kind of, you know, early Christmas.

Early Christmas.

Yeah.

Still working out this stuff out and everything.

Yeah.

What they five year old made to tap the tree.

I mean, that's okay.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Exactly.