Episode Transcript
Happy Monday, Happy couple days before Christmas. It's the B
ninety three Morning Show. I'm Ali Mack, you the Mike.
Here's five point fifty six three things you should know today.
Good news if you got to travel through Grand Rapids
for the holidays. This week, the rams connecting westbound one
ninety six to southbound one thirty one and also northbound
one thirty one to eastbound one ninety six are back open.
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Now this is temporary. M DOT is reopening them as
a temporary fix following that big semi crash that caused
major damage. They're expecting a full repair by April, so
not the last we are going to hear of this,
probably opening and closing or opening and closing. Travel around
Christmas should stay mostly smooth, mild temperatures and only occasional
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slick spots from some melting snow this week. So that's
looking pretty good. But you know, we got a couple days,
so we'll keep our eye on it. Now. You may
have heard this news floating around that Christmas Eve is
now a federal holiday. Not so fast, not for all
of us. President Trump did sign an executive order making
Christmas Eve and also Christmas Day federal holidays for this year,
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only giving federal employees two days off around Christmas. The
change applies to federal offices and not private businesses, banks,
or state and local governments. Now, if you got a
nice boss who wants to comply with this, maybe you
do get an extra day off this year. But extra
holiday time for federal workers is not a new thing.
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It's happened before. But getting two additional days off around
Christmas is kind of a rare move. I'll take it.
Not for all of us, not everybody, not you and me,
at least, and we'll get the two days. Yeah. For
the fourth time in five years. Farris State football national
champs once again, Go Bulldogs. They beat Herding forty two
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to twenty one in Texas, finishing a perfect sixteen and
oh season. At least somebody's winning football games around here.
They are earning dynasty status. It's the first perfect season
by any Division one Division two football team. Way to go, gentlemen.
That's three things you should know. Here's one you probably shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Here are the top most annoying songs of twenty twenty five,
according to seat pick data. I didn't come up with
this list. I am not saying I agree with this list.
I'm just telling you the list. Sugar Talking and Tears
by Sabrada Carpenter are tied for number one. The Dead
Dance by Lady Gaga David Ghetta and See a Beautiful
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People Luke Dean and Omar Make Believe. Just keep watching
Tate McCrae, Dreaming by Dom Dalla and Daya Ed Sheeran
as I Am The Days, I don't even know the
song The Days.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, number nine, I don't even know this song.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I'm surprised, but also a little not I guess because
only because pop song gets pop songs get played very quickly,
very fast.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I don't recognize a lot of these by just the
title alone.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
But like if you showed me a TikTok the.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Sugar I'm talking, I'm pretty, or no, that's sugar on
my tongue. Never mind, that's a different song, No, never mind,
None of these are on on.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I listened to that Sabrina Carpenter album a lot when
it came out. Yeah, and I like that song.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, uh yeah. But I think you're a different kind
of music listener than the average listener. You listen to
everything yeah, and I think some people like, well just
listen to like they have a routine listen and so
if they just listen to pop music, then they get
fed a lot of Sabrina.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Carpenter no country songs on that list though. Yeah, so
we're looking pretty good, said beat ninety three Sports.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
The Red Wings beat the Capitals three to two. MS,
you beat Oakland, I'm gonna tell you the good news first, MS,
you beat Oakland seventy nine to seventy. You have then
beat lasal one O two to fifty, and then the
Lions lost twenty nine to twenty four.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
What happened to them?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I'm not the conspiracy theory guy to well, yes i am,
but not in this case. Gonna go, Hey, it's the
refs because at some point, like we can't blame the
ref there were a couple of penalties on us in
a couple of plays.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Where we should have had it.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
However, I've never seen a game end like that. They
called the offensive pass interference that was there needs to
be I think after this year there's going to be
more of the not AI refs, but something similar to that.
It's gonna be more leaned on that because there's a
couple of calls in there that were like.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
The last couple games, it's been that way though. Yeah. Yeah,
Thanksgiving game, there was some weird calls.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, and it's not like ever. Even the NFL is posting.
The NFL the league itself is posting, We've never seen
a game end like this.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, that's an anomaly for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
They still have a chance to go to the playoffs,
still have a chance. But what has to happen is
the Packers have to lose every single game and we
have to win every single game.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, it's not impossible. No, just looking less and less likely.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Piston's played Portland today nine thirty five pm. You can
hear that on our sister station. Ninety six won the game.
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