December 9, 2025 • 41 mins
QUESTION DU JOUR: What Do You Really Love About Our Winters.... Sarcasm Encouraged
TRENDING: National Christmas Card Day: How to Write the "Perfect Holiday Card"
BETCHA DIDN'T KNOW: A doctor diagnosed the injuries that the two Wet Bandits suffer during "Home
Alone" and "Home Alone 2", and figured out 23 of those injuries would've killed them.
TUEDAY MORNING MORON AWARD: A Canadian Guy Using a Snow Blower Assaulted Someone With Snow
TALK TO THE MAYOR TUESDAY: Visit With Grand Forks Mayor Brandon Bochenski
ONE MORE THING: The Top "Soft Skills" That Can Land You a Job in 2026
Originally Aired: Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
TRENDING: National Christmas Card Day: How to Write the "Perfect Holiday Card"
BETCHA DIDN'T KNOW: A doctor diagnosed the injuries that the two Wet Bandits suffer during "Home
Alone" and "Home Alone 2", and figured out 23 of those injuries would've killed them.
TUEDAY MORNING MORON AWARD: A Canadian Guy Using a Snow Blower Assaulted Someone With Snow
TALK TO THE MAYOR TUESDAY: Visit With Grand Forks Mayor Brandon Bochenski
ONE MORE THING: The Top "Soft Skills" That Can Land You a Job in 2026
Originally Aired: Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Trevor d Mini Morning Show podcast no available through
Google Play, iTunes and the iHeartRadio app Excel ninety three
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Morning special.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Why what's today?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Christmas card day?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You've been getting any in the mail? Yeah? Did you
get my car? You want a Christmas card? You want
a Christmas card? All right, here here's my Christmas card.
That's such a fun Christmas card. And what about your
Christmas card?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Christmas card?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Thank you for the Christmas car showtime all over the
past hour. Parents, students both sides of the river most
likely got their alerts. But just in case, I will
reiterate on grand Ports Public and grand Ports Air Force
based schools are canceled for today. Fork's doing virtual learning.
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Maybe a good day to work in the Christmas cards?
Send up those holiday cards? Did you know? I know?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We do?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Bet you did? Note seven thirty five. The tradition of
sending Christmas cards began in England eighteen forty three. Sir
Henry Cole wanted a way to send a holiday greeting
to his friends without having to write individual letters. So
we had illustrated cards made printed with the words A
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you. What
do you do with all the holiday cards you get?
Do you put them out? Do you have a Christmas
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tree card display like we do at our house. Throw
them in a box, basket, open them, toss them. That
seems harsh. People put time and effort into that, so
make a difference if they're photo cards versus traditional cards,
and it just just be happy to get one. The
National Pastry Day, good day to make some sweets in
the kitchen. If here at home today, be productive with
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your day. If you're at home today, all right, we
put the forecast off long enough. Winter storm morning snow
this morning, possibly mixing with freezing rain this afternoon. Snow
could be heavy at times, Patchy blowing snow in issue too.
Look for a high today of thirty degrees. Snow snow
accumulation for the Grand Forks area two to four inches
possible to night. Patchy blowing snow before midnight eleven and
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plustery north winds will gust to forty Wednesday, chints of
snow in the morning mostly Claudis sixteen and then for
throwback Thursday, chance of snow most to Claudy fourteen Friday,
mostly Sunday can begin a really cold weekend. H have
only four o buff looks like we've got to about
eight thirty to the moderate snow gets rolling here just
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looking at my weather app as I speak right now,
But it's coming. It's inevitable. That's what warning means, watches
or telling you there's a chance. Warning means it's happening,
which snow morning in effect through tomorrow. So if you
can put off your travel, be smart. No need to
travel today or tomorrow, especially if you're leaving your respective cities.
(02:57):
Tak the Mayor Tuesday bull up A, we're gonna have
a good get together today. Tak to Mayor Tuesday, Brandon
Pachensky on eight o'clock. About another hour to get me
those questions. We'll get into our question of the day
coming up. Four packs of tickets so far the undie
basketball game on tonight against Bizmarck States. Win your tickets
and we're going to begin here later this hour. Day
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Dhi Sweet Street. But first, or here's what you missed highlights?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
How about you read.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
TV, the entertainment world and whatever. Here's what you missed
on Excel ninety three.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
All right, here's what you missed highlights. A millennial therapist
named Mary Beth Smitch going viral for asking boomers why
do they keep family news a secret from their grown kids?
Glad to see this is the thing and it wasn't
just something at Trevor's house still in progress. I'm going
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to play the part of the boomer parent.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Well, Graham's been on life support for the last week
and it's not looking good.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So we wanted to wait until we knew for.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Sure that it wasn't looking good.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Till we called okay, we're back now.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I understand protecting your children from information that may not
be developmentally appropriate when it comes to illness with family members,
but these are adult children now. The lack of communication
regarding important family health events has not only increased their
anxiety now because they don't trust that you'll tell them,
but it's resulted in a fracture in your relationship or
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a breach of trust.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Kind of got to the point where I just expected
not to get the information until I really needed to know.
It was frustrating at first, and maybe even ten years ago,
I thought it'll come Mom and Dad will eventually let
me know. But I'm glad to see this is a
normal thing, not just my family. Therapists asking why boomers
keeping big news a secret from their adult children, I exhale. Today,
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I'm going to chalk that up as a win. We're
all in the same boat. Well, we're on in the
same boat every single winter. Some winters are better than others.
We get our good days or bad days, or good
weeks or bad weeks. We had a very good November,
if you like mom weather, and right after our holidayzel parade,
we went right winter blast mode. Clippers every single day.
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We hear the Alberta clipper term all the time. There's
also a Saskatchewan maller and a Saskatchewan screamer excuse me,
and then the Manitoba maller. All seem to get clumped
into Alberta clippers. But what it means is called normally
snow one to three inches every time the winds follow.
This is kind of a super clipper this time around,
And just making up my own name, A little more
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snow than the per usual but winter storm morning in
fact through six am. As I mentioned, no school for
Grand Forks virtual day for a virtual learning day for
east Side, most town schools would be called off today too.
Links up at xcelmenti three dot com for road reports,
updated announcements and more. But my question of the day,
what do you really love about winter in the Upper
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Red River Valley? And sarcasm is strongly encouraged today. Strongly,
Nancy says, absolutely a door where Narnia meets frozen in
the Upper Red River Valley. There's nothing like the gentle
caress of minus forty degree wins to wake up your
soul and freeze its solid. It's the only time of
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year I get to wear my entire wardrobe at once.
Fashion and frostbite. What a combination. Well done, good start,
let's say rolling in on the Trevity Facebook page. Oh
my buddy in the next studio. Thank you. Dave sitting
at work answering silly questions on Facebook. You do have
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more time, don't you in the winter months. You're not guilty, well,
I mean now we're guilty to get outside and move snow,
which just seems like a dramatic waste of our minutes outside.
But you've got to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Far.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Jay was here today. You may beg to differ. He'll
be back with me. I think Thursday morning he'll be
on this afternoon question of the Day, What do you
really love about winter in the Upper Red River Valley?
Sarcasm strongly encourage well. Taylor Swift heading back to a
Late Night with the Lake Show with Stephen Colbert, announcing
her appearance for tomorrow night in a teaser that ends
with Swift smiling and a card again and saying hey, Stephen.
(07:25):
The show put together a playful reel of Colbert dancing
throughout the Late Show to Taylor's song Opalites, building up
major excitement. Her visit, of course, comes just before the
debut of her six part eras tour docu series and
Disney Plus on Friday. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
airs ten thirty in our Central time zone and streams
on Paramount Plus the next day. But that's right, we
are three sleeps away from Taylor Swift's eras to our docuseries.
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Can you sleep? Because I can't even I know. I
need to calm down. We'll get into our wintery question,
does your next You're listening to accent Nutty three, excel
Nutty three.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, hey.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Stop the front door?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Am I calling number nine? Hang on?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Here? Will be back here.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
All right? Front doors closed? Yeah, you're a winner. Awesome,
you're going to oops you a need men tomorrow taking
down Crown College. And I've got a romise Guy's gift
card for you too. Album What's your name?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Kimberly.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Kimberly questioned, is your today? What do you really love
about winter in the Upper Red River Valley? And sarcasm
is strongly encouraged. Oh yes, completely, What do you love?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
How much snow?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
More snow than the merrier?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Oh yeah, definitely. Is it funny like you see storms
places like Buffalo, New York. They'll get slammed with three
feet of snow, and then a week later it's all gone.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Then we get snow on its days.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It might be here till next December.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It's funny. No matter how big the piles get, somehow
they all disappear.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Surprisingly, probably not till June, but it works.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It's still I mean, fourth of July. Am pretty confident
I can say it will be snow free Labor Day.
I don't want to make your promises, but fourth of
July I'm confident. Jimberly, what station's bound to be your you?
Indie basketball and Rombus Guy's connection. Thankscel nenty three the
(09:34):
Forks in music station. My question of the day today,
winch storm morning in a fank Grand Forts calling off
school today. Grand Forks are first base as well East
Grand Forks doing virtual learning, most out of town schools.
I mean, hopefully you've got your alerts and announcements. Most
out of town schools doing virtual learning or of called
off school in our immediate area as well. Today as
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the snow approaches, looks like about an eight thirty snow
start time in the Grand Forks area at least last
I saw sarcasm strongly encouraged today, so we can all
stay same with winter storm number one? What do you
really love about winter? I think you should grow older.
It's just more frustrating. You've shoveled more, You've blown out
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more driveways, gone inside, got comfortable, kick the feet up,
took your shower, and then the plot comes by to
plowing your driveway again. What do you really love about winter?
Chris says, what's not to love about winter here? The
endless snow provides a great excuse not to see the
in laws. Sorry, can't make it. Might get snowed in
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until April, and who needs a gym membership? And you
get a full workout just shovel juggling your driveway every
single morning. Got to be careful of the herd attack snow,
the wet snow, and we could have some wet snow here,
especially as temperatures warm as the day progresses today. But
it is a good workout, that's for sure. You come
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in on the cold day and you're just dripping sweat,
got three four layers on when you go outside, and
it is a good workout, good job as we try
to stay same, calm, cool, collected as we get ready
for the first winter system of the year. Jeff just
has watched my kids play in the snow, Amanda. I
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love when my snot and tears freeze to my face.
It's the best. I'd give you two lol emojis for
that one. If I could oh bryce able to utilize
the outside to keep my bush light nice and cold.
I'm going to give you a hug emoji for that one.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
For listening to West Fargo today. That is wisdom right there. See,
there are some positives almost the middle of December, if
I can try to give you a couple of positives here.
The days start getting longer here in a couple of weeks,
a little less than two weeks. And I always give
the first day of Spring being our lepperconn Loop Saint
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Patrick's Day weekend, and that's in reality just about three
months away. So we did shorten our winter with a
very nice November. Does that help? Does that help it all?
Maybe a little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
And I am not trending test tag trending on Excel
nighty three?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
How are you doing to those Christmas cards? Do you
do them anymore? Do you do the easy things than
a mass emailed people national Christmas Card? Day? Today? You're
at home, you're stuck at home today. You don't have
to deal with the moving of the snow, or you've
got to break in between good day to work on
that if they're sitting there, because we're sixteen sleeps from
the big day. Guys, Now, if you're new to this,
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maybe it's been a wild time. Dot COM's got an
article out and how to write the perfect holiday card.
Here are some of the highlights. What do you do?
Decide what kind of card you want to send. What
do you hope it will accomplish to deliver a general
holiday cheer, express gratitude, reconnect with old friends, bill an
extended family on what's been happening now? Ideally you get
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the gears rolling on this before December ninth, so today's today.
Personalize it, even for sending cards in bulk, try to
personalize each one in some small way. You can keep
it brief, maybe tack on a quick line like we
hope your new job's going well. It's nice. How to
write the perfect holiday card? Have some fun with it.
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You've seen or given cars that are generic, so make
it more fun by doing something unique or adding personality.
It also brings it be more memorable at a surprise.
This is an extra touch you can add if you
have a more selective list and aren't sending hundreds out.
It's funny we order like eighty cards, and in my mind,
at least we're in contact with eleven people over the
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calendar year. All right back to it here. Include the dates.
A lot of people save cards. Make sure you incl
the date, especially if you including photos, a letter or
family update. Decorate the envelope. There's a little creative flare
if you do that, maybe find some fun stamps in
search in the correct way. The fold should always point downward,
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and as you look back of the envelope, look at
the back of the envelope. The front of the card
should be facing you. I don't know why us as guys,
just if we're the ones doing it. It's a guy
doing It's lucky it's even in the mail. But we
get that card. I'm not saying it's very either. Double
check names, the ultimate holiday card, faux pause, getting the
recipient's name wrong. If only, don't worry if you don't
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get it out in time. It's the thought that counts.
I don't worry if it ends up being a New
Year's card. Don't let it stretch you out. Sending cards,
we send a bunch to relatives here in the US,
friends in the United States, and then the Canada. Cards
for whatever reason, sometimes can take two months to get there,
so it's kind of fun. You're not expecting anything. Nothing
fun comes in the mail after the holidays are done,
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minus whatever Amazon orders you're shipping to your house. Get
a holiday card on Browndhog Day. This is Merry Christmas.
Maybe maybe we're being early for next year. Think of
it like that National Christmas Card Day. How to write
the perfect holiday card? The lesson I shared with you
is up at axcelnety three dot com The Chevity page.
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Speaker 1 (15:21):
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That is interesting, maybe not equally interesting, but in fact
done the last betch She didn't know. Thomas Jefferson and
Aaron Burrd tied in the eighteen hundred presidential election, and
that left it up to Congress to pick the president,
and they voted for Jefferson. Yeah, Aaron Burr kind of
got host. Betch didn't know. Prisoners in France do not
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wear uniforms and are instead able to buy normal clothes.
The uniforms were abolished there in nineteen eighty three. If
they can't afford to buy their own, they can request
free clothing, which is provided by charities. I wonder if
you have to wear the same thing though every day
we got cartoon would in jail? All right to sounds
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sophisticated here as we talk art, I bet you didn't know.
The Red Vineyard at Aries is the only name Vano
painting that's known to sold in his lifetime that he's
known to solve. Two have Solten's lifetime. The Red Vineyard
at Arles excuse me, Rles A R L E s
the only name Fango painting that's known of Sultan's lifetime.
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It's sold for four hundred francs in eighteen knotty, which
is roughly the equivalent of twenty five hundred dollars today.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I know.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And Finally, let's talk home alone. I bet you didn't
know what doctor diagnosed the injuries that the two Wet
Bandits suffered during Home Alone and Home Alone two and
figured out twenty three of those injuries would have killed them.
The Wet Bandits more powerful than we thought they were, now,
you know, excel Nutty. Three, Hi, Hey, HEYI oh you
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have a fan a fan girl? Two nice? Yeah, yeah,
Hello you guys. What's your name? Names Brittany for carry
and Brittany carrying Britney. Question is your today? What do
you really love about winter in the Upper Red River Valley.
Sarcasm strongly encouraged the snow it's no weather, it's cold.
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The fact too, that it's not just like a three
day thing, like there's so many places on the country
or they get a snowstorm and then it's sixty degrees
and three days. We're lucky where the snow that's going
to fall today is going to be here till probably
optimistically Saint Patrick's day, probably probably.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
In the Kansas school today, so I'd have the day
off to the day off.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I work today.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I work today.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I work today too. You I'm the one who gets
to go to work and tell everyone they don't have
to go to work. Yeah, I work eighty noon. But
although I may be a little slower than I used
to be, I still do serve a purpose. I am.
I'm not quite obsolete yet old but not obsolete, serving
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a purpose. Telling you guys to take it easy today,
get off the roads, won Brittany? All right? All right,
Brittany and Carrie, there's the three stockings. We're gonna select
a stocking. Get you your share in DHI Sweet Treat
Deliciousness today? One, two or three? Which one? Am I
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ripping down?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Pick Brittany, let's just got a one?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
A three?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Pick one? She wants the ball? All right, well, grab
won off the wall here. Let's see. Let's dump thish
out Congratulations.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
You want sixty dollars from DHI Sweet Street Happy twelve
days of Potagetty's from Excel ninety three.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
That's sweet on a winter stormy day. Sixty dollars. Sorry,
I love the enthusiasm. Crank it up. What station has
the most the most holiday treats to give away? Guaranteed?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I can't because ex for the Brion. Let me put
it this way.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You're Tuesday morning, moron A warning has Laura on my
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Speaker 2 (20:24):
Do this, dear kids, they love it. They're cranky neighbor
not so much. They've probably been out with a snowblower
and accidentally. I think the term is blowing yourself where
your fire the snow. It hits the forty mile an
hour winds, hitching the face and it's just a It's
like a cold shower coming in. Don't recommend trying this
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at home. A fifty seven year old guy in Canada
facing charges for using a snow blower to assault another
person with snow. It happened in the town of Susaint Marie.
In case you don't have a geography minor from the
University of North Dakota like I do, it's on the
Michigan border. Now. This happened Saturday, but cops didn't get
called about it till the next day. The guy was
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apparently using a snowblower when he got into some sort
of argument with the person. Then he intentionally spun it
around sprayed them with snow. Cops said the person wasn't hurt,
but wanted to press the charges, so the rest of
the guy for assault. He's doing cord February nine, Domson, Canada,
arresting the guy for assaulting before assault after he got
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into an argument when someone used a snowblower to shoot
snow at him. Don't shoot snow at somebody with the snowblower,
you get polke an eye out. I think it says
that on the back of the snowblower and the little
fine print. Look at your snowblowers when you're firing those
up later today. That's our sixth trip to Canada. We'll
get this guy. The Tuesday Morning Moron.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
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Speaker 2 (22:01):
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Every other Tuesday eight a m XL ninety three, as
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bon Shensky. On a snow.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Day, Good morning everybody. Yeah, I'm looking out my window
right now. It doesn't quite look like a snow day yet,
but it's definitely common.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
It's common. It's there's too many times where Grand Forks
seems to be a snowstorm target. We've the fork in
the river, as you know, keeps tornadoes away from the city,
but it conversely sucks in the winter systems.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Science I think's proven that it's got to be true.
I don't know. Sometimes they break up as they had
had eased over Devil's Lake, and sometimes they just get stronger.
So maybe it's something to do with the Devil's Lake
just west of us.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Oh, it's common. Last I checked, it looked like we're
gonna get rolling with the snowbodyator eat but we'll see
it's coming. It's common.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
But yeah, that's going to blow around this afternoon, so
strap that down all the hatches. But what are you
ready for it?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
When you're in charge of Gotham Junior, which a lot
of us are starting to call Grand Forks. You're going
to work today. City is fully functional.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yes, the city will be open.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
My philosophy has generally been the people that would be
at the highest risk are going to have to be
at work anyway. So our snowplow drivers are police, our
fire our waterworks people, so they're going to be in
the office. We're going to do our darterists to make
sure we're working as well.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
So and you were before I just cut you off.
You're going to say mayors and radio personalities.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Yes, I know, we're also working. So that's that's not
on the list of stay home today.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
We're not on the important list though, we're just working.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I would say those that are, we're going to have
the most important. So there we go. We're too important
to not have the day off.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
So now I feel better coming to work and telling
everyone else they don't have to go to work today.
But now I feel better.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I'm glad I can help you out with that.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
We're important, aren't we, buddy?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
We go to tell ourselves.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
All right, let's let's jump in get some winter related
stuff to talk about. But we'd like to start with
city council aftermath.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, last night we did it. We're getting down there
kind of the end of the year. So we had
a couple budget amendments. We were very fortunate to get
a grant to pay for our police breathing or sorry,
fire department breathing apparatuses, so we had some budgetary room
to get some different vehicles for public works and for
the police Department, so we passed that. Last night we
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talked a little bit about the water treatment plant downtown,
but it was a fairly click meeting, quick and easy.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Well, let's jump into winter storm number one upon us
for the season. Here we go. Didn't you correctly predict
December ninth would be our first winter storm? Take credit?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I can't remember what I predicted. I think I said
it at least be a white Christmas, so we're going
to have.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
That's why I want to give you props again for
keeping it nice out for the Holly Dazzle parade. It
was a gorgeous evening, fifty two degrees of parade time.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
There was people were in shorts.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I was blown away.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
It didn't quite have that same Christmas field, but I
think somehow we were all okay.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
With that when you're waiting an hour before the parade
starts outside. I'll take fifty two degrees every year. Can
I put it in an advanced order for twenty twenty six?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I think we need the parade, the fifty degrees for
the parade, and then we need a light snow and
like you know, twenty eight degrees for the tree lighting.
But it's hard to get that to happen within an
hour or two.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Hey, it's Grand Forks. I'm telling you one hundred to
one chance is much better than that that it can
happen here.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
So it's going to happen anywhere be here, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
For winter storm number one of the season. Are we
required to move our vehicles up the street? Any other storm?
Day needs to nose for the public today, well, the.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Best thing is, you know, know if you're on the
snow emergency rale if that gets called. That's mainly in
the downtown area. Biggest thing is on the street cleaning days.
Gets your cars move there because they'll utilize those days
as well to push the snow further up and out
of the way. Other than that, it's it's generally business
as usual. Drive careful. There's going to be plows, there's
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going to be trucks out putting out dirt, so so
be aware of that and take care of yourself.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Grand Force mayor brand Batchansky keeping us safe today. By
the way, I've got some BBBPPT breaking sports news. The
un D basketball game against Bismarck State has been canceled
for tonight. The UNDIE women's game has been canceled. This
just dam oh bummer.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I know that. I think all the extracurriculars are canceled.
So that Red River Central hockey game that autit. I
know my son was looking forward to going to I
believe is going to be canceled as well.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah, that's those are the rules now. The schools of
schools off sports is off.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Too, and that does make sense. You know, if you
if if it's too bad to go to school, you
really shouldn't be. Uh, you know, those extra curriculars are
extra by nature. Keep sometimes we forget that.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Another wintery questioned as your today, are the outside city
ice rinks open yet? It's kind of a two folded question.
Do they have regulated hours? And then part three? Can
we make a skating trail on the red River?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Hey, I would love to see the skating trail. Maybe
not on the red River. I know there's different flows there.
We could probably find an area, but I think, uh,
you know, there's got to be maybe to Cooli'd be
a better place for it if we could figure a
way to you know, connect that and loop it around somehow.
But the outdoor hockey rinks, you know, park districts, the
one that manages those. I think that they're starting to
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get those open, and really it's the warming houses. So
you know they've got warming houses on several of them.
When those clothes you can you know, you're generally going
to clear other but you can keep playing all night
if you want to. Just don't like the neighbors up. So.
I know when I was a kid, I spent quite
a few late hours out on the hockey rink freezing
my toes.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Off, and those late hours guarantee you're going to be
an NHL superstar. So kids get out there, hit the
ice rinks outside.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I think the only thing that guarantees is that you're
going to have some frozens not and some frozen toes.
That's about all I you can guarantee you that. But
you can have a good time whether you make it
to the big leagues or not. That's just all bonus
and gravy from there, all right.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Normally I don't put the barway up high like that.
I'm sorry, I apologize. Thanks for the reality check, buddy.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I just don't want everybody, you know, thinking that that's
the only way to get there, you know, But mom.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Trevor and Brandon said I've got to play hockey outside
till midnight every night.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Oh the math hypothermia that we'd be responsible for.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
See, and that's why you're the mayor. I'm just radio
guy here spouting off stuff about stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Here. We got the ying and the yang. We're good.
I like it.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Storm days. Who designed when roads and interstates are closed.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Well, when it comes to the city within the city limits,
they don't really there's not traditional road closures. The dot
outside of city limits is going to be responsible for
those road closures, so Highway to the interstate, that's going
to be the state of North Dakota. The school closure.
So people are kind of wondering how does this all work.
Usually there's a meeting. There was a meeting yesterday afternoon
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and then everybody kicked it to five thirty this morning.
That'll be und the base, the public schools, the city
of the county, I kind of all get together and
then they let people know what their plans are if
they're going to close or not. So that took place
at five point thirty this morning, and ultimately that decision
came forward with the public schools that they were going
to close, and I think the base made that decision
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as well. So if you're ever wondering how that comes
together and why different entities might not all be closed
or open, it really depends upon their function and decisions
that are made in those meetings.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
You know, I brought mine glad, I brought this sound
effect my fanny pack to work with me today.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
The more you know, I remember those Oh, I remember
those commercials back in the day.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
That's fantastic. Grand Forts Mayor Brandon pachenski E Learning Day
east Side School canceled at Grand Fort side of the River,
and U and D is closed again today, and I'm
sure that helps to lead to the cancelation of the
Undie women's basketball game.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Two.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
All right, non snow related question. I heard Macy's maybe
returning to Columbia Mall. Is that a fact?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Macy's is under contract, it's not with the Columbia Mall owners,
so it would be great to see some development, their
spark development across the rest of the building. So I
see it as a as a positive. Sounds like it
hasn't closed yet, there's some contingencies, but there is a
new buyer that's interested in doing something there, So pretty exciting.
You got a walk before you run with that mall,
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so hopefully we'll start start moving towards something better than
what it is today.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's the first positive mall news we've had in a
long time. I like that a lot.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah, normally we're talking about the you know, the moon
craters around that ring road. So this is a positive.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Question of the day today. We're into rapid fire high
I believe sadly this is our mid season finale here,
our twenty twenty five finale before the holiday, so I've
got to hit you with a Christmas themed rapid fire today.
But our question of the day today, what do you
really love about winter in the Upper Red River Valley?
And sarcasm is strongly encouraged.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Oh, I love it that when I go out to
start my car in the morning, that I question whether
I really want to live here every morning for six
months straight.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
We do, don't we? This is my last I try.
I've had enough of this.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah, And I let my daughter and my wife park
in the garage, so I'm I'm gonna get out there
every morning and start that thing up, and I hope
it's start and then headed the work guarantee. Ye, you
get to fee alive.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Guaranteed when I get home today too and fire up
that snowblower first time in over a year. Now, I
may drop the word fudge. Although I just might not
say the word fudge. I may say something else.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Oh, I think I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Like maybe milk, chocolate, or I don't know something. Something
would come to mind.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
The old shut the front door, son of a biscuit. Yep,
I know those words.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Grand folks. Mayor Brandon of a chance, get ready for
some rapid fire. Absolutely, let's get people fired up for
the true reason for the season. Here here we go.
First thing that comes to mind, what does the mayor
ask Santa for this year?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I'm a kind of simple guy, like new socks, So
that's one of the things I always ask for, is
a good pair of new athletic socks.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Real versus bake. When it comes to Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I love real, but we got a fake one.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
You can't put a real one up like we do
ours early November. It would be nothing but like Charlie
Brown for you by now.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yep. And you never know, you know, you can have
put a squirrel living in there and it comes out
later and it causes all kinds of hijinks at the house,
so we've we've got a fake one, and I did
some repairs to make sure all the lights were this year,
so even even those needs some work.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I've seen that squirrel thing happen too. You're not the
only one who's seen it.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Favorite thing to eat and drink during the holiday season.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I'm a big fan of ham, so any good Christmas
ham does it for me and drink. You know, I
like to think of a warmer time, so I might
have to say, well, I was going to say Corona.
Maybe hot chocolate's a better choice.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Pouring a little shot at Corona. I'm sure that would
be disgusting.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Stick with a hot chocolate chocolate. Yep.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
What is the official time to open gifts? Christmas Morning?
What do you tell the kids they got to wait
till what time to get up? This is a proclamation
here from Grand Fork's mayor and Brandon Bachenski.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Well, let me start with Christmas Eve is not the
time to open presents. On my dad's side, that was
what they did, which was really odd. There's only one
present you can open on Christmas Eve, and that's footy
pajamas on Christmas Day. The kids need to wait until
eight o'clock because I know that, you know, patrolling the house,
and I always kind of stay up late to wait
for Santa to come. So I might not go to
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bed till one or two o'clock because I just can't
stay up late enough and I always wanted to catch
that guy. So let me sleep a little bit. Yeah,
because we've been up trying to look to see if
Santa was coming, So let us sleep in a little bit.
And maybe eight o'clock is early enough. So I'm going
to say eight am I like it.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
One last question rapid Fire, Grand Fork Mayor Brandon Patchenski.
The temperatures are cold, that's snowy, blowy outside. You have
a fun activity need to do with the family, you
would recommend inside for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
I love we love board games, so you can get together.
You know there's dozens and dozens of board games. Get
together as a family. Try not to fight, enjoy a
board game, and enjoy your time with one another. That's
what I'm going with. No movie, no movies for today.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I can't think of any good, good holiday movies. I
can't think of a one right now, So whip about
the board games.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yep, there you go.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
I think I saw a new one. There's always new
ones every holiday season. They're just in the stores. Yesterday.
There's one called the Yippie Kaya. I didn't see what
that was about.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I can only imagine what that would be about.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Well, brand Forth mayor Brandon Pachans, get to you and
your family. I hope you have the most merriest of
Christmases and happiest of New Years. And I look forward
to you and I reconvening in early twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Absolutely, Merry Christmas. To all enjoy the next couple of weeks,
get some time with friends and family and love life
and love one another. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, thank
each other.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
That's beautiful. Excel many three good days.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Okay, Well, hey, hey or hi, who is this?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Well it's a question to Jorge, what do you really
love about winter in the Upper Red River Valley? Sarcasm
strongly encouraged. Oh, I just love the driving conditions. They're
just awesome. Get you ready for don't you wish they'd
do like one NASCAR race when maybe up in these
parts in December January? That would be really fun, you know,
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like a Derby. Yeah, it would have to be a Derby, Yes, absolutely.
You know we do the demo once of the summer.
Why don't we do one on the ace.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
That'd be fun.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Cars could not go one hundred miles an hour or
that would be the first and last and there'd be
no NASCAR season next year. Not that I'm a NASCAR guy,
but there are fans out there. Well, good luck with
your winter driving on confidence four, five, six, seven months.
We'll be driving on pavement roads again eight months.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Maybe hopefully sooner than that.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Well, it's the Twelve Days of Holiday Goodies. I want
you to select a stocking. We're going to dumper out
and find out the denomination of gift cards from dh
I Sweet Street. You are going to end up with today, Okay, one,
two or three miles? So before I rip one off
the wall, Oh that's the three, all right, let me
go different for three dumper out here.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
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Speaker 3 (37:49):
Awesome, thank you.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
I don't know if you have your number one power
ranking Christmas treats that you.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
May or may not want to buy that I may
or may not want to buy.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
I guess my kids always like to frosted sugar cookies,
like all different shape ones.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
So those are fun, yes.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
And they're messy and fun and a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
But not when you pop into Dhi Sweet Street on
Washington Gateway Drive and then you get those and you
leave the Mulcha bars for Trevor, everybody wins.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
I'll agree to that. What's what station has the most
holiday treats to give away guaranteed? As we're in day
five of the twelve days of Holiday goodies, I saw.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Ninety three Time for one more thing on Xcel ninety
three one more.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Time, fun more, fun more. Perhaps you're looking for a
new gig in twenty twenty six, well, you may want
to work on those communication skills. A pull of one
thousand hiring managers found soft skills can be even more
important than hard ones right now now. Hard skills are
things tied directly to your job, but soft skills are
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more general, like critical thinking, collaboration, kind of stuff you
need for every job, no matter what you're doing sixty
two percent that harden soft skills are equally important. Twenty
four percent things soft skills are more important now Still
a little foggy will go over these here top soft
skills that can help you land a job. Adaptability Are
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you flexible? How well do you deal with change? Being
able to incorporate AI into your job will be a
big one for a lot of people. Collaboration skills do
you work well with others? Attention to detail? If your
work always has to be double checked, you're a lot
less valuable? Critical thinking and important soft skill. Can you
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think outside the box when the solution is an obvious
and can you tell a good idea from a bad one?
Problem solving skills? Can you diagnose an issue and come
up with a good solution. These are the top soft
skills that can land your job in twenty twenty six.
Here's your top five. Number five resilience. When you hit roadblocks,
can you pivot and keep going? Accountability? Do you take
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ownership of your work and your mistakes? Number three? Time management?
Can you get stuff done and hit your deadlines?
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Too?
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Is professionalism? One expert was surprised and rank so high
and thinks it's because young people suck at it quote.
This signals that younger generations are entering their workforce with
more laid back attitudes and the number one soft skill
good communication skills that includes things like concise emails, active listening,
and overall clarity of what you're saying. By the way,
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most desired hard skills in twenty twenty six months related
to software data analysis, cybersecurity, project management, and quality assurance.
But be getting good with those soft skills. No matter
what you're doing, you're gonna have a leg up on
everybody else. You're welcome. I think sometimes it can be helpful.
I think that was one of the times. We are
just sixteen sleeves from Christmas morning now an ordinary kid's
(40:50):
real letter to Santa.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
Dear Santa, don't take it the wrong way, but I'm
concerned about your weight. I mean, Mom says there BMI
is off the chart, and you're right for a coronary,
whatever that is. So instead of cookies, Mom is putting
out ko chips and oat milk. So you know it's
terrible this year. I don't want anything for Christmas except
for you to be healthier. I want you to be
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around at least until I'm eleven, okay, and maybe stop
sneaking into people's houses. They call that a home invasion.
That can't be good, Santa. PS. I lied about not
wanting anything. You know what I want.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Love me, Santa. This has been an ordinary kid's real
letter to Santa. Merry Christmas. Don't be frightened. Let's see
we're to start. You're good at the water cooler.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
As soon as I woke up this morning, I've pepper
sprayed myself.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Don't use thanks sock side. You throw over one thousand
dollars a month into local wishing wells.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
So we shoes my Gabob Trevor d in the Morning
Show on XCEL ninety three
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Morning special.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Why what's today?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Christmas card day?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You've been getting any in the mail? Yeah? Did you
get my car? You want a Christmas card? You want
a Christmas card? All right, here here's my Christmas card.
That's such a fun Christmas card. And what about your
Christmas card?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Christmas card?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Thank you for the Christmas car showtime all over the
past hour. Parents, students both sides of the river most
likely got their alerts. But just in case, I will
reiterate on grand Ports Public and grand Ports Air Force
based schools are canceled for today. Fork's doing virtual learning.
(01:03):
Maybe a good day to work in the Christmas cards?
Send up those holiday cards? Did you know? I know?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We do?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Bet you did? Note seven thirty five. The tradition of
sending Christmas cards began in England eighteen forty three. Sir
Henry Cole wanted a way to send a holiday greeting
to his friends without having to write individual letters. So
we had illustrated cards made printed with the words A
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you. What
do you do with all the holiday cards you get?
Do you put them out? Do you have a Christmas
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tree card display like we do at our house. Throw
them in a box, basket, open them, toss them. That
seems harsh. People put time and effort into that, so
make a difference if they're photo cards versus traditional cards,
and it just just be happy to get one. The
National Pastry Day, good day to make some sweets in
the kitchen. If here at home today, be productive with
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your day. If you're at home today, all right, we
put the forecast off long enough. Winter storm morning snow
this morning, possibly mixing with freezing rain this afternoon. Snow
could be heavy at times, Patchy blowing snow in issue too.
Look for a high today of thirty degrees. Snow snow
accumulation for the Grand Forks area two to four inches
possible to night. Patchy blowing snow before midnight eleven and
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plustery north winds will gust to forty Wednesday, chints of
snow in the morning mostly Claudis sixteen and then for
throwback Thursday, chance of snow most to Claudy fourteen Friday,
mostly Sunday can begin a really cold weekend. H have
only four o buff looks like we've got to about
eight thirty to the moderate snow gets rolling here just
(02:37):
looking at my weather app as I speak right now,
But it's coming. It's inevitable. That's what warning means, watches
or telling you there's a chance. Warning means it's happening,
which snow morning in effect through tomorrow. So if you
can put off your travel, be smart. No need to
travel today or tomorrow, especially if you're leaving your respective cities.
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Tak the Mayor Tuesday bull up A, we're gonna have
a good get together today. Tak to Mayor Tuesday, Brandon
Pachensky on eight o'clock. About another hour to get me
those questions. We'll get into our question of the day
coming up. Four packs of tickets so far the undie
basketball game on tonight against Bizmarck States. Win your tickets
and we're going to begin here later this hour. Day
(03:18):
over five of the twelve days of holiday Goodies brought
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Dhi Sweet Street. But first, or here's what you missed highlights?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
How about you read.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
TV, the entertainment world and whatever. Here's what you missed
on Excel ninety three.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
All right, here's what you missed highlights. A millennial therapist
named Mary Beth Smitch going viral for asking boomers why
do they keep family news a secret from their grown kids?
Glad to see this is the thing and it wasn't
just something at Trevor's house still in progress. I'm going
(04:03):
to play the part of the boomer parent.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Well, Graham's been on life support for the last week
and it's not looking good.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So we wanted to wait until we knew for.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Sure that it wasn't looking good.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Till we called okay, we're back now.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I understand protecting your children from information that may not
be developmentally appropriate when it comes to illness with family members,
but these are adult children now. The lack of communication
regarding important family health events has not only increased their
anxiety now because they don't trust that you'll tell them,
but it's resulted in a fracture in your relationship or
(04:34):
a breach of trust.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Kind of got to the point where I just expected
not to get the information until I really needed to know.
It was frustrating at first, and maybe even ten years ago,
I thought it'll come Mom and Dad will eventually let
me know. But I'm glad to see this is a
normal thing, not just my family. Therapists asking why boomers
keeping big news a secret from their adult children, I exhale. Today,
(05:01):
I'm going to chalk that up as a win. We're
all in the same boat. Well, we're on in the
same boat every single winter. Some winters are better than others.
We get our good days or bad days, or good
weeks or bad weeks. We had a very good November,
if you like mom weather, and right after our holidayzel parade,
we went right winter blast mode. Clippers every single day.
(05:25):
We hear the Alberta clipper term all the time. There's
also a Saskatchewan maller and a Saskatchewan screamer excuse me,
and then the Manitoba maller. All seem to get clumped
into Alberta clippers. But what it means is called normally
snow one to three inches every time the winds follow.
This is kind of a super clipper this time around,
And just making up my own name, A little more
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snow than the per usual but winter storm morning in
fact through six am. As I mentioned, no school for
Grand Forks virtual day for a virtual learning day for
east Side, most town schools would be called off today too.
Links up at xcelmenti three dot com for road reports,
updated announcements and more. But my question of the day,
what do you really love about winter in the Upper
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Red River Valley? And sarcasm is strongly encouraged today. Strongly,
Nancy says, absolutely a door where Narnia meets frozen in
the Upper Red River Valley. There's nothing like the gentle
caress of minus forty degree wins to wake up your
soul and freeze its solid. It's the only time of
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year I get to wear my entire wardrobe at once.
Fashion and frostbite. What a combination. Well done, good start,
let's say rolling in on the Trevity Facebook page. Oh
my buddy in the next studio. Thank you. Dave sitting
at work answering silly questions on Facebook. You do have
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more time, don't you in the winter months. You're not guilty, well,
I mean now we're guilty to get outside and move snow,
which just seems like a dramatic waste of our minutes outside.
But you've got to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Far.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Jay was here today. You may beg to differ. He'll
be back with me. I think Thursday morning he'll be
on this afternoon question of the Day, What do you
really love about winter in the Upper Red River Valley?
Sarcasm strongly encourage well. Taylor Swift heading back to a
Late Night with the Lake Show with Stephen Colbert, announcing
her appearance for tomorrow night in a teaser that ends
with Swift smiling and a card again and saying hey, Stephen.
(07:25):
The show put together a playful reel of Colbert dancing
throughout the Late Show to Taylor's song Opalites, building up
major excitement. Her visit, of course, comes just before the
debut of her six part eras tour docu series and
Disney Plus on Friday. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
airs ten thirty in our Central time zone and streams
on Paramount Plus the next day. But that's right, we
are three sleeps away from Taylor Swift's eras to our docuseries.
(07:51):
Can you sleep? Because I can't even I know. I
need to calm down. We'll get into our wintery question,
does your next You're listening to accent Nutty three, excel
Nutty three.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, hey.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Stop the front door?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Am I calling number nine? Hang on?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Here? Will be back here.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
All right? Front doors closed? Yeah, you're a winner. Awesome,
you're going to oops you a need men tomorrow taking
down Crown College. And I've got a romise Guy's gift
card for you too. Album What's your name?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Kimberly.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Kimberly questioned, is your today? What do you really love
about winter in the Upper Red River Valley? And sarcasm
is strongly encouraged. Oh yes, completely, What do you love?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
How much snow?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
More snow than the merrier?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Oh yeah, definitely. Is it funny like you see storms
places like Buffalo, New York. They'll get slammed with three
feet of snow, and then a week later it's all gone.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Then we get snow on its days.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It might be here till next December.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It's funny. No matter how big the piles get, somehow
they all disappear.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Surprisingly, probably not till June, but it works.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It's still I mean, fourth of July. Am pretty confident
I can say it will be snow free Labor Day.
I don't want to make your promises, but fourth of
July I'm confident. Jimberly, what station's bound to be your you?
Indie basketball and Rombus Guy's connection. Thankscel nenty three the
(09:34):
Forks in music station. My question of the day today,
winch storm morning in a fank Grand Forts calling off
school today. Grand Forks are first base as well East
Grand Forks doing virtual learning, most out of town schools.
I mean, hopefully you've got your alerts and announcements. Most
out of town schools doing virtual learning or of called
off school in our immediate area as well. Today as
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the snow approaches, looks like about an eight thirty snow
start time in the Grand Forks area at least last
I saw sarcasm strongly encouraged today, so we can all
stay same with winter storm number one? What do you
really love about winter? I think you should grow older.
It's just more frustrating. You've shoveled more, You've blown out
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more driveways, gone inside, got comfortable, kick the feet up,
took your shower, and then the plot comes by to
plowing your driveway again. What do you really love about winter?
Chris says, what's not to love about winter here? The
endless snow provides a great excuse not to see the
in laws. Sorry, can't make it. Might get snowed in
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until April, and who needs a gym membership? And you
get a full workout just shovel juggling your driveway every
single morning. Got to be careful of the herd attack snow,
the wet snow, and we could have some wet snow here,
especially as temperatures warm as the day progresses today. But
it is a good workout, that's for sure. You come
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in on the cold day and you're just dripping sweat,
got three four layers on when you go outside, and
it is a good workout, good job as we try
to stay same, calm, cool, collected as we get ready
for the first winter system of the year. Jeff just
has watched my kids play in the snow, Amanda. I
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love when my snot and tears freeze to my face.
It's the best. I'd give you two lol emojis for
that one. If I could oh bryce able to utilize
the outside to keep my bush light nice and cold.
I'm going to give you a hug emoji for that one.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
For listening to West Fargo today. That is wisdom right there. See,
there are some positives almost the middle of December, if
I can try to give you a couple of positives here.
The days start getting longer here in a couple of weeks,
a little less than two weeks. And I always give
the first day of Spring being our lepperconn Loop Saint
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Patrick's Day weekend, and that's in reality just about three
months away. So we did shorten our winter with a
very nice November. Does that help? Does that help it all?
Maybe a little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
And I am not trending test tag trending on Excel
nighty three?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
How are you doing to those Christmas cards? Do you
do them anymore? Do you do the easy things than
a mass emailed people national Christmas Card? Day? Today? You're
at home, you're stuck at home today. You don't have
to deal with the moving of the snow, or you've
got to break in between good day to work on
that if they're sitting there, because we're sixteen sleeps from
the big day. Guys, Now, if you're new to this,
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maybe it's been a wild time. Dot COM's got an
article out and how to write the perfect holiday card.
Here are some of the highlights. What do you do?
Decide what kind of card you want to send. What
do you hope it will accomplish to deliver a general
holiday cheer, express gratitude, reconnect with old friends, bill an
extended family on what's been happening now? Ideally you get
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the gears rolling on this before December ninth, so today's today.
Personalize it, even for sending cards in bulk, try to
personalize each one in some small way. You can keep
it brief, maybe tack on a quick line like we
hope your new job's going well. It's nice. How to
write the perfect holiday card? Have some fun with it.
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You've seen or given cars that are generic, so make
it more fun by doing something unique or adding personality.
It also brings it be more memorable at a surprise.
This is an extra touch you can add if you
have a more selective list and aren't sending hundreds out.
It's funny we order like eighty cards, and in my mind,
at least we're in contact with eleven people over the
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calendar year. All right back to it here. Include the dates.
A lot of people save cards. Make sure you incl
the date, especially if you including photos, a letter or
family update. Decorate the envelope. There's a little creative flare
if you do that, maybe find some fun stamps in
search in the correct way. The fold should always point downward,
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and as you look back of the envelope, look at
the back of the envelope. The front of the card
should be facing you. I don't know why us as guys,
just if we're the ones doing it. It's a guy
doing It's lucky it's even in the mail. But we
get that card. I'm not saying it's very either. Double
check names, the ultimate holiday card, faux pause, getting the
recipient's name wrong. If only, don't worry if you don't
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get it out in time. It's the thought that counts.
I don't worry if it ends up being a New
Year's card. Don't let it stretch you out. Sending cards,
we send a bunch to relatives here in the US,
friends in the United States, and then the Canada. Cards
for whatever reason, sometimes can take two months to get there,
so it's kind of fun. You're not expecting anything. Nothing
fun comes in the mail after the holidays are done,
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minus whatever Amazon orders you're shipping to your house. Get
a holiday card on Browndhog Day. This is Merry Christmas.
Maybe maybe we're being early for next year. Think of
it like that National Christmas Card Day. How to write
the perfect holiday card? The lesson I shared with you
is up at axcelnety three dot com The Chevity page.
Bet you didn't know?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
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did know. In nineteen forty seven, a woman went to
John's Hopkins to cure her hives. She received an experimental
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drug called Compound sixteen ninety four for haye fever and allergies.
Her hives cleared up, and she reported that, weirdly, she'd
stop getting nauseous while riding on public transportation. Doctors immediately
tested drug promotion sickness, and Compound sixteen ninety four became dramamine.
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That is interesting, maybe not equally interesting, but in fact
done the last betch She didn't know. Thomas Jefferson and
Aaron Burrd tied in the eighteen hundred presidential election, and
that left it up to Congress to pick the president,
and they voted for Jefferson. Yeah, Aaron Burr kind of
got host. Betch didn't know. Prisoners in France do not
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wear uniforms and are instead able to buy normal clothes.
The uniforms were abolished there in nineteen eighty three. If
they can't afford to buy their own, they can request
free clothing, which is provided by charities. I wonder if
you have to wear the same thing though every day
we got cartoon would in jail? All right to sounds
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sophisticated here as we talk art, I bet you didn't know.
The Red Vineyard at Aries is the only name Vano
painting that's known to sold in his lifetime that he's
known to solve. Two have Solten's lifetime. The Red Vineyard
at Arles excuse me, Rles A R L E s
the only name Fango painting that's known of Sultan's lifetime.
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It's sold for four hundred francs in eighteen knotty, which
is roughly the equivalent of twenty five hundred dollars today.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I know.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And Finally, let's talk home alone. I bet you didn't
know what doctor diagnosed the injuries that the two Wet
Bandits suffered during Home Alone and Home Alone two and
figured out twenty three of those injuries would have killed them.
The Wet Bandits more powerful than we thought they were, now,
you know, excel Nutty. Three, Hi, Hey, HEYI oh you
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have a fan a fan girl? Two nice? Yeah, yeah,
Hello you guys. What's your name? Names Brittany for carry
and Brittany carrying Britney. Question is your today? What do
you really love about winter in the Upper Red River Valley.
Sarcasm strongly encouraged the snow it's no weather, it's cold.
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The fact too, that it's not just like a three
day thing, like there's so many places on the country
or they get a snowstorm and then it's sixty degrees
and three days. We're lucky where the snow that's going
to fall today is going to be here till probably
optimistically Saint Patrick's day, probably probably.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
In the Kansas school today, so I'd have the day
off to the day off.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I work today.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I work today.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I work today too. You I'm the one who gets
to go to work and tell everyone they don't have
to go to work. Yeah, I work eighty noon. But
although I may be a little slower than I used
to be, I still do serve a purpose. I am.
I'm not quite obsolete yet old but not obsolete, serving
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a purpose. Telling you guys to take it easy today,
get off the roads, won Brittany? All right? All right,
Brittany and Carrie, there's the three stockings. We're gonna select
a stocking. Get you your share in DHI Sweet Treat
Deliciousness today? One, two or three? Which one? Am I
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ripping down?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Pick Brittany, let's just got a one?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
A three?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Pick one? She wants the ball? All right, well, grab
won off the wall here. Let's see. Let's dump thish
out Congratulations.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
You want sixty dollars from DHI Sweet Street Happy twelve
days of Potagetty's from Excel ninety three.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
That's sweet on a winter stormy day. Sixty dollars. Sorry,
I love the enthusiasm. Crank it up. What station has
the most the most holiday treats to give away? Guaranteed?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I can't because ex for the Brion. Let me put
it this way.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You're Tuesday morning, moron A warning has Laura on my
Nexcel ninety three.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Do this, dear kids, they love it. They're cranky neighbor
not so much. They've probably been out with a snowblower
and accidentally. I think the term is blowing yourself where
your fire the snow. It hits the forty mile an
hour winds, hitching the face and it's just a It's
like a cold shower coming in. Don't recommend trying this
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at home. A fifty seven year old guy in Canada
facing charges for using a snow blower to assault another
person with snow. It happened in the town of Susaint Marie.
In case you don't have a geography minor from the
University of North Dakota like I do, it's on the
Michigan border. Now. This happened Saturday, but cops didn't get
called about it till the next day. The guy was
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apparently using a snowblower when he got into some sort
of argument with the person. Then he intentionally spun it
around sprayed them with snow. Cops said the person wasn't hurt,
but wanted to press the charges, so the rest of
the guy for assault. He's doing cord February nine, Domson, Canada,
arresting the guy for assaulting before assault after he got
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into an argument when someone used a snowblower to shoot
snow at him. Don't shoot snow at somebody with the snowblower,
you get polke an eye out. I think it says
that on the back of the snowblower and the little
fine print. Look at your snowblowers when you're firing those
up later today. That's our sixth trip to Canada. We'll
get this guy. The Tuesday Morning Moron.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Award KICKKXL Excel ninety three. Grand Forks The Talk to
the Mayor Tuesday. Hit us up with your questions for
Grand Forks, Mayor Brandon Butski and you.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Do it by the books. You got it, Mayor's my ass.
Every other Tuesday eight a m XL ninety three, as
we welcome to the show, the Greatest Mayor and all
the Lands, the one and Only Grand Forks Mayor Brandon
bon Shensky. On a snow.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Day, Good morning everybody. Yeah, I'm looking out my window
right now. It doesn't quite look like a snow day yet,
but it's definitely common.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
It's common. It's there's too many times where Grand Forks
seems to be a snowstorm target. We've the fork in
the river, as you know, keeps tornadoes away from the city,
but it conversely sucks in the winter systems.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Science I think's proven that it's got to be true.
I don't know. Sometimes they break up as they had
had eased over Devil's Lake, and sometimes they just get stronger.
So maybe it's something to do with the Devil's Lake
just west of us.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Oh, it's common. Last I checked, it looked like we're
gonna get rolling with the snowbodyator eat but we'll see
it's coming. It's common.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
But yeah, that's going to blow around this afternoon, so
strap that down all the hatches. But what are you
ready for it?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
When you're in charge of Gotham Junior, which a lot
of us are starting to call Grand Forks. You're going
to work today. City is fully functional.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yes, the city will be open.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
My philosophy has generally been the people that would be
at the highest risk are going to have to be
at work anyway. So our snowplow drivers are police, our
fire our waterworks people, so they're going to be in
the office. We're going to do our darterists to make
sure we're working as well.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
So and you were before I just cut you off.
You're going to say mayors and radio personalities.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Yes, I know, we're also working. So that's that's not
on the list of stay home today.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
We're not on the important list though, we're just working.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I would say those that are, we're going to have
the most important. So there we go. We're too important
to not have the day off.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
So now I feel better coming to work and telling
everyone else they don't have to go to work today.
But now I feel better.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I'm glad I can help you out with that.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
We're important, aren't we, buddy?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
We go to tell ourselves.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
All right, let's let's jump in get some winter related
stuff to talk about. But we'd like to start with
city council aftermath.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, last night we did it. We're getting down there
kind of the end of the year. So we had
a couple budget amendments. We were very fortunate to get
a grant to pay for our police breathing or sorry,
fire department breathing apparatuses, so we had some budgetary room
to get some different vehicles for public works and for
the police Department, so we passed that. Last night we
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talked a little bit about the water treatment plant downtown,
but it was a fairly click meeting, quick and easy.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Well, let's jump into winter storm number one upon us
for the season. Here we go. Didn't you correctly predict
December ninth would be our first winter storm? Take credit?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I can't remember what I predicted. I think I said
it at least be a white Christmas, so we're going
to have.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
That's why I want to give you props again for
keeping it nice out for the Holly Dazzle parade. It
was a gorgeous evening, fifty two degrees of parade time.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
There was people were in shorts.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I was blown away.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
It didn't quite have that same Christmas field, but I
think somehow we were all okay.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
With that when you're waiting an hour before the parade
starts outside. I'll take fifty two degrees every year. Can
I put it in an advanced order for twenty twenty six?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I think we need the parade, the fifty degrees for
the parade, and then we need a light snow and
like you know, twenty eight degrees for the tree lighting.
But it's hard to get that to happen within an
hour or two.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Hey, it's Grand Forks. I'm telling you one hundred to
one chance is much better than that that it can
happen here.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
So it's going to happen anywhere be here, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
For winter storm number one of the season. Are we
required to move our vehicles up the street? Any other storm?
Day needs to nose for the public today, well, the.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Best thing is, you know, know if you're on the
snow emergency rale if that gets called. That's mainly in
the downtown area. Biggest thing is on the street cleaning days.
Gets your cars move there because they'll utilize those days
as well to push the snow further up and out
of the way. Other than that, it's it's generally business
as usual. Drive careful. There's going to be plows, there's
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going to be trucks out putting out dirt, so so
be aware of that and take care of yourself.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Grand Force mayor brand Batchansky keeping us safe today. By
the way, I've got some BBBPPT breaking sports news. The
un D basketball game against Bismarck State has been canceled
for tonight. The UNDIE women's game has been canceled. This
just dam oh bummer.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I know that. I think all the extracurriculars are canceled.
So that Red River Central hockey game that autit. I
know my son was looking forward to going to I
believe is going to be canceled as well.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah, that's those are the rules now. The schools of
schools off sports is off.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Too, and that does make sense. You know, if you
if if it's too bad to go to school, you
really shouldn't be. Uh, you know, those extra curriculars are
extra by nature. Keep sometimes we forget that.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Another wintery questioned as your today, are the outside city
ice rinks open yet? It's kind of a two folded question.
Do they have regulated hours? And then part three? Can
we make a skating trail on the red River?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Hey, I would love to see the skating trail. Maybe
not on the red River. I know there's different flows there.
We could probably find an area, but I think, uh,
you know, there's got to be maybe to Cooli'd be
a better place for it if we could figure a
way to you know, connect that and loop it around somehow.
But the outdoor hockey rinks, you know, park districts, the
one that manages those. I think that they're starting to
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get those open, and really it's the warming houses. So
you know they've got warming houses on several of them.
When those clothes you can you know, you're generally going
to clear other but you can keep playing all night
if you want to. Just don't like the neighbors up. So.
I know when I was a kid, I spent quite
a few late hours out on the hockey rink freezing
my toes.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Off, and those late hours guarantee you're going to be
an NHL superstar. So kids get out there, hit the
ice rinks outside.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I think the only thing that guarantees is that you're
going to have some frozens not and some frozen toes.
That's about all I you can guarantee you that. But
you can have a good time whether you make it
to the big leagues or not. That's just all bonus
and gravy from there, all right.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Normally I don't put the barway up high like that.
I'm sorry, I apologize. Thanks for the reality check, buddy.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I just don't want everybody, you know, thinking that that's
the only way to get there, you know, But mom.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Trevor and Brandon said I've got to play hockey outside
till midnight every night.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Oh the math hypothermia that we'd be responsible for.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
See, and that's why you're the mayor. I'm just radio
guy here spouting off stuff about stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Here. We got the ying and the yang. We're good.
I like it.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Storm days. Who designed when roads and interstates are closed.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Well, when it comes to the city within the city limits,
they don't really there's not traditional road closures. The dot
outside of city limits is going to be responsible for
those road closures, so Highway to the interstate, that's going
to be the state of North Dakota. The school closure.
So people are kind of wondering how does this all work.
Usually there's a meeting. There was a meeting yesterday afternoon
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and then everybody kicked it to five thirty this morning.
That'll be und the base, the public schools, the city
of the county, I kind of all get together and
then they let people know what their plans are if
they're going to close or not. So that took place
at five point thirty this morning, and ultimately that decision
came forward with the public schools that they were going
to close, and I think the base made that decision
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as well. So if you're ever wondering how that comes
together and why different entities might not all be closed
or open, it really depends upon their function and decisions
that are made in those meetings.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
You know, I brought mine glad, I brought this sound
effect my fanny pack to work with me today.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
The more you know, I remember those Oh, I remember
those commercials back in the day.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
That's fantastic. Grand Forts Mayor Brandon pachenski E Learning Day
east Side School canceled at Grand Fort side of the River,
and U and D is closed again today, and I'm
sure that helps to lead to the cancelation of the
Undie women's basketball game.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Two.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
All right, non snow related question. I heard Macy's maybe
returning to Columbia Mall. Is that a fact?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Macy's is under contract, it's not with the Columbia Mall owners,
so it would be great to see some development, their
spark development across the rest of the building. So I
see it as a as a positive. Sounds like it
hasn't closed yet, there's some contingencies, but there is a
new buyer that's interested in doing something there, So pretty exciting.
You got a walk before you run with that mall,
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so hopefully we'll start start moving towards something better than
what it is today.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's the first positive mall news we've had in a
long time. I like that a lot.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah, normally we're talking about the you know, the moon
craters around that ring road. So this is a positive.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Question of the day today. We're into rapid fire high
I believe sadly this is our mid season finale here,
our twenty twenty five finale before the holiday, so I've
got to hit you with a Christmas themed rapid fire today.
But our question of the day today, what do you
really love about winter in the Upper Red River Valley?
And sarcasm is strongly encouraged.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Oh, I love it that when I go out to
start my car in the morning, that I question whether
I really want to live here every morning for six
months straight.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
We do, don't we? This is my last I try.
I've had enough of this.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah, And I let my daughter and my wife park
in the garage, so I'm I'm gonna get out there
every morning and start that thing up, and I hope
it's start and then headed the work guarantee. Ye, you
get to fee alive.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Guaranteed when I get home today too and fire up
that snowblower first time in over a year. Now, I
may drop the word fudge. Although I just might not
say the word fudge. I may say something else.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Oh, I think I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Like maybe milk, chocolate, or I don't know something. Something
would come to mind.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
The old shut the front door, son of a biscuit. Yep,
I know those words.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Grand folks. Mayor Brandon of a chance, get ready for
some rapid fire. Absolutely, let's get people fired up for
the true reason for the season. Here here we go.
First thing that comes to mind, what does the mayor
ask Santa for this year?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I'm a kind of simple guy, like new socks, So
that's one of the things I always ask for, is
a good pair of new athletic socks.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Real versus bake. When it comes to Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I love real, but we got a fake one.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
You can't put a real one up like we do
ours early November. It would be nothing but like Charlie
Brown for you by now.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yep. And you never know, you know, you can have
put a squirrel living in there and it comes out
later and it causes all kinds of hijinks at the house,
so we've we've got a fake one, and I did
some repairs to make sure all the lights were this year,
so even even those needs some work.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I've seen that squirrel thing happen too. You're not the
only one who's seen it.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Favorite thing to eat and drink during the holiday season.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I'm a big fan of ham, so any good Christmas
ham does it for me and drink. You know, I
like to think of a warmer time, so I might
have to say, well, I was going to say Corona.
Maybe hot chocolate's a better choice.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Pouring a little shot at Corona. I'm sure that would
be disgusting.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Stick with a hot chocolate chocolate. Yep.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
What is the official time to open gifts? Christmas Morning?
What do you tell the kids they got to wait
till what time to get up? This is a proclamation
here from Grand Fork's mayor and Brandon Bachenski.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Well, let me start with Christmas Eve is not the
time to open presents. On my dad's side, that was
what they did, which was really odd. There's only one
present you can open on Christmas Eve, and that's footy
pajamas on Christmas Day. The kids need to wait until
eight o'clock because I know that, you know, patrolling the house,
and I always kind of stay up late to wait
for Santa to come. So I might not go to
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bed till one or two o'clock because I just can't
stay up late enough and I always wanted to catch
that guy. So let me sleep a little bit. Yeah,
because we've been up trying to look to see if
Santa was coming, So let us sleep in a little bit.
And maybe eight o'clock is early enough. So I'm going
to say eight am I like it.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
One last question rapid Fire, Grand Fork Mayor Brandon Patchenski.
The temperatures are cold, that's snowy, blowy outside. You have
a fun activity need to do with the family, you
would recommend inside for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
I love we love board games, so you can get together.
You know there's dozens and dozens of board games. Get
together as a family. Try not to fight, enjoy a
board game, and enjoy your time with one another. That's
what I'm going with. No movie, no movies for today.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I can't think of any good, good holiday movies. I
can't think of a one right now, So whip about
the board games.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yep, there you go.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
I think I saw a new one. There's always new
ones every holiday season. They're just in the stores. Yesterday.
There's one called the Yippie Kaya. I didn't see what
that was about.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I can only imagine what that would be about.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Well, brand Forth mayor Brandon Pachans, get to you and
your family. I hope you have the most merriest of
Christmases and happiest of New Years. And I look forward
to you and I reconvening in early twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Absolutely, Merry Christmas. To all enjoy the next couple of weeks,
get some time with friends and family and love life
and love one another. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, thank
each other.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
That's beautiful. Excel many three good days.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Okay, Well, hey, hey or hi, who is this?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Well it's a question to Jorge, what do you really
love about winter in the Upper Red River Valley? Sarcasm
strongly encouraged. Oh, I just love the driving conditions. They're
just awesome. Get you ready for don't you wish they'd
do like one NASCAR race when maybe up in these
parts in December January? That would be really fun, you know,
(36:45):
like a Derby. Yeah, it would have to be a Derby, Yes, absolutely.
You know we do the demo once of the summer.
Why don't we do one on the ace.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
That'd be fun.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Cars could not go one hundred miles an hour or
that would be the first and last and there'd be
no NASCAR season next year. Not that I'm a NASCAR guy,
but there are fans out there. Well, good luck with
your winter driving on confidence four, five, six, seven months.
We'll be driving on pavement roads again eight months.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Maybe hopefully sooner than that.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Well, it's the Twelve Days of Holiday Goodies. I want
you to select a stocking. We're going to dumper out
and find out the denomination of gift cards from dh
I Sweet Street. You are going to end up with today, Okay, one,
two or three miles? So before I rip one off
the wall, Oh that's the three, all right, let me
go different for three dumper out here.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
Congratulations, you want forty dollars from DHI Sweet Street. As
the Twelve Days of Holiday Goodies continues on Excel ninety three,
and there's forty for you.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Awesome, thank you.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
I don't know if you have your number one power
ranking Christmas treats that you.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
May or may not want to buy that I may
or may not want to buy.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
I guess my kids always like to frosted sugar cookies,
like all different shape ones.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
So those are fun, yes.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
And they're messy and fun and a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
But not when you pop into Dhi Sweet Street on
Washington Gateway Drive and then you get those and you
leave the Mulcha bars for Trevor, everybody wins.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
I'll agree to that. What's what station has the most
holiday treats to give away guaranteed? As we're in day
five of the twelve days of Holiday goodies, I saw.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Ninety three Time for one more thing on Xcel ninety
three one more.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Time, fun more, fun more. Perhaps you're looking for a
new gig in twenty twenty six, well, you may want
to work on those communication skills. A pull of one
thousand hiring managers found soft skills can be even more
important than hard ones right now now. Hard skills are
things tied directly to your job, but soft skills are
(38:58):
more general, like critical thinking, collaboration, kind of stuff you
need for every job, no matter what you're doing sixty
two percent that harden soft skills are equally important. Twenty
four percent things soft skills are more important now Still
a little foggy will go over these here top soft
skills that can help you land a job. Adaptability Are
(39:20):
you flexible? How well do you deal with change? Being
able to incorporate AI into your job will be a
big one for a lot of people. Collaboration skills do
you work well with others? Attention to detail? If your
work always has to be double checked, you're a lot
less valuable? Critical thinking and important soft skill. Can you
(39:40):
think outside the box when the solution is an obvious
and can you tell a good idea from a bad one?
Problem solving skills? Can you diagnose an issue and come
up with a good solution. These are the top soft
skills that can land your job in twenty twenty six.
Here's your top five. Number five resilience. When you hit roadblocks,
can you pivot and keep going? Accountability? Do you take
(40:00):
ownership of your work and your mistakes? Number three? Time management?
Can you get stuff done and hit your deadlines?
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Too?
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Is professionalism? One expert was surprised and rank so high
and thinks it's because young people suck at it quote.
This signals that younger generations are entering their workforce with
more laid back attitudes and the number one soft skill
good communication skills that includes things like concise emails, active listening,
and overall clarity of what you're saying. By the way,
(40:27):
most desired hard skills in twenty twenty six months related
to software data analysis, cybersecurity, project management, and quality assurance.
But be getting good with those soft skills. No matter
what you're doing, you're gonna have a leg up on
everybody else. You're welcome. I think sometimes it can be helpful.
I think that was one of the times. We are
just sixteen sleeves from Christmas morning now an ordinary kid's
(40:50):
real letter to Santa.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
Dear Santa, don't take it the wrong way, but I'm
concerned about your weight. I mean, Mom says there BMI
is off the chart, and you're right for a coronary,
whatever that is. So instead of cookies, Mom is putting
out ko chips and oat milk. So you know it's
terrible this year. I don't want anything for Christmas except
for you to be healthier. I want you to be
(41:14):
around at least until I'm eleven, okay, and maybe stop
sneaking into people's houses. They call that a home invasion.
That can't be good, Santa. PS. I lied about not
wanting anything. You know what I want.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Love me, Santa. This has been an ordinary kid's real
letter to Santa. Merry Christmas. Don't be frightened. Let's see
we're to start. You're good at the water cooler.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
As soon as I woke up this morning, I've pepper
sprayed myself.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Don't use thanks sock side. You throw over one thousand
dollars a month into local wishing wells.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
So we shoes my Gabob Trevor d in the Morning
Show on XCEL ninety three
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