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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Killy, Good Morning Tomorrow show Today it'll be humped
in the two days before the very cold air comes in.
We're looking at a high Friday at this point at
thirty six degrees the high.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You know, it's the polar vortex. You know, we get this.
It seems about every year, maybe every two years, you
get a I don't even understand it because we never
had these. Maybe they didn't call them polar vortexes in
the eighties and the nineties, but it seems like somewhere
in the two thousands is where that term was created, where,
(00:37):
for some reason, the air in Canada. Here's a think
about that. This is what the people in Canada live
with all year round, yes, or not all year round. No,
the winter, the winters, we're and we're nothing like it's
going to be in say, Wisconsin. The places that are
closer to Canada, we're dying over. You know, overnight lows
(00:58):
in the teens. Their overnight highs are like negative five.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I'm like that, Birh.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
So hopefully won't be as bad as some have predicted.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I was thinking about something I believe I read earlier
today somewhere that this Friday is free Friday. At Riverbank Zoo.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
What does that mean? Free Friday?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
You don't have to pay it to get in, It's
a free Friday. They have those sporadically throughout the year.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I said, that's my nephew, he works over there.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
What the polar bears are doing, well, They're through the
high of thirty six.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The polar bears are loving it. The lions are like, WTF,
We're jungle creatures for God's sake.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
What in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was talking to a guy who over the I
guess it would have been last weekend was his daughter's birthday, okay,
and he said, thanks to the economy that we're in,
everything that they have done previously has like doubled and
tripled in price. Yes, so rather than doing one of
those of it, they offered that to her year whatever
(02:00):
it was, tenth birthday party or whatever. Do you want
to return to one of these types of places with
your friends or he said, for that amount of money,
I could get a tent set up outside around our
pool and have the pool heated for the entire weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
What.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, So you had to get like fifty gallons of
propane gas or something and heated his pool and they
had the pool party. So all these kids were there
dancing around in their bikinis and swim trunks and whatnot,
and we're able to you know, I guess her birthday
is sometime around Christmas, and yeah, that's the way we
(02:40):
need to do it. At the zoo. I guess we
had to get the propane heaters out there and keep
those monkeys and things that are used to living in
eighty degree weather and higher warm.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Snakes, Gosh, you imagine the poor snakes if they had
to go outside.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I say, poor snakes. We hate snakes, all right, So
we got that. We'll be tracking for you at this point.
No snow, no snow for us, so but Sally still
praying for it.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
High probability it appears of ice storms. Yeah, so that
leads to severe power outages and lots of car wrecks.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So I don't want any of that.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I remember the ice storm of nineteen seventy three. I
don't know how many days it was. I want to
say it was at least a week that we didn't
have power. And the good news about the ice storm
of seventy three was although we had no power, we
just took our food and put it in the yard
(03:38):
and that kept it frozen, so we didn't lose anything.
And it was a miser and my father, my stepfather,
he was stuck at work. He couldn't get home because
all the roads were closed for the week, so.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It was just me and my count nineteen seventy three.
It must have been a harsh winter all up and
down the eastern seaboard, because I'm thinking that seventy three
on the farm, we had to do stuff we had
never had to do. We had to take hay to
the cows because there was so much snow on the ground.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Oh really, Yeah, I'm looking at us nineteen seventy three
ice storm and see how far that went down, because
that might have been even affecting people in South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It was a lot of snow, believing that was the year,
but it was cold and I hated every minute of it.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But when you put in nineteen seventy three ice storm,
the first thing that comes up as a Wikipedia page
the New England ice storm of nineteen seventy three. I
covered most of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Okay, well, maybe it was a different year. I just
remember getting a lot of snow one time, and it
was miserable living on the farm because you got to
take care of all the animals. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, weather is a nightmare, and yeah we still have
people praying for more of it. Yeah, I'll start praying
for like sixty eight degree days.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
No sounds praying for that, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Can't you were talking yesterday about the snow, the chemical
fake snow that we're allowed to put out as a kid.
Can't you just break a couple of EPA laws and
put that out on the front lawn for sally. There
you go. Now, now we can pray for eighty degree weather.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
That's great. I forget whether this stuff was called. My
grandmother grandfather had a store in Newberry, right over the
by of the Millican Village, straight out of Oakland. It's
the Oakland area, Okay, that's when I was straight out
of Oakland. And in their store they had a dry
good store. Well it's like it was like a grocery
(05:35):
store now, way back in the day. So, but they
had this powder and it would have sold out every
time because when they look at the forecast and get
they get some in. But you sprinkled it on, you
get a bowl for the snow. You just walk out
in the backyard and scoop up some snow in a bowl,
and then she was sprinkling on top and you'd eat it. It
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was yellow.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't understand the yellow like that seems like a
like you could have picked any color, right, the only
color you shouldn't pick pretty much.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Guess down South because yellow snow was infamous up north,
but not down south. So anyway, um o.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
My gosh, all right, what else do we got going
on for tomorrow? Well, of course we're going to be
playing what you're talking about, and that gives you an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
This week let me put my thinking cap on.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Okay, this week we're giving away Caine Brown concert tickets
and Jonathan will tell you what number caller to be.
But the answer to the question for what you're talking
about has already been posted on the Morning Rush blog
at ninety seven to five WCS dot com.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I do not look at the answer before Kelly gives
you the word in the Tomorrow Show Today podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I'm gonna guess again in the pronunciation as buckula, and
that's spelt b like boy you c c u la.
I'm pronouncing it buckula buckula, And unfortunately I will say
my bucula and your buckula have grown recently.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
All right, now you've throw me for a loop. Have grown?
I'm thinking of anything outside of grocery store bills or
electric bills. What else has grown? Hum? Okay, I'm drawing
a complete blank on buckula.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The bucula is the fold of fatty tissue under your chin,
also referred to as a double chin. The double chin
has grown for a lot of people during the holiday season. Ah,
that's quite a bucula you've got that. You could throw
that at somebody. They might think you're giving them a compliment.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
You might.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That is an impressive buckula.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You got to get rid of that buckula.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Why don't you stop your buckula flapping?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Okay, that's good if you know that answer. Tomorrow morning
it's six thirty and what you're talking about, you're gonna
win two came brown tickets for the show.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
That is awesome. And we started talking about this yesterday
with you. We talked about it a little bit more today.
I'll be interested in the update because there is there
a family meeting today regarding the holiday decorations.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I know that I am on the calendar to right
after lunch start taking down the Christmas decorations. And I'm
gonna figure out another way to get out of this
now because I am going to go for the full
Dr Pepper playoff, you wary celebration. All I gotta do
is get some NFL and college football playoff logos to
go on the tree and then we'll just keep the
(08:34):
tree up with the lights. That tree is gonna make
such a mess when I got to move it out
because it is dead. I mean, the needles are just
like if you walk past it, just a slight vibration
of the floor, you can see them falling off.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Well, I'm gonna go just so you know, with all
of the authority vested in Christmastreeworld dot co dot uk. Okay, so,
Christmas Treeworld dot co dot uk says the twelfth Night
is the last night that Christmas decorations can be displayed.
That would be January fifth. In the evening they should
(09:12):
be removed. The twelfth Night is rooted in Christian tradition,
commemorates the eve of the arrival of the Three Wise
Men and the end of Christmas festivities. I would also
point out that at no point in the Bible, if
you're going to be quoting Bible verses, here was there
a Christmas tree. We don't have Christmas trees.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And they said that the Wise Men got there in
twelve days.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It says it commemorates the eve of the arrival of
the three Wise Men and the end of all Christmas festivities.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's not biblical.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But but you're going to argue with christmastreeworld dot co
dot UK, I'll remind you Christmas tree is in the.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Name Wise made there in twelve days, amazing because Jesus
was about two at the time they showed up.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It says. Many people who have jobs try to break
it down on New Year's Day, so new Year, New ye.
That includes anybody who wants to get rid of the
Christmas cannon.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
When of Sally's friends had her Christmas tree by the
to be picked up for the trash people, it was
on the side of the road, naked, laying on the
side of the road. I believe the night it was
definitely the day after Christmas, like twelve noon. I saw
it there, like the twenty sixth. The twenty six Christmas
(10:29):
is over, trees going to go out, lights were down,
everything's gone.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I always found it odd that I don't know when
we started putting up Christmas trees early. But you know,
if you listen to the old songs or even watch
the movies of like the forties and some of the
ones in the fifties, they talk about putting up the
Christmas tree, dressing the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, like they just.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Put it up for that one like twenty four hours
and then it was gone.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Here's the thing with all that effort that you got
to put it up, and invariably, I keep saying to myself,
much like with my taxes, I'm gonna put my tree
up early this year. Okay, much like I said to
myself yesterday, I'm gonna start working on my taxes early
this year. Okay, we'll see how that works out for me.
But you put it up later. Now I'm saying later.
I'm saying. It's been up since about two weeks before Christmas.
(11:17):
So now you went through all that effort, you want
to keep it up. That's why I don't want to
take it down. I put all that effort in putting
it up.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Is there a way? I don't know? It's because let me,
sometimes I go to outdoor or restaurants that have outdoor seating,
and they have pretty white lights. Now those white lights
could be interpreted as Christmas lights, sure, I suppose, but
I'm looking at this in August and they look great.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Great.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Is there a way that I guess if you don't
have colored lights that I mean you can't get around
the Christmas tree. But the rest of the stuff, if
it's not red and green, if it's just white, maybe blue.
I'm trying to I'm trying to help figure out a
way to you know, people be able to keep their
lights up all year wrong because they do look good.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I love it. I bet you're one of the things
that was survived are those little I finally got some
decent ones this year. The lights that a lot of people.
It's like a one candle. It looks like a candle.
Obviously it's an electric light. Oh okay, but you put
one in each window. So Sally had to have one
of the I finally found a place that has the
It has a remote control for him, and you can
(12:29):
also set them on a timer. Because the pain of
the butt of those things is how many batteries they
choose through and batteries, by the way, have gotten unbelievably expensive.
Have you noticed that?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Uh No, there's nothing that hasn't gotten unbelievable, believably. Everything
that I buy in the last six months, I'm like,
did I just pay three dollars for a Snickers bar?
Whatever it is, it's just incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, it's the new norm of pricing. Prices went up
and they're not coming down. So anyway, I bet you
those little lights will withstand the test of taking down
the Christmas because she loves them. Oh so I'm thinking
she's gonna want to keep those up.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
We'll see, well, well, you know, and we'll get the
Morning Rush feedback tomorrow. You know what, do people We
don't care about the people in England, nor do we
care about the people in North Carolina or Georgia, or
even the upstate or low country, the people of the Midlands,
the Morning Rush irregulars. When should your decorations be down by?
When do you get snooty about it and start looking
(13:32):
down on people? Is it January? Is it this weekend?
Do they have to the weekend to take it down?
If you see them Sunday night, are you like, oh,
come on, this is white trash? Or maybe maybe you
give them more of a grace period, maybe you go
all the way to February. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
We'll find out, all right, well the first time, we'll
try to get out of doing it. Say how long
I can push it off? And can I actually get
away with celerbrate and play off Ruary? Now?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Do your lights change colors?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
No? No, they're all soft white.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I was thinking because if if you were doing like
you know, maybe no, I don't. I don't even know
enough about the NFL right now to know who's in
the playoffs. But if it was like the Falcons, like,
could you get like your lights to go black and red?
Could you then? Or if they're blue and orange for Miami?
You know Whoever's fine?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I'm thinking about a morning Rush regular I know right
now who keeps a tree up. She keeps her Christmas
tree up, and she changes the colors on the lights
with her app on her phone. So it like it's
going to go to pink here soon for.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Goose cancer awareness or whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
No, no, no, it'll go to Valentine's Day. Oh is that?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I guess that is? I was thinking red for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But there is something she does with it for her
Oh I think right now it's red white and blue.
She's all American.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yes, she's all trump in.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
She's all trumped in. But and she replaces, like some ornaments,
just like Valentine's things. She hangs on it, but she
keeps it up year round because she can change the colors.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's kind of clever. Lazy too, sure, but clever. Yes,
So well, we'll talk to you all about that tomorrow.
And of course, like we said, the chance to win,
and then is the cash back again tomorrow as well?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
The cash starts on Monday.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
It starts on Monday. I thought we started it this past.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Well, I made the announcement a couple of times. I
was going to start at nine yesterday, but.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
It was actually an error user error, an error error
because I went I looked on the contest I looked
on the contest thing schedule, and I didn't see the word.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I'm like, wait a minute, what's going on here? Then
I'll hang on somebody of corporate screw it up?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Probably them, Yeah, they probably So.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Then I go read back and read the email again. No,
it starts on the thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Zip it.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Nobody from corporate flagged me on that.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
All right, Well, the new year, New you starts on
the thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, don't don't get me a demerit. I don't need
any demerits around here. We got corporate people coming in tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Oh my gosh, that's right.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Watch some watch one of our listeners actually call and
log a complaint now so that they bring it up
during the meeting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
If you want to call and complain, you can use
the talkback feature right now on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Don't use the phone.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
This is the talkback feature. Jonathan and I will make
sure it goes to the right people.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yes, yes, we will just send that to me. I'll
forward it alone. Trust me on that. I can't believe
I screwed that up. All right, So, but it takes
a great question. Mark, what's the first thing you're going
to screw up for the new year. I've already screwed
mine up. We're moving on, Moving on now, Okay, what's
happened in your neighborhood. We should be talking about how
many Christmas lights are still up. I've got one guy
up the street from me. It's going to be interesting
(16:33):
to see when he tries to bring all that down.
I know we had a cherry picker. Maybe you have
one of those companies that came in to put all
that up. What are those trees is huge and the
lights goes, they go all the way. I can see
it from four blocks away.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I know a guy who tells me about a third
of his annual income and he's in banking. He's actually
in mortgage broker. About a third of his annual incomes
from his side gig of putting up Christmas light.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Those guys are killing it. He loves it.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
He's got like a crew of like ten guys and
they're just setting up houses all the time. I'm like,
all these people with money, they just like I'll just
throw out ten thousand dollars or whatever to make it.
And they got to get all new lights every year.
Every year, every year has to be custom cut to
the house. And then we just take them throw them away.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
And then the next year, well they stored him, No,
he says, because they're only good for a year.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Ugh. So one of my cousins are by marriage. One
of Sally's cousins lives in Dallas. Had the neighborhood had
the neighborhood of mine. She lives like four blocks from
Don Hilly.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh okay, I mean, I knew all of Dallas is
insane with the amount of money they spend trying to
impress each other.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Oh my gosh, this is out of control. Yeah, so
I've forgotten what she told me. One of her friends paid.
It was like twelve thousand dollars paid twelve thousand dollars.
They have their house decorated for with lights for Christmas,
and they come and they put it up like the
Friday afternoon Thanksgiving, and they come back and take it
down like the day before New Year's or something twelve grand.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I don't know what it costs, but here in West Columbia,
that's where I bought my way over priced fake tree.
And I'm not going to give them a free commercial.
But it's a place that used to advertise with us
but does not anymore. And they told me, and I
saw them doing it, they will store your Christmas tree
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and all of your Christmas stuff in their place so
you don't have to put it in the attic. Then
you call them like a couple of weeks in advance
and say I'd like to have delivery on such and
such a day. Then they will return it and for
an extra fee. They will then set it all up.
So if you're a wealthy laze about or an older person,
(18:56):
I guess you can just call them and say, hey, next.
You know, usually that Friday after Thanksgiving is jam packed.
They say they booked that out way in advance, but
you could do it, like you could do it maybe
the Tuesday before Thanksgiving or the Sunday after things whatever.
They come and they set up your trees plural for
a lot of these people. They set up all the
decorations on the trees, they set up the lights around
(19:17):
the house, all that sort of stuff for a fee.
And I'm like, do we have a lot of people
doing that here in like West Columbia. She's like, well,
probably about three four hundred families. Wow, what a great idea.
Three or four hundred families have that kind of ching.
I guess. So I don't know what the ching needed
is because I didn't even want to ask. That's one
of those ones.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I felt like that old phrase, if you have to ask,
you can't afford, that's right, And I knew I had
to ask, so I didn't bother.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I'm remembering a guy now that used to work here
in the promotions department and remember the I'm not sure
this event still goes on. They don't involve us anymore.
It's for one of the hospitals. So it's either lexnon
Medical or it's Prisma, because only two.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I remember we used to do the thing for the
pets with the Christmas trees and with.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
The trees were decorated. Yeah, that was w wnok back
in the day. Always had the very best tree. I
mean it was it was picture quality.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I think Cyrus, our old promotions guy, is still heavily
involved with that.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I think he is. But I remember a couple of
our clients with extra disposable income would hire him to
come after they saw that tree. Who decorated that tree? Yes,
so they would hire him to show up with the crew.
And he could have just continued to do that because
(20:43):
he's going on to do all kinds of things with
gowns and crowns, and.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, he is the I guess I think I might
be overstating the case. I think he's the number one
coach for people competing in like the Miss South Carolina Patchet.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I'm sure he's the number one for the state.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That's what I'm saying. I think it's like he's like
trained like ten out of the last twenty. He is
mister beauty Queen.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Mister b Q. Imagine if you had kept that sideline job.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Going, he might I mean, you know, and he'll show
up at your house, not only to decorate your Christmas tree.
He'll look like a Christmas tree while doing it, Yes
he will. He'll have some sort of outfit you would
have never imagined, and it will have all kinds of
flashing lights guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
The truck pulls up and twelve people who look like
elves with striped stockings, the whole thing and the little
hat and the little curls on the shoes get out
and decorate your house. He only does it full blong.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Oh, he doesn't hold back on none of that stuff.
That's if you want the treatment, you're getting the treatment.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Don't agree? Guy? All right? Anyway, what's going on in
your neighborhood? You're getting that mad that's happening with your
neighbors down the street? You got a guy like I do.
I don't know how I was going to get it
all down. Must have been one of those companies. Maybe
they're running behind schedule. I don't know, but there's a
lot of people trying to get their lights down, or
maybe just having to schedule the guys to come back yet,
or are they getting on your nerves. Okay, we got
(22:08):
to move on and celebrate something else, or just not
celebrate for a while. Nine seven eight nine two six
even is what we used tomorrow and we start talking,
you start talking. You can reach out to us on
social media. You can always email us. I'm Rush at
ninety seven five w SOS dot com.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
In nash at ninety seven five w SOS dot com.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Tomorrow on the Morning Rush
Hello, Killy, Good Morning Tomorrow show Today it'll be humped
in the two days before the very cold air comes in.
We're looking at a high Friday at this point at
thirty six degrees the high.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You know, it's the polar vortex. You know, we get this.
It seems about every year, maybe every two years, you
get a I don't even understand it because we never
had these. Maybe they didn't call them polar vortexes in
the eighties and the nineties, but it seems like somewhere
in the two thousands is where that term was created, where,
(00:37):
for some reason, the air in Canada. Here's a think
about that. This is what the people in Canada live
with all year round, yes, or not all year round. No,
the winter, the winters, we're and we're nothing like it's
going to be in say, Wisconsin. The places that are
closer to Canada, we're dying over. You know, overnight lows
(00:58):
in the teens. Their overnight highs are like negative five.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I'm like that, Birh.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
So hopefully won't be as bad as some have predicted.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I was thinking about something I believe I read earlier
today somewhere that this Friday is free Friday. At Riverbank Zoo.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
What does that mean? Free Friday?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
You don't have to pay it to get in, It's
a free Friday. They have those sporadically throughout the year.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I said, that's my nephew, he works over there.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
What the polar bears are doing, well, They're through the
high of thirty six.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The polar bears are loving it. The lions are like, WTF,
We're jungle creatures for God's sake.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
What in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was talking to a guy who over the I
guess it would have been last weekend was his daughter's birthday, okay,
and he said, thanks to the economy that we're in,
everything that they have done previously has like doubled and
tripled in price. Yes, so rather than doing one of
those of it, they offered that to her year whatever
(02:00):
it was, tenth birthday party or whatever. Do you want
to return to one of these types of places with
your friends or he said, for that amount of money,
I could get a tent set up outside around our
pool and have the pool heated for the entire weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
What.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, So you had to get like fifty gallons of
propane gas or something and heated his pool and they
had the pool party. So all these kids were there
dancing around in their bikinis and swim trunks and whatnot,
and we're able to you know, I guess her birthday
is sometime around Christmas, and yeah, that's the way we
(02:40):
need to do it. At the zoo. I guess we
had to get the propane heaters out there and keep
those monkeys and things that are used to living in
eighty degree weather and higher warm.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Snakes, Gosh, you imagine the poor snakes if they had
to go outside.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I say, poor snakes. We hate snakes, all right, So
we got that. We'll be tracking for you at this point.
No snow, no snow for us, so but Sally still
praying for it.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
High probability it appears of ice storms. Yeah, so that
leads to severe power outages and lots of car wrecks.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So I don't want any of that.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I remember the ice storm of nineteen seventy three. I
don't know how many days it was. I want to
say it was at least a week that we didn't
have power. And the good news about the ice storm
of seventy three was although we had no power, we
just took our food and put it in the yard
(03:38):
and that kept it frozen, so we didn't lose anything.
And it was a miser and my father, my stepfather,
he was stuck at work. He couldn't get home because
all the roads were closed for the week, so.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It was just me and my count nineteen seventy three.
It must have been a harsh winter all up and
down the eastern seaboard, because I'm thinking that seventy three
on the farm, we had to do stuff we had
never had to do. We had to take hay to
the cows because there was so much snow on the ground.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Oh really, Yeah, I'm looking at us nineteen seventy three
ice storm and see how far that went down, because
that might have been even affecting people in South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It was a lot of snow, believing that was the year,
but it was cold and I hated every minute of it.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But when you put in nineteen seventy three ice storm,
the first thing that comes up as a Wikipedia page
the New England ice storm of nineteen seventy three. I
covered most of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Okay, well, maybe it was a different year. I just
remember getting a lot of snow one time, and it
was miserable living on the farm because you got to
take care of all the animals. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, weather is a nightmare, and yeah we still have
people praying for more of it. Yeah, I'll start praying
for like sixty eight degree days.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
No sounds praying for that, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Can't you were talking yesterday about the snow, the chemical
fake snow that we're allowed to put out as a kid.
Can't you just break a couple of EPA laws and
put that out on the front lawn for sally. There
you go. Now, now we can pray for eighty degree weather.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
That's great. I forget whether this stuff was called. My
grandmother grandfather had a store in Newberry, right over the
by of the Millican Village, straight out of Oakland. It's
the Oakland area, Okay, that's when I was straight out
of Oakland. And in their store they had a dry
good store. Well it's like it was like a grocery
(05:35):
store now, way back in the day. So, but they
had this powder and it would have sold out every
time because when they look at the forecast and get
they get some in. But you sprinkled it on, you
get a bowl for the snow. You just walk out
in the backyard and scoop up some snow in a bowl,
and then she was sprinkling on top and you'd eat it. It
(05:55):
was yellow.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't understand the yellow like that seems like a
like you could have picked any color, right, the only
color you shouldn't pick pretty much.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Guess down South because yellow snow was infamous up north,
but not down south. So anyway, um o.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
My gosh, all right, what else do we got going
on for tomorrow? Well, of course we're going to be
playing what you're talking about, and that gives you an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
This week let me put my thinking cap on.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Okay, this week we're giving away Caine Brown concert tickets
and Jonathan will tell you what number caller to be.
But the answer to the question for what you're talking
about has already been posted on the Morning Rush blog
at ninety seven to five WCS dot com.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I do not look at the answer before Kelly gives
you the word in the Tomorrow Show Today podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I'm gonna guess again in the pronunciation as buckula, and
that's spelt b like boy you c c u la.
I'm pronouncing it buckula buckula, And unfortunately I will say
my bucula and your buckula have grown recently.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
All right, now you've throw me for a loop. Have grown?
I'm thinking of anything outside of grocery store bills or
electric bills. What else has grown? Hum? Okay, I'm drawing
a complete blank on buckula.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The bucula is the fold of fatty tissue under your chin,
also referred to as a double chin. The double chin
has grown for a lot of people during the holiday season. Ah,
that's quite a bucula you've got that. You could throw
that at somebody. They might think you're giving them a compliment.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
You might.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That is an impressive buckula.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You got to get rid of that buckula.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Why don't you stop your buckula flapping?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Okay, that's good if you know that answer. Tomorrow morning
it's six thirty and what you're talking about, you're gonna
win two came brown tickets for the show.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
That is awesome. And we started talking about this yesterday
with you. We talked about it a little bit more today.
I'll be interested in the update because there is there
a family meeting today regarding the holiday decorations.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I know that I am on the calendar to right
after lunch start taking down the Christmas decorations. And I'm
gonna figure out another way to get out of this
now because I am going to go for the full
Dr Pepper playoff, you wary celebration. All I gotta do
is get some NFL and college football playoff logos to
go on the tree and then we'll just keep the
(08:34):
tree up with the lights. That tree is gonna make
such a mess when I got to move it out
because it is dead. I mean, the needles are just
like if you walk past it, just a slight vibration
of the floor, you can see them falling off.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Well, I'm gonna go just so you know, with all
of the authority vested in Christmastreeworld dot co dot uk. Okay, so,
Christmas Treeworld dot co dot uk says the twelfth Night
is the last night that Christmas decorations can be displayed.
That would be January fifth. In the evening they should
(09:12):
be removed. The twelfth Night is rooted in Christian tradition,
commemorates the eve of the arrival of the Three Wise
Men and the end of Christmas festivities. I would also
point out that at no point in the Bible, if
you're going to be quoting Bible verses, here was there
a Christmas tree. We don't have Christmas trees.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And they said that the Wise Men got there in
twelve days.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It says it commemorates the eve of the arrival of
the three Wise Men and the end of all Christmas festivities.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's not biblical.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But but you're going to argue with christmastreeworld dot co
dot UK, I'll remind you Christmas tree is in the.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Name Wise made there in twelve days, amazing because Jesus
was about two at the time they showed up.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It says. Many people who have jobs try to break
it down on New Year's Day, so new Year, New ye.
That includes anybody who wants to get rid of the
Christmas cannon.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
When of Sally's friends had her Christmas tree by the
to be picked up for the trash people, it was
on the side of the road, naked, laying on the
side of the road. I believe the night it was
definitely the day after Christmas, like twelve noon. I saw
it there, like the twenty sixth. The twenty six Christmas
(10:29):
is over, trees going to go out, lights were down,
everything's gone.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I always found it odd that I don't know when
we started putting up Christmas trees early. But you know,
if you listen to the old songs or even watch
the movies of like the forties and some of the
ones in the fifties, they talk about putting up the
Christmas tree, dressing the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, like they just.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Put it up for that one like twenty four hours
and then it was gone.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Here's the thing with all that effort that you got
to put it up, and invariably, I keep saying to myself,
much like with my taxes, I'm gonna put my tree
up early this year. Okay, much like I said to
myself yesterday, I'm gonna start working on my taxes early
this year. Okay, we'll see how that works out for me.
But you put it up later. Now I'm saying later.
I'm saying. It's been up since about two weeks before Christmas.
(11:17):
So now you went through all that effort, you want
to keep it up. That's why I don't want to
take it down. I put all that effort in putting
it up.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Is there a way? I don't know? It's because let me,
sometimes I go to outdoor or restaurants that have outdoor seating,
and they have pretty white lights. Now those white lights
could be interpreted as Christmas lights, sure, I suppose, but
I'm looking at this in August and they look great.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Great.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Is there a way that I guess if you don't
have colored lights that I mean you can't get around
the Christmas tree. But the rest of the stuff, if
it's not red and green, if it's just white, maybe blue.
I'm trying to I'm trying to help figure out a
way to you know, people be able to keep their
lights up all year wrong because they do look good.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I love it. I bet you're one of the things
that was survived are those little I finally got some
decent ones this year. The lights that a lot of people.
It's like a one candle. It looks like a candle.
Obviously it's an electric light. Oh okay, but you put
one in each window. So Sally had to have one
of the I finally found a place that has the
It has a remote control for him, and you can
(12:29):
also set them on a timer. Because the pain of
the butt of those things is how many batteries they
choose through and batteries, by the way, have gotten unbelievably expensive.
Have you noticed that?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Uh No, there's nothing that hasn't gotten unbelievable, believably. Everything
that I buy in the last six months, I'm like,
did I just pay three dollars for a Snickers bar?
Whatever it is, it's just incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, it's the new norm of pricing. Prices went up
and they're not coming down. So anyway, I bet you
those little lights will withstand the test of taking down
the Christmas because she loves them. Oh so I'm thinking
she's gonna want to keep those up.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
We'll see, well, well, you know, and we'll get the
Morning Rush feedback tomorrow. You know what, do people We
don't care about the people in England, nor do we
care about the people in North Carolina or Georgia, or
even the upstate or low country, the people of the Midlands,
the Morning Rush irregulars. When should your decorations be down by?
When do you get snooty about it and start looking
(13:32):
down on people? Is it January? Is it this weekend?
Do they have to the weekend to take it down?
If you see them Sunday night, are you like, oh,
come on, this is white trash? Or maybe maybe you
give them more of a grace period, maybe you go
all the way to February. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
We'll find out, all right, well the first time, we'll
try to get out of doing it. Say how long
I can push it off? And can I actually get
away with celerbrate and play off Ruary? Now?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Do your lights change colors?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
No? No, they're all soft white.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I was thinking because if if you were doing like
you know, maybe no, I don't. I don't even know
enough about the NFL right now to know who's in
the playoffs. But if it was like the Falcons, like,
could you get like your lights to go black and red?
Could you then? Or if they're blue and orange for Miami?
You know Whoever's fine?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I'm thinking about a morning Rush regular I know right
now who keeps a tree up. She keeps her Christmas
tree up, and she changes the colors on the lights
with her app on her phone. So it like it's
going to go to pink here soon for.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Goose cancer awareness or whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
No, no, no, it'll go to Valentine's Day. Oh is that?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I guess that is? I was thinking red for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But there is something she does with it for her
Oh I think right now it's red white and blue.
She's all American.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yes, she's all trump in.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
She's all trumped in. But and she replaces, like some ornaments,
just like Valentine's things. She hangs on it, but she
keeps it up year round because she can change the colors.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's kind of clever. Lazy too, sure, but clever. Yes,
So well, we'll talk to you all about that tomorrow.
And of course, like we said, the chance to win,
and then is the cash back again tomorrow as well?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
The cash starts on Monday.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
It starts on Monday. I thought we started it this past.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Well, I made the announcement a couple of times. I
was going to start at nine yesterday, but.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
It was actually an error user error, an error error
because I went I looked on the contest I looked
on the contest thing schedule, and I didn't see the word.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I'm like, wait a minute, what's going on here? Then
I'll hang on somebody of corporate screw it up?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Probably them, Yeah, they probably So.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Then I go read back and read the email again. No,
it starts on the thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Zip it.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Nobody from corporate flagged me on that.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
All right, Well, the new year, New you starts on
the thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, don't don't get me a demerit. I don't need
any demerits around here. We got corporate people coming in tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Oh my gosh, that's right.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Watch some watch one of our listeners actually call and
log a complaint now so that they bring it up
during the meeting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
If you want to call and complain, you can use
the talkback feature right now on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Don't use the phone.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
This is the talkback feature. Jonathan and I will make
sure it goes to the right people.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yes, yes, we will just send that to me. I'll
forward it alone. Trust me on that. I can't believe
I screwed that up. All right, So, but it takes
a great question. Mark, what's the first thing you're going
to screw up for the new year. I've already screwed
mine up. We're moving on, Moving on now, Okay, what's
happened in your neighborhood. We should be talking about how
many Christmas lights are still up. I've got one guy
up the street from me. It's going to be interesting
(16:33):
to see when he tries to bring all that down.
I know we had a cherry picker. Maybe you have
one of those companies that came in to put all
that up. What are those trees is huge and the
lights goes, they go all the way. I can see
it from four blocks away.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I know a guy who tells me about a third
of his annual income and he's in banking. He's actually
in mortgage broker. About a third of his annual incomes
from his side gig of putting up Christmas light.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Those guys are killing it. He loves it.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
He's got like a crew of like ten guys and
they're just setting up houses all the time. I'm like,
all these people with money, they just like I'll just
throw out ten thousand dollars or whatever to make it.
And they got to get all new lights every year.
Every year, every year has to be custom cut to
the house. And then we just take them throw them away.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
And then the next year, well they stored him, No,
he says, because they're only good for a year.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Ugh. So one of my cousins are by marriage. One
of Sally's cousins lives in Dallas. Had the neighborhood had
the neighborhood of mine. She lives like four blocks from
Don Hilly.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh okay, I mean, I knew all of Dallas is
insane with the amount of money they spend trying to
impress each other.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Oh my gosh, this is out of control. Yeah, so
I've forgotten what she told me. One of her friends paid.
It was like twelve thousand dollars paid twelve thousand dollars.
They have their house decorated for with lights for Christmas,
and they come and they put it up like the
Friday afternoon Thanksgiving, and they come back and take it
down like the day before New Year's or something twelve grand.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I don't know what it costs, but here in West Columbia,
that's where I bought my way over priced fake tree.
And I'm not going to give them a free commercial.
But it's a place that used to advertise with us
but does not anymore. And they told me, and I
saw them doing it, they will store your Christmas tree
(18:34):
and all of your Christmas stuff in their place so
you don't have to put it in the attic. Then
you call them like a couple of weeks in advance
and say I'd like to have delivery on such and
such a day. Then they will return it and for
an extra fee. They will then set it all up.
So if you're a wealthy laze about or an older person,
(18:56):
I guess you can just call them and say, hey, next.
You know, usually that Friday after Thanksgiving is jam packed.
They say they booked that out way in advance, but
you could do it, like you could do it maybe
the Tuesday before Thanksgiving or the Sunday after things whatever.
They come and they set up your trees plural for
a lot of these people. They set up all the
decorations on the trees, they set up the lights around
(19:17):
the house, all that sort of stuff for a fee.
And I'm like, do we have a lot of people
doing that here in like West Columbia. She's like, well,
probably about three four hundred families. Wow, what a great idea.
Three or four hundred families have that kind of ching.
I guess. So I don't know what the ching needed
is because I didn't even want to ask. That's one
of those ones.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I felt like that old phrase, if you have to ask,
you can't afford, that's right, And I knew I had
to ask, so I didn't bother.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I'm remembering a guy now that used to work here
in the promotions department and remember the I'm not sure
this event still goes on. They don't involve us anymore.
It's for one of the hospitals. So it's either lexnon
Medical or it's Prisma, because only two.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I remember we used to do the thing for the
pets with the Christmas trees and with.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
The trees were decorated. Yeah, that was w wnok back
in the day. Always had the very best tree. I
mean it was it was picture quality.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I think Cyrus, our old promotions guy, is still heavily
involved with that.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I think he is. But I remember a couple of
our clients with extra disposable income would hire him to
come after they saw that tree. Who decorated that tree? Yes,
so they would hire him to show up with the crew.
And he could have just continued to do that because
(20:43):
he's going on to do all kinds of things with
gowns and crowns, and.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, he is the I guess I think I might
be overstating the case. I think he's the number one
coach for people competing in like the Miss South Carolina Patchet.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I'm sure he's the number one for the state.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That's what I'm saying. I think it's like he's like
trained like ten out of the last twenty. He is
mister beauty Queen.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Mister b Q. Imagine if you had kept that sideline job.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Going, he might I mean, you know, and he'll show
up at your house, not only to decorate your Christmas tree.
He'll look like a Christmas tree while doing it, Yes
he will. He'll have some sort of outfit you would
have never imagined, and it will have all kinds of
flashing lights guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
The truck pulls up and twelve people who look like
elves with striped stockings, the whole thing and the little
hat and the little curls on the shoes get out
and decorate your house. He only does it full blong.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Oh, he doesn't hold back on none of that stuff.
That's if you want the treatment, you're getting the treatment.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Don't agree? Guy? All right? Anyway, what's going on in
your neighborhood? You're getting that mad that's happening with your
neighbors down the street? You got a guy like I do.
I don't know how I was going to get it
all down. Must have been one of those companies. Maybe
they're running behind schedule. I don't know, but there's a
lot of people trying to get their lights down, or
maybe just having to schedule the guys to come back yet,
or are they getting on your nerves. Okay, we got
(22:08):
to move on and celebrate something else, or just not
celebrate for a while. Nine seven eight nine two six
even is what we used tomorrow and we start talking,
you start talking. You can reach out to us on
social media. You can always email us. I'm Rush at
ninety seven five w SOS dot com.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
In nash at ninety seven five w SOS dot com.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
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