Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Performers

Hear who will host and perform tonight's tree lighting.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
One o six point seven light FM, Cubby and Christine
in the Morning and the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting
is tonight begins at eight o'clock on NBC be simulcasted
on Peacock and they usually light that tree. We're like
nine fifty nine, nine.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Fifty eighth when we have to go to bed. Excuse me,
right right, to move it up a little.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's a busy night though it is. They have a
lot of people there performing.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
You have a lot of stars. Yeah. Reva McIntyre is
hosting the Hole event. Performances by Marc Anthony, Hallie Bailey,
Michael Boubla, Kristin Chenoweth Fay is it le fay Lafey.
She's really good. She's got the l a u f
e y l fay. Sounds like she's singing standards or something.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Okay, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
She's Yeah, she's great.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
New new addition. Wow. Brad Paisley, Carly Pierce, Gwen Stefani
and uh hey, some people we know pretty well Radio
City Rockets will be there. Are good friends and of
course the tree will be in place until mid January
twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yes, so we have some time it's a Norway spruce.
That's say. They always use a Norway spruce for this, by.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
The way, Yeah, because they grow straight and they resist
high winds and they grow to at least seventy feet
tall or seventy five feet tall actually, And yeah, there
are a lot of fun facts about the tree, about
how there are more than fifty thousand led lights on
the tree. They switch to LEDs back in two thousand
and seven, so you don't have to worry about one
bulb going out.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, go out one. Dad has to sit there and
go through the strings, remember those days?

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, to do you have those at home? Did
you have those big bulbs?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, we all had those.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Right, I remember them? Are they around? Well they do
like a retro looking one now, but they're not quite
the same.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
They used to get.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Hot ones back of the day, got like warm and bubblers.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Did you guys ever have bubblers?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
A bubbler? Oh my gosh, memories, memories all that stuff.
All right. So, although it is a gridlock alert day,
if you can get into town, you know mass transit,
you know it's going to be a great time.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know, it's incredibly special. And then what like weatherwise,
we're going to be freezing.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Much better, Yeah, freezing, but much better than yesterday with
all that rain. So today's high is forty. By the
time the tree gets lit, it'll be probably low thirties.
So just bundle up and I call me a scrooge.
But producer Christmas, like, here we go. When they do
the countdown three two one, do you kind of hope

(02:18):
it doesn't turn on just for a second and then
and then it turns on. No, not, it goes. It
never comes on. I always in the back of my
line just say to myself, wouldn't it wouldn't it be
funny if they just had like a problem for thirty seconds,
like and there's some guy trying to plug it in.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
That's when the ball drops on, Like New Year's Eve.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Do you have the same Maybe it's gonna like break
and then fall too fast, Yeah, or they don't.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Sometimes it does seem a little bit off.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Have you noticed that it's rarely actually on. Yeah, they're
like three two, But sometimes it's already at bottom.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I know, and the ball's like, I'm sorry, I'm here
already midnight for me.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Anyway, I'm sure they'll l like that tree and I'm
sure they practice it many many times before it actually
turns off.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
They just plug it in.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
But every year and the fact of my guy, one
guy has that job.