December 23, 2025 • 24 mins
What NOT to Bring to a Holiday Party:
Holiday parties are stressful enough so don’t make it worse with your contribution. We’re running through the biggest party faux pas, what never goes over well, and what you should bring instead. If you’ve ever second-guessed your dish on the way over, this episode is for you.
DM Dilemma's:
Are Christmas bonuses guaranteed or just a nice surprise? After a listener DM’d us, we unpack what’s normal, what’s not, and how to navigate it if you’re left empty-handed.
What's Trending:
From weather check-ins to pop culture wins, we’ve got you covered. Taylor Swift breaks another record, Ed Sheeran shows off his gym era, Taco Bell resurrects the Quesarito, plus the latest in sports.
Second Date Update:
Mark called about Elise saying she’s classy, funny, and full of laughs. They bonded over favorite movies, swapped quotes, and even dreamed about escaping the work grind with a weekend getaway. Sparks were definitely flying so why did she ghost?
Nearly Half Of U.S. Workers Are Already Checked Out For The Year:
Still going to work but not really working? Same. We talk about the survey that says December 15 was the last productive day of the year, why so many employees are in “holidaze” mode, and whether easing up at work is actually understandable.
Good News:
A mom’s unexpected ability to breastfeed turned into thousands of feeds for premature babies. We discuss Lauren Hildebrant’s story, the role of milk banks like WakeMed, and how simple the donation process can be for parents who want to help.
Holiday parties are stressful enough so don’t make it worse with your contribution. We’re running through the biggest party faux pas, what never goes over well, and what you should bring instead. If you’ve ever second-guessed your dish on the way over, this episode is for you.
DM Dilemma's:
Are Christmas bonuses guaranteed or just a nice surprise? After a listener DM’d us, we unpack what’s normal, what’s not, and how to navigate it if you’re left empty-handed.
What's Trending:
From weather check-ins to pop culture wins, we’ve got you covered. Taylor Swift breaks another record, Ed Sheeran shows off his gym era, Taco Bell resurrects the Quesarito, plus the latest in sports.
Second Date Update:
Mark called about Elise saying she’s classy, funny, and full of laughs. They bonded over favorite movies, swapped quotes, and even dreamed about escaping the work grind with a weekend getaway. Sparks were definitely flying so why did she ghost?
Nearly Half Of U.S. Workers Are Already Checked Out For The Year:
Still going to work but not really working? Same. We talk about the survey that says December 15 was the last productive day of the year, why so many employees are in “holidaze” mode, and whether easing up at work is actually understandable.
Good News:
A mom’s unexpected ability to breastfeed turned into thousands of feeds for premature babies. We discuss Lauren Hildebrant’s story, the role of milk banks like WakeMed, and how simple the donation process can be for parents who want to help.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Or variety from the two thousands, the nineties and today
it's Star one on one three, it's Marcus right before
six o'clock, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I tried to do some not even Christmas shopping yesterday.
Priduser Taylor is here, Good morning dude. CVS right eight
just absolute war zones.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
I went to a Stonetown yesterday and it was a zoo.
It was so parking was terrible. Okay, people everywhere and
they no one knows where they're going.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I was very stressed out yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
For some reason, I decided to traverse some of the
worst parking lots in the Bay. No disrespect, but the
straw flower parking lot in half of the Bay can
be treacherous because as people are coming in for CVS
and Safeway, other people are trying to get their Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Forget it.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And then I had to go to west Lake Center
and Daily City and again I adore these places. The
stores are great, but the parking situation, why is it?
What can I ask if anybody's in Daily City, why
is Westlake Center packed all day, every day.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
All day at all time, And that that's better than
stones Town. I will actually go to Westlake instead of
going to Stonestown. Is that that? Yes, a little bit barely.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Plus the rain anyway, Other than that, Merry Christmas?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, what not to bring to a holiday gathering? I
know we had a lot of holiday gatherings over the weekend.
I went to three basically just brought booze, honestly, Like,
you can always bring a bottle of wine, right right,
unless it's a dry party, in which case I'm probably
not coming.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
That being said, I have.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Brought food before, and there are certain dishes you can
bring and certain dishes you really shouldn't produce. For tailor
is on the mic with me now, you were telling
me off the air your parents throw down. So you
literally are just in charge of bringing wine.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, I'm I'm the booze director. Uh huh here, So
usually I'll bring anything like that. But if you know
my family, they do not like onions or garlic, So
if you bring anything with that in it, they will
actually ask you to lead.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Oh my god, that's a pro tip. I know the
whole family. No aliums for the entire family.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
No one.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
My mind is I'm actually need I need to take
a beat here.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
No, I'm glad I could inform you.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Okay, so one of the things you don't want to
bring hard to eat or messy dishes that require utensils,
swap out for small, bite sized apps that can be
eaten standing up. I will augment that with anything that
requires stove top space or needs the oven. Instead, bring
items that are ready to serve can be enjoyed cold.
This should go without saying. Don't bring infused treats that
have THHC or CBD in them.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Why not.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Answer, unless they're clearly labeled.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I went to a potluck one time and brought vodka
infuse watermelon. Really easy recipe. You chunk up some watermelon
and then marinate it in vodka and chaffond.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Mint and god is it good?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
But boy, do you have to label it and keep
it off the side of the picnic table so the.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Kids don't get at it? Oh my god. Don't bring
strongly scented foods like fish. Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Stick with your holiday vibes.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Nos.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Uh, that's so touch and go, because if somebody gets
sick off the oysters, now it's on you.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And don't bring anything too complex. I'll be honest with you.
I did a party one time and I brought a porketta.
Do you know what that is?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
No sounds complex.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So it is a pork loin that is seasoned and
then wrapped in pork belly and then you slow roasted.
And I brought my rotisseri and everything. I set it
and forget it. I spent so much time on that thing.
But you know what the hitter of the party was.
I watched a lady dump sour cream and onion soup
mix into some sour cream and that was it. That
was the head that dip. She brought out a bag
(03:43):
of ruffles and my porketta sat in her chips.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Gone. So keep it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Simple, that's the thing. What else shouldn't you bring? These
are just some food for thought. What not to bring
to a holiday party? Okay, there you go, start one
on one three Christmas week? Did you get a Christmas
bonus or a card with a little cash in it?
Sometimes around here we used to get AMEX cards back
in the day.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But what do you do?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
How do you approach your boss if all of a
sudden you didn't get a check and there was no email,
there was no announcement producer Taylor joining me on the mic.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh here's what they wrote. This is Grant and San Lorenzo.
He said, I work in a small office. Last Friday,
my boss gave me a Christmas card. In past years,
these cards have always included a small bonus, so I
assumed this one would be the same.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I open it later. It's just a card.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It's nice, but there was nothing else inside. It was
the way he smiled at me when he handed me
the card and told me that he really appreciates me
has me totally confused. The message in the card very
similarly complimentary. Am I missing something here? Is there a
possibility he just forgot to put a check in there.
When I thank him, do I just thank him for
the card? Or do I say something about the card
being empty? How do you navigate this?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Okay, well, my first question is how much is the bonus?
Normally I think that can make or break.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Sometimes it's a percentage of your salary.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Let's call it five hundred bucks, Okay, I've gotten as
much as twelve hundred and as little as one hundred bucks. Okay,
it's a little something, a little scratch. Yeah, what would you do?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
That's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I think you can't expect it, especially if it's not predisclosed.
I mean, of course you've gotten years in the past,
but maybe that can be a moment to reflect on
your work ethic as well.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
How So, why maybe it's you.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
He doesn't want to tell you, He just wants to
passively aggress Well, no check for you. I think as
a manager you have to be very careful setting precedent.
Like if one year, two years, three years you do
bonus checks, you better be prepared to do bonus checks
every year, or explain to the entire staff why.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You're no longer doing bonus checks.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, Like for me, I'll never be able to not
walk in here without soup because I've set a precedent.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yes, I do expect soup daily.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Now I'm saying like every day is hard.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
We have to work out a schedule, like maybe once
or twice a week. Maybe I've brought in soup so
many times that we're doing a soup series or rape
my plate. You can watch that if you follow It's
Marcus d or at Tay Love with two E on Instagram,
prou Taylor rating my soup one to ten. My point
is Once you set a president, it's hard to back
down from that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I plugged it into my new best friend chat GPT
because I really didn't know the answer. I know what
I would do, but what I would do wouldn't necessarily
be considered the right thing to do. Oh God, I
would literally go in and tell and do exactly what
Chad GBT is telling me not to do, which is
walk in, make a joke and go, hey, So no
bonuses this year. I can totally see what AI says
(06:29):
to do. You wait for a natural moment, not holiday
emotional moment, not rushed, and say something after you figure
out that the books are closed, the year is over,
the bonus isn't coming. You could walk into your boss's
office and say this, Hey, I wanted to ask a
quick question. I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way,
but uh, in past years, the holiday card usually had
a bonus in it. I wasn't sure if that it
(06:51):
changed or if I should expect something separately at a
later time.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I mean, that's pretty that's.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Not bad, because again, the boss set the president. Now
all of a sudden, I'll get my cheese I got,
Especially if.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
You're factoring it in with gift buying and things like that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
If they come back and say, well, we didn't do
bonuses this year, you're done. If it comes back and says,
oh that was a mistake, you just earned yourself a
minimum hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yay, yay.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Has this ever happened to you? How did you handle it?
Hit us with the talkback. I'd love for you to
be part of the show. It's the little red microphone
on the iHeartRadio app. If you're streaming Star one on
one three right now.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
This is what what's trending on Star, what's happening in
entertainment news, the biggest stories of the day and everything
people are talking about today in the babe bro.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Who's even up right now? Who's working right now?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
That's what I want to know right us us Britisher
Taylor also here. You can follow her at Taylove with
two E's on Instagram. Mine is at its Marcus d.
If you're working right now, we want to hear from you.
Maybe you're getting ready for some retail. Maybe you're a
first responder. I don't know. We appreciate you being on
the road with us today. Thank you very much. Number
one hitter is the weather. We have moderate to heavy rain,
strong winds expected to cross the Bay through Friday Saturday.
(08:04):
It's going to clear up, but the National Weather Services
issued multiple weather loots and cleaning flood high wind watches.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I know by my house, I gotta.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Pull out the generator because we're gonna have winds up
to fifty miles an hour on the coast side.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
I know.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I hope my power stays on square.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
The floodwatch will remain in place through ten pm on Friday.
You could see two to five inches of rain in
the valley. Mountains and coasts might get six to eight inches,
so flooding is possible.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Just be very careful, be prepared. And again, wind gus
could reach up.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
To what says right here, wind us up to sixty
miles an hour in some parts of the Bay and
which may cause power edges.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Let's see another day, another time for Taylor Swift to
be back in the news. That's what's up.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Wait, this isn't Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Let's go to the story first.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I love the fact that Ed Sharon has made it
on the cover of Men's Health UK because he is
apparently shredded.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Now have you seen this.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yes, he's repped.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
He famous.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I'll say it, he was famously dumpy for like the
first ten years.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Of his career.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
He was a littleebe nice guy, but he literally would
make the GQ list of just the dumpiest guys. It's
not very nice of me to say, but you know
what I'm talking about. But point is now he's on
Men's Health UK looking all shredded, saying that like being
a dad got him all in his feelings about making
the right choices and dumping the alcohol. And here we are.
(09:26):
So now, yeah, he's even even ed. Sharan's doing the
high protein thing.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
All right for him.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
On to Taylor Swift, Apparently, Life of a Showgirl has
notched his tenth consecutive week as the number one on
the Billboard two hundred Albums. This marks Taylor's fourth album
after Tortured Poet's Department nineteen eighty nine and Fearless to
achieve that feat. So this puts her in the company
of the Beatles and Elvis Presley. She is now the
(09:53):
first woman and third act overall to have four albums
spend at least ten weeks atop the chart. He says
she hasn't publicly marked it, but she went on her
boyfriend's podcast and said it feels like catching lightning in
a bottle, honestly, which I don't one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
That's not how she talks.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
That's I don't one hundred percent subscribe to it because
she's such a good businesswoman.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Lightning in a bottle means it happened accidentally.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Right, And this is her fourth time?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
No, yeah, nothing with Taylor shop pattents accidentally. She's that good. Seriously, Uh,
what other news can I share with you? Oh? So
big news out of the sports.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
The Niners won last night and it was a massive
game because it was Monday night football and we crushed Woo.
So the Niners beat up on Indianapolis Brock pretty through
five touchdowns, final score forty eight to twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Fun fact two.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The Warriors at the same time won their game by
over twenty points. It was the first time since the
Warriors moved to the Bay in nineteen sixty two that
the Warriors and Niners beat their opponents by twenty points
or more.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
In the same night.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Oh my gosh, who.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Keeps track of these stats? Nerds? But I'm here.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We uses anyway, next game is going to be Sunday
Night football this weekend at Levi Stadium against the Bears.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Kickoff at five twenty Go Niners.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
We also have a poll up right now on the
Star one one three fm Instagram if you want to participate.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Yes, Christmas is coming, so we want to know what
is your favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Is it Home Alone? Do you like Elf? Love Actually?
Or Root Off the Red Nose Reindeer?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Those are my choices. Do I have an other? Is
there an other?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
No? You can comment though.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Okay, there it is time for second date Update. We're
going out to Walnut Creek, going out to the creek
and going to say hi to Mark this morning. Good morning, Mark,
good morning. So everybody knows how second date update works.
If you go on a first date, your date ghosts,
we call them together. Have you on the line. We'll
try to figure some things out, at least get some answers.
Ultimately we want second dates. It doesn't always work out. Mark,
(11:55):
What can you tell us about your date with Elise?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It was good. It was a good date.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
I thought she was really classy, funny, and I thought
we were connecting over dinner. Okay, what did you guys
talk about we got into talked about movies that we
both loved.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
We were quoting them for a second.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
She said her favorite movie quote is just keep swimming
from Finding Nemo.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Okay, And isn't that more of a bumper sticker?
Speaker 7 (12:22):
It's good life advice, right, But I like the classics,
like you know, life, select a box of chocolates, you know, sure,
so the Forrest Gump that one.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I don't keep up on the movies. It's not that
I don't watch movies. I just can't ever remember anything.
So I'm the worst person to do movie quotes with.
But I know the box of chocolates one, that's easy.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
It was fun.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
We were having a good time and we were both
talking about how we needed to just get out of town.
You know, work has been really tough on both of
us recently, and I swear she said she wanted to
go on a weekend trip with me someday. So I
feel like we were talking future plans.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So this kind of makes it weird that she's ghosted. Huh. Yeah,
I have no idea what happened.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
We're gonna call her, so yourself emotionally ready on second
date update, We're chatting with Mark. We were learning all
about his date with elist Aaron Walnut Creek. Y'all love
to quote movies. I would have to excuse myself from
the table.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's fine. It's not my date, it's yours. Mark. Are
you still there? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yes, all right, perfect. So let's call her and try
to figure out why she ghosted. Here we go, Hello, Hi,
may I speak to at least?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Please?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Is this she?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
At least?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
My name is Marcus and I work for Star one
O one three in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's a radio station. I do the morning show.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Hi, Do you listen in the morning?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, excellent. The number of times I've held my breath.
So we're doing Second Date Update? Hey, how are you?
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Do you ever listen to Second Date Update?
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Yeah? I listen all the time.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Perfect, So you're on it. I hope that's okay.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
It's a little weird, but I'm out here Dayton, so
I thought it might happen eventually.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Great. So a gentleman has called about you. His name
is Mark, and right he's.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
So he's listening already, he is Mark?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Are you there? Hey? Yeah? Hot? So Elise.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
He really enjoyed hanging out with you would love to
go out again. Quote some more movies. I guess I
just asked, did you ghost?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I wouldn't say I ghosted. I just didn't really want
to go out again. Okay, it was a nice date.
I was excited to go out with someone who liked to,
you know, watch movies and seem to have some other
interests that were similar to me. She's a pretty good
looking guy, got a good sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Did something go wrong?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Well, we kind of took like a hard left because
the server was like, oh, hey, good to see you again.
Were you here last night?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Talking to him?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Yeah, and he had been there the night before on
a date with a friend of mine.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Oh wait, hold.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
On, didn't so like he didn't even like put in
the effort to go to a different restaurant with a
new person.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
How did you know that it was a friend of yours.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Well, he started telling me a little bit about this
other date and I was like, wait, are you talking
about Hannah? And he was like, oh yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
That's the most bizarre thing I've ever heard. Okay, so
he went out with your friend the night before at
the same restaurant. Yeah, okay, Mark.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Back to you.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Yeah, first of all. I don't think this is that insane.
I was just going on dates. I like dinner. I
like that restaurant. You know, it's easier for me if
I just have everybody go to the same location. I
don't have to think about it. Uh, I don't think
it's weird. Just so it happened to be your friend.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
You know that's you know, well you could explore.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
I just don't need to be a part of like
a circular dating pattern like I and and you know,
it's like easier for me. You don't have to pretty
any effort, like I want someone to put in a
little effort. I would rather try somewhere new that someone
else is also not into whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I don't know if you knew that restaurant or not.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
It could be new to you. I just know I
like it. There's a lot of different things in the
menu I can get. It's you know, what's wrong with
going to the same place.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
We just spent something funny and we both had very
similar reactions. Nearly half of us workers are already checked
out for the year.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Where are you at on this?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I said, I'm one of them?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
She said that a little bit too quick and a
little bit too loud. I'm struggling so hard because you
know me, like I've all gased no breaks. Oh, I know,
but apparently we were all allowed to start checking out
about the fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That's when the last day of actual hard work happened.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Okay, and it said fifty percent of people plan to
do and I quote.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Very little for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
The average person has already used the phrase this can
wait until next year sixteen times. There's a thirty five
percent of the workforce who are still growing strong and
say it's never acceptable to ease up at work. And
then finally I thought this was interesting. They say that
the dip in productivity, if you're experiencing it, don't feel
bad about it. People are literally cognitively pushed so hard
(17:23):
for having to make decisions for the last eleven months,
Like decision fatigue is a real thing.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, this is Christmas version of senior itis.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Oh, it's no school out for Samriete or what's in summertime?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Get me out of here.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Anyway, if you're easing up at work, if you're taking
your foot off the gas, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Everybody's doing it.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
In fact, they already did it you're behind, get what
the program gonna need you to slack.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Off a little harder. We're about to do good news.
Before I do, I got to give a special shout out.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
We always love to get shout outs to our listening family.
I have to say, what's up to Serge, who drives
uber in San Francisco. My guy, he listens every morning,
been listening for years. Can't thank you enough? Means everything,
So Serge, thank you for listening. Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It's time for good news.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Sometimes all you need is one a good thought to
make it a great day.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
So let's do this.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
It's good news on Star one one three.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Give me good news just to put a smile on
your face. Twice in morning seven forty. Get your day
started off right. I don't even care if you haven't
gotten out of bed yet, because you've got nowhere to go.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Thank you for tuning in. Appreciate you very much.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I read a story about a mom in North Carolina
who just donated twenty seven hundred ounces of breast milk
to nick us and I have so much respect. So
this is obviously to support babies in neonatal intensive care units,
providing thousands of feeds for premature and medically fragile infants.
So her name's Lauren, And after her two kids were born,
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she realized she had a large surplus of breast milk,
and she learned about an organization called Wake Med Mother's
Bank and their role in providing this life saving nutrition
and antibodies to babies across the state. Now, this is
a program in North Carolina, but I guarantee haven't done
a deep dive yet, But I guarantee there is a
place in California or here in the Bay that I
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wish I would have known about because two things here,
especially like if you're a new dad, listen up real quick,
you will never have more respect for your wife than
the morning the day that you realize they're pumping twenty
four to seven, like literally walking in on the wife,
like trying to relax at two am and pumping because
she has to because it hurts and it's for the baby.
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And then you know, putting that stuff in the freezer
and then realizing you don't need it anymore. And we had,
we had lots of breast milk leftover and ultimately had
to get rid of most of it. But I wish
I would have known about this program. So mad respect
to moms in general, moms that are breastfeeding. And again,
this is the story of a mom in North Carolina
who donated twenty seven hundred ounces of breast milk to
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the nick.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
You love every piece of this, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
It's Marcus, and it is time to win. The Bay's
favorite trivia game is called what you Know about that?
Say good morning to our contestants. We go to Union
City and say hi to shop, good morning.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
It's the Battle of eight eighty.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
We take you south and go into Fremont and say
what's up to Kiki?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Good morning, Kiki.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Well, welcome to the show, you guys. It's nice to
have everybody along. The game is super simple. It's five
trivia questions, fifty seconds to answer them all. Each person
gonna be asked separately with their opponent on hold. Whoever
gets the most or answers wins. If you don't know
an answer, you yell out pass come back to the
question if you.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Have time left. Okay, right, So Kiki.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
And her crew go on hold in Fremont and we
start with Shav and Union City. The Battle of eighty begins.
Question number one What is a baby elephant called? Who
created Star Wars?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Full name?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Please?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
What game involves using a mallet to hit wooden balls
through hoops planted in the ground? How many sides does
a hexagon have? What is the name for the kings
and queens of ancient Egypt? Let's go back to the
first one you passed on, who created Star Wars?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
What is a baby elephant called? Okay, we're at it time,
all right.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Shop goes on holding Union City and we pick up
Pep in Fremont.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Question number one, what is a baby elephant called? Who
created Star Wars?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
What game involves using a mallet to hit wooden balls
through hoops planted in the ground?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
How many sides does a hexagon have? What was the
name for kings and queens of ancient Egypt?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
All right?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Kiki had an answer for anything. Hang on one second.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
All right, Shop comes back in Union City. See how
he did against Keiki and Fremont. Who wins the battle
of eight to eighty? Question number one, what is a
baby elephant called?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Job? Said Calf? Kiki said Calf.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
The answer is Calf points on the board for everybody.
Question two, who created Star Wars, Job said George Lucas.
Keiki said George Lucas. The tie continues points all around.
Number three, What game involves using a mallet to hit
wooden balls through hoops planted in the ground? Job right
out of time? Kiki said, croquet. It is croquet. Question
number four, how many sides does a hexagon have? Job
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said five, Kiki said six. The answer is six. Point
goes to Kiki. Finally, what was the name for the
kings and queens of ancient Egypt? Both contestants said Pharaohs.
It is Pharaoh's. Your final score five to three. Kiki
gets the win. You're going to the show.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
What are you talking about again?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Weekday mornings at eight o five.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Am, and add to what you know about that podcast
is a preset on our iHeart app and never miss
an episode.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
It's Marcus about to get out of here before I do.
One last request, please connect with us on Instagram so
you can stay in touch over the holidays at its
Marcus D. And then my new producer Taylor at Taylove
t A Y L O v e E. She is
three followers away from five hundred.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Please make my dreams come true?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Okay, Cake, Christmas follow Yeah, That's what I want to know,
is like, what kind of content are we promising the
people when you hit five hundred.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I'll eat a cake. I'll get a cake, I'll get balloons.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Do you know any party tricks?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I can do a cartwheel?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh okay, now we're getting somewhere.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
If you hit five hundred, producer Taylor Will will give
us a cartwheel on camera.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Is that fair?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Fair?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I'm gonna give it one more time at taylove at
t A Y l O V E E E to ease.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Can you check in real time? We might have just
hit it. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Let's make it happen, all.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Right, I can make it quick. We gotta go.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
All right, we're still three away. We can do it, guys,
we could do it.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Okay, Hey, have a great Christmas, Merry Christmas, have fun
with a fan. Be safe out there with the weather.
Gillian's on the way next. We'll talk to you tomorrow morning.
Or variety from the two thousands, the nineties and today
it's Star one on one three, it's Marcus right before
six o'clock, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I tried to do some not even Christmas shopping yesterday.
Priduser Taylor is here, Good morning dude. CVS right eight
just absolute war zones.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
I went to a Stonetown yesterday and it was a zoo.
It was so parking was terrible. Okay, people everywhere and
they no one knows where they're going.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I was very stressed out yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
For some reason, I decided to traverse some of the
worst parking lots in the Bay. No disrespect, but the
straw flower parking lot in half of the Bay can
be treacherous because as people are coming in for CVS
and Safeway, other people are trying to get their Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Forget it.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And then I had to go to west Lake Center
and Daily City and again I adore these places. The
stores are great, but the parking situation, why is it?
What can I ask if anybody's in Daily City, why
is Westlake Center packed all day, every day.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
All day at all time, And that that's better than
stones Town. I will actually go to Westlake instead of
going to Stonestown. Is that that? Yes, a little bit barely.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Plus the rain anyway, Other than that, Merry Christmas?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, what not to bring to a holiday gathering? I
know we had a lot of holiday gatherings over the weekend.
I went to three basically just brought booze, honestly, Like,
you can always bring a bottle of wine, right right,
unless it's a dry party, in which case I'm probably
not coming.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
That being said, I have.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Brought food before, and there are certain dishes you can
bring and certain dishes you really shouldn't produce. For tailor
is on the mic with me now, you were telling
me off the air your parents throw down. So you
literally are just in charge of bringing wine.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, I'm I'm the booze director. Uh huh here, So
usually I'll bring anything like that. But if you know
my family, they do not like onions or garlic, So
if you bring anything with that in it, they will
actually ask you to lead.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Oh my god, that's a pro tip. I know the
whole family. No aliums for the entire family.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
No one.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
My mind is I'm actually need I need to take
a beat here.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
No, I'm glad I could inform you.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Okay, so one of the things you don't want to
bring hard to eat or messy dishes that require utensils,
swap out for small, bite sized apps that can be
eaten standing up. I will augment that with anything that
requires stove top space or needs the oven. Instead, bring
items that are ready to serve can be enjoyed cold.
This should go without saying. Don't bring infused treats that
have THHC or CBD in them.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Why not.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Answer, unless they're clearly labeled.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I went to a potluck one time and brought vodka
infuse watermelon. Really easy recipe. You chunk up some watermelon
and then marinate it in vodka and chaffond.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Mint and god is it good?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
But boy, do you have to label it and keep
it off the side of the picnic table so the.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Kids don't get at it? Oh my god. Don't bring
strongly scented foods like fish. Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Stick with your holiday vibes.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Nos.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Uh, that's so touch and go, because if somebody gets
sick off the oysters, now it's on you.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And don't bring anything too complex. I'll be honest with you.
I did a party one time and I brought a porketta.
Do you know what that is?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
No sounds complex.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So it is a pork loin that is seasoned and
then wrapped in pork belly and then you slow roasted.
And I brought my rotisseri and everything. I set it
and forget it. I spent so much time on that thing.
But you know what the hitter of the party was.
I watched a lady dump sour cream and onion soup
mix into some sour cream and that was it. That
was the head that dip. She brought out a bag
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of ruffles and my porketta sat in her chips.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Gone. So keep it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Simple, that's the thing. What else shouldn't you bring? These
are just some food for thought. What not to bring
to a holiday party? Okay, there you go, start one
on one three Christmas week? Did you get a Christmas
bonus or a card with a little cash in it?
Sometimes around here we used to get AMEX cards back
in the day.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But what do you do?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
How do you approach your boss if all of a
sudden you didn't get a check and there was no email,
there was no announcement producer Taylor joining me on the mic.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh here's what they wrote. This is Grant and San Lorenzo.
He said, I work in a small office. Last Friday,
my boss gave me a Christmas card. In past years,
these cards have always included a small bonus, so I
assumed this one would be the same.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I open it later. It's just a card.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It's nice, but there was nothing else inside. It was
the way he smiled at me when he handed me
the card and told me that he really appreciates me
has me totally confused. The message in the card very
similarly complimentary. Am I missing something here? Is there a
possibility he just forgot to put a check in there.
When I thank him, do I just thank him for
the card? Or do I say something about the card
being empty? How do you navigate this?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Okay, well, my first question is how much is the bonus?
Normally I think that can make or break.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Sometimes it's a percentage of your salary.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Let's call it five hundred bucks, Okay, I've gotten as
much as twelve hundred and as little as one hundred bucks. Okay,
it's a little something, a little scratch. Yeah, what would you do?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
That's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I think you can't expect it, especially if it's not predisclosed.
I mean, of course you've gotten years in the past,
but maybe that can be a moment to reflect on
your work ethic as well.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
How So, why maybe it's you.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
He doesn't want to tell you, He just wants to
passively aggress Well, no check for you. I think as
a manager you have to be very careful setting precedent.
Like if one year, two years, three years you do
bonus checks, you better be prepared to do bonus checks
every year, or explain to the entire staff why.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You're no longer doing bonus checks.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, Like for me, I'll never be able to not
walk in here without soup because I've set a precedent.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yes, I do expect soup daily.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Now I'm saying like every day is hard.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
We have to work out a schedule, like maybe once
or twice a week. Maybe I've brought in soup so
many times that we're doing a soup series or rape
my plate. You can watch that if you follow It's
Marcus d or at Tay Love with two E on Instagram,
prou Taylor rating my soup one to ten. My point
is Once you set a president, it's hard to back
down from that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I plugged it into my new best friend chat GPT
because I really didn't know the answer. I know what
I would do, but what I would do wouldn't necessarily
be considered the right thing to do. Oh God, I
would literally go in and tell and do exactly what
Chad GBT is telling me not to do, which is
walk in, make a joke and go, hey, So no
bonuses this year. I can totally see what AI says
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to do. You wait for a natural moment, not holiday
emotional moment, not rushed, and say something after you figure
out that the books are closed, the year is over,
the bonus isn't coming. You could walk into your boss's
office and say this, Hey, I wanted to ask a
quick question. I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way,
but uh, in past years, the holiday card usually had
a bonus in it. I wasn't sure if that it
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changed or if I should expect something separately at a
later time.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I mean, that's pretty that's.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Not bad, because again, the boss set the president. Now
all of a sudden, I'll get my cheese I got,
Especially if.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
You're factoring it in with gift buying and things like that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
If they come back and say, well, we didn't do
bonuses this year, you're done. If it comes back and says,
oh that was a mistake, you just earned yourself a
minimum hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yay, yay.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Has this ever happened to you? How did you handle it?
Hit us with the talkback. I'd love for you to
be part of the show. It's the little red microphone
on the iHeartRadio app. If you're streaming Star one on
one three right now.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
This is what what's trending on Star, what's happening in
entertainment news, the biggest stories of the day and everything
people are talking about today in the babe bro.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Who's even up right now? Who's working right now?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
That's what I want to know right us us Britisher
Taylor also here. You can follow her at Taylove with
two E's on Instagram. Mine is at its Marcus d.
If you're working right now, we want to hear from you.
Maybe you're getting ready for some retail. Maybe you're a
first responder. I don't know. We appreciate you being on
the road with us today. Thank you very much. Number
one hitter is the weather. We have moderate to heavy rain,
strong winds expected to cross the Bay through Friday Saturday.
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It's going to clear up, but the National Weather Services
issued multiple weather loots and cleaning flood high wind watches.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I know by my house, I gotta.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Pull out the generator because we're gonna have winds up
to fifty miles an hour on the coast side.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
I know.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I hope my power stays on square.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
The floodwatch will remain in place through ten pm on Friday.
You could see two to five inches of rain in
the valley. Mountains and coasts might get six to eight inches,
so flooding is possible.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Just be very careful, be prepared. And again, wind gus
could reach up.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
To what says right here, wind us up to sixty
miles an hour in some parts of the Bay and
which may cause power edges.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Let's see another day, another time for Taylor Swift to
be back in the news. That's what's up.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Wait, this isn't Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Let's go to the story first.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I love the fact that Ed Sharon has made it
on the cover of Men's Health UK because he is
apparently shredded.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Now have you seen this.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yes, he's repped.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
He famous.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I'll say it, he was famously dumpy for like the
first ten years.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Of his career.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
He was a littleebe nice guy, but he literally would
make the GQ list of just the dumpiest guys. It's
not very nice of me to say, but you know
what I'm talking about. But point is now he's on
Men's Health UK looking all shredded, saying that like being
a dad got him all in his feelings about making
the right choices and dumping the alcohol. And here we are.
(09:26):
So now, yeah, he's even even ed. Sharan's doing the
high protein thing.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
All right for him.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
On to Taylor Swift, Apparently, Life of a Showgirl has
notched his tenth consecutive week as the number one on
the Billboard two hundred Albums. This marks Taylor's fourth album
after Tortured Poet's Department nineteen eighty nine and Fearless to
achieve that feat. So this puts her in the company
of the Beatles and Elvis Presley. She is now the
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first woman and third act overall to have four albums
spend at least ten weeks atop the chart. He says
she hasn't publicly marked it, but she went on her
boyfriend's podcast and said it feels like catching lightning in
a bottle, honestly, which I don't one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
That's not how she talks.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
That's I don't one hundred percent subscribe to it because
she's such a good businesswoman.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Lightning in a bottle means it happened accidentally.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Right, And this is her fourth time?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
No, yeah, nothing with Taylor shop pattents accidentally. She's that good. Seriously, Uh,
what other news can I share with you? Oh? So
big news out of the sports.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
The Niners won last night and it was a massive
game because it was Monday night football and we crushed Woo.
So the Niners beat up on Indianapolis Brock pretty through
five touchdowns, final score forty eight to twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Fun fact two.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The Warriors at the same time won their game by
over twenty points. It was the first time since the
Warriors moved to the Bay in nineteen sixty two that
the Warriors and Niners beat their opponents by twenty points
or more.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
In the same night.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Oh my gosh, who.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Keeps track of these stats? Nerds? But I'm here.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We uses anyway, next game is going to be Sunday
Night football this weekend at Levi Stadium against the Bears.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Kickoff at five twenty Go Niners.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
We also have a poll up right now on the
Star one one three fm Instagram if you want to participate.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Yes, Christmas is coming, so we want to know what
is your favorite Christmas movie?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Is it Home Alone? Do you like Elf? Love Actually?
Or Root Off the Red Nose Reindeer?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Those are my choices. Do I have an other? Is
there an other?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
No? You can comment though.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Okay, there it is time for second date Update. We're
going out to Walnut Creek, going out to the creek
and going to say hi to Mark this morning. Good morning, Mark,
good morning. So everybody knows how second date update works.
If you go on a first date, your date ghosts,
we call them together. Have you on the line. We'll
try to figure some things out, at least get some answers.
Ultimately we want second dates. It doesn't always work out. Mark,
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What can you tell us about your date with Elise?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It was good. It was a good date.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
I thought she was really classy, funny, and I thought
we were connecting over dinner. Okay, what did you guys
talk about we got into talked about movies that we
both loved.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
We were quoting them for a second.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
She said her favorite movie quote is just keep swimming
from Finding Nemo.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Okay, And isn't that more of a bumper sticker?
Speaker 7 (12:22):
It's good life advice, right, But I like the classics,
like you know, life, select a box of chocolates, you know, sure,
so the Forrest Gump that one.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I don't keep up on the movies. It's not that
I don't watch movies. I just can't ever remember anything.
So I'm the worst person to do movie quotes with.
But I know the box of chocolates one, that's easy.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
It was fun.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
We were having a good time and we were both
talking about how we needed to just get out of town.
You know, work has been really tough on both of
us recently, and I swear she said she wanted to
go on a weekend trip with me someday. So I
feel like we were talking future plans.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So this kind of makes it weird that she's ghosted. Huh. Yeah,
I have no idea what happened.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
We're gonna call her, so yourself emotionally ready on second
date update, We're chatting with Mark. We were learning all
about his date with elist Aaron Walnut Creek. Y'all love
to quote movies. I would have to excuse myself from
the table.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's fine. It's not my date, it's yours. Mark. Are
you still there? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yes, all right, perfect. So let's call her and try
to figure out why she ghosted. Here we go, Hello, Hi,
may I speak to at least?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Please?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Is this she?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
At least?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
My name is Marcus and I work for Star one
O one three in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's a radio station. I do the morning show.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Hi, Do you listen in the morning?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, excellent. The number of times I've held my breath.
So we're doing Second Date Update? Hey, how are you?
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Do you ever listen to Second Date Update?
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Yeah? I listen all the time.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Perfect, So you're on it. I hope that's okay.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
It's a little weird, but I'm out here Dayton, so
I thought it might happen eventually.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Great. So a gentleman has called about you. His name
is Mark, and right he's.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
So he's listening already, he is Mark?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Are you there? Hey? Yeah? Hot? So Elise.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
He really enjoyed hanging out with you would love to
go out again. Quote some more movies. I guess I
just asked, did you ghost?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I wouldn't say I ghosted. I just didn't really want
to go out again. Okay, it was a nice date.
I was excited to go out with someone who liked to,
you know, watch movies and seem to have some other
interests that were similar to me. She's a pretty good
looking guy, got a good sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Did something go wrong?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Well, we kind of took like a hard left because
the server was like, oh, hey, good to see you again.
Were you here last night?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Talking to him?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Yeah, and he had been there the night before on
a date with a friend of mine.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Oh wait, hold.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
On, didn't so like he didn't even like put in
the effort to go to a different restaurant with a
new person.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
How did you know that it was a friend of yours.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Well, he started telling me a little bit about this
other date and I was like, wait, are you talking
about Hannah? And he was like, oh yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
That's the most bizarre thing I've ever heard. Okay, so
he went out with your friend the night before at
the same restaurant. Yeah, okay, Mark.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Back to you.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Yeah, first of all. I don't think this is that insane.
I was just going on dates. I like dinner. I
like that restaurant. You know, it's easier for me if
I just have everybody go to the same location. I
don't have to think about it. Uh, I don't think
it's weird. Just so it happened to be your friend.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
You know that's you know, well you could explore.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
I just don't need to be a part of like
a circular dating pattern like I and and you know,
it's like easier for me. You don't have to pretty
any effort, like I want someone to put in a
little effort. I would rather try somewhere new that someone
else is also not into whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I don't know if you knew that restaurant or not.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
It could be new to you. I just know I
like it. There's a lot of different things in the
menu I can get. It's you know, what's wrong with
going to the same place.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
We just spent something funny and we both had very
similar reactions. Nearly half of us workers are already checked
out for the year.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Where are you at on this?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I said, I'm one of them?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
She said that a little bit too quick and a
little bit too loud. I'm struggling so hard because you
know me, like I've all gased no breaks. Oh, I know,
but apparently we were all allowed to start checking out
about the fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That's when the last day of actual hard work happened.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Okay, and it said fifty percent of people plan to
do and I quote.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Very little for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
The average person has already used the phrase this can
wait until next year sixteen times. There's a thirty five
percent of the workforce who are still growing strong and
say it's never acceptable to ease up at work. And
then finally I thought this was interesting. They say that
the dip in productivity, if you're experiencing it, don't feel
bad about it. People are literally cognitively pushed so hard
(17:23):
for having to make decisions for the last eleven months,
Like decision fatigue is a real thing.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, this is Christmas version of senior itis.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Oh, it's no school out for Samriete or what's in summertime?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Get me out of here.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Anyway, if you're easing up at work, if you're taking
your foot off the gas, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Everybody's doing it.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
In fact, they already did it you're behind, get what
the program gonna need you to slack.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Off a little harder. We're about to do good news.
Before I do, I got to give a special shout out.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
We always love to get shout outs to our listening family.
I have to say, what's up to Serge, who drives
uber in San Francisco. My guy, he listens every morning,
been listening for years. Can't thank you enough? Means everything,
So Serge, thank you for listening. Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It's time for good news.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Sometimes all you need is one a good thought to
make it a great day.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
So let's do this.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
It's good news on Star one one three.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Give me good news just to put a smile on
your face. Twice in morning seven forty. Get your day
started off right. I don't even care if you haven't
gotten out of bed yet, because you've got nowhere to go.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Thank you for tuning in. Appreciate you very much.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I read a story about a mom in North Carolina
who just donated twenty seven hundred ounces of breast milk
to nick us and I have so much respect. So
this is obviously to support babies in neonatal intensive care units,
providing thousands of feeds for premature and medically fragile infants.
So her name's Lauren, And after her two kids were born,
(18:54):
she realized she had a large surplus of breast milk,
and she learned about an organization called Wake Med Mother's
Bank and their role in providing this life saving nutrition
and antibodies to babies across the state. Now, this is
a program in North Carolina, but I guarantee haven't done
a deep dive yet, But I guarantee there is a
place in California or here in the Bay that I
(19:15):
wish I would have known about because two things here,
especially like if you're a new dad, listen up real quick,
you will never have more respect for your wife than
the morning the day that you realize they're pumping twenty
four to seven, like literally walking in on the wife,
like trying to relax at two am and pumping because
she has to because it hurts and it's for the baby.
(19:36):
And then you know, putting that stuff in the freezer
and then realizing you don't need it anymore. And we had,
we had lots of breast milk leftover and ultimately had
to get rid of most of it. But I wish
I would have known about this program. So mad respect
to moms in general, moms that are breastfeeding. And again,
this is the story of a mom in North Carolina
who donated twenty seven hundred ounces of breast milk to
(19:57):
the nick.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
You love every piece of this, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
It's Marcus, and it is time to win. The Bay's
favorite trivia game is called what you Know about that?
Say good morning to our contestants. We go to Union
City and say hi to shop, good morning.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
It's the Battle of eight eighty.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
We take you south and go into Fremont and say
what's up to Kiki?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Good morning, Kiki.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Well, welcome to the show, you guys. It's nice to
have everybody along. The game is super simple. It's five
trivia questions, fifty seconds to answer them all. Each person
gonna be asked separately with their opponent on hold. Whoever
gets the most or answers wins. If you don't know
an answer, you yell out pass come back to the
question if you.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Have time left. Okay, right, So Kiki.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
And her crew go on hold in Fremont and we
start with Shav and Union City. The Battle of eighty begins.
Question number one What is a baby elephant called? Who
created Star Wars?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Full name?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Please?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
What game involves using a mallet to hit wooden balls
through hoops planted in the ground? How many sides does
a hexagon have? What is the name for the kings
and queens of ancient Egypt? Let's go back to the
first one you passed on, who created Star Wars?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
What is a baby elephant called? Okay, we're at it time,
all right.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Shop goes on holding Union City and we pick up
Pep in Fremont.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Question number one, what is a baby elephant called? Who
created Star Wars?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
What game involves using a mallet to hit wooden balls
through hoops planted in the ground?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
How many sides does a hexagon have? What was the
name for kings and queens of ancient Egypt?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
All right?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Kiki had an answer for anything. Hang on one second.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
All right, Shop comes back in Union City. See how
he did against Keiki and Fremont. Who wins the battle
of eight to eighty? Question number one, what is a
baby elephant called?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Job? Said Calf? Kiki said Calf.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
The answer is Calf points on the board for everybody.
Question two, who created Star Wars, Job said George Lucas.
Keiki said George Lucas. The tie continues points all around.
Number three, What game involves using a mallet to hit
wooden balls through hoops planted in the ground? Job right
out of time? Kiki said, croquet. It is croquet. Question
number four, how many sides does a hexagon have? Job
(22:39):
said five, Kiki said six. The answer is six. Point
goes to Kiki. Finally, what was the name for the
kings and queens of ancient Egypt? Both contestants said Pharaohs.
It is Pharaoh's. Your final score five to three. Kiki
gets the win. You're going to the show.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
What are you talking about again?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Weekday mornings at eight o five.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Am, and add to what you know about that podcast
is a preset on our iHeart app and never miss
an episode.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
It's Marcus about to get out of here before I do.
One last request, please connect with us on Instagram so
you can stay in touch over the holidays at its
Marcus D. And then my new producer Taylor at Taylove
t A Y L O v e E. She is
three followers away from five hundred.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Please make my dreams come true?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Okay, Cake, Christmas follow Yeah, That's what I want to know,
is like, what kind of content are we promising the
people when you hit five hundred.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I'll eat a cake. I'll get a cake, I'll get balloons.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Do you know any party tricks?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I can do a cartwheel?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Oh okay, now we're getting somewhere.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
If you hit five hundred, producer Taylor Will will give
us a cartwheel on camera.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Is that fair?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Fair?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I'm gonna give it one more time at taylove at
t A Y l O V E E E to ease.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Can you check in real time? We might have just
hit it. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Let's make it happen, all.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Right, I can make it quick. We gotta go.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
All right, we're still three away. We can do it, guys,
we could do it.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Okay, Hey, have a great Christmas, Merry Christmas, have fun
with a fan. Be safe out there with the weather.
Gillian's on the way next. We'll talk to you tomorrow morning.
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