December 22, 2025 • 31 mins
The annual Christmas Spectacular is all things Christmas... from interviews with retail workers to etiquette questions to the most hated Christmas songs. It's all here! Merry Christmas!!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
If you're listening to the Jack and Nikki Show podcast
everywhere you get your podcasts and at WVQ dot com.
Joined Jack and Nicky live weekday mornings from six to
ten on one O two WVAQ.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I have what I consider to be shocking holiday news
for you. Now. Oh boy, I am honestly shocked by this.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Mouth agape? Well, there's been some research on the most
hated Christmas songs of all time. Okay, this is new
data that has been revealed by Google. Ai.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Okay, I already half trust it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Okay, Well, what they have identified here the five most
universally hated Christmas songs. Okay. These are songs that almost
everyone agrees are the worst. People absolutely hate, and I'm
shocked by some of these. Okay, I will tell you
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these studio and text lines are open for your convenience.
Triple eight, Triple seven, sixty six, forty. You can call.
You can also text in agree, disagree any songs you'd
like to add to the list. Here we go. I'm
going five to one, all right now, Nikki. After each song,
I think we should discuss whether or not it should
be on the list. Okay, Number five do they know
(01:28):
it's Christmas by band Aid?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
What's wrong with that song?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
People hate it? Why? I don't know. Put me on
the spot. I I'm just saying, people hate it. What
do you think?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I don't hate it.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I don't hate it either. I mean I don't like it,
but I'm okay, I mean it's fine. Fine, upset me.
I hear and I'm like, yeah, okay, that's fine. Yeah,
but certainly don't have any hatred for it. Sure, Okay.
Coming in number four, I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus again,
and why are it?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Seems it's just weird? Okay. I thought there was just
gonna be like one song on the list and that
was it. But Christmas Shoes, Like that's like the Yeah,
that's like the only song that should be on this list.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I well, I agree with that. Yeah, that song is
one of the worst songs I have ever heard. Yes,
and it's a real mood killer for Christmas. Is terrible. Okay. Uh,
so you don't have a problem that I saw Mommy
kissing Santa Claus. Fine, Okay. Coming in at number three,
and this is where my shock really exploded. Okay, this
(02:38):
is the third most universally hated Christmas song of all
time around the world, Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney.
What how right? See? See? Wow? This is okay shocking?
How can that be that? I gotta be honest. That
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is one of my favorite Christmas songs. I look forward
to hearing that every year.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I do as well.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I love that song. Yes, okay, I don't get.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It all right, See I don't trust this.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I don't The next two I can get on board with, okay,
number two Grandma got run over by Raindeer.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh okay, yeah, forgot about that song terrible because I
don't like it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Terrible. That is a terrible, stupid song. Yes it is, okay,
we agree to that. And coming in Nikki Drake at
number one. This is the most universally handed Christmas songs.
Santa Baby, not Christmas Shoes, Not Christmas Shoes, not even
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on the list. Santa Baby, especially if performed by Madonna. Well, yes,
the crypt Keeper seducing Santa is not something people enjoy
hearing during the holidays. Right there it is, you guys,
there's a list. Not believable, No, no, not anymore. Yeah
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eight eight eight seven seven, seven sixty six forty you
could text this. I see some studio lines lighting up.
We got a break. We'll come back and see what
you guys think next. Nikki, what are you seeing on
the text line?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Every time I hear Santa Baby, I want to yell, hey,
gold digger, get a job and buy your own crap?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Ah? Oh well, how about that?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
It's very aggressive text.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It's aggressive.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's aggressive, honestly like I played it the other day
during my midday and I was like, yeah, buy your own,
stuffy gold digger. I had the same thought run through
my head.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Is that why there was vomit in the studio this
morning when I came in?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Not from me? Okay, all right, this text threw me
off a little bit. Uh. How is that stupid song
you keep playing about Dominick the Donkey or I Want
a Hippopotamus for Christmas? And not on that list? Mm
hmm that's rude. What do you have against Dominick?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
What indeed what dominic do to you? Yes, he's just
a but also let the record show I have never
played I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas? And and I
won't why. I'll tell you why. Here's what you don't
have This Texter said, get a job, you gold digger. Yeah, okay,
you're saying a baby angry. When I hear I want hippopotamus,
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I yell blow your nose. What you've not heard the song?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I've heard the song.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I like the song. You don't think she needs to
blow her nose?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh she's a little nasally gotcha?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I was like, what does that clear?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Clear your your sinus cavity? And you you really need
a tissue? Okay, okay, let me go to the long
suffering caller here who is waiting patiently on the studio line.
You are on the Jack and Nikki Show. What do
you have for us?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
The Christmas song? There's one out there that was not
on the list, and I found it in a TikTok
video last year called an Old Fashioned Christmas and then
parentheses Daddy.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Is Home by Linda. It was crated a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Okay, listen to it before I ever say anything about it.
I think you guys need to listen to it and
just the emotional roller coaster.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
It will take you on.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
M M crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I love you guys, Thank you every morning.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I actually just passed your station.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Talking merry Christmas. Do you always good to hear from
a long time caller first time listener. Thanks so much?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Actually, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I always try to call in, but I never get
there in time.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Well, I'm glad you did.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It's good to talk to you. Thanks so much. Have
a good day.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, it's excited to be on the radio, all right,
See you guys.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Bye. I don't know anything about the song she's talking
about or anything, but I will say this, generally speaking,
I don't like any type of a Christmas song that
takes me on an emotional roller coaster. I don't need that, No,
not for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
That emotional roller coaster going on in my.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Real life, right, I don't. That's one of the things
we're talking about careers with the Christmas shoes. You're like, look,
give me something up, give me something catchy. Let's talk
about some snow and animated snowman that comes alive and
starts playing with the kids in the yard and then
they all disappear together. You know. That's the kind of
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thing I think we're all looking for for Christmas, right, yes, yeah,
and then then it warms up and he dies and
the kids are devastating. Wait, you know what now that
I think about that song's kind of sad.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Wake Up with Jack and Nikky weekday mornings, six to
ten one O two wv AQ.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We want to talk to in particular retail workers right now.
Current retail workers, former retail workers. We want to talk
about your holiday customer experiences. Because Black Friday, of course
was you guessed it on Friday, Yeah, and then you
had small business Saturday today, Cyber Monday, yep. But generally,
(07:59):
speaking to holidays season, a lot of people were out
shopping and stores are pretty busy. In the malls. I know,
you get by the Meadowrook Mall, you see people up
there parked along the guardrail. A lot of shopping going on. Yeah, Okay, Now,
people in general often lack manners in public places and shopping.
(08:21):
Not everybody, but enough people to make it unpleasant. But
for some reason, that seems to be more prevalent, let's say,
during the holiday season, when they're supposed to be peace
on earth and goodwill toward men. That's when people are
in there throwing elbows and screaming profanities and being rude
to these people who work in these stores. Yes, so
(08:43):
I thought we could take a minute, because Nikki, you
and I are heroes of the down trodden, all right.
That's one of the things we do on the show.
We perform many public services. One is giving a voice
to the oppressed. Yeah, and I'm always shocked when people
are mean to wait staff, or if you are in
(09:06):
a department store or something, you're you're buying something and
you see people just saying horrible things, just being nasty.
So now's your time, retail workers everywhere unite and tell
us about your customer pet peeves during the holiday season. Nikki,
is there anything you'd like to share to get us started.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Well, I will say I had one of the happiest jobs.
I had to build a bear. I loved that job
and it was so much fun until you know, you
got really close to the holidays and it would just
kind of be a zoo. It was a lot of kids,
a lot of parents, a lot of grandparents. And the
(09:47):
fun part about having a retail job when you're not
management is that you're not management, so you can always
grab the manager.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Right before complaining to you. I'll get a.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Manager right because I can tap out at any time,
be like, you know what I have done all that
I can do for you. Let me find somebody who
might be able to help you more than I can't.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Bye, I'm sorry your kid ate the stuffing out of
the bear. Let's get a manager and an ambulance in
here and we'll deal with it.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Right Yeah, yeah, because I'm like, I am not paid.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
To handle this, right, Okay, that's that was my.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Favorite part of working retail. Yeah, it's just tapping out now.
I don't want to be harassed.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I've not worked retail, but Jessica did. Jessica worked at
a store. I probably shouldn't identify, okay, because I don't
know if this is still happening at this particular store,
but the customers used to come in there and poop
in the changing rooms. Oh and you know you'd be
walking toward the changing room, you get what is the all?
Somebody pooped in the changing room again, and so that happened.
(10:50):
Yeah okay, Now, I'm not saying it happened a lot,
but as pet peeves go, what time is enough? That's
pretty high on the list of retail worker pet peeves. Yeah,
don't be defecating in the changing rooms. Public service announcements
Morning JACKI and Nikki Ship studio and text lines are
open eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six forty.
(11:11):
We'd love again to talk to you. It is the
holiday season. People are swarming the stores. Let's try to
get people to behave and I act like they have
some sense during this most wonderful time of the year.
Call us. You can shoot us a text talking about
your holiday customer pet Peeves in particular discussing the situation
(11:36):
with retail workers. If you are currently working retail or
you have at some point, what have you seen? What
have you experienced? What is going on with these people? Nikki?
What are you seeing on the textual line?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
All right, I have a non holiday related one. I
worked at McDonald's and it's always frustrated me when I
had a long line and someone waits to get to
the front to look at the menu to side. It's
not like the menu changes, you know what.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I've been beating this drum for years. Yeah, yeah, I
grow so weary. Right, people are in line behind you.
Just you know what I'm at it, know what you
want when you get there.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
There's an app you can mobile order like so many options.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yes, you can do that too, But let's say you
don't have the app. Look up, right, just look up,
there's a menu in front of you.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Or if there's a long line and you're waiting in line,
pull the menu up on your phone. Even if you're
not mobile order ordering, you can still pull the menu up.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And this is McDonald's were talking about me. How hard
is it to figure out? Yeah? Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
It's wow, we've gotten fashionate.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Well yeah, I mean it's not like cheesecake factory where
it's a a fifty eight page menu.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Right, all right, going, all right, here's what they've got.
You working today? Well, yes, because you're here shopping.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Right, that's what people step up and say to them.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, oh I'm sorry you're working today, Then don't go shopping.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Then stop frequenting this establishment. Yeah there, you keep this
place in business. All right? Anything else before we go
to the fund.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
That's what I've got so far.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
All right, you were on the Jack and Nikki show.
What you got for us?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
The biggest stet peeve I have for the Black Fridays
is when they do, like, for instance, swag bags and
these first Doorbuster opened because everybody acts like they ain't
got no sense.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Well that's true. People do go nuts over swag bags
the very notion. Okay, Now, have you worked in retail
at all in your life?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Absolutely? I actually managed a store out for the last
almost five years.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay, you manage your store? You have for five years?
And what kind of things do you sell in that
store without identifying it by name?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Jewelry, jewelry?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Oh, okay, okay? And how are people generally behaved when
they come in there?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Actually, this was the first year I could honestly say
that everybody was just very they were really awesome. Which
I did have my Grinch bip overhauls and my Grinch
stocking hat on two and my Grinch slippers.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Were you also wearing the grit the Grinch mask, right,
That's the only thing I did not have on.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
But I figure, I'm a break a little light at
six o'clock in the morning, a little laughter to somebody
so that maybe they won't be so nasty. And evidently
it worked, because I mean, we had an eventful day,
We had an awesome day. Everybody just very pleasant. Okay,
this is the first year a very long time that.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
That's that's excellent.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, I'd like to hear that.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, I'm glad to hear that. But you know, call
us back when somebody comes in and goes nuts and
has to be taken out by security. That's really the
kind of story I think we're looking for here.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Actually, actually everybody was outside standing waiting for opening them
for them to open the doors at five o'clock for
the slag bag. Yeah, they were trying to get readised
start one small outside after security because they wuldn't let
them inside.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Okay, now we're getting somewhere.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yes, okay, all right, it was bad.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Well, we're glad you survived it and everything. We appreciate
the phone call. Thank you very much. Let's go to
Nikki Drake with a sampling from the textual line as
we talk about retail workers and your pet peeves during
the holiday season. What do you have, Nikki Drake?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
More food complaints. I work at Little Caesars, and I
hate it when somebody calls and they either have no
service hardly at all, and I can't hear what they're saying,
or they call and then have to ask ten different
people in the room what all they want instead of
figuring it out before they call.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Right, ten different people in the room arguing over what
to get on a pizza. Yep. Do you remember when
I told you that I was actually complimented by a
pizza hut worker because of my ability to order a pizza. Yeah,
remember that. It's the Bridgeport Pizza Hut. I was going
down the interstate after the show one day and I
ordered a pizza and I was succinct on you. Said hey,
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here's what I want, and the guy said, we'll get
that for you, and I'd like to compliment you on
your ordering etiquette. He said, this was quick and easy.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yes, good job.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Well, I'm concerned about these people. I'm always want to
make sure I don't inconvenience them.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
The people are.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Working, sure, all right, more inconveniencing, are you ready? I
work at a gas station and people will buy a
ton of scratch off tickets and not scratch them. They
just hand them back to me to scratch the corner
to scan to see if they won, literally like fifty
tickets at a time.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
That is horrible. Step to the side, scratch each corner
yourself if you don't want to scratch the whole thing,
and then get back in line and have them scanned.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And isn't there usually a station where you can scan
it yourself after you scratch them.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I honestly do not know. I've never purchased a lottery ticket.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I'm not a scratch off ticket person, but I see
like the screens.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Everywhere, so I don't know anything about them. But what
I do know is generally people will buy those tickets
and then stand at the front of the line and
slowly scratch each one off.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And that's when I'm thinking the person working there should say, hey, hey,
take that to the side, there's a line behind you.
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, all right, go ahead, And I got a couple
more care please continue. I hated when I waited tables
and families would come in from out of town for
the holidays and they would take it out on me
because they hated their extended family.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Misplaced digression.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah. Also, I hated it when people would come in
for an employee holiday lunch or dinner, so awkward because
you could always see that no one wanted to be there. Like, no, Karen,
I don't want to hear about your Honor Students Accordion
concert last night.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
These are great examples, very good example. This is gold
on the text line.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, all right, and last one, this one's my favorite.
Black Friday used to be my favorite day to work
as a manager. It was the only day I could
be mean to customers if they were disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
In the spirit of the holiday. Yes, God bless us
one at all.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Wake up with Jack and Nicky on WVQ Very Christmas,
Jeff Filthy Animal Weekday morning.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Six to ten. Look at what we've been reduced to
with all of the schools closed and half of the
audience traveling. Nikki and I are now talking about your
favorite Christmas cookies. It's a shame that will take probably
at least the first two months of the new year
to shake off.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I'm okay with this.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
This is what we've become. It's like a bad show
on NPR. Now the Delicious Dish.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Are we going to NPR the list?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
We may as well? Yeah, so we have here the
what is it? The most popular cookies per state? Is that?
What it is? A breakdown by state? All right, so
where would you like to begin. Let's obviously we're gonna
do West Virginuay, Pennsylvania, will do Maryland, and then maybe
some surrounding states. Let's just talk about your cookie consumption
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and see if your tastes are in line with everybody else.
All right, eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six
forty is the number to the show. You can text
us as well. I'm tossing out the numbers. In the
unlikely event that any one is listening and would like
to participate, I guess we'll find out. Nikki Drake, where
would you like to begin?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Do you want to start with West Virginia?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Okay? The snowball cookie is the most popular.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
It's the most popular in West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
The snowball cookie. Yes, okay, and that is okay.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I still I'm not still not quite sure. It's like
a little powdered sugar covered, nut filled snowball.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Okay, well you lost me a nut filled I'm not
interested in that, right, Yeah, you know powdered sugar round. Okay,
this all sounds good. Nuts, it's a crumbling I can't.
I don't even want a brownie with nuts in it.
I hate nuts, really, But you like peanut M and
MS I do? Yeah. Complicated man, Yeah, I'm very I'm
(19:44):
a complicated man. Even I don't understand why thee are
given a pass. I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Okay, all right, have you had speaking of the holiday
spice peanut eminem's if you see.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Them, they're really good holiday spice.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
It's the the peanut in the eminem is like a
spiced peanut. It's got like holiday flavor to it. Really,
and then it's covered in the candy shell, the chocolate
candy shell.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I've never heard tell of such a thing. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
It's back to the cookies, all right, all right, Ohio,
peanut butter blossoms. It's peanut butter cookie.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Okay, that's just a peanut butter cookie.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
And then if you go to Kentucky, then your favorite
the peanut butter cookie with the Hershey kiss in the middle.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Oh man, Now that's the one right there. Yeah, that's
the one, especially again if the Hershey's kiss is the
caramel in it. But I think they've discontinued us.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You need to write a strongly worded letter.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I think they're out. I think they're out.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
But Kentucky's doing something right for once with their cookies.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, I mean they got the chicken down.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
So yeah, yeah, Virginia molasses cookies.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Gross, I don't why even know what that is.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
But okay, don't bother, alright, Maryland, is Christmas crack?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Okay? That I do? I know from Christmas crack crack.
Apparently there are different ways you can make Christmas crack.
Some people use wafers, some people use rice checks, pretzel sticks.
So Jessica makes this stuff and it's rice checks, it's
pretzel sticks, it's wheat checks. You can put M and
m's in it, a white chocolate and then there's some
type of syrup that's on it that makes it kind
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of a gives it kind of a glaze, and then
you let it dry and then you break it apart,
and it is really it's light crack. It's easy. It's
on real sho make like a big sheet of this
stuff and then bust it up and put it in
a container and we take it in. Yeah, and then
everybody just goes crazy. And then because it's crack. And
the next thing you know, we're brothers, like shirtless and
his hair sticking up all over, his eyes are red,
(21:46):
he's trying to climb up the side of the house.
And yeah, right, the fire departments there with a big
net after him, like what what happened? Well, he had the.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Christmas track and out fantastic Christmases.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, well, all you have to do is introduce crack
into your Christmas Morning celebration.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Okay, so Christmas Crack from Maryland. That explains a lot
for the Baltimore region.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, it does.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
And then Pennsylvania Italian Christmas Cookie?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
What's the Italian Christmas cookie?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Is that just a pizzel?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I don't know either is a pazzel Italian or I
don't know you're.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Talking to a German. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I don't know. Uh, yeah, so I don't know what
an Italian Christmas cookie is.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well, if you guys know triple eight, triple seven, sixty
six forty or you can text us and explain these
cookies to us if you'd like.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, the text line is starting to light up and
they're angry because they're like, who took this survey?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Never heard of a dank snowball cookie? What? Never heard
of a dank snowball cookie? Yeah? Pretty aggressive language, right,
I've never heard of a snowball cookie, and.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Neither I had to look it up.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
So yeah, okay, I've I've heard of it. I didn't
know what it was, but look, I see especially during
the holidays, plates of all kinds of different cookies, no
idea what they're called.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You just eat them.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I'll look at them, maybe take a bite. Yeah, you know,
but I don't bother to track somebody down and go name,
country of origin, backstory. You know, I don't do all
that family recipes, right, Yeah, I'm not doing that. Look,
I'm not hosting Jeopardy. I'm just trying to have a
cookie and get out of there.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I'm surprised that, like snickerdoodles aren't on the list.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, that's a little surprising. Yeah, all right, very good
talking about the holidays, Christmas coming up soon, and the
story of a woman who got burned this holiday season
and is now thinking about canceling Christmas altogether because she's
fed up with these scumbag friends and relatives. Nikki Drake
has the story. What can you tell us?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
So this anonymous woman hosted Thanksgiving. She made two turkeys
of ham, twenty pounds of mashed potatoes, two pounds of stuff, eg.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Twenty pounds of mashed potato. That's a lot of food,
twenty pounds. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
However, the next morning and she was craving leftovers because
that's a lot of food. She opened the fridge stood
there in shocked because it was empty except for a
bag of turkey wings and a half bag of dressing.
Her husband said that he saw guests leaving with unopened
desserts and gallon bags of.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Food and he did nothing.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yeah, he did nothing about it. So now she doesn't
want to host Christmas because this is greedy behavior and
she doesn't have to put up with it, and she
wants some of her leftovers to be left for the host.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, of course, yeah, okay, And I guess there's some
debate here on whether or not she is doing the
right thing by canceling Christmas refusing to host it, let's say,
not canceling, but not hosting. Well, yeah, people are saying like, wait.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
What Yeah, you've already decided to do this, but also like,
what's the leftover etiquette?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Too? Yeah? Yeah, what is leftover etiquette? And that that question,
once answered, perhaps will help this woman out of her
Christmas moral dilemma. Right, I think she's well within her
rights to host Christmas even if this didn't happen. I
would say, right, you're not required to host Christmas at
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your house. But after you've been robbed these people have
left with everything.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
And you have nothing. Okay, on the holiday that's supposed
to be about giving.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
They just took Yeah, all right eight eight eight seven
seven seven sixty six forty. You can text us as well,
you can call us. What do you think about the
leftover etiquette? Because I remember just a couple of weeks
ago on Thanksgiving overhearing Jessica and her mom discussing they
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were divvying up leftovers amongst the participants, and Jessica's mom
was asking her, do you want this? Do you want that?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Well?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
What about Jackie as they call me in the family.
Everybody Jackie does Jackie? Does Jackie like this? Does Jackie
like that? Yeah? And I heard Jessica go, nah, he
doesn't want that, and uh and I know it was
Oh no, I know why she was saying it. Let's
just say that some of the dishes weren't great and
(26:22):
oh yeah. Session Instead of going well that wasn't a
good she was like, he doesn't like that. Okay, Jackie
doesn't like that, Jackie and I and I almost went
in and went Jackie does like it? And I was like, no, wait,
Jackie just had that an hour ago. Be quiet Jackie quiet,
Let this one go. But the point in this nauseating
and seemingly pointless story is that they were having the
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discussion as they're cleaning up. They're talking about, well, who
how much of this do you want? How much of
this do they want? Who's taking this, who's taking that?
And everybody's involved in the conversation, and everybody kind of
gets to pick and choose what they want, how much
of it they want, and then they go Yeah, that
to me seems like proper etiquet. Right.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
The host was involved, the host was converson, she was
the one posing the questions, and I think that's the
smart way to do it.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
The very notion that that everybody eating there goes into
the kitchen unbeknownst to the host and they take everything
and then just leave. And then the host gets up
the next day or goes in later in the evening
and everything's been picked clean and it's gone. That's insane
to me, And I don't know how anybody could possibly
justify that, right, Yeah, you know, and believe me, I'm
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the kind of guy who's heard the phrase no leave
some for others. I've heard that before, m okay, and
you usually follow it Oh, I started elbowing. Oh, they
made twenty pounds of mashed potatoes. I get half eight
eight eight seven seven seven sixty six forty or textas.
It's a question of holiday etiquette, leftover food etiquette. What's
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your policy and your family?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Nikki Drake Yaya helps to shout the left because Yai
is usually the one hosting, and then she's just like, Okay,
I've got this, I've got this. And sometimes she has
frozen leftovers and frozen dishes that she will then heat
up to divvy out to supplement what has been eaten.
So everybody's always going home with something. And she will
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sometimes make specific dishes if you're traveling in from out
of town, being like, well, I'm sending this home with them,
so this is theirs.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
If if yeah, you picture yah Ya waking up the
next day after Thanksgiving her Christmas sitting alone at a
kitchen table that's completely empty because everything has been taken
from yah Yah? How does that make you feel very angry? Okay,
there you go, studio and text lines open. It's a
question of leftover etiquette.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I'm starting a new Christmas tradition. Wake up with Jack
and Nikki on two WBAQ.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
People responding to this question about leftover etiquette. Have you
seen the textual line, Nikki Drake, I did, yes? Would
you like to share our findings?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Okay? Yes, you let the host, if they provided everything,
decide to give out leftovers.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yes, yeah, I think we're all on the same page here, right.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Why is this not reasonable? Why do people not think
this is the way it's supposed to be? Why, indeed,
why did everybody take that woman's food?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Right? All right? What else you got?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
It's okay. If she doesn't want to host, tell her
to have a good day and do what she wants
to do.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
That's right, it's okay she doesn't want to host.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, especially after everybody took her food.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Some choose hosting with holidays, Nikki. Others have hosting thrust
up on them. One more texts. I want to toss in.
If you're cooking dinner for people, I will expect them
to eat it all. If they don't, I have the leftovers.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I think it's ridiculous to think that you're cooking for
someone else and you don't want them to eat it all.
Don't host dinners if you don't want people to eat
what you make. Well, if it was discussed beforehand that
you wanted to keep some of the food for yourself,
that would be different. Well that's a good question. Does
it need to be discussed or should people just have
consideration to assume that you might want some of the leftovers, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I think that it's an unspoken rule. But I guess
now it needs to be spoken.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I guess, so, yeah, I guess if it's not, well,
I'll tell you what you need.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
If they ate it all, that's one thing, you know,
if there was no leftovers, nothing to be taken home.
I agree, that is one thing. You want them to
eat it all. But if there are leftovers, it stays
with the host, and the host can then decide how
to distribute the leftovers if at all.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Makes sense to me. Yeah, that makes perfect sense to me.
And I guess since we can no longer work on
assumption here, we're going to have to have a written contract.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Oh, my gosh, have a contract.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Host is going to have to write up a contract
and print it out, hand it out to everybody. Everybody
has to sign a copy.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
And tell me your vage here. Mh
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
I have what I consider to be shocking holiday news
for you. Now. Oh boy, I am honestly shocked by this.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Mouth agape? Well, there's been some research on the most
hated Christmas songs of all time. Okay, this is new
data that has been revealed by Google. Ai.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Okay, I already half trust it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Okay, Well, what they have identified here the five most
universally hated Christmas songs. Okay. These are songs that almost
everyone agrees are the worst. People absolutely hate, and I'm
shocked by some of these. Okay, I will tell you
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these studio and text lines are open for your convenience.
Triple eight, Triple seven, sixty six, forty. You can call.
You can also text in agree, disagree any songs you'd
like to add to the list. Here we go. I'm
going five to one, all right now, Nikki. After each song,
I think we should discuss whether or not it should
be on the list. Okay, Number five do they know
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it's Christmas by band Aid?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
What's wrong with that song?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
People hate it? Why? I don't know. Put me on
the spot. I I'm just saying, people hate it. What
do you think?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I don't hate it.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I don't hate it either. I mean I don't like it,
but I'm okay, I mean it's fine. Fine, upset me.
I hear and I'm like, yeah, okay, that's fine. Yeah,
but certainly don't have any hatred for it. Sure, Okay.
Coming in number four, I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus again,
and why are it?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Seems it's just weird? Okay. I thought there was just
gonna be like one song on the list and that
was it. But Christmas Shoes, Like that's like the Yeah,
that's like the only song that should be on this list.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I well, I agree with that. Yeah, that song is
one of the worst songs I have ever heard. Yes,
and it's a real mood killer for Christmas. Is terrible. Okay. Uh,
so you don't have a problem that I saw Mommy
kissing Santa Claus. Fine, Okay. Coming in at number three,
and this is where my shock really exploded. Okay, this
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is the third most universally hated Christmas song of all
time around the world, Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney.
What how right? See? See? Wow? This is okay shocking?
How can that be that? I gotta be honest. That
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is one of my favorite Christmas songs. I look forward
to hearing that every year.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I do as well.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I love that song. Yes, okay, I don't get.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It all right, See I don't trust this.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I don't The next two I can get on board with, okay,
number two Grandma got run over by Raindeer.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh okay, yeah, forgot about that song terrible because I
don't like it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Terrible. That is a terrible, stupid song. Yes it is, okay,
we agree to that. And coming in Nikki Drake at
number one. This is the most universally handed Christmas songs.
Santa Baby, not Christmas Shoes, Not Christmas Shoes, not even
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on the list. Santa Baby, especially if performed by Madonna. Well, yes,
the crypt Keeper seducing Santa is not something people enjoy
hearing during the holidays. Right there it is, you guys,
there's a list. Not believable, No, no, not anymore. Yeah
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eight eight eight seven seven, seven sixty six forty you
could text this. I see some studio lines lighting up.
We got a break. We'll come back and see what
you guys think next. Nikki, what are you seeing on
the text line?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Every time I hear Santa Baby, I want to yell, hey,
gold digger, get a job and buy your own crap?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Ah? Oh well, how about that?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
It's very aggressive text.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It's aggressive.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's aggressive, honestly like I played it the other day
during my midday and I was like, yeah, buy your own,
stuffy gold digger. I had the same thought run through
my head.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Is that why there was vomit in the studio this
morning when I came in?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Not from me? Okay, all right, this text threw me
off a little bit. Uh. How is that stupid song
you keep playing about Dominick the Donkey or I Want
a Hippopotamus for Christmas? And not on that list? Mm
hmm that's rude. What do you have against Dominick?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
What indeed what dominic do to you? Yes, he's just
a but also let the record show I have never
played I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas? And and I
won't why. I'll tell you why. Here's what you don't
have This Texter said, get a job, you gold digger. Yeah, okay,
you're saying a baby angry. When I hear I want hippopotamus,
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I yell blow your nose. What you've not heard the song?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I've heard the song.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I like the song. You don't think she needs to
blow her nose?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh she's a little nasally gotcha?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I was like, what does that clear?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Clear your your sinus cavity? And you you really need
a tissue? Okay, okay, let me go to the long
suffering caller here who is waiting patiently on the studio line.
You are on the Jack and Nikki Show. What do
you have for us?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
The Christmas song? There's one out there that was not
on the list, and I found it in a TikTok
video last year called an Old Fashioned Christmas and then
parentheses Daddy.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Is Home by Linda. It was crated a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Okay, listen to it before I ever say anything about it.
I think you guys need to listen to it and
just the emotional roller coaster.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
It will take you on.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
M M crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I love you guys, Thank you every morning.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I actually just passed your station.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Talking merry Christmas. Do you always good to hear from
a long time caller first time listener. Thanks so much?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Actually, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I always try to call in, but I never get
there in time.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Well, I'm glad you did.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It's good to talk to you. Thanks so much. Have
a good day.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, it's excited to be on the radio, all right,
See you guys.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Bye. I don't know anything about the song she's talking
about or anything, but I will say this, generally speaking,
I don't like any type of a Christmas song that
takes me on an emotional roller coaster. I don't need that, No,
not for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
That emotional roller coaster going on in my.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Real life, right, I don't. That's one of the things
we're talking about careers with the Christmas shoes. You're like, look,
give me something up, give me something catchy. Let's talk
about some snow and animated snowman that comes alive and
starts playing with the kids in the yard and then
they all disappear together. You know. That's the kind of
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thing I think we're all looking for for Christmas, right, yes, yeah,
and then then it warms up and he dies and
the kids are devastating. Wait, you know what now that
I think about that song's kind of sad.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Wake Up with Jack and Nikky weekday mornings, six to
ten one O two wv AQ.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We want to talk to in particular retail workers right now.
Current retail workers, former retail workers. We want to talk
about your holiday customer experiences. Because Black Friday, of course
was you guessed it on Friday, Yeah, and then you
had small business Saturday today, Cyber Monday, yep. But generally,
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speaking to holidays season, a lot of people were out
shopping and stores are pretty busy. In the malls. I know,
you get by the Meadowrook Mall, you see people up
there parked along the guardrail. A lot of shopping going on. Yeah, Okay, Now,
people in general often lack manners in public places and shopping.
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Not everybody, but enough people to make it unpleasant. But
for some reason, that seems to be more prevalent, let's say,
during the holiday season, when they're supposed to be peace
on earth and goodwill toward men. That's when people are
in there throwing elbows and screaming profanities and being rude
to these people who work in these stores. Yes, so
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I thought we could take a minute, because Nikki, you
and I are heroes of the down trodden, all right.
That's one of the things we do on the show.
We perform many public services. One is giving a voice
to the oppressed. Yeah, and I'm always shocked when people
are mean to wait staff, or if you are in
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a department store or something, you're you're buying something and
you see people just saying horrible things, just being nasty.
So now's your time, retail workers everywhere unite and tell
us about your customer pet peeves during the holiday season. Nikki,
is there anything you'd like to share to get us started.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Well, I will say I had one of the happiest jobs.
I had to build a bear. I loved that job
and it was so much fun until you know, you
got really close to the holidays and it would just
kind of be a zoo. It was a lot of kids,
a lot of parents, a lot of grandparents. And the
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fun part about having a retail job when you're not
management is that you're not management, so you can always
grab the manager.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Right before complaining to you. I'll get a.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Manager right because I can tap out at any time,
be like, you know what I have done all that
I can do for you. Let me find somebody who
might be able to help you more than I can't.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Bye, I'm sorry your kid ate the stuffing out of
the bear. Let's get a manager and an ambulance in
here and we'll deal with it.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Right Yeah, yeah, because I'm like, I am not paid.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
To handle this, right, Okay, that's that was my.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Favorite part of working retail. Yeah, it's just tapping out now.
I don't want to be harassed.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I've not worked retail, but Jessica did. Jessica worked at
a store. I probably shouldn't identify, okay, because I don't
know if this is still happening at this particular store,
but the customers used to come in there and poop
in the changing rooms. Oh and you know you'd be
walking toward the changing room, you get what is the all?
Somebody pooped in the changing room again, and so that happened.
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Yeah okay, Now, I'm not saying it happened a lot,
but as pet peeves go, what time is enough? That's
pretty high on the list of retail worker pet peeves. Yeah,
don't be defecating in the changing rooms. Public service announcements
Morning JACKI and Nikki Ship studio and text lines are
open eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six forty.
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We'd love again to talk to you. It is the
holiday season. People are swarming the stores. Let's try to
get people to behave and I act like they have
some sense during this most wonderful time of the year.
Call us. You can shoot us a text talking about
your holiday customer pet Peeves in particular discussing the situation
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with retail workers. If you are currently working retail or
you have at some point, what have you seen? What
have you experienced? What is going on with these people? Nikki?
What are you seeing on the textual line?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
All right, I have a non holiday related one. I
worked at McDonald's and it's always frustrated me when I
had a long line and someone waits to get to
the front to look at the menu to side. It's
not like the menu changes, you know what.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I've been beating this drum for years. Yeah, yeah, I
grow so weary. Right, people are in line behind you.
Just you know what I'm at it, know what you
want when you get there.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
There's an app you can mobile order like so many options.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yes, you can do that too, But let's say you
don't have the app. Look up, right, just look up,
there's a menu in front of you.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Or if there's a long line and you're waiting in line,
pull the menu up on your phone. Even if you're
not mobile order ordering, you can still pull the menu up.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And this is McDonald's were talking about me. How hard
is it to figure out? Yeah? Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
It's wow, we've gotten fashionate.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Well yeah, I mean it's not like cheesecake factory where
it's a a fifty eight page menu.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Right, all right, going, all right, here's what they've got.
You working today? Well, yes, because you're here shopping.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Right, that's what people step up and say to them.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, oh I'm sorry you're working today, Then don't go shopping.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Then stop frequenting this establishment. Yeah there, you keep this
place in business. All right? Anything else before we go
to the fund.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
That's what I've got so far.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
All right, you were on the Jack and Nikki show.
What you got for us?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
The biggest stet peeve I have for the Black Fridays
is when they do, like, for instance, swag bags and
these first Doorbuster opened because everybody acts like they ain't
got no sense.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Well that's true. People do go nuts over swag bags
the very notion. Okay, Now, have you worked in retail
at all in your life?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Absolutely? I actually managed a store out for the last
almost five years.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay, you manage your store? You have for five years?
And what kind of things do you sell in that
store without identifying it by name?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Jewelry, jewelry?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Oh, okay, okay? And how are people generally behaved when
they come in there?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Actually, this was the first year I could honestly say
that everybody was just very they were really awesome. Which
I did have my Grinch bip overhauls and my Grinch
stocking hat on two and my Grinch slippers.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Were you also wearing the grit the Grinch mask, right,
That's the only thing I did not have on.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
But I figure, I'm a break a little light at
six o'clock in the morning, a little laughter to somebody
so that maybe they won't be so nasty. And evidently
it worked, because I mean, we had an eventful day,
We had an awesome day. Everybody just very pleasant. Okay,
this is the first year a very long time that.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
That's that's excellent.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, I'd like to hear that.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, I'm glad to hear that. But you know, call
us back when somebody comes in and goes nuts and
has to be taken out by security. That's really the
kind of story I think we're looking for here.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Actually, actually everybody was outside standing waiting for opening them
for them to open the doors at five o'clock for
the slag bag. Yeah, they were trying to get readised
start one small outside after security because they wuldn't let
them inside.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Okay, now we're getting somewhere.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yes, okay, all right, it was bad.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Well, we're glad you survived it and everything. We appreciate
the phone call. Thank you very much. Let's go to
Nikki Drake with a sampling from the textual line as
we talk about retail workers and your pet peeves during
the holiday season. What do you have, Nikki Drake?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
More food complaints. I work at Little Caesars, and I
hate it when somebody calls and they either have no
service hardly at all, and I can't hear what they're saying,
or they call and then have to ask ten different
people in the room what all they want instead of
figuring it out before they call.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Right, ten different people in the room arguing over what
to get on a pizza. Yep. Do you remember when
I told you that I was actually complimented by a
pizza hut worker because of my ability to order a pizza. Yeah,
remember that. It's the Bridgeport Pizza Hut. I was going
down the interstate after the show one day and I
ordered a pizza and I was succinct on you. Said hey,
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here's what I want, and the guy said, we'll get
that for you, and I'd like to compliment you on
your ordering etiquette. He said, this was quick and easy.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yes, good job.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Well, I'm concerned about these people. I'm always want to
make sure I don't inconvenience them.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
The people are.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Working, sure, all right, more inconveniencing, are you ready? I
work at a gas station and people will buy a
ton of scratch off tickets and not scratch them. They
just hand them back to me to scratch the corner
to scan to see if they won, literally like fifty
tickets at a time.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
That is horrible. Step to the side, scratch each corner
yourself if you don't want to scratch the whole thing,
and then get back in line and have them scanned.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And isn't there usually a station where you can scan
it yourself after you scratch them.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I honestly do not know. I've never purchased a lottery ticket.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I'm not a scratch off ticket person, but I see
like the screens.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Everywhere, so I don't know anything about them. But what
I do know is generally people will buy those tickets
and then stand at the front of the line and
slowly scratch each one off.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And that's when I'm thinking the person working there should say, hey, hey,
take that to the side, there's a line behind you.
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, all right, go ahead, And I got a couple
more care please continue. I hated when I waited tables
and families would come in from out of town for
the holidays and they would take it out on me
because they hated their extended family.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Misplaced digression.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah. Also, I hated it when people would come in
for an employee holiday lunch or dinner, so awkward because
you could always see that no one wanted to be there. Like, no, Karen,
I don't want to hear about your Honor Students Accordion
concert last night.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
These are great examples, very good example. This is gold
on the text line.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, all right, and last one, this one's my favorite.
Black Friday used to be my favorite day to work
as a manager. It was the only day I could
be mean to customers if they were disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
In the spirit of the holiday. Yes, God bless us
one at all.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Wake up with Jack and Nicky on WVQ Very Christmas,
Jeff Filthy Animal Weekday morning.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Six to ten. Look at what we've been reduced to
with all of the schools closed and half of the
audience traveling. Nikki and I are now talking about your
favorite Christmas cookies. It's a shame that will take probably
at least the first two months of the new year
to shake off.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I'm okay with this.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
This is what we've become. It's like a bad show
on NPR. Now the Delicious Dish.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Are we going to NPR the list?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
We may as well? Yeah, so we have here the
what is it? The most popular cookies per state? Is that?
What it is? A breakdown by state? All right, so
where would you like to begin. Let's obviously we're gonna
do West Virginuay, Pennsylvania, will do Maryland, and then maybe
some surrounding states. Let's just talk about your cookie consumption
(18:46):
and see if your tastes are in line with everybody else.
All right, eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six
forty is the number to the show. You can text
us as well. I'm tossing out the numbers. In the
unlikely event that any one is listening and would like
to participate, I guess we'll find out. Nikki Drake, where
would you like to begin?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Do you want to start with West Virginia?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Okay? The snowball cookie is the most popular.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
It's the most popular in West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
The snowball cookie. Yes, okay, and that is okay.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I still I'm not still not quite sure. It's like
a little powdered sugar covered, nut filled snowball.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Okay, well you lost me a nut filled I'm not
interested in that, right, Yeah, you know powdered sugar round. Okay,
this all sounds good. Nuts, it's a crumbling I can't.
I don't even want a brownie with nuts in it.
I hate nuts, really, But you like peanut M and
MS I do? Yeah. Complicated man, Yeah, I'm very I'm
(19:44):
a complicated man. Even I don't understand why thee are
given a pass. I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Okay, all right, have you had speaking of the holiday
spice peanut eminem's if you see.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Them, they're really good holiday spice.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
It's the the peanut in the eminem is like a
spiced peanut. It's got like holiday flavor to it. Really,
and then it's covered in the candy shell, the chocolate
candy shell.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I've never heard tell of such a thing. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
It's back to the cookies, all right, all right, Ohio,
peanut butter blossoms. It's peanut butter cookie.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Okay, that's just a peanut butter cookie.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
And then if you go to Kentucky, then your favorite
the peanut butter cookie with the Hershey kiss in the middle.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Oh man, Now that's the one right there. Yeah, that's
the one, especially again if the Hershey's kiss is the
caramel in it. But I think they've discontinued us.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You need to write a strongly worded letter.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I think they're out. I think they're out.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
But Kentucky's doing something right for once with their cookies.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, I mean they got the chicken down.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
So yeah, yeah, Virginia molasses cookies.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Gross, I don't why even know what that is.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
But okay, don't bother, alright, Maryland, is Christmas crack?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Okay? That I do? I know from Christmas crack crack.
Apparently there are different ways you can make Christmas crack.
Some people use wafers, some people use rice checks, pretzel sticks.
So Jessica makes this stuff and it's rice checks, it's
pretzel sticks, it's wheat checks. You can put M and
m's in it, a white chocolate and then there's some
type of syrup that's on it that makes it kind
(21:23):
of a gives it kind of a glaze, and then
you let it dry and then you break it apart,
and it is really it's light crack. It's easy. It's
on real sho make like a big sheet of this
stuff and then bust it up and put it in
a container and we take it in. Yeah, and then
everybody just goes crazy. And then because it's crack. And
the next thing you know, we're brothers, like shirtless and
his hair sticking up all over, his eyes are red,
(21:46):
he's trying to climb up the side of the house.
And yeah, right, the fire departments there with a big
net after him, like what what happened? Well, he had the.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Christmas track and out fantastic Christmases.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, well, all you have to do is introduce crack
into your Christmas Morning celebration.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Okay, so Christmas Crack from Maryland. That explains a lot
for the Baltimore region.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, it does.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
And then Pennsylvania Italian Christmas Cookie?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
What's the Italian Christmas cookie?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Is that just a pizzel?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I don't know either is a pazzel Italian or I
don't know you're.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Talking to a German. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I don't know. Uh, yeah, so I don't know what
an Italian Christmas cookie is.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well, if you guys know triple eight, triple seven, sixty
six forty or you can text us and explain these
cookies to us if you'd like.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, the text line is starting to light up and
they're angry because they're like, who took this survey?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Never heard of a dank snowball cookie? What? Never heard
of a dank snowball cookie? Yeah? Pretty aggressive language, right,
I've never heard of a snowball cookie, and.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Neither I had to look it up.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
So yeah, okay, I've I've heard of it. I didn't
know what it was, but look, I see especially during
the holidays, plates of all kinds of different cookies, no
idea what they're called.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You just eat them.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I'll look at them, maybe take a bite. Yeah, you know,
but I don't bother to track somebody down and go name,
country of origin, backstory. You know, I don't do all
that family recipes, right, Yeah, I'm not doing that. Look,
I'm not hosting Jeopardy. I'm just trying to have a
cookie and get out of there.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I'm surprised that, like snickerdoodles aren't on the list.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, that's a little surprising. Yeah, all right, very good
talking about the holidays, Christmas coming up soon, and the
story of a woman who got burned this holiday season
and is now thinking about canceling Christmas altogether because she's
fed up with these scumbag friends and relatives. Nikki Drake
has the story. What can you tell us?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
So this anonymous woman hosted Thanksgiving. She made two turkeys
of ham, twenty pounds of mashed potatoes, two pounds of stuff, eg.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Twenty pounds of mashed potato. That's a lot of food,
twenty pounds. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
However, the next morning and she was craving leftovers because
that's a lot of food. She opened the fridge stood
there in shocked because it was empty except for a
bag of turkey wings and a half bag of dressing.
Her husband said that he saw guests leaving with unopened
desserts and gallon bags of.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Food and he did nothing.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yeah, he did nothing about it. So now she doesn't
want to host Christmas because this is greedy behavior and
she doesn't have to put up with it, and she
wants some of her leftovers to be left for the host.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, of course, yeah, okay, And I guess there's some
debate here on whether or not she is doing the
right thing by canceling Christmas refusing to host it, let's say,
not canceling, but not hosting. Well, yeah, people are saying like, wait.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
What Yeah, you've already decided to do this, but also like,
what's the leftover etiquette?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Too? Yeah? Yeah, what is leftover etiquette? And that that question,
once answered, perhaps will help this woman out of her
Christmas moral dilemma. Right, I think she's well within her
rights to host Christmas even if this didn't happen. I
would say, right, you're not required to host Christmas at
(25:19):
your house. But after you've been robbed these people have
left with everything.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
And you have nothing. Okay, on the holiday that's supposed
to be about giving.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
They just took Yeah, all right eight eight eight seven
seven seven sixty six forty. You can text us as well,
you can call us. What do you think about the
leftover etiquette? Because I remember just a couple of weeks
ago on Thanksgiving overhearing Jessica and her mom discussing they
(25:51):
were divvying up leftovers amongst the participants, and Jessica's mom
was asking her, do you want this? Do you want that?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Well?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
What about Jackie as they call me in the family.
Everybody Jackie does Jackie? Does Jackie like this? Does Jackie
like that? Yeah? And I heard Jessica go, nah, he
doesn't want that, and uh and I know it was
Oh no, I know why she was saying it. Let's
just say that some of the dishes weren't great and
(26:22):
oh yeah. Session Instead of going well that wasn't a
good she was like, he doesn't like that. Okay, Jackie
doesn't like that, Jackie and I and I almost went
in and went Jackie does like it? And I was like, no, wait,
Jackie just had that an hour ago. Be quiet Jackie quiet,
Let this one go. But the point in this nauseating
and seemingly pointless story is that they were having the
(26:46):
discussion as they're cleaning up. They're talking about, well, who
how much of this do you want? How much of
this do they want? Who's taking this, who's taking that?
And everybody's involved in the conversation, and everybody kind of
gets to pick and choose what they want, how much
of it they want, and then they go Yeah, that
to me seems like proper etiquet. Right.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
The host was involved, the host was converson, she was
the one posing the questions, and I think that's the
smart way to do it.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
The very notion that that everybody eating there goes into
the kitchen unbeknownst to the host and they take everything
and then just leave. And then the host gets up
the next day or goes in later in the evening
and everything's been picked clean and it's gone. That's insane
to me, And I don't know how anybody could possibly
justify that, right, Yeah, you know, and believe me, I'm
(27:33):
the kind of guy who's heard the phrase no leave
some for others. I've heard that before, m okay, and
you usually follow it Oh, I started elbowing. Oh, they
made twenty pounds of mashed potatoes. I get half eight
eight eight seven seven seven sixty six forty or textas.
It's a question of holiday etiquette, leftover food etiquette. What's
(27:56):
your policy and your family?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Nikki Drake Yaya helps to shout the left because Yai
is usually the one hosting, and then she's just like, Okay,
I've got this, I've got this. And sometimes she has
frozen leftovers and frozen dishes that she will then heat
up to divvy out to supplement what has been eaten.
So everybody's always going home with something. And she will
(28:18):
sometimes make specific dishes if you're traveling in from out
of town, being like, well, I'm sending this home with them,
so this is theirs.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
If if yeah, you picture yah Ya waking up the
next day after Thanksgiving her Christmas sitting alone at a
kitchen table that's completely empty because everything has been taken
from yah Yah? How does that make you feel very angry? Okay,
there you go, studio and text lines open. It's a
question of leftover etiquette.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I'm starting a new Christmas tradition. Wake up with Jack
and Nikki on two WBAQ.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
People responding to this question about leftover etiquette. Have you
seen the textual line, Nikki Drake, I did, yes? Would
you like to share our findings?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Okay? Yes, you let the host, if they provided everything,
decide to give out leftovers.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yes, yeah, I think we're all on the same page here, right.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Why is this not reasonable? Why do people not think
this is the way it's supposed to be? Why, indeed,
why did everybody take that woman's food?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Right? All right? What else you got?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
It's okay. If she doesn't want to host, tell her
to have a good day and do what she wants
to do.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
That's right, it's okay she doesn't want to host.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, especially after everybody took her food.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Some choose hosting with holidays, Nikki. Others have hosting thrust
up on them. One more texts. I want to toss in.
If you're cooking dinner for people, I will expect them
to eat it all. If they don't, I have the leftovers.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I think it's ridiculous to think that you're cooking for
someone else and you don't want them to eat it all.
Don't host dinners if you don't want people to eat
what you make. Well, if it was discussed beforehand that
you wanted to keep some of the food for yourself,
that would be different. Well that's a good question. Does
it need to be discussed or should people just have
consideration to assume that you might want some of the leftovers, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I think that it's an unspoken rule. But I guess
now it needs to be spoken.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I guess, so, yeah, I guess if it's not, well,
I'll tell you what you need.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
If they ate it all, that's one thing, you know,
if there was no leftovers, nothing to be taken home.
I agree, that is one thing. You want them to
eat it all. But if there are leftovers, it stays
with the host, and the host can then decide how
to distribute the leftovers if at all.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Makes sense to me. Yeah, that makes perfect sense to me.
And I guess since we can no longer work on
assumption here, we're going to have to have a written contract.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Oh, my gosh, have a contract.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Host is going to have to write up a contract
and print it out, hand it out to everybody. Everybody
has to sign a copy.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
And tell me your vage here. Mh
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