WEBVTT - Mornings with Thom Brennaman 12/18/2025 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:05.160 Getting ready for an essential monetary message. This is the 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.920 Bloomberg Money Minute on seven WLWA and. 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.240 Once more we say hello and good morning from the 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:17.320 Bloomberg newsroom to Erica Hrskowitz and Erica. Some Tesla owners, 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.840 this has been a big story, are buying glass breakers 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.800 and other accessories to help us gate their car in 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.320 case those electronic doors malfunction. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.400 I mean, could you imagine having to do that? This 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.720 after a Consumer Reports online petition tom had been signed 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.879 by nearly thirty five thousand people calling on automakers to 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.280 fix the electronic doors after numerous incidents of people being 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.199 severely injured or even dying when they were unable to 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:47.239 escape their vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.880 opened a safety probe into whether the doors on certain 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.080 model wise are defective, and Tesla is working on a 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.720 redesign of the mechanism behind the Hallmark flush handles. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:01.960 Okay. Meanwhile, speaking of driving, more emails are driving trucks 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:03.480 these days for Walmart. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:05.720 Yeah, it does help that it's a six figure job 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.800 right well. Walmart truck game workforce has grown by thirty 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.440 three percent over the last three years, and about eighteen 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.479 percent of Walmart's truckers are women, nearly double the rate 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.480 of the female drivers at competitors because of initiatives like 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.320 pairing drivers up on more dangerous routes and offering more 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:24.399 predictable schedules. Walmarts' efforts to attract and retain truck drivers 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.800 include raising the starting annual wage, developing a twelve week 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.880 training program, and investing in trucks with features like Wi 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.040 Fi and improved safety measures. 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:37.080 All right, Erica and our futures on this Thursday morning. 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.920 Market futures pointing to a higher open down futures up 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.160 seventy four points, Nastaq futures up two two, SMP futures 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.320 up twenty eight from Bloomberg. I America Hrschowitz on news 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.840 radio seven hundred WLW. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.160 When you sent me this email last night, I'm looking 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:55.520 around my house and you know, we have a fireplace 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.440 right in the middle of the living room, you know, 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.920 the whole nine yards. We're going to talk about home 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:04.240 the safety tips for the holidays. Let's start with we 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.680 have a live tree. Let's start how important is it 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.280 to continue to make sure that thing has water on? 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.000 Oh, it's so important. You ever see any of those 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.680 videos when they actually light of Christmas. 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:19.760 Yes, I have a friend of mine that does it 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.120 outside every year, and I've never seen anything like it. 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.960 It is unbelievable how quickly it gets consumed. So we 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.720 don't want it to dry out. And a lot of 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:30.840 this is just common sense, but it needs to be 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.680 repeated every year. Don't put the Christmas tree over a 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.920 register vent that's blowing warm air on it. Not that 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.239 it's going to catch fire, but you're gonna dry it out. 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:40.080 Make sure. 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.880 And when you first cut that tree and cut the 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.600 little you know, stump down at the bottom, open up 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:47.560 the pores and let us start drinking water. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.880 It's amazing. You're gonna you're gonna fill up that stand. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.919 Every day, every day, okay, and it'll take about two 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.679 or three weeks before it starts sealing off. So keep 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.840 it really watered, I mean from a standpoint of just 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:01.079 keeping it from drying out. 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.519 So important. Okay, that's number one. And then I started 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.920 paying attention. I talked about the fireplace, right and hanging 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.280 garland that could be hanging down off the mantle, say 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.960 above it, and you don't want that obviously, right. 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.079 Right right, and and kind of the same way. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:18.680 I guess a lot of it depends to I'm on 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.280 what type of garden you know, you got that foil 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.400 garden and stuff like that. How much heat comes out 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.919 of the fire box and just kind of warms that mantle. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.600 But you don't want to be hanging evergreens there. And 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.160 I see it all the time this time of year, 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.160 and I'll even say something to the people like them. 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:40.440 So you guys use that fireplace during the holidays and 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.760 it's always yeah, you know, we always make a good 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.120 fire and Christmas. And I'd go like, what, you know, 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.960 I'm just I'm not trying to be you know, nosy, 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.240 but I wouldn't put that garland there. And then they 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.200 look and they go, oh h yeah, that makes sense. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.040 Cause I do have a question for you on that 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:01.280 one though. Is the fake garland step as flammable as 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:02.600 you know, a lot of people will go out and 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.520 then they'll you know, when they get their tree, they'll 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.000 get the garland that you know is live for all 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.480 intents and purposes. Is there a difference as far as 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.680 being more flammable, Well. 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:14.000 There is to a degree. 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.480 So some of them will say flammable. In fact, most 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.440 of them will okay, but it's nothing like a real 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.320 live garland. Again, going back to the story about the 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.760 Christmas tree, how fastly it can bust. This would lot 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.360 of your garden garland's plastic. It may melt or kind 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.240 of warp. So I was really kind of focusing on 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.040 the live But it's really not a good place to 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.080 put garland anyway, because there's a lot of heat coming 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:40.000 out of that firebox. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.919 Yes there is, okay, now talking about a lot of folks. 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:48.360 I've seen it done. They burn the gift wrapping yeah, 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.039 or boxes right right in a fireplace after people open 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.520 them up. Not a good idea, it's not, it really is. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.120 And here's the story on that. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.760 So I think a couple mo ago we might have 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.599 talked about making sure the chimney is clean, making sure 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.800 the creosote's gone out of the chimney. It's flammable, make 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:08.599 sure you haven't had a chimney fire. 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.200 Let's say you didn't heed the. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.080 Advice and you don't know when you had that chimney 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:14.000 cleaner inspected. 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:15.760 If there's kreosode in there. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:21.680 It catches fire with real hot quick fires, which is 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.480 exactly what paper produces. 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.680 And so that would be more reason than to follow 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.720 that up based on those of us that have seen 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.160 a Christmas tree and the way it ignites and burns 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:39.119 almost immediately. Sure, don't burn tree trimmings in the fire place. 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.680 Absolutely, and it happens all the time. I mean, it 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.320 happens all the time. 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.000 And you know, once we get to November, I'm sure 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:48.920 you know, you watch the news and there's there's a 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.400 house fire almost every other no doubt about it, and 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.520 they never say what caused it. But we don't have 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.320 those problems in the summer, and a lot of times 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.560 it's just because we've got everything in. People are burning fires, 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.160 they're cooking more, et cetera. So I know these are 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.400 common sensical, but boy, just just think about it. 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:08.359 What happens. 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.080 It's pretty You throw the paper in there, and maybe 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.360 you get a little different color of flames, but that's 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.880 burning so hot, and if that chimney's dirty, you run 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:18.920 the risk of a chimney fire. And if you've already 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.440 had a chimney fire and that liner's cracked, you run 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:22.800 the risk of starting the house fire. 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.360 Okay, sometimes my wife does this from time to time, 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.640 where she'll close the flume right and then all of 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.440 a sudden, I'll fire up the you know, the fireplace, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.960 and then you know, smoke is everywhere. Now, Cracking the 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:40.600 window certainly helps, right mm hmm. Anything else that well recommend. 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.040 Just the real deal too, not so much as the 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.600 I mean, it certainly would do that if the damper 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:45.360 was closed. 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:47.640 But a lot of times. 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.880 It's negative air pressure inside our homes. So remember, you 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:54.680 build a fire, it creates heat, it warms the chimney, 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:55.200 and it. 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.360 Creates a drawl bringing the smoke out. 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.279 But if you got the kitchen and somebody's doing a 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:05.400 you know, cooking, and it's a ventilating fan that's pulling air, 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.159 and that's pulling air down the chimney, or the bathroom fan, 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.240 it's pulling air down the chimney. So you get a 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.440 negative air pressure inside the house. You start a fire 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.080 and the smoke can't really warm up the chimney, so 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:18.520 it starts coming into the house. 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.640 That's not a good look. No, just crack the window now. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.800 Now here's the one that These things terrify me. They 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.080 always have. I don't know why. I never had a 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:32.240 bad experience from them, but talking about space heaters, these 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:36.400 things just scare me. To death. Now there are certain places, 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.720 in certain ways that you would suggest do not do 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.120 these things. If you're using a space heater, what would 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:43.560 they do well? 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:44.120 For sure? 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.720 And if people read the directions, and not all people do. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.240 Number one, a lot of them will say don't use 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.679 in bathrooms for just basic reason, a lot of water. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.400 Make sure they're ul listed, make sure it has a 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.360 ground false circuit interrupter on the plug of that space heater. 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:02.560 And the number one thing is. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.080 People get a space heater and then they run a 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:09.080 lamp cord extension cord that's fifteen feet long. That's a 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.000 no no. It tells you do not use extension cords 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.840 with this. Those things are pulling about fifteen hundred watts. 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.280 That's a lot of juice. So no extension cords on 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.640 a space heater. And don't run them under the carpet 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.240 or under a throw rug in a doorway or in 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:29.080 the family room. People walk over that carpet. It's abrasive 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.400 on the back with jute. So no, no to the 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.240 extension cords, and read the directions. And if you're going 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.000 to buy one, see what that thing is actually designed 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.800 to be, how it's designed to be used, and keep 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.120 flammables away from these things like blankets and stuff. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.800 Yeah, no doubt about it. Well, and with all that 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.480 in mind, a lot of us have a fire extinguisher. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.080 Probably a lot more of us do not. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.080 Boy, I agree with that. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.800 And then the next big question is does everbody family 0:08:58.840 --> 0:08:59.440 know how to use it? 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:00.880 Yeah, and I'll. 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:04.000 Bet you a lot of people driving right now said no. No, 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.720 there's you know, the old, the old fire extingers. You know, 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.160 pull the pin, you take, you aim, you sweep at 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:12.319 the base of the fire. 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:14.800 But there's a lot of fire extinguishers out there. 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.920 Now that come in almost it's almost like an aerosol, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.199 like an aerosol canopaign, only it's about twice as big 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.440 as an aerosol, has as much power as a regular 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.880 good sized fire extinguisher, so they can be conveniently located. 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.200 They're inexpensive, and there's no mystery. 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.679 I mean, it's like aerosol. 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.120 You press the button down on the top and it's 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.480 blowing out the powder and putting out the fire. It's 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.480 an ABC, so it takes care of you know, all 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.720 types of fires. But man, today just go you know, fireplace, 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.439 no fireplace, A lot of cooking if you do anything. 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.600 At all and you don't have one, Go buy one. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:57.240 Today and put it in the kitchen cabinet underneath the stove, okay, 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.040 and you can probably get to the garage with it. 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:00.760 You could probably get to the our place with it. 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.760 You can get to the cooking. But there's nothing worse 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.960 than having a kitchen fire or something like that. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:06.560 And you have nothing. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:08.680 All right, I got less in a minute. Last thing 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.080 that I found interesting you put on here about trimming 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:11.920 candle wicks. 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.280 Yeah, yeah, that's another thing. Number one we all know, 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.800 blowout the candles before we go to bed. Before you 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.400 light it again, make sure it's just got about a quarter. 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.160 Inch wick at the top. Tom. If it's got a 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.920 real long one, you'll get a real long flame. It'll 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.840 produce a lot of smoke. You can kind of, you know, 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:29.520 you can kind of start messing. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.480 Up your walls if you're burning them a long time 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:33.040 with the long wicks. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.440 So trim those wicks down. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.640 The base of a pillar candle should almost be two 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.719 times the size and the pillar candle. Make sure it's 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.880 good and steady and stay safe. 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.719 Amen. Merry Christmas to you, my friend. You are the 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:47.120 very very best Tom. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.080 You have a merry Christmas too, well, talking a couple 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:50.079 of weeks, I guess. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.800 I'll look forward to it, my friend. All right, God 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.840 speed ahead. It is eight twenty and let's check the 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:58.280 roadways once more with our friend Chuck Ingram, Chuck Cow. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.120 We looking on south bend seventy well, not good coming 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.880 out of blue Ash into Kenwood. It is because of 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.400 a broken down southbound seventy one deer ken Wood above 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:11.040 Kenwood Road after Montgomery Road that's blocking the right two lianes. 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.280 It's over a fifteen minute delay now from Feiffer and 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:18.040 getting longer from the UC Health Tramphic Center. U SEE 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.600 Cancer Center offers advanced surgical options for complex liver and 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.280 pancreatic cancers and clinical trials you won't find anywhere else. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:26.400 Got a second. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.040 Opinion now called five one, three, five eight five u 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.480 SECC other spots getting better. Southbound seventy five still slows 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.319 in and out of Lachland. Northbound four seventy one's running 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.920 heavy from Grand and crews are working with an accident 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.000 on Hamilton Avenue above Belmont. 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:46.400 Chuck Ingram News Radio seven hundred wlw OUR WCPO nine 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.439 First Warning fore Cast presented by Jennifer Ketch. Market's a 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.960 nice morning out there. Son's coming up and right around 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:59.120 forty two degrees. Expecting rain later today, hy have fifty 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.760 four Tonight the bottom falls out. We're back to frigid 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.959 temperatures low of twenty three and it'll feel a lot 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.920 colder than that. Tomorrow we start off cloudy, but then 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:13.360 the sun comes up, but it is not going to 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:17.959 bring warmer temperatures. Hi tomorrow thirty one degrees. We're down 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:22.160 to twenty five tomorrow night. And then on Saturday, partly sunny, 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.679 we're up to forty eight. Partly sunny. Sunday high is 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.440 only thirty eight. And if you're already thinking about Christmas 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:32.080 one week from today, Christmas Eve six days away, we're 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.120 looking at temperatures in the forties, close to fifty for 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.440 Christmas Day. How about that? 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However, 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.840 it's predicting a slower pace of growth for the year ahead. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:53.239 From Bloomberg I America, Herskowitz on news radio seven hundred wlw. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.679 HI. When you hear workin for the weekend, that means 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.640 it's time for Hey, Michelle, you can follow her at 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:04.160 Hey Michelle the number one on Instagram or on Facebook 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.360 and just hey Michelle, Hey Michelle. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:09.160 Him there. 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.040 How are you? I'm doing great? How are you doing? 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:14.560 I'm fantastic. Thanks. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.480 Are you ready to go for Christmas? 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:22.200 H No, I'm working on it. I'm almost there. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.640 You're almost well, you know what almost? Are beats nowhere 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:26.600 close to being there? 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.960 Right? I mean I'm assuming you bought my present already? 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:34.400 Well, well, of course it was the first one I bought. Okay, great, yeah, absolutely, 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.160 you and Juliusfording. You know, I got to take care 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.480 of you guys, past your chair for coming on all 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:44.400 the time. My dad not so much, not so much. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.800 You can get a little cranky. You get a little 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:48.840 cranky every now and again. You always sound to a beat. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:50.280 You get a little cranky every now and again. 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.520 A little bit. But it takes a lot to make 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:55.040 me cranky. 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.360 Actually, okay, yeah, all right, okay, all right, all right, 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.280 let's get to it. Let's start with if you're looking 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.000 for things to do with the family, and of course 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.320 so much for this weekend A week out from Christmas 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.040 is holiday theme? 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:13.640 Yes, yes, it's definitely holiday theme. So right now is 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.600 last call? For Elf Junior the musical, and I did 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.960 see it and it is super cute at Family Theater. 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.040 I do suggest a little order on this one, just 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.920 because it's more of a storyline than a you know, 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.680 dance and glitter. So anyway, just eight or nine ten 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.640 something like that. I want to give a shout out 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:36.160 to the Festival Lights and Kings Island because the Festival 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.880 Lights at the Zoo just came a number one for 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:40.000 the zoo category in. 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:43.480 USA today, No kidding, Yes, I'd. 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.440 Love that for them, and then King's Island came in 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.400 second place for theme parks, so we were right here 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.360 for us to enjoy. I mean, we've got that two 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:51.040 of us right here. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.880 Wait, we got it going on there, both on top 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.360 of their game, the Zoo and King's Island. Okay, what 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.760 else with the family? You got the kids? What else 0:15:58.840 --> 0:15:59.280 is happening? 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.400 Okay, So Rockdale's Honakcup party is going on. That's Saturday 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.680 five to nine. Are doing minoral lighting and songs and dinner, 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.840 Kid Zone and Bounty House are projects and all those things. 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.960 That is a good one. Wanted to talk about Holiday Junction. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.120 This is going on at the Sustaining Museum Center. This 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.320 is just an amazing winter wonderland of fun with that 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:26.440 huge train displayed so great, and then wander around while 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.520 you're there, check out everything else. Is so much out. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:30.120 There to see. 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:30.600 You know. 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.120 I think sometimes people that they would shy away from 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.640 maybe this time of year, but I would invite them 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.840 to reconsider if you're going to go there and your 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.200 kids are old enough to understand what's going on that 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:46.560 Auschwitz right now, that tour that's part of the museum 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.920 center right now. It certainly is a reminder of how 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.440 fortunate we are this time of the year. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.080 I mean, the connection with Cincinnati and how much Cincinnati 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:02.080 history and that exhibit is pretty incredible. You know, when 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:03.840 you're in that exhibit, you're looking out those windows and 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.639 that's where they came off the train. That is a 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:07.520 very moving and touching exhibit. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.640 I totally agree, no doubt about it. And then there's 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.879 always the Nutcracker Ballet. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.640 Yay, So I got to do my hanging with Hey 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:18.760 Michelle was last night my event and we did Bubbles 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:19.800 ballet and Buttercake. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.280 So we had a champagne. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.840 We got to go to the final dress rehearsal of 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.119 the Nutcracker and then we went over to the Santi 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:30.080 and had buttercake. So it was such a fun night 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.000 and the dress rehearsal was amazing and just gets you 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:33.600 in the spirit. 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:34.560 It was wonderful. 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.000 And that starts back up tonight and the music called 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:38.680 and runs through the weekend. 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.800 Right, yeah, yes, yes it does, so go get your 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.919 tickets for sure. And then there's a twist on that. 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.159 So there's hot chocolate at the ear and off and 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.280 this unique spin on the nutcracker. 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:50.680 This is Cincy's first. 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:54.440 African American Nutcracker was hip hop contemporary dance and this 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.640 is Friday, Saturday at two and eight and Sunday at two. 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.040 I love that super cute. I need to check that out. 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.720 Okay, all right, now we're going to move to the 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.000 doesn't have to be single crowd, but we're we're catering 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:08.760 to them a little bit. But maybe you're just going 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.800 out with some of your buddies or a group of friends, 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:12.879 what have you. And there's lots on tap to do 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:13.960 this weekend as well. 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:19.360 Absolutely so our local guy, Michael Markage. He is performing 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.520 at Andrew Brady. He grew up in Anderson. Wonderfully talented 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:28.000 guy and he toured with the Lumineers this year. I 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:29.880 headed on in my car the other day my son 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:33.159 was singing along, so clearly he's more, even bigger than 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:33.480 I thought. 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:33.720 I thought. 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.080 He'd say, you know who is this? So he is 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:39.920 Saturday night at seven o'clock. Really cool guy, check him out. 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:41.120 I'll be there. 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.119 And he's a mix of kind of a mix between 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:48.200 pop and rock and roll. Right, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, exactly. 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:48.960 Yes. 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.160 Final Friday is going on this Friday due to the holidays, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.880 so you can go buy some arguments, some last minute 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:57.320 gifts right from the artist, which I love. Over two 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.920 hundred and fifty studios in there, so browse around. That's 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:04.600 Friday five to nine. More shopping art on vine? Is 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:08.120 it rhindeis? This is Sunday twelve to six. That's sort 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:09.719 of over eighty vendors there. 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.920 Oh, the Ugly Sweater Bar cross. Is there a reason 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.080 or a theme for a bar crawl seemingly every weekend? 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:20.800 You know it makes a lit a little more fun? 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:21.520 Yeah, it does. 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:27.240