This week I passes to The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk for their holiday movie “The Polar Express 4D Experience”!
Play every day at 4pm to win. Here’s today’s question if you missed it…
Q: It takes the average person 14 seconds to decide if they like this or not
A: A Christmas present
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Anna & Raven stopped by our Star 99.9 Downtown Dental Homeroom at Roosevelt School in Bridgeport to play “Can’t Beat Raven”. Even the kids couldn’t beat him! 😆
Hopefully you didn’t have too much stress traveling over Thanksgiving weekend. Traffic, crazy drivers, and then sometimes you see the flashing lights and your stress level instantly goes through the roof.
Luckily for these people in Mesa, Arizona they were instantly relieved once the officer came up to the window. These cops had no interest in giving out tickets on Thanksgiving Day this year… they were giving people turkeys! They say they just wanted to spread some holiday cheer for people traveling.
Love it!
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If you were born, lets say before 1990… then you probably remember the days of lining up 4am on Black Friday and the weeks that followed searching for those perfect gifts while battling crowds. Anyone younger has most likely done all their holiday shopping from their computer growing up.
With today being Cyber Monday I thought we’d take a trip down memory lane to talk about where and why this got created.
In 2005 The Nationa Retail Federation (yes a real thing) came up with the term “Cyber Monday” as the Monday following Thanksgiving weekend. This was because they started to notice that people were doing a lot of online shopping once they got back to work in the office. Because at the time no one really had high speed internet in their homes so everyone was getting their internet deals on the company dime.
That’s how today became one of the business shopping days of the year and dubbed “Cyber Monday”
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Is there a right or wrong way to puts lights onto your Christmas tree? Anna heard some new ways and decided to give a new one a try this year! But did it work out the way she wanted it to? How do you decorate your tree!?
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The Santa Tip Line is back. You can call Santa anytime and let him know who’s been naughty or nice this year. You can even hear your message played on the air with Anna & Raven! Are today’s callers making the naughty or nice list? What do you think!?
The internet is never short of new challenges, but we found one that really intrigued us called “The Urban Dictionary Challenge”. (0:30)
The Santa Tip Line is back, and we already have calls flooding in! (2:32)
If you do this to a server at a restaurant while your spouse is around, that’s all I need to know about you! (9:43)
What’s trending? We talk about the top stories you may have missed over the Holiday weekend! (13:09)
Kids have no filter when it comes to telling the truth! But what was the worst thing a child has ever said to you? (16:22)
Did you know there was more than just one way to decorate your Christmas tree with lights? Lowe’s had some helpful ways you can decorate your tree to make sure every single part of it is covered with lights! Which of these methods do you use to decorate your tree? (23:49)
Couples Court: Whitney and Michael’s seven-year-old has been bullied by the same girl in his class for a bit now. They’ve complained to the administration and her parents, and it has continued. Michael says they have no choice but to call the police and make them aware of the situation. Whitney says that’s crazy. You can’t call the police on a child! Their son needs to learn how to stand up for himself, and it’s not like she’s threatening his physically, it’s just teasing. Whose side are you on? (27:26)
Does Michael have what it takes to win today’s jackpot, or will we continue to add to the grand total!? (35:30)
A sign was put up at an Arby’s by a manager that expressed they only wanted well-behaved children in the establishment. If your child does misbehave in public, what do you do about it? How do you control a child’s tantrum? (38:43)
This week I have your chance to win a car pass for the Star Saturdays at the Holiday Lights Spectacular at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport!
Play every day at 4pm to win. Here’s today’s question if you missed it…
Q: 1 in 8 drivers on the road are doing this IN THEIR CAR right now?
A: Eating
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Thanksgiving is all about “giving” and helping out others in need. That’s exactly what this one Dad in the Bronx has done for the last four decades.
Marty Rogers organizes a free Thanksgiving dinner through his church every year. A lot of churches do this type of thing, same with soup kitchens and shelters. But Marty is making headlines because he’s been doing it for so long. This will be the 44th year in a row he’s done it. A tradition that started as a free Thanksgiving for seniors, but now includes the homeless. He had done it every year since 1977 and plans to continue this year.
Well done, Marty! Love it.
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Tomorrow morning is the annual Macys Day Thanksgiving Parade. When you pour yourself some coffee plop down on the couch and get your turkey day started by watching giant Balloons float down NYC streets. The mundane mystery today…. what happens to those balloons after the parade?
Back in the early 1920s when the parade first started Macys used to have a WILD competition. At the end of the parade they would release the balloons into the air and whoever brought them back would get a cash reward. Insane right? And seems very dangerous. Turns out it was. In the 1930s Felix The Cat got caught in a high wire and caught fire. Disaster. Then a few years later another balloon hit a small plane, almost causing the plane to crash. Luckily everyone was okay. After these two incidents Macy’s announced it would not award prize money anymore and decided to end the tradition of releasing the balloons. Probably the smart decision.
Now, the balloons are usually safely stored in a storage area until the following year or used at other events.
Enjoy the parade!