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Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Performers · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: One o six point seven light FM, Cubby and Christine
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  Speaker 1: in the Morning and the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting
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  Speaker 1: is tonight begins at eight o'clock on NBC be simulcasted
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  Speaker 1: on Peacock and they usually light that tree. We're like
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  Speaker 1: nine fifty nine, nine.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty eighth when we have to go to bed. Excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: right right, to move it up a little.
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  Speaker 1: It's a busy night though it is. They have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people there performing.
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  Speaker 2: You have a lot of stars. Yeah. Reva McIntyre is
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  Speaker 2: hosting the Hole event. Performances by Marc Anthony, Hallie Bailey,
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  Speaker 2: Michael Boubla, Kristin Chenoweth, Fay is it le Fay Lafey.
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  Speaker 2: She's really good. She's got the l a u f
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  Speaker 2: u y le fay sounds like she's singing standards or something.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: She's Yeah, she's great.
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  Speaker 1: New new addition.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Brad Paisley, Carly Pierce, Gwen Stefani and uh hey, some
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  Speaker 1: people we know pretty well Radio City Rockets will be there.
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  Speaker 1: Are good friends and of course the tree will be
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  Speaker 1: in place until mid January twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so we have some time it's a Norway spruce.
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  Speaker 2: That's so they always use a Norway spruce for this,
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  Speaker 2: by the.
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  Speaker 1: Way, Yeah, because they grow straight and they resist high
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  Speaker 1: winds and they grow to at least seventy feet tall
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  Speaker 1: or seventy five feet tall actually, And yeah, there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun facts about the tree, about how
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  Speaker 1: there are more than fifty thousand led lights on the tree.
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  Speaker 1: They switch to LEDs back in two thousand and seven,
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  Speaker 1: so you don't have to worry about one bulb going out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, go out one. Dad has to sit there and
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  Speaker 2: go through the strings, remember those days.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, do you have those at home? Did you
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  Speaker 1: have those big bulbs?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we all had those.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I remember them? Are they around?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 2: They do like a retro looking one now, but they're
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  Speaker 2: not quite the same.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They used to get hot ones back in the day,
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  Speaker 2: got like warm and bubblers. Did you guys ever have bubblers?
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  Speaker 1: A bubbler?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: My gosh, memories, memories, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So, although it is a gridlock alert day, if you
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  Speaker 1: can get into town, you know mass transit, you know
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a great time.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's incredibly special. And then what like weatherwise,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be freezing.
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  Speaker 1: Much better, Yeah, freezing, but much better than yesterday with
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  Speaker 1: all that rain. So today's high is forty. By the
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  Speaker 1: time the tree gets lit, it'll be probably low thirties.
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  Speaker 1: So just bundle up and I call me a scrooge.
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  Speaker 1: But producer Christmas, like, here we go. When they do
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  Speaker 1: the countdown three two one, do you kind of hope
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't turn on just for a second and then
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  Speaker 1: and then it turns on. No, not, it goes. It
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  Speaker 1: never comes on. I always in the back of my
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  Speaker 1: line just say to myself, wouldn't it wouldn't it be
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  Speaker 1: funny if they just had like a problem for thirty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: like and there's some guy trying to plug it in.
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  Speaker 2: That's when the ball drops on, Like New Year's Eve.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have the same Maybe it's gonna like break
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  Speaker 1: and then fall too fast, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Or they don't. Sometimes it does seem a little bit off.
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  Speaker 1: Have you noticed that it's rarely actually on. Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 1: like three two, But sometimes it's already at bottom.
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  Speaker 2: I know, and the ball's like, I'm sorry, I'm here
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  Speaker 2: already midnight for me.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm sure they'll l like that tree and I'm sure,
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  Speaker 1: they practice it many many times before it actually turns off.
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  Speaker 2: They just plug it in.
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  Speaker 1: But every year and the fact of my guy, one
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  Speaker 1: guy has that job.