Do. A week or two of relaxes and enjoying the music. All the festiities and parties. If i could get my mom out of the way. Is she hard to buy for. She is. She has a lot of things. I le the music is starting to play on the radio station. Everywhere, throughout the mall. Rudolph the red nosed reindeer. I love christmas music. Theres one specific christmas cd that we always play. Its funny, because i cant find it online anywhere. My parents found an actual cd. I dont know what to do with this. I cant play this anywhere. Drive for this holiday season. Everything is digital now. I still have a cd player in my car. I can still play a single cd in my car. I have a cd player, in vegas, its jammed with travis cloughers cd. He was on the morning blend, and i popped it in, and i jammed it, and its been jammed there for like three years. Isnt that funny . I think of you every time i want to play a cd. Thinking of new york, we started out on. I saw the rockettes. I lot of holiday shows. I saw them one year, and it was spectacular. That gets you in the mood. The ultimate holiday show. I heard you saw a show last night . I did, i went to a very cherry christmas. Its fun when all of the performers. Great name. From a lot of these performers, they do a special holiday show. Human nature, givers a reason to how was the show . I forgot how talented he is, as a straightup singer. He shows that off. It has nothing to do with characters, he stands there and sings. Any new puppets . Man, theres a trump santa actually, which, without getting its very funny. And the puppet itself is so clever. The reaction he gets. Hes got the hair oh, my gosh. Thats hilarious. Very funny. We want to hear from you about what your favorite city is to spend the holidays, vegas, new york, share your comments on facebook and twitter. It might be your hometown. Please do reach out on social media. We may read some of your comments on the air. Jeff, all this time, weve been thinking were sitting here home not getting much sleep. I think hes been playing hook can i, and hes been out doing something fun. Wow, oh, oh. Lets see where he is out having such a ball, and why he didnt invite us. Theres a chill in the air. Perfect time to go ice skating. Were here i know youre calling this the rock rink. Im going to call this red rockefeller center. I love it. It rolls off the tongue. Tell us wh at. We have our ice rink set up. We opened on november 11th, well be open through january 15th. We partner with ice rink event, they do phenomenal ice rink. We have music playing. Bring the family, a date, and make it a fun night. Y theyre closed christmas day, if you have questions, call our concierge. Running through january 15th. If youre past christmas, you can get skating in. You can come on out and have fun and enjoy the outdoors. You can rent skates here. Correct. We have a variety of packages, there is no time limit. You can enjoy the night. Its rink, you get so much going on. Rock rink is one of the programs we have. Well have santa through christmas eve. We have our nightly parade thats returning, friday and saturday nights up until the week of christmas. And its at 6 00 p. M. Every night on park center drive. Fantastic. I know this is a petfriendly environment here. I know youre having photos with santa. Could maybe the pets have a photo with santa . Absolutely. We love pets. Dogs. We do paws and claus on tuesday. His house is at macys promenade. Youre doing stuff for hanukah, too. Well do three nights of hanukah, the 27th through the 30th. Menorah lighting. While youre here downtown summerlin, a couple shops. Want holidays, you even have gift cards. We do. Downtown summerlin gift cards, all of the shops, you can come down here and get shopping done early, grab food at our fabulous dining restaurants, and enjoy the season. Theres a lot to enjoy. People want to learn more, where do they go . Downtownsummerlin. Com, or call the concierge. Thank you, shawn, im hungry, and i want to go ice skating. I cannot skate like that. Who did they have down there . Did we not video . Amazing. Do you skate . I skate all right. Im a better skier than i am an ice skater. I love the whole experience of it. Yeah. What about you . Ice skating is one of those things that i love to do so much, and im so bad at it. Im awful at it. Thats fun. Its silly. Im going to go out and tear up the other knee. Youre good at so many things, you can ride a dang unicycle. That looks like a lot of fun out there. They have a holiday parade. Legit. Not an amateur parade. It was incredible. Theyre going all out, and the santa was very handsomelooking. Hes straight out of the north im going to go down on a tuesday night and get the pet photo, with santa. Very cool. Ill send it out as my holiday card. Still to come on the morning blend, how we can help local with our 3. 50 sub of the day, theres never been a better time to try something deliciously different. Every day of the week, get a featured sixinch subway sub for just 3. 50. All with no artificial flavors. The 3. 50 sub of the day we took an already great lineup and made it better. Welcome back to the morning blend. Do you have too much stuff . Maybe its time you do something about it. Our next guest has storage and moving solutions that could work for you. Here to show us how to clean up our lives is ceo brian lindsey. Good morning. Great to see you. I was telling jeff about it before the show. You do. I described it as a portable Storage Solution on wheels thats climate controlled. Bang thats a pretty good description, jj. We are indeed portable storage and moving. By portable. We come to your house. No moreriving a sketchy storage facility. We come to you. We come to you seven days a week, 24 hours a day, weve done loading of zippy shows at 1 00 in the morning, 5 00 in the morning. Once its at your home for two or three days, when we load it, we bring it to our climate controlled storage facility. From there, we can move it anywhere in the nation, or the valley, or simply store it until you want it back. The climate important in las vegas. You nailed that. Climate controlled in our environment is absolutely critical. Yeah, its called this morning, but think about july and august when its 115 outside. Probably 130 in the containers. Inside. Thats great. You hear horror stories, people pack up things in a storage unit, and theyre ruined. Things like furniture, electronics, you never want to store that outside in our climate. Not all of the storage and moving companies do that. Were 100 inside and climate controlled. You and i spoke about my move from los angeles, youre national, youre more than just in las vegas, zippy shell. Were in albany, texas, if youre in vegas, and some reason you want to leave, who would want to do that . We will send you there. Were a national company. Frankly, do people ever use it just to get things out of storage unit. Thats a great question, jj. Often what happens, people use this for staging, theyll want to sell their home. The realtor will say weve got to declutter. Well send a zippy shell over, well load it up, that goes, that goes. Well take it out, clean up the house. It sells more quickly and a better price. A lot of people can use that. Seriously. A lot of factors. Youre a proud giver. Now its time to step back. After the holiday season, we believe that every child should have the opportunity to have a freshly wrapped new toy for hanukkah, christmas, the holidays, we are so proud to partner with you guys, with the las vegas rescue mission, the nevada Highway Patrol and transportation for the drive. We have been receiving a tremendous amount of toys. I was out at toyota monday, a tremendous amount of toys. Were going to be filling up zippy shells. Theres rudolph. A shoutout to rudolph. Were going to be filling up a lot of zippy shells. And we need a place to keep these toys. Are you storing the toys, as well . We were going to bring it to our climate controlled storage facility. Store it for you guys. When everything culminates on december 7th with the caravan rescue mission, were going to be providing the transportation. We couldnt be more proud to be part of this. Its great. Excellent. Real quick. The storage, obviously, is so important, i think something that people dont realize is the packing and loading of the services you offer. Thats a key differentiator. Packing and loading. Our main competitors, they dont offer the packing and loading. We do. Its a full Service Moving solution. Also, our storage unit is designed differently. It is a steel cage that sits inside the trailer. Why is that important . 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The foundation was set up, we realized we had an issue with right now we have 350 on the list to get to appointments, grocery stores, et cetera. Even a parttime job. Security, which is extremely limited for them. We find philanthropist donors. We in turn find the donee. Youre officially a charity that people can trust to contribute to. That is correct. And your big need is for we need vehicles, we have 350 plus people on the list. And we have never advertised for those seniors. No kidding. They have seeked us out. Its so important, its vital, not only for people to get to their medical appointments, groceries. These are the basic necessities. Its so important for seniors to get an active life. Precisely. To keep connected. Precisely correct. Realize just how important it is to have that flexibility of transportation. And now, gene, we havent heard from you much. Im here for the adventure. Well, were on, buddy. What has your experience been like . Its very enlightening. I have a very compassionate desire to help people in need. Years ago, and this actually came about in the last year, or so. I was fascinated by the fact that seniors actually were helped by other than our government. Yes. So, we put out there everything we can to try to have donations, maybe of any type of donation that we can utilize to benefit the seniors. Certainly. Because were talking about security. They might be having an income of what per month . The average statistically is a little over 1,000. Our seniors are below that, unfortunately. 733, 800, very, very limited income. So were talking about real need here. Once you take the cars, you make sure theyre drivable. Road worthy. What about things like insurance and gas . The only thing to be concerned about with the organization is that theyre able to register the vehicle, and theyre able to insure the vehicle, and we take it from there. This is brilliant. I would imagine being on today, youre not only asking people to contribute, consider donating their vehicle, which could be a tax writeoff . It is an absolutely tax writeoff. Youre in the Fourth Quarter right now, and anyone who were to donate at this point in time, off on their taxes. And youre speaking to seniors out there in need, they can reach out, as well. We highly encourage them to contact us. And i will personally i try to personally talk to each and every one over a period of time. The executive director, which is the founder of seniors in need of Transportation Foundation is carol hall. And she, unfortunately, had an automobile accident, and she cant be with us. Oh, my goodness. Well, thank you, doc and gene. Im going to finish off holding up a photo of a senior who received a car. That is correct. This is a beautiful thing. This is karen obrien. And the donor, or philanthropist is mr. Goreham, a fine gentleman. He was moving, and we went to california to pick up the vehicle. Youre doing great things. Number, or visit the web site on your screen. And thank you. Thank you, jj. Husbands, fathers, grandsons, inlaws, friends, start your victory lap now. Emmy Award Winning technology, Mario Armstrong put together a list of the best Holiday Gifts for us men. Good morning, mario, whats going on. Good morning, jeff, how are you, to you and all the family in vegas. Ive partnered up with awesome brands, dude, and we have amazing gift ideas for the guys. Im going to start first with something youll appreciate, too, being in the business of media. Its very hard these days to get really good quality audio recorded from the mobile device. This handles all of that and then some. Microphone. High quality audio on the go, their free app gives you a ton of features. Its easy to share any audio that you record. Perfect for the guys who want to capture concerts, maybe their own band, maybe a podcast, sporting event, or maybe good life moments and get great quality broadcast level stereo quality. Ive been testing the mic. Its insane how clear the audio you can get from this and how powerful it is. Next up would be wearables. Big for guys. Im wearing the awesomest that will hit the stores. Samsung gear s3. This smart watch looks incredible, is incredible. Super smart. Two different models. The frontier is a rugged model also connected with lte, always on, you can send and receive calls, get text messages, alerts, your calendar, a lot is great. Military grade durability. You dont have to worry about weather or drops. And you can personalize the watch band and faces with thousands of choices. And its compatible with a lot of android smartphones. If you have one of these watches, and have you it on. Its easy to shop, because you can use samsung pay by using your wrist to tap and pay and go. And builtin gps. They thought of everything. So what still popular . Yeah, man. Big, jeff. This is really fun for even the young dude in the family, from ages 8 and up. From kids to adults. Theyve love this. Theres an advanced mode and beginners. The air hogs helix race drone. It has a crash resistant frame. You dont have to worry about it breaking, or blowing up anything in the house. I got one of these for my brother. He was niece and nephew, they fly it around and love it. It becomes addictive. Ive seen people create courses and obstacles and games that you can play with them. I think its a lot of people think drones are a singer multiplayer fun with a drone. Next up, a cool and unique gift. Great for pop culture fans that love comic books and games. Think of avengers, deadpool, walking dead. If you have a guy or kid in the family that loves that, this is a Monthly Subscription where you get a box of goodies every month with a new theme. They are one of a kind popular brands. The product is actually called core crate. Once a month, this box comes through that persons home with a whole new theme and whole new set of collectible items. The value is usually 45. You pay 25 a month to have that sent out. The last two items, one is for the mechanic in the family. Home depot has you covered with the husky uve tool set. 60piece. The longhand handle repurchases, hard to reach places guys are going to love this, whether youre fixing a lawn mower or your car. This is a great game for clues, this is escape room, the game, by spin master. The thrill and challenge of the real escape. The web site has got all the deals. You heard it there from mario. Just for men, back i want that tool set. Before we head to break, a quick reminder to get your nomination letters in for walker furnitures home for the holidays program. As in past years, the search will provide 30 recipients with an entire house of new furniture and make their holidays brighter. Nomination letters must be received by sunday, december 4. Send to larry at walker welcome back to the the morning blend. Two of the main men of t awesome event are here in the studio. Welcome Neil Sackmary, this toy drive is in full force. Tremendous. What has been going on this week . Well, so, the thing is, it started when we had our partner meeting the other day with zippy shell. And we decided don was giving us going to be doing. And we already filled up the car that they took back, and i already have two. That are full. Its tremendous, everybody is coming into the store and dropping off. You know, not everybody can afford a lot of money. But everybody can afford a 10 and bring one gift. Jeffrey, Neil Sackmary had more toys before the toy drive even really surprised. Constantly raising the bar, giving back in the community. Now take a photo in the store with my fullsized cutout next to all of the toys. Its the greatest thing ever. Jj john hit on something you and i spoke about. Not everybody has a lot of extra cash hanging around. Some people do. But were talking about how what price point of gift . What are we talking about here . If you have to do less, thats okay, too. But, really, we do that so that people can feel like they can do a lot more, not just help one child, but for 100 youre helping five children at that range, five, or six, or even ten. Talk about the mission. I thought i was here to be neils sidekick. Hes been off to a great start. Jj thats the way we all feel. Actually, before i talk about this, jj, if i can say weve been together a few times for the 13 days of giving. And every time, youre having a blast. And its been fun. And i appreciate you bringing that fun into that. Because the need is serious, and the people that were serving represent that serious need. Giving and sharing and helping children should be fun for all of us to be able to do that. Its fun for the rescue mission to have that privilege and responsibility to serve those in need. Thanks for bringing the fun t