🎄🏆🎂 Championships, Christmas Pland & Birthday Candles | What’s Up Big Rapids Ep. 50 (12-24-25)

It’s Christmas Eve on What’s Up Big Rapids, and the vibes are exactly what you’d hope for. 🎄❤️

We kick things off by celebrating the 2025 D-II National Champion Ferris State Bulldogs 🏆, then shift into full holiday mode with gifts, gratitude, and a little birthday chaos — because yes, it’s Pat’s birthday, and being a Christmas baby is… complicated. 🎂🎄

Chris recaps powerful Christmas services at Rez Life, a very late night at the Musician’s Christmas Party that raised money for local veterans, and the guys reflect on holiday traditions, movies that still (or don’t) hold up, and what it means to close out the first full year of WUBR.

Add in Lions frustration 🦁, fake Olive Garden rumors 🍝, New Year’s Eve plans 🎉, icy roads ❄️, and a preview of the first-ever WUBR Awards, and you’ve got a cozy, end-of-year episode made for Christmas week listening.

0:00 – Intro & congrats to the 2025 D-II National Champion Bulldogs 🏆
1:25 – Merry Christmas! Chris gifts plaques for a year of WUBR 🎄
3:00 – It’s Pat’s birthday! The struggle of being a Christmas baby 🎂😅
5:58 – Christmas services at Rez Life were incredible ✝️
7:50 – Musician’s Christmas Party recap (fundraiser for VFW & Amvets) 🎶🎖️
10:06 – Lions continue to disappoint Pat 🦁💔
12:32 – Boxing talk: Jake Paul loss 🥊
16:08 – Photoshopped Olive Garden rumor fooled way too many people 🍝😂
19:40 – New Year’s Eve party at The Peaks 🎉
21:28 – Chris plans a snowboarding trip with family 🏂
22:20 – Does Ernest Saves Christmas still hold up? 🎬🎅
24:20 – Holiday movie watchlists 📺
25:30 – Family traditions: Chinese food & the movies 🍜🎥
26:57 – Roller rink & library events over Christmas break 🛼📚
27:50 – Pat’s birthday wish: a White Christmas ❄️
29:22 – Icy road conditions — be careful out there 🚗
30:00 – New Year’s goals: Chris plans to work out daily 💪
36:12 – Tease: First-ever WUBR Awards next week 🏆
36:56 – Merry Christmas & thank-yous from the crew ❤️
37:50 – Outro & goodbye 👋

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