The Show with Jen and Truta

From today's #TheShowKC: Truta feels like The Fugitive because he's been driving around with expired tags. KU's win over K-State didn't come without controversy...it's like the Hawks walked into this one (duh duh, ching!). Making new year's babies. More on Mariah Carey's NYE meltdown. Evan and Randy are the makers of a new app called Ziyak which will give you a list of events, happenings and specials from all over Kansas City and 200 other cities! Download it starting January 14th from the app store and Google Play. Did you see the video of the toddler who was saved by his brother after a dresser fell on top of him? Naturally, Truta has been injured by furniture. We play the first edition of Gen-X vs Millennial for 2017...and Shaylee still doesn't know stuff! Does your fiancee's credit report affect whether you'll marry them? What were you grounded for? We love the Congressman's kid who was grounded for dabbing during dad's swearing in ceremony. We remember the UMB Bank Time and Temperature line (844-any four numbers) and the party line it became after the recording. Jen's dad called in after she revealed stuff she did that would have gotten her grounded. More KU-K-State jokes. All in a day's Show!

Welcome to a new year of #TheShowKC! The gang was ready to fire after a nice, long vacation from the air. The #Chiefs are going to the Playoffs! Not only that, but we get a first round bye and get to play at Arrowhead! Happy New Year to all. The Show discussed Mariah Carey's meltdown during the New Year's Rockin' Eve show. Carey's camp maintains her monitors did not work, which did not allow her to hear the songs playing and thus did not allow her to perform. The producers said it was Carey's lack of preparation which led to the lackluster performance. Either way, Truta found out there was an alternate New Year's universe where Pitbull, Coolio, Snoop Dogg and Biz Markie shared a stage. Whaa??? We check in with listener Kimberly who was about ready to pop out a baby before The Show's live Christmas party. She finally had little Molly Noel this past week. Mom and baby are doing great! Our friend Andrew Carter from @KCTV5 stopped by to talk about his big holiday news: he got engaged! As with any complex plan, there was the requisite amount of improv to go along with it. Plus, Andrew stayed on to talk about the Chiefs playoff chances as well as a little college basketball. Sticking with the Chiefs topic, there's a guy who bought Super Bowl tickets back before the season began, not knowing if the Chiefs would even get close. John Michaels chatted us up about why he bought seats so early and his plans for Houston. More Mariah Carey talk and we school Shaylee on exactly who is Biz Markie. Truta's lady is mad that Channel 9 and DirecTV is fighting and is ready to change TV providers. This led Truta to miss The Bachelor (not that he's sad about that). Just another day on The Show! Welcome to 2017.

This was THE event of the season...#TheShowKC LIVE Christmas Spectacular, straight from our performance space. With special musical guests, The Snow Globes (@thesnowglobesmusic), performing a wide range of Christmas songs both classic and original. Also featuring celebrity guests and friends of The Show like: actress from The Real O'Neals, Bebe Wood; former Royals pitcher Jaime Bluma; fitness trainer and Catching Kelce contestant Lauren Schwab; high profile celebrity bodyguard Anthony Burnside, Buddy The Elf Impersonator David Babcock (BuddyTheElfImpersonator.com); Olympic shooter Lydia Patterson; KMBC Channel 9 meteorologist Bryan Busby; and a bunch of our listener friends who won their way into the party. There is live music, games, fun interviews and more...enjoy our Christmas present to you. Happy Holidays from The Show!

What a #TheShowKC today! Our morning had to begin with the sad news that TV star, actor, writer, singer, composer Alan Thicke had passed away the previous night. The gang had good memories of the show Growing Pains and Truta even got to interview Thicke one time in Hollywood. Jen and Truta got to see Rogue One on Monday and had some spoiler-free thoughts about it. Then the subject turned to tipping. There is a Facebook post going around that comes from a man who says you will receive the best service ever if you just put 5 dollar bills on the table before you eat, signalling the tip. Then, if anything goes wrong with the wait staff, you deduct a dollar for each mistake, with the money left on table acting as the final tip. We asked you, what do you think of that as a tipping practice? Then, the Holiday Tipping Guide came out and we ran down the people to whom you should be giving a "Christmas bonus." Listen and find out how much your hairdresser is going to make this holiday! We get in a game of Getting To Know You where we talk tattoos. Of course Shaylee had a celebrity design hers. Yesterday Shaylee told us that the security guard at our building offered her "Molly" (aka - drugs). Today we found out it was a big miscommunication and a total "Who's On First" situation. We end on a great game of Gen-X vs Millennial with Vicki.

It was all the feels on today's #TheShowKC. Coming off of a long weekend after the big Chiefs win, we catch up with the gang getting ready for The Show Christmas party, anticipating the new Star Wars movie, Rogue One, and kicking themselves for thinking young teens would care to hear the Beatles...along with arguing over who was better: Amy Winehouse or Jimi Hendrix. Then, Jen mentions the letter and package The Show received on Friday. A woman knew we had been looking for a Hatchimal and sent one along with a note to give it to a friend. Jen, Truta and Shaylee decided to give it to one our hundreds of thousands of friends. After a few calls from deserving people, the phone lines and social media (and tear ducts) opened up...and, well, you'll just have to hear today's #SHOWcast. #Hatchimal

In today's #KCCloseup: Della Lamb needs help with NEW, unwrapped toys and monetary donations. We go behind the scenes to find out more about Della Lamb with Judy Akers, Community Services Director. Also, you've been hearing The Snow Globes music on KC102.1, find out more about the band - including the way you are giving back just by buying their music this holiday season. Finally, our Penny Pinchin' Mom gives us the scoop on a day we didn't even know existed: Green Monday. Get big deals tomorrow! @pennypinchinmom

#TheShowKC is back! Welcome to all of our new Christmas listeners! In today's #SHOWcast: If you could choose a TV show to live "in" - which would it be? Would you put yourself into the Brady family of the Brady bunch? Maybe become one of the Friends? We got some great answers today! Gen-X vs Millennial reached a milestone today as Shaylee actually answered a question CORRECTLY! The Royals are trading away all of their players while the Chiefs are on a hot streak and ready to take on the Raiders. Kimberly wins her way into The Show Christmas party...and may possibly deliver a baby there! It's all from today's Show....

In today's edition, we talk to Larry Bigus, Executive Director of the Johnson County Christmas Bureau. While this organization has been around for decades, this may be the first you hear of it. The Christmas Bureau is in the middle of their busy time because, as the name implies, they make the season a better one for the less fortunate in a locale where people poverty couldn't exist. In the second half of the show, filmmaker Rob Lehr talks about his documentary, Thunderdome, screening today at Screenland Armour as part of the Arts and Crafts Festival. Lehr was involved in a plane crash that caused him to suffer from PTSD. He turned to painting and then nerf gun fights to deal with his depression and pain. In his backyard he built the Thunderdome - a nerf fighting arena with obstacles, sniper towers and more. Learn about the man behind the movie in today's KC Closeup.

So it was happenstance that #TheShowKC came upon a band from Kansas City who loved Christmas music as much as they did. That band is The Snow Globes. Rick, Lindsey, and Barclay. This year The Snow Globes are releasing their 4th studio album and will have shows upcoming at Christ Church and the Living Room Theater. Today the group stopped by the studio to play a few songs and talk about the charity aspect behind their music, perfect for this #GivingTuesday

A couple of weeks ago #TheShowKC talked to Grain Valley director of bands, Reid Atkinson, along with a few students about their upcoming trip to New York City to perform on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Well, the trip was a huge success. In addition to wowing the parade-goers, the Marching Eagles were asked to revive a Today Show tradition of having a band march through the set during the live morning program. Today we followed up with Reid about the trip and to get the scoop on everything that happened in the Big Apple.