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Just after 603, outside the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the home of Jefferson, Madison, and Henry. I am Scott Lee filling in for Rich Herrera on Richmond's Morning News. Thanks for waking up with us this morning. Man, the big sad news this morning I woke up to. By the way, I feel like I've been hit by a truck. I don't know what's wrong with me this morning. It must be the back-to-back, you know, yesterday and today. I'm not used to getting up and driving from the metropolis of Midlothian to over here in the Henrico County area, which, by the way, I'm a huge fan of Henrico County. Yeah. All right, we are up and right. By the way, this text line is great to. 833, 804, 1140. Good morning. I read first thing this morning about the RVA Santa. Did you hear the RVA Santa passing? Yeah. I mean, that's a tough time to pass. I mean, here we are at the edge of the Christmas season, and Central Virginia's beloved RVA Santa has passed away. quote his in his Facebook page it reads his legacy will live on countless families he's touched and cherished memories he created and of course the joy brought to every holiday season r v a santa if you don't know was kind of like the holiday mainstay of the uh green top location in ashland so everyone kind of knew who this guy was and now i i know the rules because i saw home alone the movie home alone when he When a little kid went up to Santa and goes, hey, I need you to help me out. And he goes, I know how it works. You're not the real Santa. You help Santa. You can communicate with Santa. So obviously, this RVA Santa was not the real Santa for those listening, those kids who woke up early this morning. The real Santa is perfectly fine. He was the conduit here in Richmond here in Richmond, here in Richmond, he's passed.

is going to take over and continue the tradition of the next generation of the RVA Santa so we don't lose our conduit into the real Santa. Now, is this the Santa that does the end of the parade? Remember how the Christmas parade? What an insanely good question? I don't know the answer to that. I know that he was the staple at the Green Top one, and Green Top actually has a statement that said they're deeply saddened by the loss and thanked Arvue Santa for the magic and memories. They went on to say he brought so much joy not only to the kids who lit up the site for him, but to our entire Green Top staff. So it sounds like he was the RVA Santa at Green Top, which was critical. But again, this is, of course, it's horrible news. You hate to hear this. This guy was certainly dedicated to the cause and did a great job for Central Virginia. We know that his grandson's going to take over and remain that conduit into the real Santa. I mean, obviously, the real Santa is, this is Christmas coming up. Right, yeah. Yeah, we lost the RVA Santa here in Richmond, which is quite sad. Growing up as a kid, I remember there was also a Sergeant Santa that was around here. Yeah, what was that wrong? Why does that ring a bell so much? Well, I think you used to be, I think you used to work with the Salvation Army around here, but, but he walked around kind of in like fatigues. But that was the thing growing up. I remember like in the 80s, in the 90s, Sergeant Santa. Yeah, good. Yeah, good. I love the whole. I think if you're, if you are. like the perfect Santa Claus. Like you got the weight thing, you got the white beard. You got, it's actually quite magical. You know, if you could pull that off really and truly, that's amazing. You know, it's the fake Santa's that really bother. I mean, the fake fake Santas. I mean, they're all kind of fake because the real one we don't see. But the real ones that are real logistic and like magical looking, those are pretty cool. Those are like you walk in and go, wow, that's, that's amazing. That's like, that was cosplay before cosplay was a thing. I mean, seriously, like, hey. Exactly. So we lost the RV Santa this morning. That was the first thing I saw and I was devastated by that. All right, Pac Show coming ahead, coming up. We are going to get into, what's the reaction to Jay Jones? I've heard some things that people, that some police officers are leaving the state. they're like, I'm not going to stick around for this. And, you know, you're like, why? I don't get it. What was wrong with Jay Jones? Anyway, so they are, they're considering bolting. We have the Loudoun, Cowden and Sheriff, it said some things. So I want to get, we're going to get into that a bit. But then that's what interesting to happen in Montana, a person who's running for public office calls the senator of Montana. and tells them they hope they die and get cancer, they'll probably win too. Anyway, we'll talk about that coming up in this program. I want to get to that for sure. By the way, Target smiles. It's called Their 10-4. I'm going to share that with you at the bottom of this hour. Actually, we have a pretty cool little clip from the past for you on that. It's actually something the Lee brothers did about Target in 2012.

And actually we're going to talk about that at the 735 hour about what target means. Could you imagine being told if you're in a work environment? You need to start smiling. I mean, there might be a problem inherently that they didn't. We'll get into that at 635. State spending, up or down, you think, over the last three or four years. Definitely up. Right? I got each year's calculation. I'm going to share that with you. And then I'm going to go into the new bills that Democrats have already pre-filed. I've got them in my hand. I want to go over those in great detail and tell you why you should be holding on to your pocketbook and purse and wallet. And then why we might be a little bit concerned. Chick-fil-A has a new sandwich. They're testing it in a couple locations. Instead of a bun, it's a waffle. Did you hear this? Well, you're not in your head like you know what's going on here. I just found this out. Actually, I saw a picture of it. The picture is more appealing than me saying waffle chicken. I would never order that thing. Never. Maybe get into that. Hold on. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. So every time they post a picture of food, it always looks better than when you actually get it. It sure does. I mean, they dress it up with paint and, you know, whatever, acrylic, however they do it. It's all marketing. It's all slick. The lettuce is always soggy, no matter where you go. And the commercial, it's all crunchy. It's lettuce on there. I don't get lettuce. Not anymore. Yeah. I mean, it's all marketing, it's all show. It's the reason we're dressed up this morning, and no one can see us. By the way, I love that tie. It's phenomenal. I'm very impressed that you put a tie on this morning. I have a tie on every day. That's impressive. It's impressive. Hey, listen, we celebrate 100 years. At least the least thing I can do is. That's true. A hundred years thing I can do. A hundred year's signal. Man, now I really feel bad. I have a button-down shirt, but no tie. You can do it tomorrow. That's true. I've got the rest of the week. I'm here the rest of the week. I can wear a tie the rest of the week. Bang. And honor of WRAVA, the voice of Virginia for a century. One more thing. What do you think it costs in the Commonwealth of Virginia to raise a child under five? Just give me a, I mean, I raise four, but I can do the math on this. And by the way, this number is extremely low. But just recent, according to smart asset, new data. It says the cost to raise a family or a child in the Commonwealth of Virginia is under five is $28,300 annually. Well, I think I saw the stats about a month or so ago. I think just to be a single in Virginia, it's like 120 or something, 109 to 120. And then to be a single person? Yeah, for like, you know, for cost of living. And then for a family of four, it was like 250.

Plus, I think, a year. There's no way that one person is $120,000 or $109,000. There's no way. For a cost to live it out of us. It was, like I said, it was interesting. But, you know, seeing, of course, the family of the family of four, $250,000 a year. Like, I mean, it's just, but then again, you're just saying just from $1 to $5,000. $28,000 a year. You get a couple of those. Bam, bam. So this represents a 3.8% increase from last year, according to this data. Then there's this quote in here. from Wendy Malfour Malfi, a mother of three. She says, well, I think it's scary. I think they're, I think they are holding off of having kids right now because the price of housing, price of rent, everything is more expensive than it was when I was 26 and thinking about starting a family. Okay. So what she's saying is there's people holding off because it's expensive to have a kid. Now, If everyone did that, there would be no kids. Okay? I mean, that is not the way to think about children, in my opinion, radically. I mean, oh, I can't have kids right now. I'm... Got a six-pack in my hand every weekend. I mean, there's other things you can think about that think. In other words, you can rationalize anything. The greatest thing that happens to people, and it's the truth when they're married is they have kids and they weren't even expecting it. And then they have all sudden one or two kids. It's the blessings of their lives. It changes everything. It changes the way you think, the direction you're going. And it is good for society. It is the actual foundation of civilization. We argue a lot in politics about... Oh, we need a bill for this and our country's failing and we're lost our moral direction. Well, it all starts with kids and families and marriages. This is the foundation of our culture and society. When you have people who graduate from high school, get married, get a job, and have kids, that order, you are successful in the United States of America. And that builds this underpinning for our country that we need. We have people now who aren't having kids. And it's hurting our country. It's hurting our country because we're losing that foundation. And when I was a kid, we sat at the kitchen table and had dinner every night. Nobody went out for dinner. I couldn't even get up from the table unless my dad finished. And he said, don't get up until you ask to be excused and thank your mother for the dinner. Who's doing that today? 614. Richmond's Morning News. I'm Scott Lee, filling in Rich Herrera, News Radio, WRBA. Scott Lee, and for Rich Herrera on Richmond's Morning News, how will Abigail Spanberger govern different than Yon because she's a woman? Forget policy. We are told that we elected a woman, and that means she'll govern different than a man. Virginia's become the 33rd state to elect a female governor. So this isn't like new. But we're told this is like a big deal because remember identity politics is everything, right? A woman will give us something different than a man. What is that? What bill? What policy? Give me a bill or policy that Abigail Spanberger will introduce because she's a woman.

that a man couldn't introduce. I'm just, I don't know what that is. I'm willing to learn. Here's something else that happened in Virginia. The women representation in the Virginia house went up to 42. Now, the house only has 100 people in it. 42 of them are female. They used to be only, it used to be 34 female. All right. So we got a lot of emotion. I'm a huge fan of women, by the way. Don't get me wrong. We got a lot of emotion now in the house and those areas. So women are dominating politics everywhere, right? Except Michelle Obama's upset. She doesn't think we're ready for any women. Do you think that that impacts the room that we've made for a woman to be president? Well, as we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain't ready. We ain't. That's why I'm like, don't even look at me about running because you all are lying. You're not ready for a woman. You are not. So don't waste my time. You know, we got a lot of growing up to do. And there's still, I'm sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman and we saw it. When? Virginia. What was the question? All right, enough of that. That's ridiculous. That is the most absurd thing. As if we're supposed to vote because she's in heels. We're supposed to vote. I guess in today's culture, it could be a guy in heels. It doesn't matter. But we're supposed to just vote because it's a woman? As if nothing else matters blindly, just vote for a woman. Hey, listen, they check a box and so should you. Good point. Just check the box guy. Just check it. This is so disgusting this kind of identity politics. Meanwhile, I just shared with you. We picked a female governor here. Is Virginia not ready? Is that at Michelle Obama? Come lecture us and tell us we're not ready for a woman. Whatever. You know what matters? I still think matters. I still think it matters. American people are not voting on gender. Now, it could be women are. I actually have that stat I might share with you next. It's Scott Lee and for Rich Herrera on Richmond's Morning News, News Radio, WRVA. Good morning, just after the bottom of the hour. We are live outside the Capitol of this great Commonwealth on a 50,000-watt News Radio, WRVA, the voice of Virginia, where I'm sure Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Patrick Henry would be listening. And approving, by the way, which matters greatly. They'd probably write to get together with Hamilton, John Jay, and Madison, and write a Federalist paper about the 100 years of News Radio, WRBA. It wouldn't be 85. It'd probably be more like eight. Eight essays, not 85, like the Federalist paper. But it would be quite the entertainment to listen to all the things that Richmond has heard for 100 years. here on News Radio WRVA. And actually what's interesting about it is when I think about that and how the Lee brothers ended up getting here and just being a part of it, in my mind, I've got a story, and someday I'm going to tell this on the air about how we ended up on this station. It's hilarious. And I've told this to people, and they said there's no way of how it happened. And I'm dead serious. It's exactly how it happened. And not only did we get...

I want to tell it so bad. The program director at that time in 20, whatever it was, brought us into the office to talk to us about doing the show and spent the first 10 minutes destroying us. I remember thinking, what am I doing here? It was unbelievable. We're so fortunate to be part of WRVA. So thank you so much for letting me, Scott Lee, fit in, sit in for Rich Herrera here on Richmond's Morning News. I noticed Target, and by the way, I don't, I don't go to Target. I don't. I used to years, years ago, when they first put the new Target down there at 288 and Hull Street, I went to that target because it's brand new, right? It just built a thing, and I went in there. I was like, that's pretty nice. I'm not a Target fan, essentially. But I haven't been there. I haven't been in the Target, I can't tell you how long. I just... Just don't go in there. It doesn't appeal to me. It's actually a very leftist kind of organization anyway. You know, they're whacked. As, you know, that's not a reason not to shop there because I'm not a big boycott or person because quite frankly, everything I buy, I could find a reason to boycott for some reason, right? I'd end up starving in the street buying nothing. So you can't do that. But Target has a new policy. It's called their 10-4 policy. So it requires employees here within 10 feet of customer. Okay. Smile, make eye contact, wave, and use friendly, approachable, and welcoming body language, unquote. Okay. Now. Some of that stuff, to me, if you're working in the retail environment, this is natural part of working in that environment. It's almost like these things that don't need to be said. I'm hiring you to engage the public. Guess what's required when you engage the public? Right? It's like if I have to tell you to do certain things, you really shouldn't even be working here. If I have to tell you to smile, To smile at someone who's 10 feet away from you. Then you shouldn't even be here. If you can't enjoy your job and smile, don't be in that job. Do you know Chick-fil-A, which...

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Lee Brothers on 1140 WRBA. Make sure you check us out at W.R.com keyword Lee Brothers. There's a video there about immigration. I think you'll find out why the debate is getting tougher. Okay. Women are upset when they're complimented on their looks. Some are. They're upset when they're not. And they're upset when they shop at Target. So much so that Target apologized. Some Target shoppers saw a label that listed the color of a plus-sized dress as manatee gray. while the label on the same dress in a smaller size describe it as dark heather gray what what woman takes time out of her day to look at the plus-sized dress and says manatee gray and says, I'm offended. It didn't say mastodon gray. It didn't say bull elephant gray. It didn't say rhino gray. It didn't say whale shark gray. It didn't say beast whale gray. It didn't say you're fat if you buy this dress gray. Manatees aren't manatees gray? And some are thin. Yeah, and some are small. Just because they have no shape to them. It doesn't mean if you buy this dress and put it on, you're going to look like a beast manate. It doesn't look like that. It doesn't mean that. People are offended by this. And Target feels like they need to respond and apologize? That's as crazy as a complaint. It's just hilarious. That a corporation, if I was Target, I would bust out laughing. You know, if I was Target, I'd say, seriously? Seriously, this is what you're upset over? I mean, Rome burns. The country's falling apart. You've got a president telling an AG she's pretty, and you're worried about a dress. You've got people faking hate crime, and you're worried about a dress. Exactly. This is a hate crime. Unbelievable. So Target apologized for the label. A spokeswoman called the labeling of the brand Women's Plus Size Max Dress on unintentional oversight. Are women really, would you really be offended by this? This woman says to Target, manatee gray is actually a seasonal color that is used across product categories at Target.com from apparel items to home items. It's not the size. It's not even about. It's the color. It's exactly. It's not even about the animal. Would you buy a dress called beached whale blue? Think about that for a second. Well, here's the idea, and this is going to be quite offensive, but. If you're buying this, it got bad after that. We got carried away. By the way, that was the Lee brothers talking about Target in 2012. 2012 I mean when I was looking at that I was like that's insane and by the way I miss Richard his voice just makes me almost cry because he passed away and that's why the Lee brothers were kind of uphold that 21 year tradition here you can check us out at the Leebrothers.com there's a bio there about Richard and kind of telling you about how the Lee brothers came to be all at the Leebrothers.com but I thought that I thought that segment was interestingly timing timely perfect

For what we're talking about with Target and their new 10-4 policy. 13 years ago. Isn't that crazy? Target's still clowning itself. Did you see the picture of us on the thing there? Because it's a YouTube clip, right, with a picture of Richard and I standing there? Yeah. Yeah. I haven't aged a bit, have my little gray hair. You don't look a day past 21. You're still, you still get carded if you didn't have the stubble. I've got the, I'm a grandfather now. So that certainly wasn't the case then, by the way, obviously. But I'm a one-year-old little great girl. Anyway, I thought that was interesting. A lot of fun. Thank you, WRVA, for letting me. play that clip and a lot of fun here on Richmond's Morning News. I'm Scott Lee filling in for Rich Herrera. News Radio, WRVA. We're a creative group here. That's awesome. Scott Lee and for Rich Herrera. This is Richmond's Morning News. Glad you are with us. Manatee Gray, right? Manatee, I got it. I mean, and... You got, oh, so you, you bought one? No, I didn't. Oh, oh, oh. I got your take there on the song that matches that what the Lee brothers did in 2012 talking about the Manatee clothing from Target. By the way, I'm going to post that at the Leebrothers.com, just so people can go back and listen at some point and what happened in 2012 on WRBA and the Lee brothers were doing that skit. I just can't believe how it fit with the target conversation we were having like real time and then that was perfect. I'm grateful for WRVA for that. Chick-fil-A, I'm grateful for too. I'm a huge fan of them. I go there as much as I can, which is probably too much, but I love their Chick-Fillet sandwich. But you're already throwing shade on this waffle sandwich. Yeah, I'm not a fan of this thing. It's called Chicken and Waffles Breakfast Sandwich, I'm assuming it would only be served during the breakfast time frame. It's just a guess. And it's going to be in Baltimore. stores and San Antonio stores only from December 1st to January 24th as they test it. Actually, wait a minute. I think that they actually have two different ones. They have like a sandwich one and then a breakfast one. So the waffle sizes is like two different sizes. At least that's what I remember seeing one. That's interesting. Yeah. I will never order it. I will never order it. I'm not a waffle fan. I don't like waffles. Never had waffles. You're a pancake guy? Not a pancake guy either. I don't eat one of those. French toast. There you just keep going. None of those. None of those at all. I think it's interesting about the food industry as how they're always trying to up each other with some new invention, right? They're always got, and by the way, Taco Bell is excellent at this. I'm a huge taco. I love Taco Bell. I'll go in there and grab a quick burrito or something, but they always have something new. That's so good. Like they're grilled cheese burrito. I'm going to tell you right now. You need to try the grilled cheese. It's awesome. Makes me hungry thinking about it. Grilled cheese. Wait. It's the burrito and they grill it with cheese on it. They actually grill it. And it's like melting on it hop. Oh, it's so good. And that was a new invention for them not so long ago. Now, KFC has their own new invention. KFC has a pop-up store in New York City that sells chicken, obviously. It's called Sundays. Now, why do you think they call it Sundays?

Because Chick-fil-A is closed on Sunday. So it's like a punch in the face. They're like going at each other like crazy. And so they're come up with a Chick-fil-A attack by calling it Sundays. And because Chick-fil-A is closed on Sunday. Which, by the way, I am also a huge fan of that. I think that's awesome. Now, it is frustrating when you're traveling on Sunday and go, I want Chick-Flei sandwich. You always want Chick-fil-A on Sunday. That's a thing. That's right. But have they missed a beat because of that? No. Do they actually get a kudos for it? I think they do. I think their employees love it. I think most people are like, it doesn't bother me. I'll just go on Monday or Saturday. Obviously, they could do more business if they were open on Sunday. KFC's like, yeah, we're sticking it to them. And they're like, yeah, well, we have the day off. Yeah, exactly. That really sucks. Why don't you just go to work on Christmas Day, too? I mean, it's just the way, I guess, how competitive the chicken sandwich market is. Big chicken. Yeah. Big chicken. Big chicken. You know how they are. Right. You got to watch out for big chicken. Watch out for big chicken. Hey, coming up, I want to talk about is state spending up or down? And what bills have the Democrats already submitted that will impact you? I'll share that with you next. This is Richmond's Morning News. I'm Scott Lee in for Rich Herrera. News Radio, WRBA.

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