🎄🏔️❤️ Anniversaries, Angels & A Dawg Dynasty | What’s Up Big Rapids Ep. 49 (12-17-25)
This week on What’s Up Big Rapids, it’s a true holiday mix of music, marriage, miracles, and community care. 🎄
Chris recaps the latest conditions at Caberfae Peaks, a big weekend show with High Strung Steel, and—oops—realizes on-air that he forgot his 21st wedding anniversary. 💍😬 We celebrate big news for Hand of Giants, debate the cultural importance of Ugg boots, and talk frozen real estate markets as winter settles in. ❄️
Our featured guests are Jeffrey Auguste and Harley Rogers from Our Brother’s Keeper, who share powerful insight into homelessness in our community, how local agencies work together, and how you can help—especially during the coldest months of the year. ❤️
Add in Ferris State heading to the national championship AGAIN, Christmas services, New Year’s Eve plans, Polar Plunge prep, and what to do with the kids during holiday break—and you’ve got a heartfelt, hope-filled holiday episode.
0:00 – Intro & Welcome 👋
1:50 – Caberfae Peaks conditions + High Strung Steel at the Sawmill 🎿🎸
3:00 – Chris forgets his anniversary… 21 years married! 💍😅
4:21 – Hand of Giants lands a song in a movie?! 🎬🎶
6:45 – Ugg boots: ugly or perfection? 👢🤔
8:13 – Pat preps the house for Christmas 🏠🎄
9:35 – Chris is way behind on outdoor decorations 😬
11:30 – Is the real estate market frozen? 🏡❄️
12:12 – Christmas services this weekend — join us at Rez Life ✝️
13:35 – Musician’s Christmas Party lineup: HSS & Hand of Giants 🎶🎄
16:00 – Guests: Jeffrey Auguste & Harley Rogers from Our Brother’s Keeper ❤️
20:50 – What it takes to stay at OBK & winter dangers outdoors 🧤
23:30 – How agencies collaborate to help those in need 🤝
25:25 – OBK hosts Thanksgiving dinner at Angels of Action 🍽️
27:07 – How the public can get involved 🙌
29:05 – Trends in local homelessness 📊
31:20 – Progress toward a larger OBK facility 🏗️
33:16 – Uplifting Moment: FSU heads to the national championship AGAIN! 🏆🐾
35:29 – Parking lot work near Family Farm & Home → future carwash 🚗
36:04 – Pat celebrates a huge personal workout streak 💪
39:13 – Christmas services at Rez Life (5 options!) 🎄
40:47 – New Year’s Eve at The Peaks 🎉
45:00 – New Year’s goals: Chris wants to get healthier 🏃♂️
45:30 – BR Polar Plunge seeks sponsors (Special Olympics) 🧊
46:35 – Holiday break fun for kids: rink, library, sledding 🛷
50:00 – Jeffrey’s journey from Haiti → Indiana → Big Rapids 🇭🇹❄️
53:15 – Harley shares why Big Rapids became home 🏡
54:50 – Dom’s Fun Fact: Oranges in Christmas stockings 🍊
56:30 – Coming up: First Christmas episode + first-ever WUBR Awards 🎁🏆
57:19 – Outro & goodbyes 👋
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