November 26, 2024 • 18 mins
Brady and Dan share their stories about Turkey Day growing up as millennials. Also, what Thanksgiving themed TV and movies were the best? And the ultimate 'one has to go' question: which item from the dinner table needs to leave? Enjoy friends!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Number six goble, this is get me eighties that one
more time. I'll look back on all things nineties and
two thousands, the movies.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Can you can you feel like Captain come Post? The music,
the black guys, the awkwardness. I did not have sexual
relations with that woman. Heyda.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Here's your host, Brady pro.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
That is me, the radio guy for nearly two decades,
music director currently APD here in Chicago on kiss Them
all around the Country on the iHeartRadio app and all
around just pop music, pop culture nerd Nerd joining me.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Speaking of nerds, yep, guilty, I would love though. Of course,
of course, how did you get older? That becomes a
term of endearment.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It is It is Dana Conda aka the Kickball King
Dan Gin.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
How are you today? I'm good? You know.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I like that our improvisation on this podcast. I think
we need to think for like two seconds before we
shout out random things when we're gonna start the episode.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
No, you just say just say whatever is whatever comes
to you. You make a natural Dan, Yeah, we do
really keep it real.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
All right, there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So you know this podcast really it bridges the millennials,
the gen xers, the gen zers through nostalgia, reminding us
how really completely absurd the nineties and two thousands were,
and we were going, speaking of absurd, we were going
to do our two thousands early two thousands fashion episode.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
But hold the brakes, curveball coming at you. What's happening.
That's gonna have to wait. No, yes, I know you're
devastating as a fashionable person my whole life New York
Fashion Week, don't you.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, No, we're gonna have to punt that one because
it's Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's Thanksgiving eed eve. As we're recording this.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Hey, so I thought we would do a Thanksgiving episode
the night before, like the big party day of the year. Correct,
some consider that. Some call it black Wednesday because people
get blackout drunk.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yes, no, it's blackout Wednesday, the Thanksgiving day, then Black Friday.
Not encouraging that it's been good fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah please, yeah, please drink, please drink responsibly. So we
are here in Thanksgiving season. I wanted to chattel about
all the things like growing up in the nineties in
two thousands of football, the food, the friends, all the
all the f's, all the important things of the family.
Forgot about family A lot of fun, fun, a lot
of fun f's involved in Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Let's start here.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Where do you rank Thanksgiving in the holidays? Like, if
you were to do like a like a top three,
top five, where would you Where would it fall for you?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I might honestly put it number one? Shut up? Number one.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I means I'm culturally Jewish, so Passover for me is
up there. Okay, I know that's not really into most
of our audience, but I mean Thanksgiving. You can't beat
the food. You get a four day weekend in most
jobs consistently every year. There is no other halway, you know,
(03:12):
Christmas sometimes when it's Christmas Eve and day on a Monday,
Tuesday or Thursday Friday. But sometimes like this year, it's
a Wednesday in the middle of.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
The week, the worst. Yeah, Like it gives you a
guaranteed four day weekend in.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
A lot of jobs every year. And you've got football,
you got family. Yeah, there are a lot of f's,
so many What about you? So well, I was gonna
ask you to.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Write what would you rank ahead of Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Here's here's my time. I'll give you my top three.
Halloween in the three I always have a blast Thanksgivings
in my number two okay, number one. Christmas Eve, okay,
not Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Christmas Day is kind of an afterthought with me in
my family over the last couple of decades. Christmas Eve
is where it's at for me. I'm sure we'll talk
about that next month, because that's where the big party
is with the family. By Christmas Day, you're just you're
kind of tired, and you're just like, I just want
to I just want to sleep all day. And you know,
as an adult, you don't get presents, so it's not
this very anti climactic As a man of Jewish faith, Yes,
(04:15):
is Christmas is.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
The holiday of Christmas? In your top five? To you?
It would be there.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I mean I have I would put Christmas Eve up
there too. I used to always go to this event
in Chicago called the Matsabash on Christmas Eve. It would
always be at a club like it used to be
at Studio Paris back in the day. It's been at
a lot of big clubs. It wasn't just Jewish people
by any means. You had people of all different faiths,
including a lot of Christian people who just wanted to
(04:40):
party on Christmas Eve. But yeah, that was like the
fun go out because everything's gonna be dead and shut down.
But then what we always did on Christmas Day was
you do Chinese food in a movie the two things.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
That are open.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
That is an actual thing. Oh that's a that's not
just like a Jewish stereotype. Like, that's a real thing.
I want to do that a.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Lot of do.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But let's go back wrong holiday today, it's all about Thanksgiving.
It's a typical Thanksgiving morning in the Ginsburg household. What
is what is kind of your what is your day?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah? What do you do?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
We have a new Ish tradition dating back like three
four years where we are all responsible for cooking one dish.
This started because, as you know, as ungrateful kids, our
mom was cooking everything every year and at some point
as a family, we realized we should really help. So
(05:31):
now everybody signs up for one dish. And so when
we wake up in the morning, well, I'm dealing with
whatever work crises came up in.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
The previous few hours. In our field, holiday, no holidays.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
In our field, you do fifteen hours of work to
prepare to just a heavy eight hours off.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
The opposite Anyway, I digress.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
No, So we're getting up and preparing a dish, watching football,
and you know, I grew up in Michigan, so the
Lion always always have a.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Game on Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Have you ever been to I had never been. I'd
been to a Lions game, never on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I went once.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, my sister was in Michigan for school, and so
I was like, let's just do it, let's screw it,
let's try it. And it was a blast. It was
that was that was a holiday on its own. Yeah,
that morning, everybody's already drinking it, like right, I mean,
the cool thing growing up.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
And obviously everything's changed now because the Lions are freaking amazing,
But my whole childhood, the Lions were like a joke.
I mean I had a Lion's own sixteen shirt from
the year they didn't win a game. But it didn't
matter how horrible they were, Like, you still got hype
for the Thanksgiving game, and every once in a while
they pulled it off.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
So you watch the football and then the Cowboys game,
and then you'd kind of just like eat the food.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
What time do would you eat? Oh? Man?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I would say, So growing up, we did Thanksgiving with
a couple other families. Did you guys do like just
you or did you?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It was just it was it was just us. It
was it was immediate family for the most part. Some
ex girlfriends, some neighbors here and there, some like homeless
friends from college that didn't want to like wait.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Wait wait ex girlfriends as in current girlfriends who became
exes or ex girlfriends who are already ex'es at the time.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, they don't belong.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
They probably became exes shortly there after thanks But yeah,
it was it was immediate fa.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Okay, So yeah, yeah, that's what we have now.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So growing up, we had like three four families that
we'd get together.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
With like mid afternoon. Yeah, like probably three start that's standard.
We're early. We were very early. Howe early we were one.
Oh that's very yeah, we're very very early. You're doing
leftovers that night, you are, you're doing leftovers that night.
In the nineties, for me, you would wake up. Nothing
beats the smell since we did have it early. Mom
already had you know, mo dukes had that turkey in
(07:45):
the oven half five in the morning, So you're you're
the smell is actually waking you up.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Love that.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Then you don't realize how much work that is, so
much work until you become responsible for one dish out
of fifteen and it ruins your life.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, we don't do that now. And here's the thing
that is my mom's super Bowl. She's like, get out
of my kitchen. She loves to do the whole thing
that is her day. Christmas. She doesn't cook a thing,
but Thanksgiving is her day, so we do that morning,
big big thing in my family growing up, Macy's Thanksgiving Day. Okay,
(08:18):
so that was never a thing for Oh man, I'm
dancing like the rockets over here. There's always like, you know,
whoever the big singer is like the new scene, not
big singer, but like the new singer of that era
doing like they're one hit that they'll ever have on
a float. So I just thought, you there's something about
it that's the tradition of it, the pop and circumstance.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It's like it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I think growing up on the East Coast too probably
made it more eventful, interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
It's a big things, massive ratings, everybody watches it. It's
never been a thing for me.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Then I played football in high school and we had
a big high school Thanksgiving Day game. Yes you're looking.
I don't know if you do this or not. You
are looking at my senior year the Leonard J. Bailey
Award winner.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Dan okay, And I'm going to need a little context here.
My name was in the newspaper that year. Wow. What newspaper.
It was like the Palmer Journal. Yeah, thank you. I
knew I recognized you. I still have that trophy.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
So then like I did that, you know, high school
years after high school, it would be I would just
wake up, like a college years. I would just wake
up whenever I decided to, probably hungover. There was one
year in particular, my friend Chris came to Thanksgiving with
me from college because he lived in California. I didn't want
to fly home. We went out the night before so bad,
(09:40):
so bad. I couldn't eat Thanksgiving dinner was that? And
my mom does the thing is and it's it's annoying,
but also it's tradition.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It's what are you thankful for?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
But he's going to go around the table and I
remember specifically looking up and saying.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Water, I'm thankful for water. It was bad.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So yeah, and then there's another tradition too, we had
I don't know if you remember this. This was mid
early to mid nineties. Maybe it was NBC. They would
when one of the networks would air home alone. Yes, network,
I feel like that still happened. Does it still happen
to think so? So we'd watch that because it was
just you know, now we're now we're like Turkey's done,
now we're starting to think about Christmas.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
That kind of case. Transition movie. Yeah, it's a transition movie.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
So that's part of a part of my tradition on
the pop culture front. Any favorite I think I know
the answer to this. Any favorite Thanksgiving episode?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, well you know where I'm going. Rhyme with Brends. Yeah,
I love Brends. Oh Man.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
There that was like a staple for them. You know,
we talked about we talked a little bit about Halloween,
but like that was the staple the Friends Thanksgiving episodes.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I think the flashback one.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Where you see them all in their younger days, so funny.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Monica is large and then Chandler and Ross have some
kind of.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Scene flock of seagulls.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, yeah, And I just remember an image of Monica
wearing a turkey, having an actual full raw turkey on
her head.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Didn't Joey get it stuck on his head as well?
That the same episode that that guy maybe they did.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Whatever one was the one where they played the game outside. Yes,
they had, and then they got I think they get
locked out or something. That could be two different I
think that's two different ones. But yeah, the football game outside. Yeah,
I just remember, I think Chandler's running for a touchdown.
So Phoebe flashes him to distract him, and he just
drops the ball.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
She picks it up.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
That actually sparked a new tradition for us to to
try and emulate to play a game outside. Yeah, and
we even had a little tiny trophy that was made
of a cake pan and a stuffed animal turkey super
glued on top.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
It was so so budget.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
They had the Brad Pitt episode two is a Thanksgiving
was episode, which is a famous one.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, that was anyway, we stopped.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We stopped our Thanksgiving football game, like in the backyard.
My brother literally broke his ankle. Oh it was funny.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I was.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
There's a picture of me laughing with his ankle like
up like swollen.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I just sat an urgent care visit here or is
this just the next day? The next day and they said, yes,
that is broken. Wow. Yeah he uh he fought through it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Dan, What I wouldn't give it to build your time
machine and attend to Broski Thanksgiving from your childhood.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
There's still time we can. We can relive all these
moments and future Thanksgiving. Maybe we'll have to do it
for our friends Giving next.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
There you go, right, what's your TV episode? Your nineties
Thanksgiving TV episode?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I'm glad you asked How I Met your Mother? Okay slapsgiving? Yes, yes,
I believe there was two. There were Yeah, I was
gonna say there's definitely more than one.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, because they fly through that. They do a flashback
as well.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
But How I Met Your Mother one of my favorite
shows from the two thousands.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah, we haven't covered that yet, but that is just
I don't know if there is any single thing that
encapsulates that decade better than that show.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
And the characters too. I mean, Barney Yeap top ten
TV character for me all time, no disagreement here, So
that's my favorite TV. As far as movies, do you
have any favorite Thanksgiving movies?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
There's so many to choose from.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Oh Man, somehow I'm drawing a blank on that, and
there's not many I looked it up.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I think, you know, planes, trains, and automobiles. Some people say,
is what that may have been the eighties, though, I
went with the only one I could think of having
any kind of Thanksgiving theme, and that would be the
nineteen ninety three cinematic classic Son in Law. Okay, starring
one of the greatest actors of our time, mister Polly Shore.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yeah, do you remember that movie? I have vague recollections. Okay,
I may have watched it as a twelve year old.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
So this movie follows the story of a suburban girl
who leaves the country to go to college in the city,
meets Polly Shore and kind of comes out of her
shell because he's, you know, he's wee's in the juice,
whatever that meant. And she takes him back home to
the country for Thanksgiving, and that's when, you know, all
kinds of tomfoolery begins to happen, and it's just poly shure.
(14:14):
I I celebrate his entire catalog of movies, but that's
the only one. That's literally the only one I could
think of from like the nineties or two thousands.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
The more you described that, the less I remember.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's another thing we need to do.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I think we need to have an edit. I think
we need to have an edible list. Yeah, oh yeah,
well we know, and buttheads on there. One food item
has to go, has to go.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
It has to go Thanksgiving the standards, you know, the potatoes,
the stuffing, maybe a specific vegetable of the turkey, the
cranberry sauce. What do you what are you getting rid of?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Can I get rid of green beans? Or is that
a cop outright?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I just don't know if that's enough of a It
feels like a cop out because it's not. You don't
think of it as like a staple, but I feel
like it is a staple.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Well we're talking just straight green beans? Or the cast
role not my thing? Hmmm, the cast role guy, unpopular opinion.
I got one.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I was gonna ask you if you have that button ready,
because I've got one later.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
But you go, you go, the most overrated food on
the Thanksgiving Day table?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh boy, what I'm getting rid of forever? Is it
gonna be? Here's the thing, Okay, here's the thing. How
many nights a year?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Do you sit down and have a turkey dinner with
a full turkey on the table, maybe some trimmings on
the side, but an actual baked turkey that takes seven
hours to cook.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
How many? How many times a year do you do that?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I would say two Thanksgiving in the day after after
his account, okay, then I would say one. Yeah, there's
a reason. There's a reason because Thanksgiving so holy that
it's it's sacrilegious to.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Do it any other day.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It's because turkey's overrated. There's so many other great pieces
of meat you can put in the middle of that table. Thankfully,
I've been lucky enough to have it's just tasting turkey.
But you know what happens, It gets dry the next
day and you have to pour gravy.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
That's another thing. I'm not a gravy person. What it's
the best part?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Do you just eat it? Plain? Well? Hold on, it's
hit that button again on popular Opinion.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, homemade cranberry sauce does not hold a candle to
the gelatinous canned cranberry sauce.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
The jiggly the better, My mom is.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Now I'm gonna make or listen to this prepares fresh
cranberry sauce every year, but then she goes to the
store and buys a can to put it out just
for me, because she knows. As much as I love
her cooking, when it comes to cranberry sauce, I just
want the gross, blobby cranberry.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Sauce that comes in a can. You can't beat it.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
The most sugar infuse. That's bake piece of unedible. But
really we just have it once a year. What is
it a fruit? I gotta look up what percent of
that is actually cranberry? You know what you say it's unpopular.
It might be, but I think I agree with you.
It's the homemade stuff. It's a little too tart. I
(17:10):
want to say, yeah, yeah, there's not enough artificial fla.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Also, it's the same way I don't like pulp and
orange juice. I don't like chunks of cranberry and my
cranberry sauce. I wanted to just be smooth and jellowy.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Well, Dan, I hope you have a very chunk chunk
free Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
The nicest thing anybody's ever said that I know, lovely
chatting Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I'm glad that we got to do this on the fly.
Hopefully everybody has a great Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Happy Thanksgiving, enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And next week on the hit Meet Brady One More
Time podcast, Yes, we will definitely go there.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I'm going to talk about early two thousand fashion.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
We'll see you on the next episode when we talk
about something other than fashion and fashion back again.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's gonna happen. Until then, enjoy your holiday and if
you love.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
What you're hearing, like subscribe. Sure, do all the.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Things that make podcast successful because we appreciate eat that.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Talk to you next time later
Speaker 3 (18:04):
M hm.
Number six goble, this is get me eighties that one
more time. I'll look back on all things nineties and
two thousands, the movies.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Can you can you feel like Captain come Post? The music,
the black guys, the awkwardness. I did not have sexual
relations with that woman. Heyda.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Here's your host, Brady pro.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
That is me, the radio guy for nearly two decades,
music director currently APD here in Chicago on kiss Them
all around the Country on the iHeartRadio app and all
around just pop music, pop culture nerd Nerd joining me.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Speaking of nerds, yep, guilty, I would love though. Of course,
of course, how did you get older? That becomes a
term of endearment.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It is It is Dana Conda aka the Kickball King
Dan Gin.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
How are you today? I'm good? You know.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I like that our improvisation on this podcast. I think
we need to think for like two seconds before we
shout out random things when we're gonna start the episode.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
No, you just say just say whatever is whatever comes
to you. You make a natural Dan, Yeah, we do
really keep it real.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
All right, there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So you know this podcast really it bridges the millennials,
the gen xers, the gen zers through nostalgia, reminding us
how really completely absurd the nineties and two thousands were,
and we were going, speaking of absurd, we were going
to do our two thousands early two thousands fashion episode.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
But hold the brakes, curveball coming at you. What's happening.
That's gonna have to wait. No, yes, I know you're
devastating as a fashionable person my whole life New York
Fashion Week, don't you.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, No, we're gonna have to punt that one because
it's Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's Thanksgiving eed eve. As we're recording this.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Hey, so I thought we would do a Thanksgiving episode
the night before, like the big party day of the year. Correct,
some consider that. Some call it black Wednesday because people
get blackout drunk.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yes, no, it's blackout Wednesday, the Thanksgiving day, then Black Friday.
Not encouraging that it's been good fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah please, yeah, please drink, please drink responsibly. So we
are here in Thanksgiving season. I wanted to chattel about
all the things like growing up in the nineties in
two thousands of football, the food, the friends, all the
all the f's, all the important things of the family.
Forgot about family A lot of fun, fun, a lot
of fun f's involved in Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Let's start here.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Where do you rank Thanksgiving in the holidays? Like, if
you were to do like a like a top three,
top five, where would you Where would it fall for you?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I might honestly put it number one? Shut up? Number one.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I means I'm culturally Jewish, so Passover for me is
up there. Okay, I know that's not really into most
of our audience, but I mean Thanksgiving. You can't beat
the food. You get a four day weekend in most
jobs consistently every year. There is no other halway, you know,
(03:12):
Christmas sometimes when it's Christmas Eve and day on a Monday,
Tuesday or Thursday Friday. But sometimes like this year, it's
a Wednesday in the middle of.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
The week, the worst. Yeah, Like it gives you a
guaranteed four day weekend in.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
A lot of jobs every year. And you've got football,
you got family. Yeah, there are a lot of f's,
so many What about you? So well, I was gonna
ask you to.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Write what would you rank ahead of Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Here's here's my time. I'll give you my top three.
Halloween in the three I always have a blast Thanksgivings
in my number two okay, number one. Christmas Eve, okay,
not Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Christmas Day is kind of an afterthought with me in
my family over the last couple of decades. Christmas Eve
is where it's at for me. I'm sure we'll talk
about that next month, because that's where the big party
is with the family. By Christmas Day, you're just you're
kind of tired, and you're just like, I just want
to I just want to sleep all day. And you know,
as an adult, you don't get presents, so it's not
this very anti climactic As a man of Jewish faith, Yes,
(04:15):
is Christmas is.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
The holiday of Christmas? In your top five? To you?
It would be there.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I mean I have I would put Christmas Eve up
there too. I used to always go to this event
in Chicago called the Matsabash on Christmas Eve. It would
always be at a club like it used to be
at Studio Paris back in the day. It's been at
a lot of big clubs. It wasn't just Jewish people
by any means. You had people of all different faiths,
including a lot of Christian people who just wanted to
(04:40):
party on Christmas Eve. But yeah, that was like the
fun go out because everything's gonna be dead and shut down.
But then what we always did on Christmas Day was
you do Chinese food in a movie the two things.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
That are open.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
That is an actual thing. Oh that's a that's not
just like a Jewish stereotype. Like, that's a real thing.
I want to do that a.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Lot of do.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But let's go back wrong holiday today, it's all about Thanksgiving.
It's a typical Thanksgiving morning in the Ginsburg household. What
is what is kind of your what is your day?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah? What do you do?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
We have a new Ish tradition dating back like three
four years where we are all responsible for cooking one dish.
This started because, as you know, as ungrateful kids, our
mom was cooking everything every year and at some point
as a family, we realized we should really help. So
(05:31):
now everybody signs up for one dish. And so when
we wake up in the morning, well, I'm dealing with
whatever work crises came up in.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
The previous few hours. In our field, holiday, no holidays.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
In our field, you do fifteen hours of work to
prepare to just a heavy eight hours off.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
The opposite Anyway, I digress.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
No, So we're getting up and preparing a dish, watching football,
and you know, I grew up in Michigan, so the
Lion always always have a.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Game on Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Have you ever been to I had never been. I'd
been to a Lions game, never on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I went once.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, my sister was in Michigan for school, and so
I was like, let's just do it, let's screw it,
let's try it. And it was a blast. It was
that was that was a holiday on its own. Yeah,
that morning, everybody's already drinking it, like right, I mean,
the cool thing growing up.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
And obviously everything's changed now because the Lions are freaking amazing,
But my whole childhood, the Lions were like a joke.
I mean I had a Lion's own sixteen shirt from
the year they didn't win a game. But it didn't
matter how horrible they were, Like, you still got hype
for the Thanksgiving game, and every once in a while
they pulled it off.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
So you watch the football and then the Cowboys game,
and then you'd kind of just like eat the food.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
What time do would you eat? Oh? Man?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I would say, So growing up, we did Thanksgiving with
a couple other families. Did you guys do like just
you or did you?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It was just it was it was just us. It
was it was immediate family for the most part. Some
ex girlfriends, some neighbors here and there, some like homeless
friends from college that didn't want to like wait.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Wait wait ex girlfriends as in current girlfriends who became
exes or ex girlfriends who are already ex'es at the time.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, they don't belong.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
They probably became exes shortly there after thanks But yeah,
it was it was immediate fa.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Okay, So yeah, yeah, that's what we have now.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So growing up, we had like three four families that
we'd get together.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
With like mid afternoon. Yeah, like probably three start that's standard.
We're early. We were very early. Howe early we were one.
Oh that's very yeah, we're very very early. You're doing
leftovers that night, you are, you're doing leftovers that night.
In the nineties, for me, you would wake up. Nothing
beats the smell since we did have it early. Mom
already had you know, mo dukes had that turkey in
(07:45):
the oven half five in the morning, So you're you're
the smell is actually waking you up.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Love that.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Then you don't realize how much work that is, so
much work until you become responsible for one dish out
of fifteen and it ruins your life.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, we don't do that now. And here's the thing
that is my mom's super Bowl. She's like, get out
of my kitchen. She loves to do the whole thing
that is her day. Christmas. She doesn't cook a thing,
but Thanksgiving is her day, so we do that morning,
big big thing in my family growing up, Macy's Thanksgiving Day. Okay,
(08:18):
so that was never a thing for Oh man, I'm
dancing like the rockets over here. There's always like, you know,
whoever the big singer is like the new scene, not
big singer, but like the new singer of that era
doing like they're one hit that they'll ever have on
a float. So I just thought, you there's something about
it that's the tradition of it, the pop and circumstance.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It's like it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I think growing up on the East Coast too probably
made it more eventful, interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
It's a big things, massive ratings, everybody watches it. It's
never been a thing for me.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Then I played football in high school and we had
a big high school Thanksgiving Day game. Yes you're looking.
I don't know if you do this or not. You
are looking at my senior year the Leonard J. Bailey
Award winner.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Dan okay, And I'm going to need a little context here.
My name was in the newspaper that year. Wow. What newspaper.
It was like the Palmer Journal. Yeah, thank you. I
knew I recognized you. I still have that trophy.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
So then like I did that, you know, high school
years after high school, it would be I would just
wake up, like a college years. I would just wake
up whenever I decided to, probably hungover. There was one
year in particular, my friend Chris came to Thanksgiving with
me from college because he lived in California. I didn't want
to fly home. We went out the night before so bad,
(09:40):
so bad. I couldn't eat Thanksgiving dinner was that? And
my mom does the thing is and it's it's annoying,
but also it's tradition.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It's what are you thankful for?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
But he's going to go around the table and I
remember specifically looking up and saying.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Water, I'm thankful for water. It was bad.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So yeah, and then there's another tradition too, we had
I don't know if you remember this. This was mid
early to mid nineties. Maybe it was NBC. They would
when one of the networks would air home alone. Yes, network,
I feel like that still happened. Does it still happen
to think so? So we'd watch that because it was
just you know, now we're now we're like Turkey's done,
now we're starting to think about Christmas.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
That kind of case. Transition movie. Yeah, it's a transition movie.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
So that's part of a part of my tradition on
the pop culture front. Any favorite I think I know
the answer to this. Any favorite Thanksgiving episode?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, well you know where I'm going. Rhyme with Brends. Yeah,
I love Brends. Oh Man.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
There that was like a staple for them. You know,
we talked about we talked a little bit about Halloween,
but like that was the staple the Friends Thanksgiving episodes.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I think the flashback one.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Where you see them all in their younger days, so funny.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Monica is large and then Chandler and Ross have some
kind of.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Scene flock of seagulls.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, yeah, And I just remember an image of Monica
wearing a turkey, having an actual full raw turkey on
her head.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Didn't Joey get it stuck on his head as well?
That the same episode that that guy maybe they did.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Whatever one was the one where they played the game outside. Yes,
they had, and then they got I think they get
locked out or something. That could be two different I
think that's two different ones. But yeah, the football game outside. Yeah,
I just remember, I think Chandler's running for a touchdown.
So Phoebe flashes him to distract him, and he just
drops the ball.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
She picks it up.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
That actually sparked a new tradition for us to to
try and emulate to play a game outside. Yeah, and
we even had a little tiny trophy that was made
of a cake pan and a stuffed animal turkey super
glued on top.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
It was so so budget.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
They had the Brad Pitt episode two is a Thanksgiving
was episode, which is a famous one.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, that was anyway, we stopped.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We stopped our Thanksgiving football game, like in the backyard.
My brother literally broke his ankle. Oh it was funny.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I was.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
There's a picture of me laughing with his ankle like
up like swollen.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I just sat an urgent care visit here or is
this just the next day? The next day and they said, yes,
that is broken. Wow. Yeah he uh he fought through it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Dan, What I wouldn't give it to build your time
machine and attend to Broski Thanksgiving from your childhood.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
There's still time we can. We can relive all these
moments and future Thanksgiving. Maybe we'll have to do it
for our friends Giving next.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
There you go, right, what's your TV episode? Your nineties
Thanksgiving TV episode?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I'm glad you asked How I Met your Mother? Okay slapsgiving? Yes, yes,
I believe there was two. There were Yeah, I was
gonna say there's definitely more than one.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, because they fly through that. They do a flashback
as well.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
But How I Met Your Mother one of my favorite
shows from the two thousands.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah, we haven't covered that yet, but that is just
I don't know if there is any single thing that
encapsulates that decade better than that show.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
And the characters too. I mean, Barney Yeap top ten
TV character for me all time, no disagreement here, So
that's my favorite TV. As far as movies, do you
have any favorite Thanksgiving movies?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
There's so many to choose from.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Oh Man, somehow I'm drawing a blank on that, and
there's not many I looked it up.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I think, you know, planes, trains, and automobiles. Some people say,
is what that may have been the eighties, though, I
went with the only one I could think of having
any kind of Thanksgiving theme, and that would be the
nineteen ninety three cinematic classic Son in Law. Okay, starring
one of the greatest actors of our time, mister Polly Shore.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yeah, do you remember that movie? I have vague recollections. Okay,
I may have watched it as a twelve year old.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
So this movie follows the story of a suburban girl
who leaves the country to go to college in the city,
meets Polly Shore and kind of comes out of her
shell because he's, you know, he's wee's in the juice,
whatever that meant. And she takes him back home to
the country for Thanksgiving, and that's when, you know, all
kinds of tomfoolery begins to happen, and it's just poly shure.
(14:14):
I I celebrate his entire catalog of movies, but that's
the only one. That's literally the only one I could
think of from like the nineties or two thousands.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
The more you described that, the less I remember.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's another thing we need to do.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I think we need to have an edit. I think
we need to have an edible list. Yeah, oh yeah,
well we know, and buttheads on there. One food item
has to go, has to go.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
It has to go Thanksgiving the standards, you know, the potatoes,
the stuffing, maybe a specific vegetable of the turkey, the
cranberry sauce. What do you what are you getting rid of?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Can I get rid of green beans? Or is that
a cop outright?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I just don't know if that's enough of a It
feels like a cop out because it's not. You don't
think of it as like a staple, but I feel
like it is a staple.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Well we're talking just straight green beans? Or the cast
role not my thing? Hmmm, the cast role guy, unpopular opinion.
I got one.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I was gonna ask you if you have that button ready,
because I've got one later.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
But you go, you go, the most overrated food on
the Thanksgiving Day table?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh boy, what I'm getting rid of forever? Is it
gonna be? Here's the thing, Okay, here's the thing. How
many nights a year?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Do you sit down and have a turkey dinner with
a full turkey on the table, maybe some trimmings on
the side, but an actual baked turkey that takes seven
hours to cook.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
How many? How many times a year do you do that?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I would say two Thanksgiving in the day after after
his account, okay, then I would say one. Yeah, there's
a reason. There's a reason because Thanksgiving so holy that
it's it's sacrilegious to.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Do it any other day.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It's because turkey's overrated. There's so many other great pieces
of meat you can put in the middle of that table. Thankfully,
I've been lucky enough to have it's just tasting turkey.
But you know what happens, It gets dry the next
day and you have to pour gravy.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
That's another thing. I'm not a gravy person. What it's
the best part?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Do you just eat it? Plain? Well? Hold on, it's
hit that button again on popular Opinion.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, homemade cranberry sauce does not hold a candle to
the gelatinous canned cranberry sauce.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
The jiggly the better, My mom is.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Now I'm gonna make or listen to this prepares fresh
cranberry sauce every year, but then she goes to the
store and buys a can to put it out just
for me, because she knows. As much as I love
her cooking, when it comes to cranberry sauce, I just
want the gross, blobby cranberry.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Sauce that comes in a can. You can't beat it.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
The most sugar infuse. That's bake piece of unedible. But
really we just have it once a year. What is
it a fruit? I gotta look up what percent of
that is actually cranberry? You know what you say it's unpopular.
It might be, but I think I agree with you.
It's the homemade stuff. It's a little too tart. I
(17:10):
want to say, yeah, yeah, there's not enough artificial fla.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Also, it's the same way I don't like pulp and
orange juice. I don't like chunks of cranberry and my
cranberry sauce. I wanted to just be smooth and jellowy.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Well, Dan, I hope you have a very chunk chunk
free Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
The nicest thing anybody's ever said that I know, lovely
chatting Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I'm glad that we got to do this on the fly.
Hopefully everybody has a great Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Happy Thanksgiving, enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And next week on the hit Meet Brady One More
Time podcast, Yes, we will definitely go there.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I'm going to talk about early two thousand fashion.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
We'll see you on the next episode when we talk
about something other than fashion and fashion back again.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's gonna happen. Until then, enjoy your holiday and if
you love.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
What you're hearing, like subscribe. Sure, do all the.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Things that make podcast successful because we appreciate eat that.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Talk to you next time later
Speaker 3 (18:04):
M hm.
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