Introducing Thanksgiving Traditions

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Peyton first and foremost, you came and played Australian football
and the first official get together with the Omaha outbacks.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yes, I did. It was super fun. Never done it before,
so it was a new experience for me.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
How'd you like it?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I really enjoyed it. There's a I'm a competitor, whether
it's a card game at you know, Thanksgiving or backyard
football whatever. I'm just very hyper competitive and it is
frustrating to me to not understand how it works, to
not know how to do certain things. It's like kind

(00:36):
of frustrating, but in a motivating way, if that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, yeah, I get you. I get you that, you know,
athletic type. You could you figure it out, you know. Yeah,
it's just a different skill set. I'm just I mentioning
it because I'm so sore.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, I mean, we were talking about that off the mic.
I'm sore too.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's just like, you don't understand how much the how
different the muscles are that you use. It's quite insane.
So anyway it makes you wonder though. It's good for you, right,
Like it's good for you to to find new ways
to hit different muscles. This is one of the reasons why.

(01:16):
You know, it's good to have a great backup plan
for your like a good backup plan for your you know, workouts.
It's like, what can I do to work different muscle
groups because you don't understand how much you probably neglect
certain muscles until you start using them.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
And then your body tells you, yeah, it makes it.
It makes it pretty obvious when you move a body
part that's not used to moving as much.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
And I just like, I see here and I'm I run.
You know, I'm going to do the Turkey Trot downtown
on Thursday. I'm very excited about that. That's going to
be a fun race, even though the temperature does not
look super favorable for great running. But that's okay, you know,
put hair on your.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Chest, get up and do it, and then the rest
of your day is you're like, yeah, I did it, Yeah,
I did it.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well, that's the thing is, you know, like I do
all of that, and then I spend two hours kicking
an Australian football around and two days later, I'm sitting
here and I'm like I still can barely walk. My
my glutes and my hips and my quads they're just
killing me. That's good for you though, it's good for you.
I uh are you?

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Are you a parade guy? Like the Thanksgiving Day parade?
Was that ever something that you know you'd wake up
and flip that on. It's like, oh, it's the parade.
The parade is on?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is it still the Macy's Day Parade this year? I
mean it's always been that for as long as I've
grown up. I don't know if that's what you're referencing,
but well, I'm I'm there are other parades, but that's
the big one. No, not a parade guy never put
it on the TV for Thanksgiving. I don't know if
that's the answer you were looking for, but that's what
I have.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
I just don't necessarily see the point of watching a
parade on TV. I mean, like, no, I understand, I've
seen the big you know, cool inflatables and stuff like that,
the balloons, the balloons. Yeah, sometimes there's music. Yeah, I
just uh know, they also do just have some dancers
that go up there and dance and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
I know.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
I mean I've seen bits and pieces on of it
on the TV.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
But that was a huge deal when we were growing up,
and you know, in hindsight, you think about the parade
and why, like why why do I wake up and
flip that on? I think it's just because it's on,

(03:48):
Like I I crave structure and I have I'm maybe
the even in my age now, you know, I'm in
my mid thirties. Like a lot of people, by the
time you get to where I'm at, age wise, you're
just kind of like you understand there's going to be
things that are happening and you're just gonna miss them.
Like it's just like you can't be at everything, you

(04:09):
can't watch everything, you can't feel like you know what
I mean. It's just but I still have crazy fomo,
like more than anyone I know. I don't know how
that gets out of you. And if you don't know
what fomo is, it's a fear of missing out. It's

(04:31):
an acronym. Then you know, like I'm afraid that there's
like a party happening somewhere and I'm not there. You know,
It's like when the cultural series is going on. You know,
I'm still I think compared to most people who live
in Omaha, I'm new right, I've only been here a
couple of years. So when the cultural series is going on.
I want to be down there every day. Now I

(04:52):
don't go every day, but like I try to go three,
four or five times and just feel the atmosphere. Just
be where the action is, be hype, be in a
place where there's a ton of people. I'm I'm in
for that, you know what I mean. And for some reason,
you know, especially when I was a kid, it would
just be like instinct. We'd wake up at like eight

(05:14):
am and we'd flip that thing on because we wanted
to see the big balloons. We wanted to see Santa
claus Is at the end of the parade. You didn't
know what kind of musical guests would show up. You know,
when you're a kid, you don't realize that they're not
really singing. It's completely all canned stuff, and it has
to be I get it. I totally understand, but it's

(05:37):
not as special as you know, you thought it was
when you were a kid. But there's still a piece
of me that's like I just kind of want to
flip that on in the morning, just because you know,
like that's what I did growing up. Now I've replaced
that tradition with running Turkey trots, now, but it's like
it was Thanksgiving. I knew it was Thanksgiving because the

(05:58):
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was on. There are other parades,
the Rose Parade. You ever watched the Rose Parade?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
No?

Speaker 1 (06:07):
No, it's a very similar type of parade. It's just
in a different place for a completely different event. And
I never once was like, oh, yeah, I want to
watch the Rose Parade. It doesn't it's it's just not
a thing you do, you know, So I don't really

(06:29):
I'm trying to, you know, when you have those intrinsic
thoughts of like why do I care about this? Absolutely,
you look in the mirror and you're just like, so,
what what am I doing this for?

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Again?

Speaker 1 (06:42):
What's the point of this? And sometimes you just don't know.
And as far as the parade goes, like I think
people love it because it's a thing, and.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
You know, and it has been for so long it's
just customary almost.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
It's an institution at this point, right, Like it's just
a thing and you don't want to miss this thing
that happens on Thanksgiving every it's like part of your day,
you like, you wake up and you turn that on.
And then when I was a kid, right, like the
parade would end and you'd be getting geared up for
the first of the football games. And back when I
was a kid, there were only a couple of those,

(07:15):
you know, they know, the Lions game and then a
Cowboys game, and it depended on you know whatever. But
like it's not like, why does the Thanksgiving football games,
why do they matter any more than any other football game?

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Nostalgia the day of being at Thanksgiving? You know, they're
not good answers.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
I'm just I know, but there's no like there's football's
on like every day, and but there's just this conditioning
that we have in our head of just like, oh
those things giving football. I get to watch football today, brother.
I sat on my couch for most of yesterday, Like
I left after the Bears game ended, and basically for
the first half of the second game wave of games.

(07:57):
But like I sat there and from and I mean,
if there's a game in like Europe, I'll catch at
least the second half of that most of the time,
and I'll sit there. I'll be watching football for the
better part of like twelve plus hours.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
But it's special on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Thanksgiving. I'm like, oh, we get to watch football. Don't
you daren miss football on Thanksgiving? And now there's Black
Friday football. There's an NFL game on Black Friday, the
Bears playing that game. The Huskers obviously have the Iowa
game on Black Friday. And I don't know, I just
there's just something about Thanksgiving is one of those days
where you're just like, this is what we do. We

(08:33):
wake up, we turn on the parade, we watch the football.
If the weather's at least kind of decent, you want
to go out and you want to throw a football
around Every once in a while. I still have that
in my brain. I'm just like, man, it'd be fun
just to like get the football out and just like
sling it a little bit.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
You know, I've had my fair share of those on
Thanksgiving afternoons.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
And then your napp like there's going like the customary
like that's in there mid afternoon, like I'm gonna fall
asleep on the on the couch or the floor or whatever.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
But it's never great sleep because your family's causing a
ruckus and there's kids running by your feet.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
But you put your head down, but you're like, I
think now is the time I'm going to take my
little mid afternoon Thanksgiving nap, and you know, like nowadays
with my wife's family, we have to be very you know,
this is the thing about living far away from our
families in a far away it's not super far away,
but it's still like a three hour drive to our

(09:24):
nearest family member. We're gonna drive over there, and we
have to be very efficient with our time. And we
have multiple things that we're trying to do over a
couple of days for Thanksgiving, and then we do the
same thing for Christmas, so trying to like figure out
how to operate that. A lot of it has like
our tradition is more of that now than it is
of you know, back in the day. It's just like

(09:46):
the first thing we do on thanks on Christmas Eve,
you know, we go and we open one gift at
Grandma's house, you know, or we you know, wake up
the first thing that we do on Christmas morning as
we run out to the living room and and we
get ready to open the presence, you know. And Thanksgiving
has those two and I don't know, like it just
felt like such a big deal when you were a kid,

(10:09):
but when you think about it, you ask yourself, like,
what's the point, There is no point. It literally is
what you made it with you and your siblings, or
your parents or your families. What you made it. And
that's why it's important. And I think that makes it important.
It really does. But if you just take in a vacuum,
Oh they're playing football on Thanksgiving. Oh there's a parade

(10:30):
on Thanksgiving morning, it's like okay. So, but because it's
Thanksgiving and you've built those traditions, I still think that
adds merit to it being a thing. And that's why
it's still a thing. That's why it's still an institution,
and that's why they haven't messed with those traditions for
decades and decades and rightly so. On a Thanksgiving week,

(10:53):
so the week in and of itself is quite a celebration. Basically,
we're only here for three days. What are you gonna
do with yourself on Thursday Friday in the weekend.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah. Something that I've been introduced getting into my fiance
is a family is Saint Louis. Okay, they have this
a little city. Yeah, Saint Louis. They have a junction
called thanks Miss. Thanks first heart of Thanksgiving, second half
is Christmas. Thanks Miss is that what that is travel

(11:26):
down Okay, I'm just being thorough here. And on Thursday
we drive down there celebrate Thanksgiving, and then Friday we
watched the Nebraska football game, and then we also celebrate Christmas,
secret sanna, small gift exchange, things of that. Oh, you're
basically just being a fishing with your time. Yes, exactly.

(11:48):
That's pretty fun, pretty exciting. You know, spending two days
with no separation around family can be an adventure sometimes,
you know, just a lot of a lot of time
in the car for that long. Yeah, yeah, but it's
a lot of fun. And man, the food of Thanksgiving?

Speaker 1 (12:10):
What's your favorite food? We do this on the show,
like every year we will probably do a deep one,
But like, what's the thing that you're always excited for?
Is is the turkey? No?

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Absolutely not, that's honestly, that might even be outside my
top five on Thanksgiving. I'm gonna just I'll say.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
There's a lot of there's a lot of people on
the anti turkey bandwagon these days.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Don't get me started on the dessert table. That's what
you like. You're a sweets guy. Now, pumpkin pie. Nope,
pumpkin pie. Honestly, I'm good with I don't need I
don't need the pumpkin pie. I'd rather have a pecan pie. Yeah.
But interesting, the cheesy potatoes are always are always good
for me.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Potatoes. You just really can't mess up potatoes.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah. And and there's gonna be a good chunk of
the audience that does not agree with me. Even my
own father does not like this. But the brown sugar
sweet potatoes, Eh, those are good.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Eh.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yep, those are.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Good brown sugar sweet potatoes. Yeah. Well, you're you're into.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Cooking, it's just kind of you.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
You grew up and you like watching cooking shows and stuff.
You get a real sense when you talk to people
who like that stuff. You get a real sense for
the difference. Because for me, I didn't grow up watching
any of that stuff. I have no understanding of like
how to mix and match tastes and anything like that.

(13:32):
It's beyond me. And I don't even like the experimentation,
to be honest with you. But I talked to people
like you, and then we had Matthew Zachery in here
last week, who he's a real foodie. You talk to
people who know cooking and they're just like, I'm gonna
try a little bit of this, try a little bit
of that, and then you try something that doesn't even
sound like it should be mixed together, brown sugar potato,

(13:55):
and you're like, oh, it's to die for it. I'm like,
I would never even thought to have put these two
things together.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
You're more of a and correct me if I'm wrong,
But like you don't want your food to touch on
the plate together, kind of.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Like Thanksgiving is a little bit of different. Generally, yes,
generally I don't like it to touch each other. But
have you ever gone to KFC? They have those things
called Famous Bowls, Yes, where it's like they have like
potatoes and they have corn and gravy and chicken and
stuff on there. Yeah, and it's all just like in
a bowl and you can just like eat it. That's

(14:27):
the kind of food I can do that with, because
I do like to compartmentalize my food, you know, like
I want them like I want my fries to be
out of the way. I want my potatoes to be
over here. I want my peas. I mean, I love vegetables.
I basically eat any vegetable, but I want them to
I want the green beans to be here, and I
want the corn to be here. I don't need them

(14:48):
to be on top of each other. But when I'm
building my Thanksgiving plate and even Christmas, we go rogue.
I like the stack. I like to put gravy on
multiple things. I like gravy on my turkey in my
ham like. I'll, yeah, I'll kind of build like a

(15:11):
volcano looking thing of food.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
And you have control, though, you can choose what you
want to be included under the gravy.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
I do not experiment. Yeah, it is, it is very basic,
but I will I will put it on top of
each other.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
I'm going to assume no cranberry sauce for you, not
a cranberry sauce guy, but cranberry juice.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
My favorite cranberry juice is good. Yeah, I love cranberry juice,
cranberry sauce. The texture just a little too thick consistency
for me to really enjoy it. There was a my
buddy Matt Case, who was from my producer. First couple
of years I was here, we came up with days
of the week, right because you know, there we have
Thanksgiving Day, we have Black Friday, we have you know,

(15:53):
all these different day names for holidays. But leading up
to why can't we come up with the like days
of the week that we would celebrate. So I think
Monday we decided was mashed potato Monday because this would
be the day mashed potatoes are like your size. You
need to be thinking about what if you haven't already,

(16:14):
you need to be thinking about what your dinner looks like.
You just sent me this photo of you as a
seventeen year old in the throes of COVID making a
dinner from scratch, and this is what it says. Cheesy potatoes,
which you've already said, is your stable. That's kind of
your your m Homemade mac and cheese. You can't really

(16:37):
miss with mac and cheese if you do it right.
Do you put multiple cheeses in that? Yes?

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yes, because you want to develop multiple flavors, you know.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Right, So what like good? What do the go to
cheese cheeses that you utilize?

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Well, cheddar is of course that primary that gives it
the color, but then it kind of depends on where
you want to go. Added a little bit of pepper
jack to give it a little a little something new.
I'm like, I like that, a little bit, a little
bit of sharpness to it. And then mozzarella. Mozzarella is
super creamy, just a little bit, just a little bit
to add a better texture to it.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Interesting. I like it. Fresh green beans, which is my favorite.
I'm a green bean guy, especially fresh fresh. You trim
off the edges, you keep those juices in the seasoning
that you'll put on like your meats. I also put
them on. I love them on my green beans, and

(17:34):
I want them to snap.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Thank you for saying that I was gonna follow up.
When you finish your sentence. A little bit of snap
just makes it.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
You want to bite into it and you want to
feel the juice kind of like explode on, like when
you bite through the green.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
It's different than a canned green beans.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
You want to you don't want to feel it soft.
You want to feel it like you.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Feel the freshness. It's fresh.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
And you can get like French style green beans, which
it is basically a fancy way of like them being
like really thinned out, and those are pretty good, they're
pretty salty, they're pretty good. But there's something about freshly grown, fresh,
you know, trimmed seasoned green beans, and I love grilling them,
like I.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Haven't tried that, but I'm sure it'd be good.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yeah, I don't like being in the kitchen and making
stuff if you haven't, if you couldn't tell, I'm much
more of a let's get into the patio and you know,
especially during the summer, like I'll throw some stuff on
the grill. Yeah, yep, I don't mess like I've messed
stuff up on the girl before. But I don't mess

(18:37):
up stuff on the grill too much. You know. If
i've I've it.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Won't make or break the meal. Maybe, Oh, it's it's
a little a little staff for a little dry but you.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
And you can miss a little bit. There's a little
bit of variation because you're in a different element than
just having like the precision that you need in the
kitchen for a big meal like this. But I'm a
I'm a huge fan of grilling green beans, tossed salad,
creamed pickles. Can't say I've done creamed pickles before.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
I could see something you're not liking. It's kind of
a vinegary, a little bit of a They use miracle whip.
It's my my Grandma's recipe.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
We call her Mema, me Ma's recipe.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
MEMA's recipe of creamed pickles. So you gotta just trust
that one that that MEM's got it figured out.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
My h I'm not a it's weird. I do eat
stuff with mayonnaise on it or miracle whip on it.
I don't like sour cream. I don't know why, I
just don't. I find the smell pretty repulsive. Yeah, they're
all kind of the same product. It's just like different

(19:50):
variations of the product. But there's a thing that's in
my recipe in my family called for taco salad. It
is an interesting recipe. It has uh Dorito's in it,
it has ground beef in it, it's got uh gosh,
I mean obviously like lettuce and different variations and ranch dressing.

(20:13):
It is a very unique mixture of things, and it
is the kind of thing that I generally would not
gravitate towards, but I always have to have it because
when I was little, it was in our family's recipe
and my mom would make it. My wife now learned
how to make it, and you know, it's like it's
just one of those things that it's just not Thanksgiving

(20:33):
without it. Even though if you would if you would
have presented thirty year old me with this for the
first time, i'd have been like, what is that. I
don't think I want to eat that. But because I
was eating when I was five and I grew up
with it, I was just like, I know this is
good mentally, you.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Know that it's comfortable for you.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, and I've had it before.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Sometimes I like look at myself, just like, I can't
believe I like this right even now. I was just
like I shouldn't like this, but I I do. My
brain is like, this is not something that you would
normally like. It's good Garlic butter dinner rolls. Can't miss
with the dinner rolls.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
You know that's a fancy name. It's just it's just.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
There's a there's a Hawaiian. Uh, those King Hawaiians. Yeah,
and those are so cut.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Just just bring kings of wine rules. Don't worry about
this fancy type of role. Just bring King Sawaiians. They're
gonna be.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Get them nice and warm, get them to fluff up
and then have a little don't over complicate it, real butter, Yes,
don't don't be don't be giving me that Margarine crap, Like, no, real.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
That's to save money for the war. Don't don't give
me the margin on my rolls. We can afford butter.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
We don't need to save butter for the war. Now.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yes, we can put real butter on our rolls.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Apricot glazed ham nice and from scratch coconut cream pie.
Coconut cream pie. Yeah, not a coconut guy.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
My wife and her family. This is the addition to
my life that I needed. I'm a huge chocolate fan.
Chocolate moderation's fine. I don't like just like e gorging
myself with the chocolate. But there's this like I don't
know exactly what they call it. It's like this, it's
the best. It's just like chocolate base built into you know,

(22:23):
your your pie crust.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
French silk.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, it's like it's like a variation of French show.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
And it's got the chocolate curly is on top.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
No, I don't think they put those on there, but
they have like obviously like the whip on top and everything,
and it's very thick. But it's it's like of a
variation a family recipe of a French silk pie. Essentially,
they have a different name for it, but it's it's
to die for. That's like I want that and then
I need my pumpkin pie. Give me a pumpkin pie

(22:51):
with the dollop of you know, cool whip on it,
and we're off and running. We got ourselves at dessert,
and I like some ice cream too. Let's have some
vanilla ice cream, just a very simple vanilla ice cream.
Just scoop of that on the side, with my with
my pie. I'm down, I'm in. We have Bill on
the phone line. Bill, what's on your mind today?

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Great show, guys, but I love you listening to you.
I'm a truck driver. I've called before. I listened to
you in Des Moines, and then I listened to you,
you know, Omaha in the afternoon.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
So thanks Bill, LE mean a lot.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
I love your show. But I have a weird concoction.
I'm a truck driver, so I usually work on the holiday.
But the leftovers, I'll put the bread down the roads,
bread butter it. I have some French fries up, the
turkey on it and the gravy and.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Neat it like that. Interesting? Interesting? How how many meals
will you make out of that?

Speaker 3 (23:51):
As many leftovers as there are until we run the
sack out of French drive?

Speaker 1 (23:55):
All right? I hear that Hey, that's quite interesting. Bill. Well,
thank you. Thanks for working as hard as you do.
You are the salt of the earth the way America
keeps moving his truck drivers like yourself, willing to sacrifice
time on the holidays to be able to allow Americans
to get what they need. We really appreciate you for
listening to us and calling in today.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Well, we're all lucky to live in this country, and
God bless everybody in your listening area. And I thought
of you yesterday. Did you see the hot air balloon?

Speaker 1 (24:25):
I didn't. Where did you find the hot air balloon?

Speaker 3 (24:28):
I was driving between Omaha and Lincoln and yesterday morning
there was a hot air balloon going across, and I
was wondering if you knew the gentleman that was flying.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
No, well, there's a chance I would know the pilot,
or at least be familiar with the pilot based on,
you know, being at other balloon events. But I you know,
that's one thing around Omaha. You don't really see a
whole lot of balloons in the air, you know, So
that fascinates me. I'm gonna have to be on the
look at It was a beautiful day for it.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
That really surprised me. I'd say it was early to
mid morning. It was very calm out and I caught it.
I couldn't believe it because it was just a single
balloon and it was heading from Lincoln towards Omahan. I
was heading towards Lincoln in the truck and I saw
this beautiful ballue and I'd say a mile or two

(25:21):
off the interstate on the south side of the road
and looked like striping off and I'm going I got
to get all the emory to see if you knew
the gentleman or it was so unusual because I don't
see a lot of that in the area.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, that's interesting. Well, and the weather was fantastic. It's
like this is the right temperature you like you mentioned,
the wind was pretty calm. Did you do you remember
what it looked like, like what color it was.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
It was kind of a red and blue. It had
the writing on. I didn't I didn't quite get the
riding on it, but at first I thought it was
had to do if the Huskers were playing at home,
just because I maybe it was like the blimp up there,
you know, Yeah, yeah, No, it was a regular old

(26:08):
hot air balloon and I thought of you because I've
been listening to you in Des Moines even before you
were here in Omaha, and you are always so excited
about going to Indianola for.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Those Yeah, it's one of my favorite things in the world, honestly, Bill,
And I'm glad that you know. If people you know,
we talk a lot about news, we talk a lot
about politics. If I leave this job sometime, I want
people to be like, oh, yeah, that was the hot
air balloon guy. My mission was accomplished if that's if
that's what people think of me as I appreciate the call. Bill,
thanks so much for listening.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah, you cover everything, and some of the best stories
you have are are just off the cup and make
me just laugh my butt off at you.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
I appreciate this.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
I listened to you in Des Moines, and then I
listened to you in Omaha. I'm out of Siu City.
I even listened to you up there. You're your radio
blasts all the way up to Sioux City. I don't
even listen to local radio. I listen to you guys. Man.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
That means a lot. You've made my week. Bill, Thank
you so much for calling in. Man, Thanks so much,
and have a great Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Jeeves, please have your mornings, guys, play you and do
their Steve Navity at the at the Birth of Jesus
or yeah, oh my.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Goodness passed along but I'm running out of time, buddy,
I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for listening to us, man
uh Man, that makes you feel good. You listen, you
talk to somebody like Bill, a guy who really is
you know, like the fabric of America, you know, the
truck driving and not just because he's complimentary to me,
but you know, just because you know this is a guy.

(27:47):
I mean, I could imagine doing that job. You know,
you're pretty isolated from actual people a lot of the
time when you're behind the wheel and you're you know,
trying to you know, help America move in the in
a positive direction by doing your job and doing it timely.
And man, I really appreciate people like him and it

(28:08):
means a lot that he would have he would give
us time, you'd call in and want to talk to
us about what you know is on his mind today.
So big thanks to him. And well you want to
talk to more people. As we come into the five
o'clock hour, we have Husker Buzz. We definitely have to
unpack what we saw with the Huskers in Penn State.
We will talk about that. We will talk more Thanksgiving traditions,
because that's what this week is all about. We are

(28:29):
getting you set for the Thanksgiving holiday