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November 19, 2025 18 mins
For a quick stop at Johnny's House.. What is your Thanksgiving set up like? Does every chip in or one person do all of it!? We hear true stories from the listeners.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eighty one is the high fifty seven right now. A
week from tomorrow is Thanksgiving, all right, and I'm just
kind of curious on how you guys set it up
in your families With me. I'm going home to Charlotte
and we're all meeting at my niece's house, who has
the biggest house, so many of us. My mom was like, look,

(00:20):
y'all come to my house, but it's gonna be people
in every room packed. So we meet at my niece's
house so I can reach out to them. I'm not one,
and we were talking about this off there. I don't
have a signature dish, I don't have well, I'm gonna
bring the so and so, so and so I don't
have that.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
So what I do is chip in money. They will listen.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
They didn't ask either, I guess in my family it's
kind of impolite to ask. It's like, look, you know
how many people you bringing, you know how much eat?
Throw some cash in the pot. But if you don't,
they won't say anything now. But I think I could
day so later after you take some home. So for me,
I was I called my niece and said, hey, I'm

(00:58):
bringing I'm bringing two with me. So here's I'm gonna
give me. How do you want me to send you money?
And she's like, okay, I send it to said, you know,
my sister she.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Set the price over you just it out and she's like,
I'll take it.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, I didn't know. It was never there's no price setting.
It was just kind of like I did the math,
you know, so.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Are you afraid that maybe it's not enough? And she's going, well, no,
I you know, it's kind of like tipping over tip Okay,
I know, I know you overdid it.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I overdid it, okay, but I ain't want to do
it to the extreme that I'm I'm financing the whole thing.
So I sent it and she said, okay, thank you.
They're gonna start doing some shopping this weekend and get
everything done. But they didn't ask me to bring anything.
So that's how we do it. So ray with you
when you guys go, When you go, you go, and
way are your sisters. We'll usually go do what do
you do?

Speaker 4 (01:45):
They'll usually they.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Do everything any money no, So usually.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
I'll bring like appetizers or I'll bring like a salad,
and I'll bring like a shark. I'll cut up like
cheese and crackers and salami and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
And do you like a charcouterie.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, but other than that, I mean.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Then you're bringing three and two hunger ones.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yes you bringing, Yes.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
You don't have it is that everybody's a pissed that
we don't have any appetizers and we don't have anything
to munch on or we're waiting for the turkey, and
so that's where I come and close.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Okay, well here that's your role role okay, okay, yeah, okay,
uh and me, how about you guys.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Are when we host it? Now, my wife does everything
she don't want you to bring in. She really doesn't
want you bring alcohol anything. Yep, if you want something
specific to drink, because she'll even do the alcohol. She'll
make some like theme stuff because my wife loves that stuff. Yeah,
so when we're hosting, bring nothing, but like we're going
this year to someone else's house. So we asked, like, what,
you know, what do you need? So she's doing like

(02:46):
her mac and cheese is kind of her thing normally.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
I mean when you ask someone that, they'll always i'd
say ninety percent of the time. Some people say, well
I eat this, this, and that's yeah, but they'll say no,
I just want you to come. Yeah, you gotta you
gotta keep pushing right, Well, they said whatever you want.
We're like no, like, what do you and then then
we went over, Okay, here's here's what we have.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Okay, cool. You know there's a hole here, maca cheese.
My wife's very good at it. Yeah, and we'll bring
a dessert because she's also good at that and she
likes desserts. And then we always bring alcohol. Yeah, yeah,
so I always I always bring Yoho because it's mine.
But then I always feel like I'm not trying to
force my yo ho on you, so I got to
bring something else too.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
And Yoho's short shirt to a couple of bottles in
a baseball cap. You don't know what is coming from now.
We're fatties when it comes this time of year, and
we want leftovers. So we actually ordered a honey baked
ham for the house that we're not taking with us.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Now we can eat that for the next couple of days. Well,
he take some leftovers home, probably not another thing. No,
my wife will make a pan of mac and cheese
for our house and Mule Gray's on that with our
honey baked ham that we bought for no reason other
than we like it.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
See what they do with my family is they overcook.
So when you leave, they want you to take something. Yeah,
my wife does that, but they don't want all that
food in the house. You know, take something that ain't enough,
take some more. Yeah, you know that that kind of
thing going on. I want to find out in your
in your household, with your family or friends who you're
celebrating or you're hanging out for Thanksgiving? How does it work?

(04:07):
Does one person provide everything? What is your signature dish
that you always bring, or you go and pick up something,
you do appetizers, or you just drop in some cash.
How does it work when you're going out to Thanksgiving
this year? Four O seven now one nine one O
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(04:29):
People are making plans for Thanksgiving. We just want to
find out how it works with your family or friends
for Thanksgiving. And only will know only way we'll know
what you call us right now on Johnny's House of
eighty one fifty seven Right now trying to find out
the Thanksgiving set up you have with your friends and family? Uh,
do one person cook everything? Do you bring your favorite dish?
You pay some cash?

Speaker 2 (04:46):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (04:47):
And how do you handle it? From Longwood Kiara, good morning,
good morning? All right, how do you handle it on
for Thanksgiving?

Speaker 5 (04:54):
See, we're just doing a friendsgiving on Sunday. We had
some issues trying to plan a friends getting with everybody,
so we pretty much just said this is when we're
having it. I'll be cooking everything. You guys can come
or not come.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
What about it?

Speaker 2 (05:07):
That sounds inviting?

Speaker 5 (05:10):
Yeah, we're doing it this Sunday so we can take
the four wheelers out on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Oh kind of like takes the pressure off, like come
a few on, you know, Like if I really didn't
want to come, I'd be like.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
You got way.

Speaker 5 (05:22):
We're getting said yea, yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
That's cool because now you ain't worrying about man. Ray
said she was gonna come, but she didn't come. It
is who don't be there? Bring something if you won't.
If you don't, we'll see you when we see you exactly.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
I like it. I like that's a stress for you.
I can't do.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
Ribs instead of turkey.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
No turkey, no turkey, I ain't going to know.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
We did stakes one year instead of turkey. That was
actually a pretty big hit.

Speaker 7 (05:50):
Yeah, my parents are having a rib roast.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Oh how about how about some ham you're in your hand?

Speaker 5 (05:55):
Mm hmmm him family either Maybe.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
The Pilgrims could have ribbs. You don't know, Yeah, well,
don't know.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
I think we might like show up to one house
on Thanksgiving for a little bit. They might have turkey
that we're doing ribs and all the regular fixing.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
There you go, We'll have fun and happy Thanksgiving to you.
Yeah this one all right, let's see if Ron still
jacked up here, Ron from concent me, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 6 (06:16):
Early, happy thanks given to y'all.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
All right, Ron, So how is all Thanksgiving and work?

Speaker 8 (06:23):
My father and mother the host of their house. They
live on the Lake Launde's property, and we have twenty
eight people coming this week this year, which means yes,
he's gonna be some people out of the rooms. And
it is mandatory that everybody, well not everybody amazing come
with the family of five.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
It's just one dish.

Speaker 8 (06:43):
With every group of people coming, it's mandatory that you
bring something that is homemade.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Okay to a boy. Now do they have you guys
with that many people? Do you have like some type
of Facebook group so you're not having five or six
different macaroni and.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
Cheeses they do.

Speaker 8 (06:59):
I'm not big into that social media stough. I just
know I'm the oldest of the sons and I know
what to bring. So my special t is doubled eggs.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (07:08):
I usually make over one.

Speaker 6 (07:10):
Hundred deuvil eggs. Good low this year because there's we.

Speaker 8 (07:13):
Normally have about eighteen people, uh, but this year we
have a relative that has moved here from California here
with their family of five, so we have somebody coming
from campus and there's more people. There's about twenty eight
so probably gonna make you about one hundred and fifty
double eggs. And this year I'm gonna do something I've
never done before, and I've already started practicing, which is
deep cry at double daggs.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Ooh that sounds good.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
I just think you need to practice on that for
you break it to the main It's very very like
Central Florida Farish the same.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
You need to practice that before you break it to
the big pot. Yeah, that's right with his hand over there.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Let's see here, somebody has a very large family, the sad.
So typically the main host of the year provides the turkey,
the main thing.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
You got large and heed like two.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah yeah, it says we need more than one actually,
but then everybody else brings like their side dish. There
it's ham, drinks, appetizers, and everybody is completely overwhelmed because
there's thirty to fifty people.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Were having a poplunk here tomorrow and they're mad because well,
I can't go.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
I'm doing a teacher in. But I told my wouldn't
brain anything.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, well no, no that what you said, oh coming
with somewead to take you all leftovers.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
It's not that you just said it. We have a
working document that everyone has access can excel spreadsheet and
you're supposed to add what you're bringing and your name
so they can print out little things in front of
it so everyone knows who brought what. Johnny on the
active document wrote tupperware to take home food Johnny Magic,
so that it's not he does in passing, said I'm
gonna take some home.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, I'll let you know. No, I'm saying a Brian
will be here. Can you get me some pot right,
pull some stuff aside for you?

Speaker 2 (08:46):
What do you go bro?

Speaker 3 (08:47):
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Oh wow, that's giving money to chip in.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Someone said, me and my girls are playing hooky and
not going to Thanksgiving and we're going to Universal for
the day, just like the Pilgrims did.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, it'd be good. It'll be a good
day to go to the theme park, I would think.
And they may have eaten ribs. I asked Chad jpt
if the Pilgrims ate ribs. They said, not ribs in
the way we know because there were no pigs being
raised and there was no sugar or any sort of
sobered you. Yeah, but they probably ate deer ribs, rabbit ribs.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
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(10:10):
true story happened to me?

Speaker 2 (10:11):
What happened?

Speaker 6 (10:13):
All right?

Speaker 7 (10:13):
So my name is actually a third I'm the third
generation with my first and middle name. I took it
after my great grandfather. Okay, and growing up around the
time I was three or four, my mother had passed away,
so I I lived with my dad and I lived
with my grandparents, and there was I think I was

(10:34):
probably six or seven when this happened. But my grandparents
took me to visit my mom's grave and I noticed
that there was a smaller tombstone next door my mom
was buried, and it had my name on it, my
first and middle. But the year year that I was well,
I thought was me year. I thought the year that
I was born was different and there was a death date.

(10:57):
It turns out I had an older brother who passed
away before I was born, and I was actually the
fourth generation because I was named after him and my parents.
My granted my mom had passed away, but my father
had never told me, and my grandparents let the cat
out of the bag when I was like six or
seven years old.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Why do you think they didn't tell you?

Speaker 7 (11:16):
I think that well, not that I think. I talked
to my dad about it, especially in my idol ears,
and he said he just was bearing so much weight
after my mother had passed away and after losing my brother,
that he'd never really knew how to talk to me
about it or when would be the right time. So
my grandparents, though, they were just like, oh, yeah, you

(11:37):
had a brother, and you know he passed away when
he was two, and I was like, what you know? Yeah,
so they let it out of the bag. They were
very nonchalant about it, but it was a much bigger conversation.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, yeah, I can imagine. Wow. Okay, wow, And what
age did you find that out?

Speaker 7 (11:58):
Around six or seven years old? I was only in
like second second.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Grade, I think, okay, wow, all right, you hold on
a second.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
My goodness, you're not gonna just skirt past this.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah yeah, really? Oh from Lake Nona.

Speaker 9 (12:12):
Hey, good morning, man.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
I we've heard every true story in your life, but
I guess you got another one. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (12:18):
Yeah, these things really happened to me. Man, this ad Yeah,
I can't even make this up.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
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Speaker 9 (12:26):
Eat an edible and go to uh that you know
a place. I went to Saint Augustine this past Saturday
to see the tree lighting.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
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Speaker 9 (12:35):
I was there with five or six of my friends.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Mother.

Speaker 9 (12:36):
We're having a good time, and a buddy said that
his medical gummy. Okay, I ate the gummy and we're
having a good time there for the tree lighting. There's
a bunch of people there, and the whole SWAT team
was there with the truck and ready to go. Something happens. Okay,
that thing kicked in and they started walking towards the
swat team. Man started giving them my whole life story.

(13:00):
I'm talking away. My friends are laughing. They they're standing
away from me, and I'm like, yeah, to tell me
what happens?

Speaker 7 (13:06):
They somebody trying.

Speaker 9 (13:07):
To touch into your your machine gun AK forty seven. Man,
They don't walk up to me say you need.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
To walk away?

Speaker 9 (13:12):
Man, walk away right now. I'm like no, I just
wind up my Oh okay, I just asked the bad question,
isn't there? You need to keep it moving. I'm so
so stupid man, I'm like, yo, my friends are cracking
Up'm like, yo.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
What happened?

Speaker 10 (13:24):
Man?

Speaker 7 (13:24):
They just walked up to your.

Speaker 6 (13:25):
Point, I said, and just asks a dumb question.

Speaker 9 (13:28):
What happens is you try to touch somebody's weapon?

Speaker 1 (13:30):
You know?

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Oh my goodness down.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
What you need to do is punch your friend in
the face, right And you're not the only person that's
happening to you.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, that probably happened three times that night.

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Hey Rich, good morning, Hey Rich yah Man, what's up
hide morning?

Speaker 6 (14:09):
How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (14:10):
My two story real quick. So I went to Paris
for the first time, maybe a year ago, and I
had a tour guy this you know, I've never been
to Paris before. He's showing me all these monumentals and things.
And then there's a really popular Catholic church and when
I pulled up, there was like maybe fifteen twenty like
army guards out front. But the guy was like saying,
sure he could go up there and take pictures, no
big deal. So I'm like okay, So I walk up

(14:31):
and I walked past two the security guards. They didn't
see me, apparently I'm taking photos, and in like two seconds,
I had like no line, maybe six or seven guards
like basically attacking me. Was like pointing guns in my face,
screaming in French, and I was like, hold on, hold on,
what's going on? I don't understand. And they're like shouting
and pointing the guns and they're like shouting something. And

(14:52):
then one of the guys realized I was the tourists,
and he spoke a little English and he said, no,
there's a really big Parliament security person in the build
and no one is allowed to approach the building. So
I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
And you're and you're a tour person, told you you
could do it.

Speaker 6 (15:06):
Listen, I'm tourists, like touring bright Color is taking pictures smiling.
I walked past too, they didn't see me, so I'm like, okay,
I guess I could go up there. And in two
seconds I was just had all these guns in my
face and they're shouting and screaming in French, and I
was like, what are you saying? I don't understand. And
then one of the guys was like, you can't be
up there right now. And then I walked back to
this to the tour guy, I said, take me back

(15:27):
to my.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
Hotel, you'll buy it and you're not getting paid.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
To that well by it? You Hold on, did he
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We gotta go wrong? Man, Yeah, all right, xcel?

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Good morning? Who is this?

Speaker 10 (15:44):
Good morning? Is Tamaris from winn Apart?

Speaker 2 (15:46):
All right? So true story happened to me? What happened?

Speaker 10 (15:49):
Oh man, Johnny, So listen to this. A few years back,
my brother in law is getting married to his now
wife and they decided to have their wedding in Ecuador. Okay,
mind you on the flight there, we're all in this
new flight from Miami to Ecuador, and the bride to
be comes to me. Her name is well, let me

(16:10):
not say her.

Speaker 7 (16:10):
Name, okay, but she she comes.

Speaker 10 (16:12):
To me and she says, hey, I know it's last minute,
and I know the wedding is literally tomorrow, but would
you like to be my maid of honor? And I'm
thrown back. I'm like, you know, wait a minute, because
she has a sister that lives in that country, Ecuador.
Was like, in my head, why isn't this sister made
of honor? Why is this very last minute? I have
to get a speech ready? I don't even have like

(16:35):
the outfit that, you know, she said that was supposed
to be worn like it was very last minute. It
took me back, but I said, hey, I'm not going
to say no to her. Maybe something happened.

Speaker 8 (16:44):
I'm not going to ask too.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Many questions to get to it.

Speaker 10 (16:49):
Yes, okay, I'm sorry, My bad, My bad. So get
so cut into the chase. Part of when I realized
it was not what it seemed was when it was
time to do the rehearsal, the rehearsal dinner. You know,
she even pointed me out that I wasn't maid of
honor cools. Fast forward to the wedding day. I forgot
what it's called. When you get ready before the wedding,
all the bridesmaid made of honor go in. I go

(17:10):
into the hotel room that she has dosignated for the
women only, and I see these really gorgeous robes all
over the bed and it says made of honor, it
says bridemaids. I'm walking to the maid of honor robe
and her sister walks behind me. She's like, what are
you doing. I said, I'm made of honor, so I'm
wearing this rope. She's like, no, you're not You're a bridesmaid,
and the robes are over there. So I'm completely thrown off,

(17:33):
and I'm trying to get a hold of this check.
After I told everybody that I'm made of honor, I
wrote a speech. It took me over three hours. Okay, listen, girl,
I was not made of honor.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Oh okay, okay, all right, there's no fight or anything.
I mean, it is a crazy thing to happen to somebody.
But because you went all the way there thinking you're
made of honor and stuff.

Speaker 10 (17:56):
So was there to me and I get a hold
of this chick. She wouldn't like a like a superstar.
She wouldn't contact me. She would have looked at me.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
All right.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Hold, I just stood up and objected at the objected
me all right. Uh uh put the wheel out, just
to spind it.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
I don't even know how many people are supposed to
three yeah, just just yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
You don't get it.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
You're supposed to be the man of honor. I don't
think she wasn't. I don't think you get it.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Who we got?

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Alrighty, let's go there, rich congratulations chased down.

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