November 27, 2024 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Now.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Enjoy the podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
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Speaker 4 (00:39):
And my name is Loadonna Harvey.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
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eight hundred and six eight eight nine, five two to two.
(01:02):
As we head into this Thanksgiving holiday, want to start
off to let you know that you know what, the
vast majority of US still celebrate Thanksgiving. The traditions and
the activities vary, but according to Pew, ninety one percent
of Americans celebrate Thanksgiving ninety one percent. Ninety three percent
of adults born in the United States celebrate Thanksgiving. Eighty
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eight percent of immigrants who have been in the country
for more than twenty years celebrate Thanksgiving. Seventy six percent
of immigrants who have been in the country eleven to
twenty years they just haven't found the glories of turkey
yet they are celebrating Thanksgiving, and seventy four percent of
immigrants who have been in the country for a decade
or less celebrate Thanksgiving Day. It is I know some
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people want to make it problematic, but some people want
to make everything problematic. So let's just enjoy the holiday
and we can worry about the problems later.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
One of the.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Best things ever about Thanksgiving came courtesy of one of
the best shows on TV about radio outside of Fraser
and News Radio. It was w KRP in Cincinnati, and
I mean, do we all remember the famous turkey drop.
(02:17):
Here's a little bit of that for you today.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Now the crowd is The crowd is curious but well behaved,
and I think i'd hear something. Now the crowd is
moving out into the parking area.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
And oh yes, I can see it now. It's a
it's a hang a copter and it's coming.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
This way, ex flying something behind it. I can't quite
make it out.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
It's a large banner and it says, uh hivvy tame.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Gim me.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
From w What a site that is, gentlemen, What a sight.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
The culture seems to be circling in the parking area now,
I guess it's looking for a.
Speaker 7 (03:11):
Place to land.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
No, something just came out of the back of the helicopter.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
It's a dark object. Her head's a skydiver humming to
be to the earth from only two thousand men in
the air.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
To the third.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
No parachute yet.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
At least Kinver.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I can't not your.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Cat what they are.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
But oh my god, they're parking.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Coolly's running around pushing each other. Oh my goodness, Oh
that you want to.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Running a bombs of the turkeys are hitting the ground
like sets of wet samits.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I don't know how much longer the tron is running.
Their lives I think they go to step in side.
I can't stand here and watch this view wall. No,
I can't go in.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
There hasn't been anything like that. I don't know how
much division here, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Last, are you there?
Speaker 9 (04:22):
Lass? Isn't there?
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Thanks for that?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
On the spot report last.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
We just tuned in.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
The Pinedale shopping mall has just been bombed with.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
E oh.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
For anybody who has been in radio longer than five minutes,
that is a classic.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
And if you've been in radio.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
For longer than five minutes, you know then unfortunately promotions
go awry.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, the great to.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Say again, just like that, Just like that, just like that,
you've ruined everything. The WKRP in Cincinnati, Turkey Drop. I
know it's on YouTube, you can find it. It's a
great It's just a great piece of Americana. WKRP was
such a classic show and the characters in it were
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not actually far from what you actually see in radio.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Am I wrong or am I right?
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Jeff? You are absolutely correct.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Even today, even today we still have this radio is
just its own animals, it's its own thing, and it's inappropriate.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's fun, it's funny, and it's a.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Disaster in the making ninety nine percent of the time
you're here. It just I mean, I open this microphone,
I have no idea what is going to come out
of my head because there is no intercept between my
brain and my mouth.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
It just it comes right out.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
And I have done some humdingers in my time, and
I will not share them with you because I know
that they're on tape somewhere, probably hidden in the vault
in San Diego, where they're like, we cannot, we cannot
let this see the light of day because Latana has
been here for a million years. Well, yeah, I've been
here for a million years and I made a million mistakes.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Children searching for their mothers. Oh not since the Hindenburg
tragedy has there.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Been anything like this? And then at the end, the
station manager saying.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Oh, oh I got that, Oh you have it, Yeah,
you want to hear it. I do as God as
my witness. I thought turkeys could fly.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
This is your Morning Show with Michael DELTONA.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Had to play the WKRP classic and apparently Red told
me that he showed that episode to a couple of
people who were a couple of generations behind us. I'm
jen X, I'm pretty sure that Red and Jefford jen
X as well, close enough for rock and roll. So
he said that they were appalled, and I said, you know,
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they do realize that no actual turkeys were killed in
the Turkey episode of WKRP. They're falled. It's appalling because,
as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. Well,
Thanksgiving is almost here. Travelers are today probably feeling a
little more pressed than they were yesterday. Yesterday was the
biggest flying day and a lot of people are driving today,
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so you're kind of rushed.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
You're trying to get where you're going.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
We're not looking at a lot of flight delays, but
we are looking at some weather stuff happening around the country.
So depending on where you're going, you know, as usual,
you got to keep an eye on it, because what
are we going to do if it snows.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
We're just gonna deal with it.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
The holiday shopping season, of course, unofficially begins or is
it unofficially or officially, because I think it's officially. Black
Friday is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. You
have Black Fridays, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday. I
guess we all take a break on Sunday to go
to church or do whatever. Sally Patterson says, while consumers
are expected to shell out a record amount this year, record,
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they are somehow simultaneously and I'm not sure how this works,
being more careful about their spending.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
US National Retail Federation four pasts that winter holiday sales
will reach almost one trillion dollars in November and December,
but the rate of spending growth is expected to be
the slowest the country scenes since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Now Target says it's forecasting softer demand for electronics and
home goods. Yes, do not buy me a Dyson. As
much as I love Dyson, do not buy me a Dison.
I don't need that. Analyst's note that while inflation is easing,
consumers are spending cautiously on non essentials. They are hunting
for deals, and they are They're right. I mean, I'm
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hunting for a deal. I wasn't really sure what was happening.
Normally around Christmas, I fly to London to see my boyfriend,
and I held off because I wasn't really sure what
was happening with you know, job situations and with dad
and my big move from San Diego to Phoenix and
being unemployed and maybe having less money than I normally would.
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So you know, I too, am being very careful when
it comes to when it comes to Christmas gifts, like
the stuff that's on my Amazon list that I'm not
going to do on small It's I don't do small
business Saturday either. I just do small business whenever I
want to. Ace Hardware being one of my personal favorites.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Don't ask me, but.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I love an Ace hardware, So you know, I'm being careful.
I've got a bunch of stuff that's in an Amazon
cart that's been there for a while, and I've been
tracking the prices, and if those prices don't go down
to a level that I am very comfortable with, they're
not getting bought.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I will not be buying the things. And it's not
just you.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Know, oh, you know, here's this rug that you've looking at.
There's a rug that I want, but they had a
prime day what was it back in October?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
The rug did not go down in price. I did
not buy the rug.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
It's been in there the whole time, and I will
leave it there because if I don't get the price
that I want for that rug, I'm not buying it,
and I think there are a lot of Americans you
may be in the same position. If you're not getting
a great price, you're not going to do it.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Now.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
When I head out to small businesses, you know, is
price a factor? Not necessarily, because these are special things
that I'm buying. The stuff that I've got in the
Amazon cart is stuff that I know my mom wants,
my dad wants, my boyfriend wants. Some stuff that I
want because I always shop for me for Christmas too,
And the stuff that I will go out actually to
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a store, that's when I start getting really specific about
what I want for my aunt and my uncle, what
I want for my mom, what I want for my dad,
what I want for I have a caregiver who lives
with us. I want to buy her something nice, and
it'll be something probably from a small business, most likely
something a little bit artsy, made by somebody here locally.
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I really dig that as I get older, it becomes
more and more important for me to make those kinds
of purchases. And I've asked my friends about it that
they feel the same way. So as you get ready
to go out and do your holiday shopping, how are
you going to do it. What does it look like
to you? I'm curious. All you have to do is
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give us a call at eight hundred and six eight
eight nine five two to two or the free iHeartRadio
app Boop.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
You just hit that microphone and there you go.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
We had Paul from Wilmington and Delaware who said thanks
and he is loving the show. So I'm saying thanks
because I'm loving the show too. I haven't had this
much fun in radio and I don't know how long.
And that's just because I'm just doing me today. Poor
Red and poor Jeff. I don't know how they're tolerating
me because I go off script all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
A normal I'll host his a whack job. So you've
there've done really well.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Apparently Michael's a little bit of a whack job too,
so yeah, all right, Well that's good. It's good that
I can just go off the complete rails. I'm off
in Outer Siberia doing radio my way. As if I
know anything, I don't know anything. I know nothing, So
give us a call or give us a talk back.
How are you shopping? Are there special ways that you
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shop for special people in your life?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Because I don't get their stuff, the nice gift.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
You know, everybody gets gifts, but the nice gift that
comes from local. I always want to go local, and
I'm willing to pay for it as long as I
get those nice prices in my Amazon shopping cart, which
I am still waiting for. Even though Black Friday sales
they say are underway. I don't know if I believe that.
So how are you doing it? Are you doing it
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your way? We got a call from Rich in Sacramento
and he said that thanks for playing the WKRP. It
is a classic. The Turkey drop is a classic. And
if you were if it's even better if you're in radio,
because everybody knows that station manager. Everybody knows les Nessman,
we all know that reporter, we all know them. We
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all know Johnny Fever. Some of us are actually Johnny Fever.
I'm probably Johnny Fever without the pot.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It's he smokes pot, doesn't he. I mean, it's not
just weod to have a hard time thinking he didn't.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah, I mean Johnny Fever was always just a little high,
I think, and we all know those people. So Rich,
thank you for listening in Sacramento. We appreciate you at
least even sending the message. Just tell us exactly what
you're doing, because we want to know. Most important part
of this is I am nosy. I am very very nosy.
(13:59):
Your holiday shopping is of interest to me because I'm
just wondering what it is that you what it is
that you do. Another one of our top stories, President Biden,
and this is controversial and Red and I disagree on this,
and it's funny we disagree, but we kind of agree.
He's pushing for an expansion of coverage for weight loss drugs,
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and we have Sally Patterson on this one again. The
administration proposing a new rule that would require Medicare and
Medicaid to offer coverage of medications like ozempic, wagov, and manjaro.
Speaker 10 (14:33):
Proposals from the Bidd Administration would expand coverage for around
seven point four million Americans who use Medicare and Medicaid now.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Previously, Medicare and Medicaid only covered the drugs when they
were prescribed for diabetes. The rule would greatly reduce the
cost of the drugs. Now they can cost about a
thousand dollars if you weren't insured, for instance, and you
wanted to get ozempic or wogov or any of the
other what are they GLP one medications about a thousand
dollars a month.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I mean, it is a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
So if they were to be covered under Medicare and Medicaid,
it would push those prices down at least for those recipients.
And red makes a good point. There's still going to
be expensive drugs, and they are. They're relatively new drugs
on the market, originally for diabetics, and then they found
out that, oh, when we give people these drugs for diabetes,
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suddenly they're.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Losing a lot of weight.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
And that can be a wonderful thing, especially for a
type two diabetic. You lose the weight, you reduce your
risk of stroke, you reduce the amount of medications that
you have to take for diabetes. I mean, these can
be a good thing. I think this is a great idea.
I'm worried about the cost. Reads like this is a
terrible idea. The cost is going to kill us, and
(15:51):
we're probably both right.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Hi. I'm Keith Andrews and Mobile, Alabama, and my morning
show is your morning show, Michael del Journal.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Hi, it's me Michael. Your morning show can be heard
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Enjoy the podcast.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Apart from eating, what are you doing well? Americans are
doing a wide range of things for this Thanksgiving. Thirty
five percent of Americans say it is extremely I know, shocking,
or very likely that they will watch sports.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I know.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
I'm trying to get sports lined up for my dad.
My dad loves football. He loves football, so it in
this day and age. You know, it used to be
that you just turned on either ABC if they had
the NFL contract, or NBC or you know whoever had it.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
You just turned on the TV and you watch football
all day.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Well, now it's on different apps, and I spend a
very large majority of my time talking to my dad's
fire TV going no NFL Live, trying to find where
is the you know, where is the game and.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
What time is it on and can we please watch it?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
And it'll be on It'll be on Paramount Plus for
one game, and then it's on a local station for
another game, and then it's it's all over the road.
It's driving me crazy. It was life was simpler when
I was a child. People, Apart from eating, what else
are you going to do? About nineteen percent say they
are going to watch a parade. When it comes to conversation,
thirty five percent of you say it is extremely or
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very likely that you're going to talk about worker school
on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I mean, that's what we do.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
We sit around, we eat, we catch up, figure out
what's going on. My aunt and uncle are going to
be here for this Thanksgiving at my house.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
They just got off a cruise to Mexico. They had
a ball, So we're going to.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Talk about their cruise, and I have a feeling that
I will be forced to look at pictures of oh, yes,
there's another vote, and I will enjoy every minute of
it because they had a ball.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
In the wake of.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
The presidential election, twenty six percent expect the election to
come up, come up.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Maybe they'll talk about that Kamala Harris bite, because that's
worth listening to over and over.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
It's our Sound of the day.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
After all similar shared, twenty four percent expect to talk
about pop culture like music or movies, and four percent
say they're actually going to a movie.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
It's a great time to go to a.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Movie on Christmas Day or on Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Holidays fabulous for movies.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Now here's the thing, though, I have become so jaded,
and i'm and I'm older now, and I have to
go to the bathroom more often than I used to.
I can't sit and watch a movie for two and
a half hours.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I just can't. I have to have a pause button.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
And if they would give me a pause button at
the movie theater where I paused it and we said, okay,
we are all going to go to the bathroom and
then we will come back and.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
We will finish this, it would be perfect.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
But you can't give me a big old coke like
that and a big old popcorn like that and then
expect me to sit there for the whole two and
a half or three hours that you have decided to
make your movie.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I'm not gonna make it. I can't. I'm just too old.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
So a lot of us, so many of us celebrating Thanksgiving,
going back to the original poll, ninety one percent of
us celebrate Thanksgiving. And I know that it's a holiday where,
you know, you have people who are like, oh, you know,
this is the exple exploitation of Native Americans and YadA, YadA, YadA,
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and it's like, yeah, we can we can think that way,
or we can take it for what it is in
today's day and age, which is just a time to
sit down with our families, be together, hang out, have
a good time, argue a little bit, deal with you know,
(20:05):
drunken aunts and uncles who do weird stuff and just
enjoy each other. And I think that's I think that,
you know, for everything that we see and hear on
the radio and on TV and YadA, YadA, YadA, when
it comes down to it, I think that's what most
people do.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
They just hang out and they enjoy. And that is.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Something to be incredibly grateful for taking a minute to say,
you know what, No, my life didn't work out the
way that I thought it was going to work out.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I am not doing what I thought I was going
to be doing.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Okay, So I still have my dad, I still have
my mom who is in San Diego. I wish that
I could have flown her over here for Thanksgiving, but
there's stuff going on over there that she's got to
deal with. And I have everything that I could possibly need.
Plus I still have my Corvette because that thing's paid for.
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All the unemployment in the world will not take that
car away from you. I am Lodonna Harvey in Phoenix,
Arizona today, and I am in all this week save tomorrow.
We're taking tomorrow off all of us are and so
we'll be back on Friday again with Michael del Jorno
in the Michael del Jorno Memorial seat.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I still haven't come up with a good euphemism or
term for this, Jeff, and I need to come up
with something catchy.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Maybe by Friday.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Yeah, we'll work on that and have you something ready
to go by Friday.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Okay, Okay, let's play that beautiful Kamala Harris sound again,
because I tell you it's the sound of the day
for a reason.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It is.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
The most nothing of any nothing I have ever nothing
in my entire life.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Jeff, here we go.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
I just have to remind you, don't you ever let
anybody take your power from you. You have the same
power that you did before November fifth, and you have
the same purpose that you did, and you have the
same ability to engage and inspire. So don't ever let
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anybody or any circumstance take your power from you.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Oh come on, man, what is that?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Can you tell me what that means? Maybe you can
tell me what she's talking about? Because I don't know
what she's talking about.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I honestly don't.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
And I don't say that as somebody who hates her.
I don't hate her. I thought she was a terrible candidate.
I think she has been given a whole lot more
than she's earned. But that's political experience that you know.
I was in California for decades, so I watched her
come up through the ranks and I know how it happened.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
What does she even mean there?
Speaker 5 (22:54):
And if you're a Democratic voter, do you really need
her to to word salad you to death over your feels?
Are you really that broken hearted over the election? Because
most people are not. Most people are. My best friend
is a gay man who is center left. He's left,
(23:16):
but he's but he's more center than he has anything else.
He's like, you know, I'm gonna wait and see he said,
I have hope. I have hope that you know, he'll
take the taxes off of Social Security. The fact that
we tax a tax that we were taxed already on
blows me away. It's like you didn't even let me
earn the interest on it, and now you want to
tax me on it before you give it back to me.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
You stole it, give it back. You don't get to
tax that.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
It's your morning show with Michael Del Johno.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
We won't be here tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
It's gonna be a best of show, which it will
feature the best of and you're gonna hear Michael's voice.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
It's gonna be like he's here, except he won't.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Be Oh no, oh no, no one of us will be
here and you're only hearing Lodonna and Michael's voice.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Nice, Jeff, you're gonna be here.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Yeah, it's a Thanksgiving treat.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Oh my, well, I'm sorry that you have to work,
Red and I are going to be, you know, sleeping
off Turkey comas and enjoying ourselves. And I'm so sorry
you have to work, but I'm so glad it's not me.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
All It's all good. Somebody's got to keep the ship.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Aflope somebody's got to do it, and obviously I am
not your captain. Okay eight hundred and six eight eight
nine five two to two. You get me driving the bus.
The bus is going all over the road. This is
why they don't let me do that sort of thing.
You can talk back to us on your iHeartRadio app.
It is free. You just make a comment, ask a question,
you hit that red microphone button, boop, and then you
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tell us exactly how you feel. Lots of people celebrating Thanksgiving.
Ninety one percent of us celebrate Thanksgiving. It's maybe one
of my favorite holidays. It might be my favorite holiday
of the year. I enjoy Thanksgiving. I enjoy turkey, I
enjoy all the fixings, and I enjoy cooking. Actually, for
the longest time, I lived in an apartment in San Diego,
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and you know here, I am big radio, big radio hotshot, right.
I lived in a one bedroom apartment with a postage
stamp style kitchen with an apartment sized stove, so you
could fit.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
A turkey in there. But it is all you're going
to get in there. That was it.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
There was turkey and there was nothing else. And I
tried to host Thanksgiving a couple of times and realized
I had to work like a rotation thing in to
make this thing happen so my mom and brother and
some friends could come over and have Thanksgiving. Are you
celebrating it with your family or are you It turns
out that there are about five percent of people who
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are going to have their Thanksgiving dinner alone. Two percent
of Americans are not going to have Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
That is just sad.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
That is sad most Americans though, seventy four percent of us,
we're going to have Thanksgiving with a lot of other people,
and in some cases there's going to be a lot
of a lot.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Of other people.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Twenty six percent will have Thanksgiving dinner with more than
ten people this year.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I'm doing six. That's enough for me.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Seven percent we'll have it with more than twenty other people.
My family's pretty small, so we don't have twenty people
to gather. Fifteen percent will do three to five other people,
and four percent are going to do Thanksgiving with one
or two other people. Meanwhile, they are about thirty four
percent of us who are going to do Turkey dinner
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at home this year, and then all the rest of them, Yeah,
they're hitting the road now. Afternoon is the most popular time.
I'm doing two o'clock in the afternoon because I have
to get up, and you know, it takes forever to
cook that bird, which I haven't even managed to brin yet.
I'm going to brian it as soon as I get home.
It's not going to get the great brinding that it
should have. But I was busy. I was wrankling Dad
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and his dog, Gunner, Gunner, the wonder dog who likes
cookies and he will fake see Gunner. Gunner has the
ability to poop anywhere at any time. It's like it
just falls out of him, and so I have put
him on a very strict regiment of going outside to
go to the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
I don't I.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Don't know why Gunnar does this. And my carpet is white,
by the way, so Gunner is. Gunner is behind a
baby gait, or at least he is most of the
time until he escapes.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
So I have to take him outside.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
And then I have to give him a cookie for
being a good boy and peeing or pooping outside. This
is the way that it has to be in my house.
I don't know why I felt like I needed to
tell you the Gunner story. But that's the wrangling that
I do is between d and Dad and everything else.
I meant to brind the turkey yesterday and I just
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did not get to it. So today I'm whipping out
the apple cider and the salt and all of the
herbs in the gar like and everything else, and I'm
gonna put it in a big turkey basting bag, and
I'm gonna hope for the best. Hopefully I will have
a flavorful, delicious bird that I may in fact stuff
with butter tomorrow, just to make up for the brining
that it didn't get. Your Thanksgiving dinner? Does it look
like the traditional Thanksgiving dinner? I know a lot of
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people have cranberry issues. For me, if it is not
the ribbed cranberry loaf coming right out of a can
of Libby's, then I am not eating it. I know
your grandmother made a wonderful cranberry sauce that had orange
and bits and stuff in it, and.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I don't care. I don't want it.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
I want canned Libby's cranberry sauce and I will accept
no other.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
So I actually have a can.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
My aunt is coming over and she says, oh, I
make a great cranberry sauce.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I said, you know what, bring it.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
I'm sure everybody else will love it, but not me.
I want a slice of cranberry to go on top
of my turkey with the dressing and the gravy.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
I don't stuff my bird.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I do.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I do a big platter separately, because I can't be try.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
I'm not a good enough cook to keep from killing
anybody if I stuff that bird and don't get it
cooked all the way through. I need it cooked all
the way through. So that's the important part for me,
getting it cooked. So I do a dressing, and it's
got to be cornbread dressing, not some bready thing.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
And you know what, in.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
San Francisco they put oysters in their turkey dressing stuffing.
I don't know what that is. That nonsense right there.
Oysters are gross. They are just vile and disgusting. Our
family has a traditional oyster casserole.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Oh it's like it's like a.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Casserole for really poor people where you use just the
oysters and it is crackers, salting crackers and something else.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
I cannot do it. I just cannot do it.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
I cannot.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I moved to Charleston, South Carolina, for a very short
period of a couple of years, which is a wonderful
place to live. By the way, South Carolina absolutely beautiful.
It is all about the oyster there. I have tried
to love oysters in every iteration that you can try
to love an oyster. I've done one raw which did
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not stay where it was supposed to go, so that
didn't work. I've done the oyster roast, you know where
they take those big sheets of plywood and then they
put burr lap down, put a bunch of oysters on it,
cover it with wet burr lap again, and roast them
over open pit fires. Should be delicious, Yeah I did not.
(30:35):
But it's weird because I like clams and mussels. It's
just the oyster. There's something about the oyster that says no,
not for me. So no oysters in my stuffing or
my dressing. It's just gonna be cornbread, stuff, green beans. Yes,
what is that salad? O ambrosia? I do love ambrosia. Look,
(30:56):
you can take you can take the girl out of
the trailer park, but you not going to get the
trailer park out of the girl. I love trashy food
trailer park, trash food, Kraft macaroni and cheese in a box.
I'm down with the program, Vien the sausages you got
me Spam, yes, although my tastes have improved. I do
(31:16):
musubi now, which is kind of a Hawaiian fried spam
with rice pretending to be sushi kind of deal.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
And it's lovely, absolutely lovely.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I hope your Thanksgiving is fabulous and whatever that looks
like for you. I know for a lot of people
that go out to restaurants and they want to do
a restaurant Thanksgiving, and you.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Know what, good on you.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
However you do it, do it with pleasure and have
fun with the people that are in your life. It
is such a great privilege that we have to live
in this fabulous country where we get to do this
kind of thing.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
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(01:02):
As we head into this Thanksgiving holiday, want to start
off to let you know that you know what, the
vast majority of US still celebrate Thanksgiving. The traditions and
the activities vary, but according to Pew, ninety one percent
of Americans celebrate Thanksgiving ninety one percent. Ninety three percent
of adults born in the United States celebrate Thanksgiving. Eighty
(01:25):
eight percent of immigrants who have been in the country
for more than twenty years celebrate Thanksgiving. Seventy six percent
of immigrants who have been in the country eleven to
twenty years they just haven't found the glories of turkey
yet they are celebrating Thanksgiving, and seventy four percent of
immigrants who have been in the country for a decade
or less celebrate Thanksgiving Day. It is I know some
(01:48):
people want to make it problematic, but some people want
to make everything problematic. So let's just enjoy the holiday
and we can worry about the problems later.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
One of the.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Best things ever about Thanksgiving came courtesy of one of
the best shows on TV about radio outside of Fraser
and News Radio. It was w KRP in Cincinnati, and
I mean, do we all remember the famous turkey drop.
(02:17):
Here's a little bit of that for you today.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Now the crowd is The crowd is curious but well behaved,
and I think i'd hear something. Now the crowd is
moving out into the parking area.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
And oh yes, I can see it now. It's a
it's a hang a copter and it's coming.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
This way, ex flying something behind it. I can't quite
make it out.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
It's a large banner and it says, uh hivvy tame.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Gim me.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
From w What a site that is, gentlemen, What a sight.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
The culture seems to be circling in the parking area now,
I guess it's looking for a.
Speaker 7 (03:11):
Place to land.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
No, something just came out of the back of the helicopter.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
It's a dark object. Her head's a skydiver humming to
be to the earth from only two thousand men in
the air.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
To the third.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
No parachute yet.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
At least Kinver.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I can't not your.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Cat what they are.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
But oh my god, they're parking.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Coolly's running around pushing each other. Oh my goodness, Oh
that you want to.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Running a bombs of the turkeys are hitting the ground
like sets of wet samits.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I don't know how much longer the tron is running.
Their lives I think they go to step in side.
I can't stand here and watch this view wall. No,
I can't go in.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
There hasn't been anything like that. I don't know how
much division here, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Last, are you there?
Speaker 9 (04:22):
Lass? Isn't there?
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Thanks for that?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
On the spot report last.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
We just tuned in.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
The Pinedale shopping mall has just been bombed with.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
E oh.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
For anybody who has been in radio longer than five minutes,
that is a classic.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
And if you've been in radio.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
For longer than five minutes, you know then unfortunately promotions
go awry.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, the great to.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Say again, just like that, Just like that, just like that,
you've ruined everything. The WKRP in Cincinnati, Turkey Drop. I
know it's on YouTube, you can find it. It's a
great It's just a great piece of Americana. WKRP was
such a classic show and the characters in it were
(05:20):
not actually far from what you actually see in radio.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Am I wrong or am I right?
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Jeff? You are absolutely correct.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Even today, even today we still have this radio is
just its own animals, it's its own thing, and it's inappropriate.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's fun, it's funny, and it's a.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Disaster in the making ninety nine percent of the time
you're here. It just I mean, I open this microphone,
I have no idea what is going to come out
of my head because there is no intercept between my
brain and my mouth.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
It just it comes right out.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
And I have done some humdingers in my time, and
I will not share them with you because I know
that they're on tape somewhere, probably hidden in the vault
in San Diego, where they're like, we cannot, we cannot
let this see the light of day because Latana has
been here for a million years. Well, yeah, I've been
here for a million years and I made a million mistakes.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Children searching for their mothers. Oh not since the Hindenburg
tragedy has there.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Been anything like this? And then at the end, the
station manager saying.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Oh, oh I got that, Oh you have it, Yeah,
you want to hear it. I do as God as
my witness. I thought turkeys could fly.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
This is your Morning Show with Michael DELTONA.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Had to play the WKRP classic and apparently Red told
me that he showed that episode to a couple of
people who were a couple of generations behind us. I'm
jen X, I'm pretty sure that Red and Jefford jen
X as well, close enough for rock and roll. So
he said that they were appalled, and I said, you know,
(07:06):
they do realize that no actual turkeys were killed in
the Turkey episode of WKRP. They're falled. It's appalling because,
as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. Well,
Thanksgiving is almost here. Travelers are today probably feeling a
little more pressed than they were yesterday. Yesterday was the
biggest flying day and a lot of people are driving today,
(07:29):
so you're kind of rushed.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
You're trying to get where you're going.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
We're not looking at a lot of flight delays, but
we are looking at some weather stuff happening around the country.
So depending on where you're going, you know, as usual,
you got to keep an eye on it, because what
are we going to do if it snows.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
We're just gonna deal with it.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
The holiday shopping season, of course, unofficially begins or is
it unofficially or officially, because I think it's officially. Black
Friday is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. You
have Black Fridays, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday. I
guess we all take a break on Sunday to go
to church or do whatever. Sally Patterson says, while consumers
are expected to shell out a record amount this year, record,
(08:11):
they are somehow simultaneously and I'm not sure how this works,
being more careful about their spending.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
US National Retail Federation four pasts that winter holiday sales
will reach almost one trillion dollars in November and December,
but the rate of spending growth is expected to be
the slowest the country scenes since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Now Target says it's forecasting softer demand for electronics and
home goods. Yes, do not buy me a Dyson. As
much as I love Dyson, do not buy me a Dison.
I don't need that. Analyst's note that while inflation is easing,
consumers are spending cautiously on non essentials. They are hunting
for deals, and they are They're right. I mean, I'm
(08:55):
hunting for a deal. I wasn't really sure what was happening.
Normally around Christmas, I fly to London to see my boyfriend,
and I held off because I wasn't really sure what
was happening with you know, job situations and with dad
and my big move from San Diego to Phoenix and
being unemployed and maybe having less money than I normally would.
(09:17):
So you know, I too, am being very careful when
it comes to when it comes to Christmas gifts, like
the stuff that's on my Amazon list that I'm not
going to do on small It's I don't do small
business Saturday either. I just do small business whenever I
want to. Ace Hardware being one of my personal favorites.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Don't ask me, but.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I love an Ace hardware, So you know, I'm being careful.
I've got a bunch of stuff that's in an Amazon
cart that's been there for a while, and I've been
tracking the prices, and if those prices don't go down
to a level that I am very comfortable with, they're
not getting bought.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I will not be buying the things. And it's not
just you.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Know, oh, you know, here's this rug that you've looking at.
There's a rug that I want, but they had a
prime day what was it back in October?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
The rug did not go down in price. I did
not buy the rug.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
It's been in there the whole time, and I will
leave it there because if I don't get the price
that I want for that rug, I'm not buying it,
and I think there are a lot of Americans you
may be in the same position. If you're not getting
a great price, you're not going to do it.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Now.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
When I head out to small businesses, you know, is
price a factor? Not necessarily, because these are special things
that I'm buying. The stuff that I've got in the
Amazon cart is stuff that I know my mom wants,
my dad wants, my boyfriend wants. Some stuff that I
want because I always shop for me for Christmas too,
And the stuff that I will go out actually to
(10:46):
a store, that's when I start getting really specific about
what I want for my aunt and my uncle, what
I want for my mom, what I want for my dad,
what I want for I have a caregiver who lives
with us. I want to buy her something nice, and
it'll be something probably from a small business, most likely
something a little bit artsy, made by somebody here locally.
(11:08):
I really dig that as I get older, it becomes
more and more important for me to make those kinds
of purchases. And I've asked my friends about it that
they feel the same way. So as you get ready
to go out and do your holiday shopping, how are
you going to do it. What does it look like
to you? I'm curious. All you have to do is
(11:29):
give us a call at eight hundred and six eight
eight nine five two to two or the free iHeartRadio
app Boop.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
You just hit that microphone and there you go.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
We had Paul from Wilmington and Delaware who said thanks
and he is loving the show. So I'm saying thanks
because I'm loving the show too. I haven't had this
much fun in radio and I don't know how long.
And that's just because I'm just doing me today. Poor
Red and poor Jeff. I don't know how they're tolerating
me because I go off script all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
A normal I'll host his a whack job. So you've
there've done really well.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Apparently Michael's a little bit of a whack job too,
so yeah, all right, Well that's good. It's good that
I can just go off the complete rails. I'm off
in Outer Siberia doing radio my way. As if I
know anything, I don't know anything. I know nothing, So
give us a call or give us a talk back.
How are you shopping? Are there special ways that you
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shop for special people in your life?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Because I don't get their stuff, the nice gift.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
You know, everybody gets gifts, but the nice gift that
comes from local. I always want to go local, and
I'm willing to pay for it as long as I
get those nice prices in my Amazon shopping cart, which
I am still waiting for. Even though Black Friday sales
they say are underway. I don't know if I believe that.
So how are you doing it? Are you doing it
(12:55):
your way? We got a call from Rich in Sacramento
and he said that thanks for playing the WKRP. It
is a classic. The Turkey drop is a classic. And
if you were if it's even better if you're in radio,
because everybody knows that station manager. Everybody knows les Nessman,
we all know that reporter, we all know them. We
(13:17):
all know Johnny Fever. Some of us are actually Johnny Fever.
I'm probably Johnny Fever without the pot.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It's he smokes pot, doesn't he. I mean, it's not
just weod to have a hard time thinking he didn't.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah, I mean Johnny Fever was always just a little high,
I think, and we all know those people. So Rich,
thank you for listening in Sacramento. We appreciate you at
least even sending the message. Just tell us exactly what
you're doing, because we want to know. Most important part
of this is I am nosy. I am very very nosy.
(13:59):
Your holiday shopping is of interest to me because I'm
just wondering what it is that you what it is
that you do. Another one of our top stories, President Biden,
and this is controversial and Red and I disagree on this,
and it's funny we disagree, but we kind of agree.
He's pushing for an expansion of coverage for weight loss drugs,
(14:20):
and we have Sally Patterson on this one again. The
administration proposing a new rule that would require Medicare and
Medicaid to offer coverage of medications like ozempic, wagov, and manjaro.
Speaker 10 (14:33):
Proposals from the Bidd Administration would expand coverage for around
seven point four million Americans who use Medicare and Medicaid now.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Previously, Medicare and Medicaid only covered the drugs when they
were prescribed for diabetes. The rule would greatly reduce the
cost of the drugs. Now they can cost about a
thousand dollars if you weren't insured, for instance, and you
wanted to get ozempic or wogov or any of the
other what are they GLP one medications about a thousand
dollars a month.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I mean, it is a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
So if they were to be covered under Medicare and Medicaid,
it would push those prices down at least for those recipients.
And red makes a good point. There's still going to
be expensive drugs, and they are. They're relatively new drugs
on the market, originally for diabetics, and then they found
out that, oh, when we give people these drugs for diabetes,
(15:25):
suddenly they're.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Losing a lot of weight.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
And that can be a wonderful thing, especially for a
type two diabetic. You lose the weight, you reduce your
risk of stroke, you reduce the amount of medications that
you have to take for diabetes. I mean, these can
be a good thing. I think this is a great idea.
I'm worried about the cost. Reads like this is a
terrible idea. The cost is going to kill us, and
(15:51):
we're probably both right.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
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Speaker 5 (16:27):
Apart from eating, what are you doing well? Americans are
doing a wide range of things for this Thanksgiving. Thirty
five percent of Americans say it is extremely I know, shocking,
or very likely that they will watch sports.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I know.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
I'm trying to get sports lined up for my dad.
My dad loves football. He loves football, so it in
this day and age. You know, it used to be
that you just turned on either ABC if they had
the NFL contract, or NBC or you know whoever had it.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
You just turned on the TV and you watch football
all day.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Well, now it's on different apps, and I spend a
very large majority of my time talking to my dad's
fire TV going no NFL Live, trying to find where
is the you know, where is the game and.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
What time is it on and can we please watch it?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
And it'll be on It'll be on Paramount Plus for
one game, and then it's on a local station for
another game, and then it's it's all over the road.
It's driving me crazy. It was life was simpler when
I was a child. People, Apart from eating, what else
are you going to do? About nineteen percent say they
are going to watch a parade. When it comes to conversation,
thirty five percent of you say it is extremely or
(17:41):
very likely that you're going to talk about worker school
on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I mean, that's what we do.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
We sit around, we eat, we catch up, figure out
what's going on. My aunt and uncle are going to
be here for this Thanksgiving at my house.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
They just got off a cruise to Mexico. They had
a ball, So we're going to.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Talk about their cruise, and I have a feeling that
I will be forced to look at pictures of oh, yes,
there's another vote, and I will enjoy every minute of
it because they had a ball.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
In the wake of.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
The presidential election, twenty six percent expect the election to
come up, come up.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Maybe they'll talk about that Kamala Harris bite, because that's
worth listening to over and over.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
It's our Sound of the day.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
After all similar shared, twenty four percent expect to talk
about pop culture like music or movies, and four percent
say they're actually going to a movie.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
It's a great time to go to a.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Movie on Christmas Day or on Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Holidays fabulous for movies.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Now here's the thing, though, I have become so jaded,
and i'm and I'm older now, and I have to
go to the bathroom more often than I used to.
I can't sit and watch a movie for two and
a half hours.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I just can't. I have to have a pause button.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
And if they would give me a pause button at
the movie theater where I paused it and we said, okay,
we are all going to go to the bathroom and
then we will come back and.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
We will finish this, it would be perfect.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
But you can't give me a big old coke like
that and a big old popcorn like that and then
expect me to sit there for the whole two and
a half or three hours that you have decided to
make your movie.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I'm not gonna make it. I can't. I'm just too old.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
So a lot of us, so many of us celebrating Thanksgiving,
going back to the original poll, ninety one percent of
us celebrate Thanksgiving. And I know that it's a holiday where,
you know, you have people who are like, oh, you know,
this is the exple exploitation of Native Americans and YadA, YadA, YadA,
(19:45):
and it's like, yeah, we can we can think that way,
or we can take it for what it is in
today's day and age, which is just a time to
sit down with our families, be together, hang out, have
a good time, argue a little bit, deal with you know,
(20:05):
drunken aunts and uncles who do weird stuff and just
enjoy each other. And I think that's I think that,
you know, for everything that we see and hear on
the radio and on TV and YadA, YadA, YadA, when
it comes down to it, I think that's what most
people do.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
They just hang out and they enjoy. And that is.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Something to be incredibly grateful for taking a minute to say,
you know what, No, my life didn't work out the
way that I thought it was going to work out.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I am not doing what I thought I was going
to be doing.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Okay, So I still have my dad, I still have
my mom who is in San Diego. I wish that
I could have flown her over here for Thanksgiving, but
there's stuff going on over there that she's got to
deal with. And I have everything that I could possibly need.
Plus I still have my Corvette because that thing's paid for.
(21:00):
All the unemployment in the world will not take that
car away from you. I am Lodonna Harvey in Phoenix,
Arizona today, and I am in all this week save tomorrow.
We're taking tomorrow off all of us are and so
we'll be back on Friday again with Michael del Jorno
in the Michael del Jorno Memorial seat.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I still haven't come up with a good euphemism or
term for this, Jeff, and I need to come up
with something catchy.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Maybe by Friday.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Yeah, we'll work on that and have you something ready
to go by Friday.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Okay, Okay, let's play that beautiful Kamala Harris sound again,
because I tell you it's the sound of the day
for a reason.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It is.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
The most nothing of any nothing I have ever nothing
in my entire life.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Jeff, here we go.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
I just have to remind you, don't you ever let
anybody take your power from you. You have the same
power that you did before November fifth, and you have
the same purpose that you did, and you have the
same ability to engage and inspire. So don't ever let
(22:11):
anybody or any circumstance take your power from you.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Oh come on, man, what is that?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Can you tell me what that means? Maybe you can
tell me what she's talking about? Because I don't know
what she's talking about.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I honestly don't.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
And I don't say that as somebody who hates her.
I don't hate her. I thought she was a terrible candidate.
I think she has been given a whole lot more
than she's earned. But that's political experience that you know.
I was in California for decades, so I watched her
come up through the ranks and I know how it happened.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
What does she even mean there?
Speaker 5 (22:54):
And if you're a Democratic voter, do you really need
her to to word salad you to death over your feels?
Are you really that broken hearted over the election? Because
most people are not. Most people are. My best friend
is a gay man who is center left. He's left,
(23:16):
but he's but he's more center than he has anything else.
He's like, you know, I'm gonna wait and see he said,
I have hope. I have hope that you know, he'll
take the taxes off of Social Security. The fact that
we tax a tax that we were taxed already on
blows me away. It's like you didn't even let me
earn the interest on it, and now you want to
tax me on it before you give it back to me.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
You stole it, give it back. You don't get to
tax that.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
It's your morning show with Michael Del Johno.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
We won't be here tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
It's gonna be a best of show, which it will
feature the best of and you're gonna hear Michael's voice.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
It's gonna be like he's here, except he won't.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Be Oh no, oh no, no one of us will be
here and you're only hearing Lodonna and Michael's voice.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Nice, Jeff, you're gonna be here.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Yeah, it's a Thanksgiving treat.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Oh my, well, I'm sorry that you have to work,
Red and I are going to be, you know, sleeping
off Turkey comas and enjoying ourselves. And I'm so sorry
you have to work, but I'm so glad it's not me.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
All It's all good. Somebody's got to keep the ship.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Aflope somebody's got to do it, and obviously I am
not your captain. Okay eight hundred and six eight eight
nine five two to two. You get me driving the bus.
The bus is going all over the road. This is
why they don't let me do that sort of thing.
You can talk back to us on your iHeartRadio app.
It is free. You just make a comment, ask a question,
you hit that red microphone button, boop, and then you
(24:41):
tell us exactly how you feel. Lots of people celebrating Thanksgiving.
Ninety one percent of us celebrate Thanksgiving. It's maybe one
of my favorite holidays. It might be my favorite holiday
of the year. I enjoy Thanksgiving. I enjoy turkey, I
enjoy all the fixings, and I enjoy cooking. Actually, for
the longest time, I lived in an apartment in San Diego,
(25:03):
and you know here, I am big radio, big radio hotshot, right.
I lived in a one bedroom apartment with a postage
stamp style kitchen with an apartment sized stove, so you
could fit.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
A turkey in there. But it is all you're going
to get in there. That was it.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
There was turkey and there was nothing else. And I
tried to host Thanksgiving a couple of times and realized
I had to work like a rotation thing in to
make this thing happen so my mom and brother and
some friends could come over and have Thanksgiving. Are you
celebrating it with your family or are you It turns
out that there are about five percent of people who
(25:39):
are going to have their Thanksgiving dinner alone. Two percent
of Americans are not going to have Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
That is just sad.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
That is sad most Americans though, seventy four percent of us,
we're going to have Thanksgiving with a lot of other people,
and in some cases there's going to be a lot
of a lot.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Of other people.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Twenty six percent will have Thanksgiving dinner with more than
ten people this year.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I'm doing six. That's enough for me.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Seven percent we'll have it with more than twenty other people.
My family's pretty small, so we don't have twenty people
to gather. Fifteen percent will do three to five other people,
and four percent are going to do Thanksgiving with one
or two other people. Meanwhile, they are about thirty four
percent of us who are going to do Turkey dinner
(26:25):
at home this year, and then all the rest of them, Yeah,
they're hitting the road now. Afternoon is the most popular time.
I'm doing two o'clock in the afternoon because I have
to get up, and you know, it takes forever to
cook that bird, which I haven't even managed to brin yet.
I'm going to brian it as soon as I get home.
It's not going to get the great brinding that it
should have. But I was busy. I was wrankling Dad
(26:47):
and his dog, Gunner, Gunner, the wonder dog who likes
cookies and he will fake see Gunner. Gunner has the
ability to poop anywhere at any time. It's like it
just falls out of him, and so I have put
him on a very strict regiment of going outside to
go to the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
I don't I.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Don't know why Gunnar does this. And my carpet is white,
by the way, so Gunner is. Gunner is behind a
baby gait, or at least he is most of the
time until he escapes.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
So I have to take him outside.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
And then I have to give him a cookie for
being a good boy and peeing or pooping outside. This
is the way that it has to be in my house.
I don't know why I felt like I needed to
tell you the Gunner story. But that's the wrangling that
I do is between d and Dad and everything else.
I meant to brind the turkey yesterday and I just
(27:40):
did not get to it. So today I'm whipping out
the apple cider and the salt and all of the
herbs in the gar like and everything else, and I'm
gonna put it in a big turkey basting bag, and
I'm gonna hope for the best. Hopefully I will have
a flavorful, delicious bird that I may in fact stuff
with butter tomorrow, just to make up for the brining
that it didn't get. Your Thanksgiving dinner? Does it look
like the traditional Thanksgiving dinner? I know a lot of
(28:02):
people have cranberry issues. For me, if it is not
the ribbed cranberry loaf coming right out of a can
of Libby's, then I am not eating it. I know
your grandmother made a wonderful cranberry sauce that had orange
and bits and stuff in it, and.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I don't care. I don't want it.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
I want canned Libby's cranberry sauce and I will accept
no other.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
So I actually have a can.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
My aunt is coming over and she says, oh, I
make a great cranberry sauce.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I said, you know what, bring it.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
I'm sure everybody else will love it, but not me.
I want a slice of cranberry to go on top
of my turkey with the dressing and the gravy.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
I don't stuff my bird.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I do.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I do a big platter separately, because I can't be try.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
I'm not a good enough cook to keep from killing
anybody if I stuff that bird and don't get it
cooked all the way through. I need it cooked all
the way through. So that's the important part for me,
getting it cooked. So I do a dressing, and it's
got to be cornbread dressing, not some bready thing.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
And you know what, in.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
San Francisco they put oysters in their turkey dressing stuffing.
I don't know what that is. That nonsense right there.
Oysters are gross. They are just vile and disgusting. Our
family has a traditional oyster casserole.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Oh it's like it's like a.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Casserole for really poor people where you use just the
oysters and it is crackers, salting crackers and something else.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
I cannot do it. I just cannot do it.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
I cannot.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I moved to Charleston, South Carolina, for a very short
period of a couple of years, which is a wonderful
place to live. By the way, South Carolina absolutely beautiful.
It is all about the oyster there. I have tried
to love oysters in every iteration that you can try
to love an oyster. I've done one raw which did
(30:12):
not stay where it was supposed to go, so that
didn't work. I've done the oyster roast, you know where
they take those big sheets of plywood and then they
put burr lap down, put a bunch of oysters on it,
cover it with wet burr lap again, and roast them
over open pit fires. Should be delicious, Yeah I did not.
(30:35):
But it's weird because I like clams and mussels. It's
just the oyster. There's something about the oyster that says no,
not for me. So no oysters in my stuffing or
my dressing. It's just gonna be cornbread, stuff, green beans. Yes,
what is that salad? O ambrosia? I do love ambrosia. Look,
(30:56):
you can take you can take the girl out of
the trailer park, but you not going to get the
trailer park out of the girl. I love trashy food
trailer park, trash food, Kraft macaroni and cheese in a box.
I'm down with the program, Vien the sausages you got
me Spam, yes, although my tastes have improved. I do
(31:16):
musubi now, which is kind of a Hawaiian fried spam
with rice pretending to be sushi kind of deal.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
And it's lovely, absolutely lovely.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I hope your Thanksgiving is fabulous and whatever that looks
like for you. I know for a lot of people
that go out to restaurants and they want to do
a restaurant Thanksgiving, and you.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Know what, good on you.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
However you do it, do it with pleasure and have
fun with the people that are in your life. It
is such a great privilege that we have to live
in this fabulous country where we get to do this
kind of thing.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
We're all in this together. This is Your Morning Show
with Michael Nheld Joano
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