Thanksgiving at a Restaurant

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It'smojo in the morning. Shannon got a little little issue

(00:03):
with Thanksgiving. What's happening?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Okay, so it's a weird year. It was a weird
year for Halloween. It's a weird year for Thanksgiving for
us as well. And I say that because I don't
have my kids, Lucy and Smith, and my sister. It's
her year to go to her in laws, and my
mom usually goes with them, and so it is looking
like it's going to be just myself and Wes and

(00:27):
maybe his kids maybe not. I don't we're not even
quite sure of what that situation is yet. He was
trying to figure that out last night. So he mentioned
the possibility of his sisters coming in from Canada. But
he's like, I don't. I don't know if this is
going to happen, Like, I don't know if we should
bank on this or plan on this. And I like
to be prepared. So yesterday I casually threw out the

(00:49):
idea of having Thanksgiving dinner at one of the restaurants
here in downtown Detroit that is offering a Thanksgiving dinner. Option.
Looked at me like I was a gremlin, Like, why
we cannot have Thanksgiving anywhere but at home, And I said,
you guys, all of the prep work and the shopping

(01:12):
and the cooking which I don't really cook, but I
had you help, and the cleaning for two, maybe three,
possibly four people is just not worth it to me.
But they are protesting. I'll get leftovers from a restaurant.
And I'm already. Here's the other thing. I'm already going
to be downtown because we do brunch and we do

(01:33):
the parade, and then I have to transfer Lucian Smith
to their dad because they go to the gates. So
like we're already to be downtown anyway, it would be
perfect to just hang to each is all.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
That's not things given for me.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's what That's what West said, calling it our phone
lines down. Oh okay, yeah, real quick. So here's what
else West said while he's figuring this out.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
No, it's back that. So our phone is our listeners.
Some listeners are texting, a bunch of listeners to texting.
That's the phone line went down.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's only because we had jingle ball tickets.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
So is that what it is?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Sometimes? Just get overwhelmed?

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Okay, all right, all right, go ahead, Beck, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's what wesad keV Is. He was like, I want
to be respectful of other people and I want them
to be enjoying Thanksgiving with their families, not preparing my
Thanksgiving meal, and I go west, We're already going to
Hudson Cafe in the morning. Yeah, so it does not work.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
And he was like, oh yeah, and those people are
working regardless. If you're not there, someone else is there.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
So this is always a dilemma in our family too,
because we did it last year. We went to the
last year I thought was my favorite Thanksgiving I've had
since Chelsea and I, you know, we're young and had
young kids, because I think, now it's just a bunch
of beefy kids that you're feeding right now, it's just
another fricking day feeding you and mom doing all the

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work and then she complains that nobody's helping her and
all that stuff. So last year, we did the Lions
game and we did Thanksgiving dinner afterwards. It was the
best Thanksgiving. Did Thanksgiving dinner, Thanksgiving out and I even
ordered food Thanksgiving food from the place that we had
dinner at and I brought it home for leftover. So

(03:10):
I had extras that we can make stuff after. We
didn't have any pots or pans to clean. We had
the best time. The Lions game was unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Member that I do. That was awesome.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Life is so much better when you can wake up
or you go to wherever they're cooking and you can
smell the food being prepared.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
You're missing all of that by going on there.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
And it sounds like Kevin, you don't cook. So this
is why it's so fun for you. You don't have
to do anything, You just show up.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
That doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Anyway, This is true. I help and I do the
place settings. That's my thing. But I agree with you
and that I love having Thanksgiving at home. I love
having all of my family with me. But if it's
not going to look.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
Like that, what's the point, Listen. I remember a couple
of years ago I had Thanksgiving. It was just me
and mar girl, And I think it's that old adage
where you know, like the you know, house is not
a home, like that type of thing, like you make
it your Why was it just you and your girls?

Speaker 1 (04:09):
How's what we decided to do? You didn't wait, you
didn't go to your families or doing it?

Speaker 6 (04:13):
No.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
I think I probably saw them the next day or
something like that, but this was our time. It was like,
you know, saying in a relationship, let's let's let's do
this together.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
I thot it was great, Dad, am my, stepmom. What
they're doing they usually do it with with I don't
know they've done it with us, They've done it with friends.
It's just a weirder. And then this this thought that
Wes's family might and friends might be coming in from
Canada because they celebrate Thanksgiving on a They already celebrated Thanksgiving,
but he was like, that would be fun to have
everybody in town and get a chance to see them,
but they don't know if they may come, they may not.

(04:42):
I'm like, look, there's going to be a deadline because
I need to prepare. I'm not joking. I need to
mentally prepare if that's happening. So I'm like, by this Sunday,
do you need to figure this out?

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Do you get excited when he says that or do
you go, oh, God, family's coming in? Because I always
wonder when I say that else because I get excited
to see my family. But I always wondered if Chelse's
like I don't want to the family come in. I
want it just to be us.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
I love having people come over. I don't love having
people stay. Oh, and especially right now, our house is
under massive construction because we had a bunch of we
have a pipe situation going on, so I have like
no ceilings and no bathrooms. It's nutty. And so I
told Wes, I'm like this, I want everybody to come,
but we'd you'd have to very politely tell them our

(05:28):
house is not stayable. They'd have to stay in a hotel.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
All right.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Thoughts on this eating out on Thanksgiving? Thoughts on this one?
What's going on? Pam, Hi?

Speaker 7 (05:42):
I good morning. So Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and
we've always done it at like my mom's house, and
my dad passed away this summer and his memorial is
on his birthday, which is the day before Thanksgiving. We've
got grandkids and siblings coming in from like four different states.
Are all going out to eat. Twenty five of us
are going out to a restaurant in Metamora. And then,

(06:07):
because I still like having people over, I'm hosting afterwards
a pie party, so everyone is bringing.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
I love that. Are you going to the White Horse
Inn by the way?

Speaker 5 (06:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Oh, I didn't know that they did Thanksgiving. Shoot, that
just might have made the decision for me.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Is that a good place?

Speaker 2 (06:27):
The white Horse inn is iconic beautiful too, Yeah they
Oh my god, yes, it's so it is.

Speaker 7 (06:35):
You can make cobbler at a pie party after at
the by party.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
At the party. That's a great idea. Uh, what's going on, Kenny?
How you doing, barn guys?

Speaker 6 (06:46):
Shannon?

Speaker 8 (06:46):
Make the dinner?

Speaker 6 (06:47):
My dear? My mom the one year.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
They just moved back from Florida, so she didn't want
to do a big dinner, and she decided that she
was going to get Jimmy.

Speaker 9 (06:58):
John's cater john at Turkey I had a turkey tom
on white.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
My god, you know what.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's so funny. You just reminded me one year my
mom didn't want to cook and so she just ordered
slows and my sisters and I I love slows, but
Thanksgiving I wanted Thanksgiving for and that wasn't Thanksgiving to me.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Imagine if it was Jimmy Johnson. That's oh my god,
it's worth it. Thanks Kenny, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Uh, Laura, what did you guys do for your Thanksgiving?

Speaker 8 (07:33):
So last year and this year at the middle of October,
I ordered honey baked Ham. I get the ham and
the turkey, so that a way you can have a
little bit of both and you also get like size
and stuff. Yeah, we did that so that in the
oven and bam, you're done.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
So we did it, and I thought it was that
was just okay. The ham definitely. Their turkey is just okay.
I think you gotta have You're gonna have turkey. You
got to have like a big old turkey that looks
like a turkey bad boy. Yeah, and you gotta I
want to I want to s Yeah, but I want
to see the legs and I want to see, you know,
the wings, and I want to see everything else.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
When you guys were growing up, did dad or mom
bring out that electronic kitchen knife the money?

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah? What's going on?

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Actually, if you watch the ed Gean movie, please, you'll
have a whole different electric what's up, Hi, Martin, what's
going on?

Speaker 6 (08:32):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (08:32):
Good morning, guys, Good morning.

Speaker 9 (08:35):
So I used to live on a state for about
twenty years with my ex boyfriend, and one of the
things that we did in the holidays because we didn't
live near any family, is we didn't cook.

Speaker 7 (08:47):
Like Denny's eye Hop and everything like that white website.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Stop stop your phone cut out. You said, what would
you You would go to Denny's and ie hop.

Speaker 9 (08:55):
Yeah. So we would go to Denny's an eye hop
and we would tip like the waitress like three four
hundred dollars.

Speaker 7 (09:00):
So cooked.

Speaker 9 (09:02):
But we were also be thankful for the service workers
that were out there.

Speaker 6 (09:05):
Because I used to be one.

Speaker 9 (09:07):
And it's just it's a good feeling.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
You know, you can meet people Jimmy's an eyehop on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
That's he cooks.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh, they go into tip. Okay, all right, So that's
that's nice for you to do that.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
That's sweet. That's sweet.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
I don't want to judge that that was nice for
you to do it, But if that was your meal,
I'd rather have Jimmy John's.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah, you know what I mean. Hold on a second.
What's what's up, Jersey? How you doing?

Speaker 6 (09:34):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (09:35):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (09:37):
What's up?

Speaker 10 (09:38):
I think Thanksgiving has to be at your house, A
huge Thanksgiving with my dad's side of the family, and
it's just like fifty plus people. Everyone makes a dish
and everyone like brings it in, so it's not just
one person.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Cooking at all.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
It is nice to have lots of people over on Thanksgiving.
It doesn't seem right when it's just a few people.
Like you can't sit at a you know, big kitchen
table and have like empty chairs.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
I like the idea.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
I like a Thanksgiving where you don't have enough chairs
and some people have to like, you know.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Sit on the couch with their last.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, or like a coffee table you have to pull
or something like that. You have to bring over an
item that is not necessarily an item to sit on. Yeah,
those are great ones. But I'm not gonna lie to you.
Going to the Lions game and then having a great
meal afterwards is freaking awesome. It really is. It was
one of my favorite things that the leftovers hit the same.
Uh you know what, the leftovers the next day are leftovers,

(10:32):
they're the same. Yeah, I agree, it's not the same.
The best leftovers are not the next day. The best
leftovers are at nine or ten o'clock that night when
everybody is kind of like just sitting there watching Elf
or something.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
What's up, Jesse, where do you guys go?

Speaker 8 (10:47):
We go to the Zenders every year.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Frank, do they have turkey or just the chicken that
they have.

Speaker 8 (10:55):
No they have turkey, and their shrimp is the best.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Those noodles, she just closed her eyes.

Speaker 5 (11:06):
And nothing says Thanksgiving like noodles.

Speaker 7 (11:12):
Thundered noodles are the bat you haven't had.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Don't be mad at me for saying this, but that
place is way overrated. I feel like a crimudgeon.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
This one time, and you have hated on it for
seven years.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
We drove all the way up when I first moved
here years and years ago and started doing this radio show,
everybody kept talking telling me about it.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
You gotta go, you gotta go.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
We go up there in the freaking uh you know,
the the Christmas stuff was like a flea market, you
know what I mean, buying from and the ends.

Speaker 8 (11:44):
Was like, yeah, we do Slash Village and we do
then there so because we have two kids, so it's
just like the black little Splash Village.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
It's the hotel that has the water park. So all right,
you know what, I think? It's nice, happy, happy Thanksgiving.
What's up, Geneva, what's going on?

Speaker 8 (12:05):
Hey? First time, long time?

Speaker 9 (12:10):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (12:11):
So I live by roots parks and we have wild turkeys.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
Okay, So the other day I was taking my daughter
to work and someone had hit a turkey.

Speaker 7 (12:20):
I dropped her off. Before I could come back around
to get home, someone else was scooping up the turkey.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
No wait a second, that's not going to be on
somebody's table, is it.

Speaker 8 (12:30):
I have no clue, but shall look out the firecrack.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Do we know? Do we know?

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Can you eat a wild turkey? I don't know if
you can eat a wild turkey?

Speaker 8 (12:44):
I don't know, but they definitely picked it up like
they wanted to. That was not a city worker, that
was a regular person with wow.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
Same idea for like deer, Like, how do y'all test
them to make sure they don't have anything?

Speaker 1 (12:56):
I don't, well, people, I think you you know, how
do you test your kyle that you're gonna eat? I
don't think they test our col Broger. I don't think
they do. I think they just say. I think they trust.
That's why there's called recalls, miss fit Tony.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
To wrap up? What's that for? Thanksgiving? Topic? Here? What's
going on?

Speaker 6 (13:13):
To listen, little joy old clans, you got me in
on this first of while you're gonna hold me one
hundred dollars because Detroit gonna lose second league will take
such a big deal about Thanksgiving it, Chris, what's all that?
It's just a big waste of time. Take your family
out to eat them with this if she want to

(13:34):
go to heat up to heat if she want to,
but give them a dead line. Don't make a big
deal about it. There's no somebody gonna get drunk and
they're gonna start fighting anyway.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, it's true, it's true. Actually, it's funny.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
I love the people that don't really care about Thanksgiving,
but they go out shopping that night, you know, which,
honestly is kind of fun to do it all together.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Isn't it over? You don't really do that anymore.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
I miss those days.

Speaker 6 (14:00):
I'm not a big deal about it. If you want
to go out to eat glossy, there's no stipulations that.

Speaker 9 (14:06):
Need to be followed.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
Listen, if y'all come and come, it's not off the end.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Mochose you come over, Tony that I should do a misfit. Uh,
you know, Thanksgiving one year, like when the boys decide
that they've got their own families and they don't want
to come home to Chelsea and I and Chelsea's lake
all depressed. I'm gonna say we got kool Aid, Lady
over there, misfit Victor right over there, Tony right over.

Speaker 6 (14:31):
There with Kevin. The lovey's can't come. Only you and
Kevin can come with me. The ladies can't come.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
I'm not hanging out with a bunch of sausages.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
We're not having a sausage fast on Turkey Day.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Big your turkey be moist, and nobody used that were
to describe it.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Happy Thanksgiving from Mojo in the morning.