A gray, rainy Tuesday turns into a full‑blown Thanksgiving spectacular as we pull you close to the wood stove, ladle up second‑day split pea soup, and say a heartfelt thanks to the people who make this community feel like family. We set a warm, easy tone, then let the season’s greatest hits play out: kitchen saves and flubs, classic radio moments, family quirks, and the songs that turn a meal into a memory.
We kick off with a gratitude roll call—health, friends, peace, joy—and jump into a playful tour of holiday cooking. Think undercooked turkeys, rogue basters, and that eternal debate over the right fork. Humor keeps things light while we swap stories that sound a lot like your own kitchen: the empty‑fridge scramble, the gravy that needs a miracle, and the table set a little crooked but filled with love. Nostalgia threads through the hour with the WKRP turkey giveaway, a timeless reminder that the silliest traditions can hold the most heart.
Family dynamics get their turn too: the forever‑late cousin, the “no food touching” truce, and the moment someone carves too soon. We nod to the deeper roots of the holiday with a brief look at migration, community, and the evolving promise of gratitude that became part of American culture. Then we let music do what it does best—carry the feeling—moving from tender blessings to the sing‑along comfort of Alice’s Restaurant. By the end, you’ll have laughed, remembered, and maybe picked up a new way to offer thanks that lasts longer than leftovers.
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Episode Transcript
Hi there it is, Pat's Peeps Podcast for three
hundred and sixty-three.
Thank you for checking it out.
We've got Pat's Peepsmerchandise at PatsPeeps.com,
supporting local businesses, ofcourse.
And free dinner for you at Rockand Soul.
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As I look out my studio windowinto the beautiful foothills of
Northern California on thisTuesday.
A uh rainy gray day.
Got the fire and the wood stoveagain.
Nice and cozy again, just likeyesterday.
The split pea soup I made lastnight told you all about.
(00:56):
You know what?
It like condenses overnight.
It goes from split pea soup,like now it's condensed down.
But it is just it's so deliciousthe second day.
Y'all know what I'm talkingabout.
That next day, spaghetti orwhatever.
Seems like it's always better.
Anyhow, wherever you'relistening, I thank you.
Alright, I'm very grateful andthankful for you to be a part of
(01:20):
our Pat's Peeps family here.
By the way, my name is PatWalsh.
I host the Pat Walsh show, heardon uh KFPK Radio Monday through
Friday, 7 to 10 PM.
Very thankful for that as well.
You know, tonight we'll haveScott Robinson on, talk a little
bit as we get closer toThanksgiving.
You know, we're keeping itlight, which I like to do that.
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But I just want to make it veryclear here during uh this th
this season and always that I amvery grateful and thankful
thankful to you.
So I'm giving thanks for youlistening to my show and my
podcast and for supporting theselocal businesses and for being
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friends.
So with that, I thought today wewould just celebrate
Thanksgiving and do ourThanksgiving spectacular.
Alright?
So with that, I have accumulatedsome Thanksgiving stuff I
thought I would share with youin this beautiful time of the
year, this this season.
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And with that, as we proceedhere on Pat's Peeps number 363,
yes, indeed, I present to youour Thanksgiving extravaganza,
or did I call it spectacular?
That's right.
Hold on, where's my buttons?
Here I go.
SPEAKER_17 (02:43):
Thank you for my health, thank you for my wealth,
thank you for my friends, thankyou for my family, thank you for
my peace, thank you for my joy,thank you for my happiness,
(03:11):
thank you for my love, thank youfor my abundance.
SPEAKER_04 (03:25):
What's the matter, Big Brother?
Nothing.
I was just checking the mailbox.
What did you expect?
A turkey card?
Holidays always depress me.
I know what you mean.
I went down to buy a turkeytree.
And all they have are things forChristmas.
(03:47):
For Christmas?
Already?
Anyway, why should I give thankson Thanksgiving?
What have I got to be thankfulfor?
All it does is make more workfor us at school.
Do you know what we have to donow?
(04:08):
We have to write an essay onStanley Miles.
You mean Miles Standish?
I can't keep track of all thosepeople.
What's all the commotion?
We've got another holiday toworry about.
It seems Thanksgiving Day isupon us.
SPEAKER_03 (04:27):
I haven't even finished eating all my Halloween
candy! Sally, Thanksgiving is avery important holiday.
Ours was the first country inthe world to make a national
holiday to give thanks.
Isn't he the cutest?
SPEAKER_08 (04:44):
Man, this turkey takes forever.
Maybe should have planned itbetter.
All of your family and friends,they are waiting until the
baking ends.
It's still cold inside thecenter.
You could take it out now,however.
You would give everyonesalmonella.
You would give everyonesalmonella.
(05:06):
Ella, Ella, ay, ay, ay,everyone's salmonella, Ella.
In the gravy, you can add alittle cream in the gravy.
You can add some more your feetin the gravy.
You can pour it on your hand inthe gravy.
(05:26):
Oh, you can pour it on yourhand.
SPEAKER_14 (05:30):
Poor little bird.
They probably hung you up byyour toes in a dark room
somewhere till it was time tocut off your head.
Well, stop complaining.
My headache's just beginning.
Here I am, five o'clock in themorning, stuffing breadcrumbs up
a dead bird's butt.
SPEAKER_02 (06:00):
Hello.
I came over late.
She was looking like a snack.
But a fridge said hell no.
unknown (06:11):
Damn.
SPEAKER_02 (06:15):
Bitch fine ass up, laid out on the couch.
Told me come eat, but ain't gota shit in the house.
No bread, no juice, no peanutbutter.
Just a dirty ass fridge and asingle stick of butter.
Talking about we can order somefood.
Bitch, I'm broke.
I was hoping you'd come through.
You got lashes, wigs, a BBL too,but not a damn egg or a pack of
(06:40):
ramen boo.
That's wow.
She said, make yourselfcomfortable.
I said I'm finna pass out.
I'm uncomfortable.
Even your cat looking hungry ashell.
He licked my ankle like pleasebreak the spell.
She ain't got no groceries.
She ain't got no groceries.
(07:03):
She look good, but a cabinet'sguilty.
She ain't got no groceries.
She ain't got no groceries.
How you find what you got in nosex.
No Kool-Aid, no surface.
SPEAKER_01 (07:19):
Well, yeah, I mean there might be some PETA people
in the room.
You know those PETA people.
They're awfully sensitive.
They see a blind homeless manwith a seeing eye dog, and they
go, Oh, I hope that dog eats.
And I always hesitate making funof PETA members and vegetarians,
(07:42):
because you're not supposed toinsult women.
Because most of your vegetariansare they're women.
You see a few pale anemicgirlish boys.
(08:04):
Nine times out of ten, when yousee a man that's a vegetarian,
he's fake and five.
Yeah, you show me a man that's avegetarian, I'll show you
someone trying to f avegetarian.
SPEAKER_10 (08:24):
On Thanksgiving Day, I think it's pretty true.
Us dads can't make it make itlike we're supposed to do.
The dining room, room, room.
We have no taste.
We put all the wrong forks inall the wrong places.
I see the magazines with all therecipes.
My daughter, she could make itfor me.
(08:44):
Daddy's me.
So mommy hands me this and says,You gotta stop till every inch
of it is perfect from the bottomto the top.
Oh yeah, mama said, told me,Don't worry about the five.
SPEAKER_09 (08:58):
Don't worry that I burn it because I screw up
everything I tried.
He's got the fingers, thefingers trying.
You got the rules made a wrong.
It looks like pudding.
Fiscus, this baster and timerand go ahead and move along.
SPEAKER_20 (09:19):
All right, fellow babies, and now it's time to go
to our live remote man on thescene at the Pinedale shopping
mall for the big WKRP turkeygiveaway.
So take it away, Les Nessman.
SPEAKER_06 (09:30):
This is Les Nessman, your man on the scene here at
the Pinedale Shopping Centerwhere the excitement is
mounting.
We're here to witness the bigWKRP turky Thanksgiving
giveaway.
Hey, you got permission to beout here?
What?
You're blocking my store here,buddy.
Don't you know who I am?
I'm Les Nessman.
I won the Buckmine News FoxAward last year.
(09:51):
You Buck of mine, I'll get outof my doorway.
Sorry.
Happen to witness what has beendescribed as perhaps the
greatest turkey event onThanksgiving day.
All we know for sure is that ina very few moments there's going
to be a lot of happy people outhere.
(10:12):
Now the crowd is I think I hearsomething now.
Oh, yes, I can see it now.
(10:32):
It's coming this way.
It's finding something behindthe side.
SPEAKER_11 (12:30):
I used to touch you catchy for now.
I just think that you've got togo.
SPEAKER_21 (13:18):
But it's a holiday.
It's a holiday.
SPEAKER_15 (13:20):
Yeah, we never have taken the rest of the year, but
now we have to eat it.
It's a funny holiday, if you askme.
It makes no sense.
In a minute.
SPEAKER_21 (13:30):
Gabriel should be here any minute.
SPEAKER_15 (13:32):
Yeah, that man will be late for his own film.
SPEAKER_05 (13:38):
Then what do we eat?
I'm hungry.
SPEAKER_04 (13:44):
No, no, no, no.
We should wait for Gabriel.
SPEAKER_05 (13:46):
We should wait for Gabriel.
We have to go to the same thing.
SPEAKER_21 (13:50):
We can't touch the turkey because the game.
SPEAKER_14 (14:05):
I hate those food touches.
What's the difference?
It all ends up in the sameplace.
I hate that.
I hate food touches.
SPEAKER_01 (14:12):
Michael.
SPEAKER_16 (14:17):
Sorry, but late.
Gabriel.
You started without me?
You got the turkey without me?
Come on.
SPEAKER_21 (14:36):
We go.
Every year you're late, Gabriel.
If we were hungry, the kidswanted to eat, we were late if
we couldn't wait.
You all flesh and blood and youcouldn't wait.
You cut the turkey.
That's it! That's the last timeyou call for Thanksgiving.
Gabriel, come here for God.
Gabriel Gabriel! Gabriel! Comeon! Such a movement.
SPEAKER_10 (14:59):
It's ridiculous.
It's the same thing every year.
You know, he we wait for him andhe shows up late and then we cut
the turkey.
SPEAKER_00 (15:05):
Now the rest of the story.
In the medieval Dutch town ofLeiden in the early 17th
century, the immigrants weregetting restless.
There was a significantimmigrant population.
Even back there.
Even back then.
You see, the people of Leidenhad a model in those days.
Leiden refused no people.
(16:44):
North Americans recognize theregistration of marriages, for
example.
(17:51):
Or eventually, however arguably,freedom.
One more.
You know.
SPEAKER_12 (18:09):
We've come to the time in the season when family
and friends gather near to offera prayer of thanksgiving for
blessings we've known throughthe years.
To join hands and thank theCreator.
(18:33):
Now when Thanksgiving is due.
This year when I count myblessings.
This year when I count myblessings, I'm thanking the Lord
(18:54):
He made you.
(19:22):
And oh love that you've madenew.
And this year when I count myblessings, thanking the Lord He
made you.
SPEAKER_13 (19:36):
Hey, grandpa! What's for supper?
SPEAKER_05 (19:39):
Well, tonight you're really in for a treat.
I've got three kinds of pie andthree kinds of meat and four
kinds of vegetables and fivekinds of drink.
Even Junior will get full foronce, don't you think?
SPEAKER_18 (20:03):
Thank you for listening to Pat's Peeps number
363.
Lil Thanksgiving.
Happy Tuesday to you.
We'll see you on the radio.
SPEAKER_19 (20:22):
This song is called Alice's Restaurant.
It's about Alice and therestaurant.
But Alice's Restaurant is notthe name of the restaurant.
That's just the name of thesong.
And that's why I call the songAlice's Restaurant.
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You can get anything you want atAlice's restaurant.
You can get anything you want atAlice's restaurant.
Walk riding, it's around theback, just a half a mile from
the railroad track.
And you can get anything youwant at Alice's restaurant.
(21:15):
Two years ago on Thanksgiving,when my friend and I went up to
visit Alice at the restaurant.
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