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November 25, 2025 39 mins

Tuesday (pt 1 of 2): On Today’s Late Riser’s Podcast, Tater has her weekly roundup of What to Watch.. - Col. Brewster stops by and drops his latest work of poetry on us.. - Carl Childers gets a work release from the nervous hospital and shares his version of the story of the first Thanksgiving.. - We venture deep into the cellar of our massive archives and resurface a copy of one of our earliest Playhouse performances, entitled “The First Thanksgiving”.. - We fill a request for Ike Turner’s Cadillac and wrap up with Oliver’s recap of his Thanksgiving Dinner with his in-laws…

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, the Big Shows on the radio. Hang on,
all right, listen to you mogs. It's time to button
your yapp say.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm trying to listen to these two clowns, John Boy
and Belly on the Big Show.

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Yeah, the Big Show. It's big saying bigger than big.
It's enormous.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Hey, he's adorable.

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Got a doo do.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Doo homing at him. It's a Big Show crew on
the radio. He's loving it off. We're slowing off on
you yesterday, baby.

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No wait please, I told him on the podcast that
we had unexpected equipment failure.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Is what caused it?

Speaker 5 (01:09):
That you actually didn't cause it this time? But I
did not say what went wrong that caused the catastrophic failure.

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Okay, well it was my pants.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
I was so ashamed to come in after my bear
hunt and hide County with y'all making fun of my pants.

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Y'all heard that liar liar pants on fire.

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Well just put a little picture of me having fun.
I wanted y'all to follow me, and then.

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What you do, see, that's when someone loves you.

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Speaker 1 (02:16):
Sorry I was looking while I was talking. Is that
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Speaker 9 (02:19):
Came me?

Speaker 8 (02:19):
Go home? All right?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Come on here.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Nineteen ninety one Texans dresses conquistadors rode into Plymouth, Massachusetts,
a by the local Pilgrims over bragging rights to Thanksgiving.
Texans claimed Spanish explorers held the first Thanksgiving along the
Rio Grand at fifteen ninety eight, thirty three years for
the Plymouth Thanksgiving Pilgrims told the Texans go home.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Nineteen twenty, college radio station WTAW broadcast the first play
by play descript of a football game between the University
of Texas and Texas and m about that fun with
Texas this morning. Finally, nineteen ninety eight, actor Michael J.
Fox revealed he had been fighting Parkinson's disease for seven years.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
That was ninety eight. How was he doing now?

Speaker 6 (03:16):
Yeah, I mean it's advanced, but he's still with us.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
Yeah, he's doing something. He's in a movie or a
TV show coming up and I can't remember.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
I'll have to look it up. Michael J. Fox.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
All right, damn, think about famous Michaels and that'll be
our category is one eight hundred Big Show you told
free Line.

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Let's say Brian from Lenox, Georgia.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Hey Brian, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 9 (05:17):
How you doing?

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Hey man, I'll ride. I'm I'm hurting the one side
of my head with tighter. Ready for Thanksgiving?

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Thanks so Brian? What about you? Boddy? I'm ready, I'm
always ready.

Speaker 7 (05:30):
I'm thankful every day that Oh boy.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Get up being thankful.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Let's get you through these three categories and give you
something brand new to be thankful for us.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
But God prize back you ready?

Speaker 9 (05:40):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Three foods served at Thanksgiving dinner?

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Ready to go.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Turkey, mashed potatoes and green beans.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Now we need three things on the radio ready.

Speaker 7 (05:53):
Go, music, ads and best of all comedy.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
And for the three famous people named Michael, Ready to go.

Speaker 10 (06:05):
Michael Douglas, Michael Jordan and Michael Jacob.

Speaker 9 (06:10):
There you are.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Most thankful man, and let us George, I'd be Brian
went in on the Big Show.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Where to go, buddy, b Bye bye bye bye bye
bye bye.

Speaker 11 (06:20):
Brian.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
Thank you? Why the when I got word top of
your news on the other side. One of my favorite
Thanksgiving songs on about Thanksgiving food, Got to have Your
butter Ball. Good Morning Bag shows on the radio day

(07:12):
after Tomorrow Thanksgiving celebrate with a butterball song.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Over the Grandma's screaming River and the blinky and up
since finding be cooking up.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
The goods with the turkey and the cranky and the
rest of your life your Grandpa's cooking to the electric
night and the popball cat. I'm the big keeping, I'm
the John where the pantry dunking fire and the house
too warm.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
It's my mom and I seal for doing their feud,
and I'm just waiting.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
For the food.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Butter Bull, I'm a turkey, ca.

Speaker 12 (08:00):
I know what any yem, I'm a turnkey.

Speaker 6 (08:09):
So battles the grill.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Everybody tried to get banks the past, and Dad tells
a choked nobody lab and we're gonna lady skills their.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Genter rail and we don't talk to Donnie, who's stealing jail.
The second game starts to porn, and my mind is
a million miles away.

Speaker 7 (08:27):
I'm scaring little pill for him playing to the sword.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
We're off the John Yark Cray Blue.

Speaker 8 (08:31):
In the face because he ain't too fat, choking on.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
A drump check.

Speaker 11 (08:40):
I'm a turkey.

Speaker 12 (08:41):
Free the wattles.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Your girl, give him a hind leg.

Speaker 6 (08:50):
I'm a turkey.

Speaker 13 (08:53):
This little bottles grill.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Grandma, you wear too much perfume.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Turned down the hat and a living room.

Speaker 13 (09:01):
Uncle John walks where you steal that beer?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
You did that pansy drink?

Speaker 13 (09:05):
Laugh here I sailed.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Past night drink about my hat. I'm not wearing one
gramatically the press.

Speaker 14 (09:11):
So I go with the kids and the dead up.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Stairs to watch the lion came and we watched it again,
and my dad said, we're leaving again your fighting gear
and it's over walking the night of the year.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
I'm a tucky. It's a while.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Job.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
I'm a sucking Good morning.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
That's a big show on the radio. Together around the radio.
Time for some breakfast steel to action.

Speaker 15 (10:46):
Hello friends, your old pal Burt Burn here with another
gizzard grabbing edition of John Boy and Billy Playhouse, today's
episode the Big Gulp. As our story opens, a haggard
old barfly sits down at the bar next to a
very quiet man.

Speaker 13 (11:02):
Is this stool taking no mind? If I join you?

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Whatever?

Speaker 13 (11:09):
You come here often?

Speaker 1 (11:10):
First time.

Speaker 13 (11:11):
Whoa two whole words? Damn, slow down your dang chatterbox. Sorry,
and we're back to one word.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Look, I'm not good company, all right, I've got a
really bad day.

Speaker 13 (11:23):
Wow, Hell, have another drink me somebody?

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well, I haven't finished this one.

Speaker 13 (11:29):
Well you better catch up, hoss. I'm ahead of you
by four.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Look, can you just leave me alone?

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Please?

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Baby boy?

Speaker 13 (11:35):
You've been eyeballing that cocktails as I walked in here
an hour ago. All that ice has melted. It's gonna
taste flat. Now look look, look I'll show you.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, what why did you do that?

Speaker 8 (11:52):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (11:53):
Hey, hey, hey, hey hey, I'm sorry. Okay, don't don't
take it like that. It was just a joke. Here,
let me get you for hash drinky. Okay, Hey, another
comfort Manhattan from a pal here.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
No, it's not that. This has just been the worst
day of my life.

Speaker 13 (12:08):
Oh, come on, I can't pry that man.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh you don't know. First, I overslept and I get
to work late. My boss throws a fit and fires me.

Speaker 13 (12:17):
Ah, who needs that jerk? Now you can find it
something better.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
When I leave the building, I find out my car's
been stolen.

Speaker 13 (12:24):
Wow with insurance money. You can probably get a brand
new whip, have the weird win.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Then I hail a cab, but I forget my briefcase
in the back seat with my wallet in it.

Speaker 13 (12:35):
Call the cab company and check the lost and found
no problem.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Then and then when I get home, I find my
wife in bed with Waldo, our Polynesian.

Speaker 13 (12:45):
Gardner, and here I am to take her place.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
And after all that, I come here to this bar.
And just when I've made up my mind to end
it all, you come along and drink my poison.

Speaker 13 (13:01):
You're welcome.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Wait what.

Speaker 15 (13:11):
How we hope you enjoyed John Boy and Billy playhouse.
Listen you want to do those top two buttons, and
I'll give you the antidote, ma'am, ma'am.

Speaker 11 (13:23):
Check.

Speaker 15 (13:23):
Please tune in next time when we'll hear Waldo, the
horny Polynesian Gardener say.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Hey, big man, let me hold a dollar.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Good morning, rolling to the Big Show on the radio. Hello,
this is Robert Gulay and you're listening to the pride
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Where's my big bag? Who can't be topical.

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very popular John Boy wonderful thing. This week we're a
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Like we're off the radio at the end of the year,
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Tell y'all to keep up with us through that.

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wife's after me.

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Got some time.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Let's clean out something I have been like two years.

Speaker 5 (15:15):
Yeah, well I want to see the first year about
everything you get away with fitt in one pocket, you.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Know, I guess. Oh yeah, a lot of wonderful things
to go.

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Speaker 13 (16:00):
Yeah, Hey, what's good?

Speaker 5 (16:06):
She just ran to the copy.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
Hey, we're gonna check the box office scores.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
In just a minute.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Why don't I tell you?

Speaker 13 (16:17):
I can tell you what happened to the box office?

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yes, yes, great, Yes, the page refreshed.

Speaker 6 (16:24):
Who was not prepared?

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Wicked for good?

Speaker 6 (16:27):
It came in that numero with one hundred and fifty
million dollars.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
Of commercials on TV. I feel like I've already seen
it like three times.

Speaker 13 (16:39):
Yes, pink and green, pink and green, those are the colors.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
So is this going to replace the old Wizard of Oz?

Speaker 13 (16:46):
This is this is from the Broadway play.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
They turned it into two part movie and this is
this is totally different songs, different things. It's kind of
like the Origin and it's it's totally different music.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
Well, there are people who would say the original Wizard
of Oz was a music because it featured a bunch
of roics.

Speaker 13 (17:04):
I didn't say it wasn't. I just the songs are different. Yeah,
the songs are different.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
So we represent.

Speaker 11 (17:20):
Like the look of you too.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
See she stood in front of her bathroom mirror and
did that instead of collecting.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
The box up.

Speaker 13 (17:28):
I prefer Actually, I had no idea I was going
to do that, all right.

Speaker 6 (17:33):
Second Place went to Now you See Me, Now you don't.
I came in second place. Some people call it now
you See Me three. So if you're into the magicians
doing heists and pulling off robberies and stuff, this is
the film for you.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
I like it, but I mean the three main the
main lead characters in it just don't seem to fit
the role. I mean they don't have the you know,
the George Clooney the.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Zombie.

Speaker 13 (18:03):
Yes, yeah, and it's a very similar character. I think
he kind of has that one. Characters that very dry
right humor.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Kennedy, Yes, we're seeing.

Speaker 6 (18:13):
Third Place went to Predator bad Lands where the predator
walks around with half a half a girl on his back. Yep,
that's the only thing I got from the trailer. But
if you're a Predator fan, this one is for you.
Their Running Man came in fourth place. The not a remake,
just a whole new vision of the movie and the
book The Running Man, and fifth place went to Rental Family.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
I don't know about it. You don't know about it.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
Only three point three million dollars were raised, so I
don't think a lot of people know about the Rental Family.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
All Right.

Speaker 13 (18:44):
Theaters Wednesday Thanksgiving Zotopia too. It's animated.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
It has the voices of Jennifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba,
Adam Sandberg, Fortune Femster, So Brave Rabbit Cop Judy Hops
that's Jennifer, and her friend the Fox, Nick Wilde that's Jason.
They team up again to crack a new case, the
most perilous and intricate of their careers.

Speaker 13 (19:09):
Okay, Eternity.

Speaker 6 (19:11):
Eternity is a movie that's coming out with Miles Teller
and Elizabeth Olsen, the chick from WandaVision like her. In
an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where
to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice
between the man she spent her life with and her
first love, who died young and has waited decades for
her to arrive in Heavin.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
A romantic comedy that lasts for eternity.

Speaker 13 (19:35):
Yeah, and I think I read out of time.

Speaker 6 (19:39):
But you're going to be binge watching a lot of stuff.
So just go to your streaming services and.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
See this football.

Speaker 6 (19:47):
There's amazing Thanksgiving Day parade that will be on NBC
and it's just all your traditions, you know where they go.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, welcome.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
Ah, well, let's play john Boy Jeopardy. Let's jump right
in here. According to the ship's records, the Pilgrims were
supposed to have landed further south, but settled from Massachusetts
due to a dwindling supply of food, water, and this
other essential provision.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Oh, what's a rapidly shrinking supply of pumpkin spice candles?

Speaker 1 (20:18):
They love pumpkins.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
What y'all got one? Eight hundred bigshell? You told free
line across America. We play John Boy Jeopardy next. Good morning,

(20:53):
and that's a big show on the radio rolling through
you Tuesday morning. Our future track from the Big Show
bed Box, Oliver Thanksgiving with Me in Laws, Judge forgive
your words in law when you hit the midbox at
the Big Show dot com.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
And right now let's play yells live across America. It's
John Boy Jepani and now your host.

Speaker 14 (21:15):
He's heard that forty is the new fifty and that
fifty is the new forty. But all he has to
say about it is nine pm is the new midnight.
He means, John that back up.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Unless I heard of Charles out of Windsor, North Carolina.
Good morning, Charles, Yes, sir, John Boy. Hello, buddy, Charles.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
You got the first shout at the John Boy Jeopardy
this morning, so don't get nervous. Sounded like the kind
of guy that wants the ball at the end of
the game.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Oh give it, ball, man, give me the ball. I believe.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
According to the ship's records, the Pilgrims were supposed to
have landed further south but settled for Massachusetts. Do the
dwindling supply of food, water and this other essential provision?

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Hmmm, food, food water, And.

Speaker 10 (22:12):
I think, well, I think they would need uh, I
think they would need some beer.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Charles is what he's standing there figuring out on his own.
We're googling on a really not that's the belt beer?
Could that be?

Speaker 11 (22:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
Let's say show us beer. Yes, y'all, I know what
you mean. All right, buddy, you hang on for Jackie.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
You're gonna hook you up with a big old prize pig.

Speaker 10 (22:51):
Hey can I can I give you a little shout out? Well,
go ahead, I just want to say I've been on
show a few times, and the last time I was
on the show a few months ago, my wife and
I played word word against each other. So I was
teamed up with you as boys against the girls, and

(23:12):
at the end of it, we lost. And man, you
were a little bit upset about that. Oh yeah, thank
you blame me for I said, hey, I've never had
my mood.

Speaker 9 (23:22):
And you said, don't give them a mood.

Speaker 10 (23:27):
And then Randy said, I can't believe you're not giving
the mood.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
That's the first time ever it was. And last time.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
I used.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
So, what did you do?

Speaker 9 (23:50):
Cut my lip out?

Speaker 1 (23:52):
I mean, I mean it must have been something that
spurred that. What was I given great clues? So I
didn't do all that great, No, it was something like that.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Well, I was hanging on the easiest words, I figured
Charles at sooner that I'd have another chance to move you,
you know, down the line, if you're.

Speaker 9 (24:19):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
That thing hates to lease.

Speaker 13 (24:23):
He hates to lose the game.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
I just love that about you.

Speaker 13 (24:27):
He hates to lose.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Charles. I'm sorry because I'm the one to put.

Speaker 11 (24:30):
You in it.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
I could tell the well known.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
Here we are, Charles, just a few bloods, couple of months,
less than two months for our retirement. There this fifty
year career, forty five years with the big show, ladies
and gentlemen. Charles from Windsor, North Carolina gets his move.

Speaker 9 (24:54):
Oh man, that was so good, hie, buy for the
hour top of your news.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
We don't remember Rape on the other side, forget about me,
non moving.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Good morning.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
To make sure it's on the radio, I just go
down to Rape studio, where Robert E is never understood.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
While people have to eat their way through.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
A movie and add the high cost of popcorn and
candy to the ticket price.

Speaker 8 (26:01):
Is there something about a motion picture screen that makes
some human beings salivate over a box of popcorn, willing
to pay a dollar for a Nicholsworth of corn. Maybe
more add to that the inflated price of a bar
of candy and no wonder. People are taking in their
own from home or the store nearby to the movie
theater manager. That's like taking your own bottle of whiskey

(26:22):
in your pocket into the bar. Americans are deserting the
movie theater in droves. More and more people seem to
be giving the modern day moviegoing experience the thumbs down.
The reasons are obvious. Hollywood now routinely churns out an
underwhelming and unoriginal slate of sequels and action movies aimed
primarily at a teen audience. Older film fans, meanwhile, are

(26:44):
taking advantage of new technologies in the living room to
avoid high ticket and concession prices, waiting to see movies
when they're available via Netflix or on demand. Theaters should
consider lowering the prices. The average price for a movie
ticket can it costs as much as thirteen dollars in
some cities. Bafflingly, that price stays the same no matter

(27:06):
what movie you watch. This one price for all approach
doesn't make much sense. Couldn't the experiment with charging lower
prices for smaller, less popular movies, or even discounted prices
on weekends. If movie theaters provide a true variety of films.
Stop ripping off the customers with overpriced snacks and police
the cell phone yakers and texters. Audiences will come back.

(27:28):
Americans love the movies as much as ever. It's the
theaters and the people in them that are losing their charm.
I second that Robert d Rayferd rather be reading the
book anyway for the John boyd Billy Show.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Morning. That's a big show on the radio.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
Well, we're looking enough to have our very own poet
Laureate here the big show, So one animation appearance. There's
a pretty good chance he's got another story to share.
So let's welcome back, Colonel Hamilton Brewster. How are you, colonel?

Speaker 6 (28:23):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Busted at the seams like a fart trapped in spandex.
John Boy, you are truly a wordsmith.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
It's a calling, a gift, and sometimes I just need
to unwrap it and share it with the world, or
at least y'all any time you ready have at it. Well,
I want to tell you a tale. It happened a
few years ago. It's called the Japanese Thanksgiving Go something
like this. My nephew, Ricky was a Marine Corps airman

(28:54):
in Okinawa, Japan. He went overseas a fresh faced kid
and come home a full grown man. And while overseas
he fell in love with a sweet little Japanese goal.
They was coming home for Thanksgiving. I look forward to
seeing my pal. Her name was Meoshi, but we called

(29:16):
her Mimi because they couldn't pronounce her real name. It
was moo moo, and mushy and even mike. No two
guesses were ever the same. She spoke good English and
announced to the klan that she'd be cooking the Thanksgiving meal.

Speaker 9 (29:30):
Ooh.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
The women folk bristled and give her the stinkeye. They
didn't sign on to this deal, but Ricky stepped in
like a good hubby should and said it was a
first class gourmet. They were all in for a real
special treat, but the family didn't see it that way.
The smells from the kitchen on Thanksgiving Day were unfamiliar
and some downright on. It was fishy and spicy and

(29:55):
tangy and sour. They all kneeled and prayed to God.
When the dinner bell rung, the clad shuffled in, not
knowing just what lay in store before them lay a
feast of Asian delights, things they'd never seen before. We're
looking veggies and strange looking meats. Ooh, fish with their

(30:20):
heads still on. No green bean casserole, no candied yams hell.
Even the turkey was gone. We got tons of rice,
but where's the gravy? Old Granny simple said, where's the taters?
Where's the pie? What's going on? Where's the rolls? And
where's the corn bread? To make it worse, there was
no forks inside, just two sticks beside each plate. Who

(30:45):
wants to carve the Thanksgiving squid? Things wasn't going too great,
but good husband Ricky took the lead. He dug in
and started to eat. The others followed suit, but they
was none too pleased with a dinner that smelled like feet.
And then little Mimi walked in the room with a
thing that would save the day. Who liked some saki?

(31:09):
She quietly said. They all shrugged and said okay. Before
too long, there were five bottles in and getting their
Japanese on, gnawing on fish heads and chewing on squid.
They gobbled until it was gone. But they weren't done yet, No,
not by a sight. They all staggered out into the yard.

(31:29):
They stripped of their shorts for the big sumo match. Lord,
they was playing it hard. Uncle Cleat ruled today, taking
everyone on. He survived with barely a scratch until the
old Granny Simple stripped to her depens and poor Uncle
Cleat met his match.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
At the end of the day, it all turned out right.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Mimi kept her composure, that is until the cops showed
up and arrested them all for indecent exposure.

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and edification every morning from these two delightful lads, John
Boy and Billy right here on the big show.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
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but where I come from, you're all Yankees. Who will?
I thought it was funny.

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And now it's story time with your host, Carl Chilterns.

Speaker 11 (34:19):
I reckon you old you hear about that first Thanksgiving?
What happened? A first piece back?

Speaker 1 (34:24):
I heard it told a good.

Speaker 11 (34:25):
Many ways, but I figured I might be able to
come up with some rather say about it the way
I hear tell. A bunch of foreigners got a belly
full of way. They's doing things over wear in that
fearn country they was a living in. It's all big
family of them decided to come to America. Here there's
all kinfolk one way or another, seems to me all

(34:47):
had the last name Pilgrim. Well, Sirnie Pilgrim. Folks packed
him changing drawers and some potted meat. All of them
pile onto some boats there. They called him a niner,
a pinner in the santy clause. Them Pilgrim's pretty much

(35:09):
no count when it comes to sailing and such. They
so busy playing shuffle board and the fooling around, they
wound up running plumb into a big old rock on
the shore there. They figure as long as they run
up on dry land, they might as well give his
place a shot. They weren't sriffing if and this is
America or not. They so dadgum happy to be off

(35:30):
in the water. He's ready to bust. They weren't used
to having so much room to live in. So they
all runed off summers exploring and laughing and carrying on.
I reckon, they's a bit noisy. All that nonsense didn't
sit too well where the folks that's already living there.
They had a whole bunch of Indians homesteading in them parts.

(35:54):
Not the kind with the red polka dot in their heads,
other kind kind of living in tents, carry tommy hawks
and whatnot. Seemed they didn't like being called Indy as much,
I reckon, They wanted to be called Native Americans them.
Pilgrim said, all right, then it's a good thing. Dam

(36:16):
Native Americans. A friendly bunch. Them Pilgrims did a sorry
job and taking care of themselves. And I didn't know
nothing about farming. They have no warm clothes, just them
bigger hats with them shoes with a big belt buckle
on them. Madam, old Native American fella school them on
how to take care of things, especially this one fella
named Squanto, I reckon. He had him some time off

(36:40):
of working with a lone ranger, so he showed them
Pilgrim there how to get along right good. Thought him,
how to hunt, catch you catfish, tote that warfs down
the laundry mat, sharping that lawn more blade with a
big old rock, even taught him how to use beads,
shiny rocks, you some trade well sair. Things went along

(37:03):
pretty good. First Bill that Pilgrim family. Well, sir, they
thought they'd throw a big she and dig for our
new friends there. Know they's grateful for all that help.
Well sir, they decided to rustle up some special sort
of grubb or another really put on the dog told
Daddy Pilgrim some of his boys there, they decided to

(37:23):
go hunting. They're so excited they couldn't sleep. They got
up early and had breakfast at the warful house there,
and then off they went. They weren't added too long before,
and they run across his big old, funny looking bird
kind of looked like a big old dog with a
feather duster stuck in his hind. Then, well sir, they

(37:44):
got that funny looking bird, stuffed it with some stovetop
stuff and trotted it out for that big old surprise supper. Well,
squatto had him a little girl there, hue little thing,
no bigger squirrel. She saw that bird all cooked up.

(38:05):
She started to bawl, and her eyes out. She yelled,
what'd you kill? My turkey firm? What you kill?

Speaker 1 (38:11):
The turkey firm?

Speaker 11 (38:16):
Turned out that old funny looking bird there was a
turkey squander, little girl and that turkey they made friends.
Why didn't sit too well with them Native Americans? They
just all red they'd gonna kill them Pilgrims. And they
figured it's so close to Christmas, they'd just leave their
defence for themselves. Some Native Americans. They runed off down

(38:41):
to Atlanta. Darn them a baseball team that Pilgrim did,
all right. I reckon party sun days all over the place.
So I reckon except for that little girl, her dead turkey,
it's a pretty happy ending all around. The story is

(39:02):
you're gonna eat some folks, pet bird, do it close
to Christmas, So say, don't keep the.

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Speaker 9 (39:22):
To tell it better.

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