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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, Detroit, you want you waterfronts, give you a pol
of you. We're preparing you for Thanksgiving in Detroit, which
is I think, in addition to Saint Patrick's Day, the
(00:24):
biggest days of the year. But I'm a little bit biased.
It's a huge, huge day and we're thankful for the
appearance of Claude Mullinari, the president and CEO of Visit Detroit,
who's on our radio stage right now. Happy Thanksgiving to you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
How do you Thanksgiving? Michael Potter Shields.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
The pictures from the hob novel Gobble were super cool,
but now we turn it over to the streets, and
we thought you could give us a little bit of
a primer on how to properly do this, because when
it comes to Thanksgiving in Detroit, we've got an early
morning start if you want it, follow by some entertainment
on Woodward, followed by oh, a little game at Ford Field.
(01:05):
What is the timing of all of it? How does
it stretch out on Thursday?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, the Detroit dominates Thanksgiving like no other city on
the planet, I think. I mean. He starts with we
have the strategic staffing solutions Turkey Trots, which kicks off
at seven am with the first Mashed Potato Mile, and
then you have the ten k race and the five
k could probably be about twenty five thousand people in
(01:30):
that race. And then at eight forty five you've got
the ninety ninth Annual America's Thanksgiving Day Parade presented by
Gardner White, which is going right down Woodward and it
ends at the River. And then right after that at
one o'clock you got the Detroit Lions, where the entire world,
the nation is going to be watching Detroit as we
take on those hated Green Bay Packers. It's going to
(01:52):
be a spectacular Thanksgiving in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Hey, you know, some of my favorite memories of my
life have taken place at that turkey trot in the morning. Uh.
And then I actually was lucky enough to play a
clown one time in the parade and toss out candy
with my son when we were there with the it
was the Marriotte Afloat when it was monkeys jumping on
a bed. It was so much fun and so sweet.
(02:19):
And then of course the Lions game, and you've got
football all weekend too. If it isn't the Lions, you've
got Michigan State on Saturday, and the high schools on
Friday and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yes, Plus we've also got those Wolverines facing that team
from the down South. I can't remember their name, but
that's a big game two apparently for our Wolverines. But yeah,
it's a huge football weekend in high school football. And
of course, you know, I love my whole family does
the Turkey Trot on Thursday morning. And what's fun about
that is you basically run the parade route, so it's
(02:52):
like being in a major, you know, championship race because
there it's lined with crowds cheering you on. So it's
a great morning and certainly, really it shows that Detroit
has a very different destination anywhere else to have all
these things taking place one after another after another. I
mean by three o'clock in the afternoon, most people are exhausted.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well yeah, and I didn't run in the trot. I
would walk in the Trot every year. But it was
so festive because everyone, as you say, is cheering you on,
and people of all types and costumes and everything are
running along and walking along, and you get a tour
of the city all the way up to the Dia
and back and through the streets and there's music playing
(03:33):
and it's really really, really fun, and it ends up
right on the river and then you're right in good
position to start watching the parade too, and all the
volunteers and the people that make the city shine on
a morning like that, plus you get your steps in
before you eat, and of course the game it's like
a big college campus almost to Troit on that day.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Wouldn't you say that's a great point. I love that analogy.
It really is. And there's thousands of people everywhere, and
you know, just think about the parade has over a
thousand volunteers, and Tony Michaels and his team does a
great job. And of course Mayor Douggan is signing off
as the Grand Marshal for the parade along with local
FOR anchor Devin Skillion. So you've got to just all
(04:17):
the makings of a fantastic day and hopefully our Lions
will come out with a big victory and we'll be
on our way.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Mayor Mike dug In, the outgoing mayor is the Grand Marshall.
TV anchor Devin Scillion. In the past, you've had Martha
Reeves and Jim Leland and Essential workers and Jim Nantz.
Of course, our friend was the Grand Marshal in one
of the years. So it's been a really, really fun time.
And the speaking of that, the JP McCarthy show, I
(04:47):
think Before You Got Here was for thirty years number
one in Detroit, and I was the producer of that show,
and we would broadcast the parade, you know, on radio,
and there would be a reviewing stand and this fa
clip we play on Thanksgiving just to sort of remind
you that it was. It was a cheeky moment when
Paul Kerrey, who was the Detroit Tiger's color commentator, looked
(05:11):
down the street as the floats were coming by, and
he saw a troop of Pom Pom girls that were
singing along to a song that was playing, and he
described it like this, Joe, I had no idea that
Pom Pom girls could be so delightful orally.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Theysically are very attractive and they sound good.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Jolkie McCarthy, who went into the Radio Hall of Fame,
was almost speechless on that one. Claude Mullinary, I also
want to remind you probably know that you can so
you can get into the Spartan game and bring your
family on Saturday night. We're told by buying one ticket
you'll get three.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I believe it. You buy two, you get too free.
But you slice it. That's a good deal. And you know,
our spartans could really use the support. So if you're
free on Saturday night and want to root on our
spartans at a beautiful indoor, warm stadium, it's probably a
nice fun night.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, no question about it. And I think you know,
the campus at Thanksgiving time in East Lansing would be
very quiet because the kids are away and many of
them are home in Detroit anyway, So it seems like
a good idea to me, and plenty to do, all right.
And by the way, there's lots of free parking, as
we understand too. On certain days through downtown Detroit. You're
really rolling out the red carpet, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, you know Detroit is we're setting up our own
little Christmas town right now. We've got all kinds of
open air stuff. The ice rink is now open at Campus,
Marshes and a Cadillac Square and Beacon Park. There's activations
going on and you can do your holiday shopping. And
I just think there's a lot of fun stuff and
Detroit continues to reinvent itself. In course, I would be
(07:00):
remiss if I didn't mention Hudson's and the new alley
at Hudsons. You know that that is just a spectacular
place with the bear. I was running by there the
other day and there was a huge line of people
ready to take their selfies.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
It's fantastic downtown Detroit and the very festive Claude Mullinari,
the ambassador for the d to the world and to
us around the state. Happy Thanksgiving from Michael Patrick Shields.
Hello, Detroit, you want you waterfronts, give you a pol
of you. We're preparing you for Thanksgiving in Detroit, which
is I think, in addition to Saint Patrick's Day, the
(00:24):
biggest days of the year. But I'm a little bit biased.
It's a huge, huge day and we're thankful for the
appearance of Claude Mullinari, the president and CEO of Visit Detroit,
who's on our radio stage right now. Happy Thanksgiving to you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
How do you Thanksgiving? Michael Potter Shields.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
The pictures from the hob novel Gobble were super cool,
but now we turn it over to the streets, and
we thought you could give us a little bit of
a primer on how to properly do this, because when
it comes to Thanksgiving in Detroit, we've got an early
morning start if you want it, follow by some entertainment
on Woodward, followed by oh, a little game at Ford Field.
(01:05):
What is the timing of all of it? How does
it stretch out on Thursday?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, the Detroit dominates Thanksgiving like no other city on
the planet, I think. I mean. He starts with we
have the strategic staffing solutions Turkey Trots, which kicks off
at seven am with the first Mashed Potato Mile, and
then you have the ten k race and the five
k could probably be about twenty five thousand people in
(01:30):
that race. And then at eight forty five you've got
the ninety ninth Annual America's Thanksgiving Day Parade presented by
Gardner White, which is going right down Woodward and it
ends at the River. And then right after that at
one o'clock you got the Detroit Lions, where the entire world,
the nation is going to be watching Detroit as we
take on those hated Green Bay Packers. It's going to
(01:52):
be a spectacular Thanksgiving in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Hey, you know, some of my favorite memories of my
life have taken place at that turkey trot in the morning. Uh.
And then I actually was lucky enough to play a
clown one time in the parade and toss out candy
with my son when we were there with the it
was the Marriotte Afloat when it was monkeys jumping on
a bed. It was so much fun and so sweet.
(02:19):
And then of course the Lions game, and you've got
football all weekend too. If it isn't the Lions, you've
got Michigan State on Saturday, and the high schools on
Friday and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yes, Plus we've also got those Wolverines facing that team
from the down South. I can't remember their name, but
that's a big game two apparently for our Wolverines. But yeah,
it's a huge football weekend in high school football. And
of course, you know, I love my whole family does
the Turkey Trot on Thursday morning. And what's fun about
that is you basically run the parade route, so it's
(02:52):
like being in a major, you know, championship race because
there it's lined with crowds cheering you on. So it's
a great morning and certainly, really it shows that Detroit
has a very different destination anywhere else to have all
these things taking place one after another after another. I
mean by three o'clock in the afternoon, most people are exhausted.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well yeah, and I didn't run in the trot. I
would walk in the Trot every year. But it was
so festive because everyone, as you say, is cheering you on,
and people of all types and costumes and everything are
running along and walking along, and you get a tour
of the city all the way up to the Dia
and back and through the streets and there's music playing
(03:33):
and it's really really, really fun, and it ends up
right on the river and then you're right in good
position to start watching the parade too, and all the
volunteers and the people that make the city shine on
a morning like that, plus you get your steps in
before you eat, and of course the game it's like
a big college campus almost to Troit on that day.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Wouldn't you say that's a great point. I love that analogy.
It really is. And there's thousands of people everywhere, and
you know, just think about the parade has over a
thousand volunteers, and Tony Michaels and his team does a
great job. And of course Mayor Douggan is signing off
as the Grand Marshal for the parade along with local
FOR anchor Devin Skillion. So you've got to just all
(04:17):
the makings of a fantastic day and hopefully our Lions
will come out with a big victory and we'll be
on our way.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Mayor Mike dug In, the outgoing mayor is the Grand Marshall.
TV anchor Devin Scillion. In the past, you've had Martha
Reeves and Jim Leland and Essential workers and Jim Nantz.
Of course, our friend was the Grand Marshal in one
of the years. So it's been a really, really fun time.
And the speaking of that, the JP McCarthy show, I
(04:47):
think Before You Got Here was for thirty years number
one in Detroit, and I was the producer of that show,
and we would broadcast the parade, you know, on radio,
and there would be a reviewing stand and this fa
clip we play on Thanksgiving just to sort of remind
you that it was. It was a cheeky moment when
Paul Kerrey, who was the Detroit Tiger's color commentator, looked
(05:11):
down the street as the floats were coming by, and
he saw a troop of Pom Pom girls that were
singing along to a song that was playing, and he
described it like this, Joe, I had no idea that
Pom Pom girls could be so delightful orally.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Theysically are very attractive and they sound good.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Jolkie McCarthy, who went into the Radio Hall of Fame,
was almost speechless on that one. Claude Mullinary, I also
want to remind you probably know that you can so
you can get into the Spartan game and bring your
family on Saturday night. We're told by buying one ticket
you'll get three.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I believe it. You buy two, you get too free.
But you slice it. That's a good deal. And you know,
our spartans could really use the support. So if you're
free on Saturday night and want to root on our
spartans at a beautiful indoor, warm stadium, it's probably a
nice fun night.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, no question about it. And I think you know,
the campus at Thanksgiving time in East Lansing would be
very quiet because the kids are away and many of
them are home in Detroit anyway, So it seems like
a good idea to me, and plenty to do, all right.
And by the way, there's lots of free parking, as
we understand too. On certain days through downtown Detroit. You're
really rolling out the red carpet, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, you know Detroit is we're setting up our own
little Christmas town right now. We've got all kinds of
open air stuff. The ice rink is now open at Campus,
Marshes and a Cadillac Square and Beacon Park. There's activations
going on and you can do your holiday shopping. And
I just think there's a lot of fun stuff and
Detroit continues to reinvent itself. In course, I would be
(07:00):
remiss if I didn't mention Hudson's and the new alley
at Hudsons. You know that that is just a spectacular
place with the bear. I was running by there the
other day and there was a huge line of people
ready to take their selfies.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
It's fantastic downtown Detroit and the very festive Claude Mullinari,
the ambassador for the d to the world and to
us around the state. Happy Thanksgiving from Michael Patrick Shields.
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