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What do cherished family traditions, comedy shows, and Thanksgiving dinner all have in common? Find out as we reflect on a whirlwind of laughter and nostalgia on the Killed it Trash Podcast! Fresh from an electrifying night at the Comedy Farm in Altoona, where we hosted talents like Christina Mariani and Lennon Free, we're riding high on the energy of live comedy and gearing up for more. The holiday season has us recalling the joy of Thanksgiving gatherings, from debating the pronunciation of "pecan" to navigating multiple family dinners, each with its own unique charm and culinary flair.
We'll take you on a journey through the delightful chaos of Thanksgiving traditions, where food and family intertwine to create unforgettable memories. Whether it's the uproarious church potlucks featuring Susie's mom's legendary Texas sheet cake or envisioning a seafood feast at a karaoke bar for a fun twist on funeral food, our stories capture the essence of community and connection. As we touch on the diverse cultural influences embedded in our holiday meals, expect a lively discussion on regional accents and quirky terms like "hoagies."
Amidst the laughter, we don't shy away from the complexities of family dynamics, from humorous tales of holiday shopping anxiety to heartfelt reflections on parenting and political differences. Despite the challenges, we remain thankful for our loyal listeners, the gift of comedy, and the enduring bonds that keep us grounded. With a blend of humor and sincerity, we celebrate the multifaceted nature of family and traditions, acknowledging that even in the chaos, there's always something to be grateful for.
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Speaker 2:Yeah, it's season one, episode nine. And I'm saying season one because we are going to wrap up this year with episodes 10 and 11. And then in 2025, it'll be season two.
Speaker 1:Season two Like a show.
Speaker 2:So last week, if you listened, we talked about Chucks.
Speaker 1:We did.
Speaker 2:And it was a really fun episode. It was a little bit emotional, but mostly fun. We did actually get a report in from one of our loyal listeners who wanted to share that her favorite drug movie was.
Speaker 1:Natural Born Killers, which is an amazing movie. It is a great movie. I haven't seen it in a very long time. I'll have to go back and rewatch. Yeah, it's been a while.
Speaker 2:It has been a while.
Speaker 1:It's been quite a while.
Speaker 2:Shout out to Sister Alita Thank you for letting us know what your favorite drug movie is.
Speaker 1:What's been going on in our lives since the last time. One of the big highlights was I got to host a show at the Comedy Farm in Altoona Shout out Comedy Farm. Thank you, Rich Hershberger. He's an amazing comedian and he puts all that together and it was a great time. What a lineup. Yeah, you talk about a good time, good turnout, both nights, both yeah.
Speaker 3:Great turnout both nights.
Speaker 2:Matter of fact, I think he had to add the second show because the first one sold out so quickly.
Speaker 1:Perhaps who knows, but I mean they. I think he might add two planned originally, I don't know I don't know, but regardless, rich is a rich is the man yeah, he's a good guy making things happen in the comedy world in where there wasn't things the middle of Pennsylvania, yeah, exactly, and a lot of great comics. Christina Mariani, of course, was in town and she absolutely murdered.
Speaker 2:Listen, I am may or may not be prejudiced against female comedians, because I haven't seen a lot of really epic ones lately. However, christinaiani is probably. She's definitely one to watch. This girl is just.
Speaker 1:She's going places, that kid's going places.
Speaker 3:Yeah, what do you?
Speaker 1:think no, but and the guys from Harrisburg Lennon Free.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, absolutely killed it Amazing, amazing.
Speaker 1:And then the second night, mike O'Donnell he was like. Like I said, stone Cold Killers man because they were just the room was in stitches. It was really good.
Speaker 2:It was great energy. It was a fun show yeah.
Speaker 1:The most fun I've had at a show like in terms of the energy of the crowd, all of that. It was just a great time and of course we'll be back up there.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:This coming Friday, black Friday we'll be back up there.
Speaker 2:In and around Altoona, pennsylvania, and you listen to this on Thanksgiving when it drops. Then you'll be able to hit the show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and speaking of Lennon Free, he'll be back up there along with Andrew Glessner, who's hilarious. We saw him host at the—we've seen him a couple times, but we've been up to the Comedy Zone. He's really funny. Yeah, I'm not too familiar with the other guy, but it's still going to be a great show. Ridge doesn't bring anybody in, that's not funny.
Speaker 2:No, he's got it, dude.
Speaker 3:He's got an eye yeah.
Speaker 1:And he puts on a great show and the Comedy Farm is a great venue.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:In terms of being there at Arts Altoona in the gr, as they call it.
Speaker 2:It's cool, it's got a great vibe and the arts out to the staff are all amazing as well. They're fun friendly sherry's great yeah sherry is so nice, so yeah, yeah, for sure but yeah, looking forward to it.
Speaker 1:So yeah, um, but yeah, let's get into this. This week's episode is about thanksgiving kind of kind of but it's also about just crazy family stories, and just just that's what it's about just fun family stories. What do you do at the holidays? What do your families make? What do your families make? Now, I don't know why it came out like that, but every time he's talking about food he turns italian I start to get it, it starts to come out like you'll see this trend.
Speaker 1:It's happened in several episodes that'd be funny to put a compilation together me just talking about food in a like a new york, new york accent new york italian except for you.
Speaker 1:I had to laugh and call this out because you got corrected by the legendary the mayor of 18th street jeff lucino who straight up called me out at Mario's the other night because I said instead of subs when I was talking about New Jersey. But I had to point out that, to be fair, like around Philadelphia, like the extension of Jersey that's out in Philadelphia, there's a good portion of Jersey that's hoagies and not subs. But I get his point, it's fair.
Speaker 2:It's fair, it was a fair call out.
Speaker 1:It was a fair call out.
Speaker 2:It was a fair call out he's an authentic Jersey boy. Yeah, so yeah or New.
Speaker 1:York.
Speaker 3:Jersey, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 1:He's an Italian East Coaster, like in that region, so he straight up.
Speaker 2:He knows.
Speaker 1:He said subs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's more fun to say hoagies in Italian. It is, yeah, it is more fun to say hoogies.
Speaker 1:Hoogies is more fun to say. However, your accent is Hoogies.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because if you're from my neck of the woods, it's hoogies.
Speaker 1:But just crazy family stories. That's what we said we were talking about.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I got off because of the Italian accent that threw me off. Yeah no, but let's just start off First. The fun part about Thanksgiving is getting to hit all the different Thanksgivings. I love when there's multiple Thanksgivings to go to. I want to go to mom's, I want to go to dad's, I want to go to uncle Bob's, I want to go to grandma's I want to go to. But that's what I miss when I was a kid, cause you would go to both sets of grandparents.
Speaker 2:You did.
Speaker 1:I did yeah.
Speaker 2:But no, I'm saying a lot of people.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I just mean. It's fun to bounce around and do those things for Christmas style.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Where you're just going to every family and you eat. That's the other thing that I first noticed about Thanksgiving. Of course, me food was. I immediately liked different Thanksgivings for different reasons.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh, Absolutely Because.
Speaker 1:I want to go here because they have the best sweet potatoes. I want to go here because they got the best noodles. I want to go here because they got the best Z. No, I'm just kidding. No, but that's, that's a great, that's a great call out there. Along the way we've gone to a lot of different families.
Speaker 2:We have been very blessed to be invited to several Thanksgivings over the years, several, and obviously there's our traditional family ones. But yes, my daughter's uncle and my daughter's grandmother lived in Cockeysville, baltimore area.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And, I think, two years we went down for. Thanksgiving, and Brian is an amazing cook.
Speaker 1:It was just a lot of fun because it was like, like I said, I never had. I think it was baked ziti, wasn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 2:Like I never had any kind of Italian. Like lasagna or baked ziti. Yeah, I think it was baked ziti. It might have been both.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I never had that Like my family never had any kind of a talent. There was never red sauce involved at Thanksgiving in any way shape or form. It was the furthest thing from everybody's mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but their family's part of talent.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it was interesting to have that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was an.
Speaker 1:RIP Sister Barbara and Grandma Catherine. Yeah, yeah. But that was fun though, because that was one of the first times I ever talked to a nun, and it was fun.
Speaker 2:She was a fun nun she was a fun nun, I love Sister Barbara and she was like in the location where the remember that the keepers this, that father, because they both were from, like, the Baltimore area and so that the show Well, Sister Barbara is from Pittsburgh originally but she must have been down there I feel like they definitely knew her for some reason, because they were down there that might have been where she was for her nunning back in her nunning days because Dakota's grandmother was a nun for
Speaker 2:five minutes before she got married.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah, you talk about I always. I never knew a nun would be down to earth. I've seen the flying, though, but that's fake. But I I didn't know that a nun would be like cool yeah she was so cool and down to earth she just talked to you like a regular person and I don't mean regular.
Speaker 2:Everybody talks to you like regular person but I'm saying like she was just chill and for the array of bullshit that katherine's kids have put them through. She was just really just chill.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was just had it very practical yes which is not what you would necessarily think about a nun but she was just very practical, very down to earth, very yeah.
Speaker 2:And that had to come from the experience of being from Pittsburgh and then living in Baltimore. Like just having the experience of understanding, like the real human struggle, do you?
Speaker 1:know what I mean. Right, you're a nun. You're touching parts of society that don't necessarily get touched, so you do see a lot of realness. That's why it's, if you got a good attitude, you can go far with it.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of good jokes in there, but I won't go there.
Speaker 1:Why. Because, that's a little I do write some of the jokes.
Speaker 2:So yeah, but that was so. That's an amazing Thanksgiving experience. But so my first mother-in-law, miss Linda, she's the one that actually introduced me to green bean casserole, because I had never experienced green bean casserole, yeah at a thanksgiving, and this was in the early to mid 90s, but then my sister that's her thing, so I think that's the time that it probably took off yeah because I remember it coming out about the same time, because and even then it wasn't like at every thing, it was just like here and there you would see it at, maybe like a church potluck.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because we went to a lot of those growing up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. Oh, buddy, I love the church potluck. You couldn't beat that, oh man At Quincy. You'd go down the basement low hanging ceiling, but you'd just see these crock pots people bringing dishes out of the kitchen. And the cool thing about Quincy, too, is Dave Wagner.
Speaker 2:He's a good cook, he's a real legitimate cook.
Speaker 1:That's what he does for a living. Yeah, he went to church there, so he'd be back there, it was well orchestrated.
Speaker 2:Is what we're saying?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it was always tough Quin, it was always top Quincy. Dinners were always top notch.
Speaker 2:A lot of my Thanksgiving church activities were around the Ferndale United Methodist because I would go with Susie and her parents and I mean it would be very similar. But it was a lot of potluck. I always looked forward to Susie's mom's Texas sheet cake. Because Texas sheet cake.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the dinners. So we went to two different churches. Of course we went to what we used to do. So when my mom married my stepdad, we neither one wanted to give up their church. So the timing was right that we would go to one church for church and then go to my stepdad's church for sunday school oh, so we had enough time from when that church let out the drive over to hangarstown half hour ride from one church to the other.
Speaker 1:And we used to time from when that church let out the drive over to Hagerstown half hour ride from one church to the other. And we used to do this when we lived in Greencastle, so we had a half hour ride to the first church, then a half hour ride to the second church and then a half hour ride back home but, I didn't like the dinners as much at Norm's church. You know what I mean. They weren't quite as good because they're uppity white folk.
Speaker 2:They weren't country white folk.
Speaker 1:Here's the others the country right, right, oh for sure, for sure, and not only that, but what I will give norm's church, though, is they had some good meals.
Speaker 2:They're very nice. We had some, we had some.
Speaker 1:We've had some good yeah, they do good breakfast and stuff. They're pancake breakfast.
Speaker 2:Buddy rest in peace norm. But whoever made the sandwiches, his funeral, like all his funeral food, was all by the church and it was no, I love funeral food, dude, I love funeral food.
Speaker 1:So much so that it's in his jokes so much so that actually I might, because I've never referred to it as funeral food.
Speaker 2:That's funny because I don't know what you got. Everybody calls it something different, but let's be honest though.
Speaker 1:Set aside the fact of why you're there, some of these things got spreads like you wouldn't believe, better than some weddings that I've been to. Yeah, like they got like sandwich trays. I love the assemble your own sandwich like buffet.
Speaker 2:Right At a funeral, the meat and cheese platter was on the table. Are you kidding me? I know, I know.
Speaker 1:God rest his soul, whoever it is.
Speaker 2:I couldn't even tell you. I'm sure we had fried chicken at my son's. I don't remember any of that. But yeah, unfortunately I've been to way too many funerals.
Speaker 1:So I mean that's yeah. You have the variety pack there. You don't know what you're getting at a funeral. Speaking of which, when I die and we'll probably talk about this again what are we eating at my?
Speaker 2:funeral. Buddy, you're gonna eat good like you're gonna eat good. I don't really drink that much, but I want everybody to just be at a bar singing songs sing all my favorite sing all the karaoke songs that I used to do there will be food provided yeah, that I will make sure.
Speaker 1:Yes and it, yeah, it'll probably be seafood, depending on how rich you're looking at a smorgasbord that'll rival the biggest one in lancaster lancaster lancaster, lancaster lancaster, lancaster I love the different ways people say lancaster is like how I don't need.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing is. I've said I love the different ways people say it. Lancaster is like I don't. I don't need.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing is I've said it so many different ways, like just being funny, because I always. I always do that. Anytime there's multiple sayings, I tend to say all of them instead of just one so fun. Words are fun but it's one of those. I don't even remember how I originally said it. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:I don't know how I say it per se right, because I hear I'm just very conscious of it because I got corrected by one of not the amish, but I met a mennonite girl when I first moved to waynesboro and she corrected me on how she's she said it and I was like, oh, is that how you say it? Like the what's the other one that I like to say that's out that way, skull kill yeah, yeah, I think that's how you say it.
Speaker 2:That is how you say it yeah, but lancaster is how you're supposed to say it lancaster, lancaster. There's no drawl in it, because we're not supposed to be from the south, but a lot of right.
Speaker 1:If you live in lancaster then you might feel like you do. I wonder how the Amish say it Do they say like Lancaster, lancaster, lancaster.
Speaker 3:Lancaster. That sounded British. The Amish don't sound British.
Speaker 1:Maybe they do, maybe they do, no, they don't.
Speaker 2:No, I know what they sound like. I listen to them at the store. They sound like they're speaking German in a high-pitched voice.
Speaker 1:Some of them are.
Speaker 2:Some of them are I know what you're saying, bitches, because I know German. And not only that I see you walking around with your cell phones.
Speaker 1:Oh, they're allowed to do it, to conduct business, If they're a part of a liberal ordnung. No, because I watched the whole thing about the people at the Reading Terminal Market in Philly. There's a couple of authentic Amish stands but they use because they're like we can't conduct business in this world without.
Speaker 3:Right, you know what I?
Speaker 1:mean, but they have rules.
Speaker 3:They agreed their ordinal or whatever agreed, you know what I mean, that they could use it for business or whatever.
Speaker 1:So it's these rules are fluid because they're all made up. It's just like anything else.
Speaker 3:They're all made up.
Speaker 1:So when time push comes to shove, they'll change it if they need to.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. It's like when they let their women vote for the first time in a century, right? Just kidding, I don't know if they did or didn't. I wasn't there anyways. So what was your? So you traveled. Did your mom cook when you were little for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1:No, my mom never made Thanksgiving dinner. She helped at grandma's. Okay, but sorry.
Speaker 2:Wait, let me hit this so I can cut that whole bit out.
Speaker 1:Okay For. So when mom and dad were together, we went to grandma Flickles and then grandma Reed's. Okay. And then when mom well see, at a certain point, graham, at a certain point Graham quit doing Thanksgiving. Now, at a certain point, though, graham, because she just couldn't do it physically.
Speaker 2:that's when I feel like we had Thanksgiving at her house. The one time though Maybe that was Christmas I did eat a meal prepared by Mary. Um, well, that's when I feel like we had Thanksgiving at her house the one time, though, when we maybe, that was Christmas. I did eat a meal prepared by Mary before she passed and it was like ham and rolls and I don't remember if there was turkey involved.
Speaker 1:It was either Thanksgiving or Christmas. It wouldn't have been Thanksgiving, it could have been like Easter or something too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean, because she always did the same things oh yeah, we had grandma, that's one thing you and I were together for one whole set of holidays before she passed One thing that I loved about Grandma Reed, that I always loved, is ham at everything Ham at Christmas, ham at Thanksgiving, ham at Easter Turkey too, at Thanksgiving, obviously, but ham was the priority and a lot of people don't eat ham on thanksgiving my parents do net like sometimes.
Speaker 1:I don't think you could do it without it. But one thing I remember that I loved one time we did and I thought I still look back on this we played a football game at cramwell fliggles. Everybody like it was just the right year, that, like everybody was like at a good age you know what I mean. There's lots of people, lots of men, boys that could play right like we could field two teams and we played a football game.
Speaker 1:It was a lot of fun that's cool yeah and uh, you know, uncle kevin, of course you know, uncle Kevin, of course you know probably.
Speaker 2:We always played like my mom's brothers, and them and my cousins and my brother they would all play a game down at the high school, but I don't remember if it was on Thanksgiving. There was always like a big community game going on. I never really participated in all that, but my mom, I guess we might have went to my grandparents like to hang out for a little bit, especially if there was like football that we wanted to watch because, like my whole family was a Steelers family, like my mom's family, my dad's family, my dad's parents passed away when I was so young that I don't know if there was any Thanksgiving goings on with them. I do remember like Christmas stuff that I'll talk about next episode. My mom is an amazing cook. She was before she got.
Speaker 1:Don't she could listen to this.
Speaker 2:She knows that she's not up to par anymore. She gets it.
Speaker 1:She has her moments. I do remember, though, the first couple Thanksgiving's that we came up here. I remember your mom tore it up.
Speaker 2:She was just getting around better, she was working still and she was younger.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, this is 15 years ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she would have only been like not quite 60 when we met, so she was, like you know, running around tearing it up and it like it was real man. That's stuffing my mom's stuffing is if it's not world famous, it should be. It's like the perfect amount of just butter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like the perfect mix. Celery yeah, because there's only so much you can do with stuffing outside of without going crazy.
Speaker 2:Without adding oysters or sausage or all that bullshit, or gizzards. Yeah, although Carla at work shared an amazing recipe with us on our team thing and it's like a jimmy dean's sausage stuffing recipe it looked amazing.
Speaker 1:I've had some good sausages like that. I'm just not a fan. I'd rather go with the more traditional. But the thing that made your mom so good, it was just the perfect balance of all those things, the perfect balance of celery and onion and butter and celery salt, and the bread had that great texture, the right amount of egg, all of that.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's just perfect. I don't know Now. I will say, though, and I can do it too.
Speaker 1:I enjoy my grandma Fliggle's stuffing in the bird.
Speaker 2:Yes, like she has a way of getting it like to be perfect without being wet.
Speaker 1:It's not. It's like the right, it's fluffy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's weird, but it's not weird in a bad way, weird in a good way.
Speaker 1:Her bird stuffing is very, very good.
Speaker 2:Yeah what were you just saying about cooking, though that reminded me of in a brain freeze.
Speaker 1:I'll go ahead with the part I was going to say about now. We've hosted thanksgiving, which is a lot of fun too, yeah I enjoy hosting a lot of preparation. I feel very much like clark griswold when I'm doing it, because it just feels like everything you're, it's a juggling act it is a juggling act, but I've said this.
Speaker 2:I actually said this on social media last week is that when you and I cook together, when we're in the kitchen together, it's like a well machine, it's like a dance being an event is we're very good at it we're very good at it. We just know our roles and we pretty much stick to them and we tell each other what we need and when we're going to need certain space in the kitchen.
Speaker 1:I mean, it just works out, we just host. We're good at planning a party ask anybody who's eating here. Yeah, because when you eat here, you're not just.
Speaker 2:You're taking some home?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're going to eat three times. You're going to have food forced upon you additional six times by her dad.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then you're also going to have to take a full tray home for each member of your family.
Speaker 2:And the only rule is bring your own fucking containers.
Speaker 1:No, most of the time, half the time, we have them.
Speaker 2:We knew that we were so bad at over-making food that we actually started stocking up on styrofoam takeout containers.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing we like to offer a variety.
Speaker 3:Yes, we like to offer a variety, yes.
Speaker 1:However, where our fatal flaw is, we plan on each person eating each normal amount of each thing, which that's not how people eat when they're.
Speaker 2:They take one of this, one of this, one of that.
Speaker 3:Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1:So that's where we are, but it's fine because everybody always goes home happy, like I said take a good meal home.
Speaker 3:But so when we first got together, we hosted a couple of friends givings, which was amazing because, like when we obviously everybody's like off and married and has kids and all this, that and the other.
Speaker 2:So everybody's grown apart. But there was a good core group of maybe 20 to 30 of us at any time that got together and usually at our house, not always, but Friendsgiving was really fun. I'm just remembering, like the I don't know if it was the Potomac Street yeah, we did one on Potomac Street.
Speaker 1:We also did one on Price Avenue, yeah.
Speaker 2:Price Avenue. That's it, but we did one on Price Avenue. Yeah, price Avenue.
Speaker 1:That's it, but we did one at Potomac Street too, because that had a good dining room.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Price did and we had a table.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was a nice table. Yeah, but yeah, some more Thanksgiving stuff. One of the things that I always look forward to was hunting, so rifle Pennsylvania rifle season of course comes in, for a large portion of my life would come in that Monday.
Speaker 2:After Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:After Thanksgiving Now of course it starts Saturday, but for the PA rifle season. But I also enjoy, because growing up, when Uncle Kevin was still alive, we bear hunt in the week leading up to Thanksgiving. Then you'd havegiving and then you were going back out there for for deer and I have an uncle, kevin's bear what do you mean?
Speaker 2:he didn't get a bear I thought he had one in his downstairs, didn't he?
Speaker 1:I'll have to look that up later I don't remember having it because, yeah, his dad did oh, okay, his dad had that bear. Okay, maybe that's what I'm remembering yeah, I don't think he had a bear mounted there maybe I'm thinking of gregory's, but no, yeah, but it might have been, I might have been his dad's too, but yeah, but yeah. So I love that stuff, of course, when you're growing up being off school yeah it's like the ultimate you're.
Speaker 1:You have a blast that weekend and for me, hunting in between was like even better and it's I love being a hunter's wife too.
Speaker 2:There's a whole like kind of culture. There's like rituals that happen there's. I mean, you don't do it, but marty used to do the whole like going out the week before and buying everything that he could wear, whether he needed it or not you know what my favorite part is, though You're probably able to guess. Sassafras tea.
Speaker 1:That, but I was going to say pack at my lunch. That's my favorite part is planning out my snacks and my food for the day.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:As I'm out there in the wilderness. And if it's, what I don't like is when you go out there and it's not cold, because then I don't feel like. Then you're just like it's not the same, but when you're cold you're like eating to survive. You know what I mean? Yeah, You're just barely staying warm. You're eating to keep warm.
Speaker 2:No, you're right, Cause on. I remember the one season that it was like unseasonably warm. When you got back from hunting you kept forgetting your food was still in your pack because you didn't eat it or whatever. It's disgust. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what happens, um, but no, I love, but obviously the main thing I love about hunting is fucking deer jerky yeah, jerky, of course, or and bologna and bologna and jerky the meat products of yeah, I like also chipped venison, like chipped beef.
Speaker 1:See, I don't really fall with I like that I'm not anti, dear me.
Speaker 2:You just don't tell me and I might never know but I feel like it tastes gamey some of it probably does but I do like jerky yeah and I
Speaker 3:didn't. Who does?
Speaker 2:obviously people who are weird the men in my life have always hunted, so I've eaten.
Speaker 1:I've fried up some good freaking loins or whatever there's, yeah, some good tenderloins, backstraps, yeah, yeah, buddy, a little butter, garlic, herb butter, a little butter, shout out garlic herb butter.
Speaker 2:But oh, I remember what I wanted to say though, speaking of hunting, because it just reminds Garlic herb butter. A little butter, shout out garlic herb butter. But oh, I remember. What I wanted to say, though, speaking of hunting, because it just reminds me of that side of my family, is the other tradition that I'd never known about until I moved over to Franklin County was hog maw.
Speaker 1:Like I'd never heard of that.
Speaker 2:I like hog maw, it's so good.
Speaker 1:Very good.
Speaker 2:Very good of that. I like hog maw. It's so good, very good, very good, and so my son's family, who we are blessed to spend this thanksgiving with. They make it, and I think last year that didn't they smoke some I think so, but I just remember how good it was.
Speaker 1:It was real good.
Speaker 2:It was probably some of the best hog maw I've had do you want to explain to listeners what hog maw is, in case they don't know? It's it's a pig stomach.
Speaker 1:It's a meal that's cooked in a pig stomach. Yeah, it's what potatoes.
Speaker 2:It's potatoes, sausage, onions.
Speaker 1:And all that stuff. Yeah, some people put cabbage in it, some people don't Stuffed inside a pig stomach and then you cook it and it's delicious, it's so delicious and the outside gets crispy, anyways, and the outside gets crispy. Anyways no, I was going to say so we forgot a whole chunk of what happens at Thanksgiving, which is we get really high.
Speaker 1:No, it's often that too. We'll talk about that in a minute. Who doesn't love the good pre-dinner smoke? That's the. If there's ever a day for a pothead, it's thanksgiving. Yeah, because you're just like people are just, it's so much food.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're just like gonna have a blast, but like I don't get the munchies anymore, it's still fun to get out before you eat.
Speaker 1:But but is that? Thanksgiving has often been called the gateway to Christmas.
Speaker 3:Stop it.
Speaker 1:But it is, though, hold on pause that because, I got to check my turkey.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm just going to stop the recording. Do you want to start?
Speaker 1:That was fun. I really enjoyed that. Thank you, we were talking about that. Thanksgiving is the gateway to Christmas.
Speaker 2:Where are you going with this?
Speaker 1:No, I'm just saying. One of the best parts about Thanksgiving is then a lot of people. I don't remember who, but we'll put up their tree. Yeah, we would always do stuff like that, like when we got home in the evening, yeah, of course you start to watch movies. You start to watch christmas because this is really the christmas movie season.
Speaker 2:You don't watch movies like after christmas there's not like a lot of thanksgiving movies playing trains and automobiles, which I do love.
Speaker 1:It's a great thanksgiving movie. I like watching thanksgiving episodes of tv shows oh yeah, that's real fun that I enjoy, that. We always do that.
Speaker 2:We always watch seasonal episodes of the shows that we like, of the shows we like yeah the new girl with zoe de chanel. We watch their thanks.
Speaker 1:Thanksgiving episodes King of Queens. Thanksgiving episodes Psych, psych, although psych psych. They don't have any Thanksgiving episodes, but they do with Christmas.
Speaker 2:Okay, but we do it with all the seasons. She's sick? No, she's licking though I know what else. Oh, like, if there's any good Thanksgiving South Park episodes.
Speaker 1:Or Saturday Night Live. You know what I mean. Sorry, we have a cat right now. That's literally licking the desk chair. I don't know if you can hear that noise. That's the cat licking the chair.
Speaker 2:We're just going to ignore her. That's me out at the gray gray's anatomy's got some good thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:No, I don't know if they do or not house, they do house has some good ones.
Speaker 2:I love watching house episodes that are seasonal and then for me it's like gossip girl has some good thanksgiving episodes simpsons for me.
Speaker 1:Family Guy of course has some good ones. Yeah, oh my gosh. So I mean, that probably gives you a really good insight into who we are based off of what we watch. No, but I love that stuff, of course. How can we talk about Thanksgiving without talking about the parade?
Speaker 2:Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:So listen, I never watched the Thanksgiving. Did I know what it was and had seen it before, sure, but it wasn't part of our thanksgiving tradition but you introduced me that was like your whole thing.
Speaker 2:You're like I gotta watch it so as fucking, as dysfunctional. Dysfunctional as my family was growing up, there was traditions that kept us all together, right, and that was one of them. We would get up early enough to watch the parade. I think it starts at seven or eight, but I'd be up at seven waiting, watching the pre-show, and I'm such a sucker for lights, dancing music.
Speaker 2:And then excuse me, but like when you're young, like that's how you get to see all your favorite artists and all your favorite acts and shows and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:Is that recording correctly? I don't know. No, it just looked weird, I guess, because it was just the same.
Speaker 2:Because you weren't talking, it was just picking up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it just looked weird, I guess because it was just the same, because you weren't talking, it was just picking up. Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 2:But anyways so and my dad would always make like a light breakfast. No, my dad's like huge on breakfast, so he would always make like toast and eggs because we didn't want to fill up like crazy.
Speaker 1:See, that's what's crazy is we never ate breakfast. You're going to Thanksgiving, buddy. Some people did but, my parents made it. No, I know that's what I'm saying, that's what I, honestly, that's what I hated when we would come up here to visit. Is Listen, you made the biggest meal ever. The night before when we got here, you force fed me a fucking all-star American special breakfast with bacon, sausage, eggs, potatoes, french toast, just say no, yeah.
Speaker 1:and then you're like oh, we're eating at two o'clock, what? What is happening right now? Who's eating? Who has room to possibly eat? And then you're gonna criticize me when I only eat small portions and be like that's all you're, that's all you're eating, that's all you're eating.
Speaker 2:No, I love it, and so, yeah, macy's Thanksgiving was like it's just. It's such a heartfelt memory for me I at least glimpse it now. I mean, as an adult, I don't have any grandchildren that I know of, so it doesn't feel as fun anymore. Plus, I don't know the acts. I only listen to country, and I'm not against other acts, but I don't know what the kids are listening to these days it does I feel a little disconnected.
Speaker 2:So yeah, the Macy's day was like my big thing and I'm such a sappy, emotional fuck that like I'll sit there and ball through the whole thing for no reason. It's a happy event, like I love it, but I'm just like weirdly emotional that way I will also say, as far as thanksgiving things, football of course obviously is a huge part.
Speaker 1:But what's weird for me is like growing up football wasn't a huge part of thanksgiving, because there was only like two games and it was always like. It was always like the Cowboys.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:And the Lions.
Speaker 1:And nobody in my family cared about any of those teams Right. So like the game would be on, but nobody was really.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Uncle Tom's sleeping in the recliner with the game going you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Right, that's it, because all the other boys were too young, right? But now that?
Speaker 1:they when they started adding that like night game. It's been exciting because it's been the Ravens have been involved, right, you know what I mean. So we have some rooting interest there in terms of.
Speaker 2:Wait, didn't we have a Thanksgiving night game?
Speaker 1:I can't remember if we had a Thanksgiving night game, or if it was Christmas, because we've had some Christmas ones.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, but I don't know if we had one on Thanksgiving. The year that I sold the Steelers tickets to my brother. What was that Remember?
Speaker 1:they were playing. Yeah, but I thought that was Christmas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe, but they.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it was snowing, but I think that they might have had played the Ravens one Thanksgiving night.
Speaker 2:Regardless Long ago, in a land of In the land of the Monongahela. No, I love it, though, and again and I say this probably every episode like my family was diehard stealers, like my mom, my dad, my grandma, my grandpa, all my aunts and uncles, all my cousins. I don't think there is one person on my mom's side of the family that exists that hasn't married in to the family, because I know some of the new kids are, no, my cousin some of the new kids on the block wait, my cousin trey, the one that just got married.
Speaker 2:I don't think he's a steelers fan, but regardless, yeah, majority yeah, I mean my family was.
Speaker 1:I don't. They're not moms. Nobody on either side of my family is really big football people uncle kevin was uncle kevin, yeah, and hunter is yeah, hunter. But I mean the majority of like they don't have the game on and stuff I don't even know. You know what I mean. Like it just, and even dad.
Speaker 2:Dad likes football but his brothers don't really right, yeah, and whereas in my family it was like there was nascar season, baseball season, football season, hockey season like my uncles are into all the things now.
Speaker 1:See pap fliggle and uncle kevin. Both love nascar, so when we'd be at grandma fliggles, pap fliggle always had races on sundays. You know what? I mean, yeah, my grandfather did not, and I'd go back and ask him questions Because nobody else watched it, but they were really into it.
Speaker 2:When I was younger, I fucking hated racing, because that's literally because my grandparents had a swimming pool so we would always be there like all summer long and my uncles would be like blasting NASCAR races on the radio and I'm like what the fuck is this bullshit?
Speaker 1:I was also only 12. What's weird about NASCAR is so? First off, I always loved NASCAR video games. You know what I mean, me too, and I do enjoy watching and I had a great time when I've been to the race.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love the races live and when I bet on racing.
Speaker 1:to me, it To me it's exciting. It's just not exciting to me to watch without a little sugar on it.
Speaker 2:I've never bet on a NASCAR race. I don't think. I've bet on the horses.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just there's got to be, because here's to be, honest with you.
Speaker 2:She's licking again. Yeah, it's just one of those things.
Speaker 1:Now I'm trying to think of other there's really not a whole lot of other I don't know. Is there any other sporting events?
Speaker 2:yeah, there's not like a big thanksgiving. Nba is christmas.
Speaker 1:They always have big christmas games on the nba, but I can't really. I don't know if hockey has anything with thanksgiving. I don't remember that being a thing let's veer from sports and what so.
Speaker 2:Is there any? Do you you have any crazy Thanksgiving stories where something crazy happened? What was the?
Speaker 1:craziest thing to happen at Thanksgiving. I don't think so. No, I don't think so either. Like most of, there's been some. I know that I've had some great times.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't remember anything real wild happening at any Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:Really that's boring ass answer, but it is a boring answer, but I do have. I actually do it. I'm not going to say the whole story. I'm just going to say that we were driving back to myrtle beach from johnstown and that's when you lost an iphone and I got rid of my wedding ring oh yeah that was probably the craziest thanksgiving ever, just because we hated each other yeah, I was in the throes of addiction like, but that wasn't like crazy, though it wasn't like it wasn't
Speaker 2:crazy. It was just me fucking, but lashing out. But it was post thanksgiving because we were on our way home. But yeah, like I've never I don't do black friday shopping. So like I don't do black Friday shopping. So I don't have any like wild black Friday stories.
Speaker 1:That's another great point to bring up about black Fridays. Of course, like dad and Linda, my dad and my stepmother both worked retail. They both, like the man, like manager, right A CVS various stores over the years and didn't your dad manage a kb toys once they managed kb toys. But he also was at juvenile sales, which was a toy store in hagerstown there was it a?
Speaker 2:was it a chain or just a?
Speaker 1:I think it was a small chain okay, because I had never heard of it. Yeah, and they. They had a great big store with all kinds of power wheels. Dad, one time, let us ride the power wheel. That was like you talk about fucking awesome. You know what I mean. Like you're a kid, your dad works at a toy store. He lets you in after they close and lets you ride power wheels around the store. That's like movie worthy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is, that's every kid's dream is to have free reign of the power wheel in the store. Yeah, for sure, and it was a good time, that's cool, and so what were we talking about?
Speaker 2:Just, was there any crazy? But we didn't really have any crazy.
Speaker 1:Oh no, but we were talking about Black Friday shopping.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, black Friday shopping.
Speaker 1:So. But I was aware of Black Friday the first time I ever heard they're like we're getting ready and they're like tomorrow's Black Friday and I was like when I was a kid, I was scared. I was like what is this? I seen a commercial or something about Black Friday. I was scared. I was always afraid of the end of the world as a kid, for some reason what.
Speaker 1:Because when you're religious when you're raising a religious household and you start, like me, I'm inquisitive. So at six I'm reading the book of Revelation like dude. I don't want the world to end, but I was always fearful because there's signs that you look for. And I was always looking for the signs and every time I seen one I was like man kindergarten. One time the sky turned like red and got crazy. It was like a tornado.
Speaker 3:I started flipping out.
Speaker 1:One time I seen I was on my way to my first sleepover in the first grade and there was those lights that they put on the sale for big sales.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know what they're called.
Speaker 2:Marquee lights.
Speaker 1:And no, the ones that like shine up and turn yeah.
Speaker 2:I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1:It's called a marquee, but I saw those on the way to the house and then cried and made my mom come get me after that. Um, because I was too scared to stay there, because I didn't want to be somewhere when the world was ending oh my, you know, I wanted to be home.
Speaker 1:I didn't want to be caught at a friend's house. So, and then one time, one time, I ran away from home with Ben Savage and he told me as we were walking to May's video gallery, that because we were playing Ninja Gaiden or Ninja Gaiden, ninja Gaiden I don't know how you say it, but it was a Nintendo game that was very popular, and like when you died, like your final time, you got three deaths, three lives or whatever the Grim Reaper would show up. And he told me that the Grim Reaper was somebody that would come and get you after you died. Even if you were going to heaven, the Grim Reaper could come get you and take you to hell. We returned home then because I didn't want to run away anymore.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, but I was always scared of the end of the world and uh, where did I start that story? Black friday. So I was scared until I found out what it was. And then I heard about black monday one time and I am oh buddy, but black monday was a stock market thing and there's a black every day of the week, I think if you look throughout history. But at the time when I was like six dude, I was scared. I was like I don't know what this black friday is, but I don't want any parts of it keep it away from me because they were like they'd show.
Speaker 1:I'd see a commercial where people were running over it's chaos the world's ending black friday. It was chaos, there were several I guess black friday really started in the 80s yeah but the craziness, you know what I mean. Where people were. It started with cabbage patch kids and stuff like the first toys where people were like pushing each other out of the way yeah, like I just never, ever participated in that madness.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying that I was always on top of Christmas, but like, obviously when my kids were younger I was poor for a minute, but once I started making money, like I didn't try to. I don't deal with people well, and we've talked about this. I don't like crowds. I get panic attacks in stores.
Speaker 1:One time I worked at Walmart on Black Friday. Ugh, that's bad, but my shift didn't start until I want to say nine or something like that, and by that time it's normal day.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:The craziness of Black Friday is like those doorbuster deals.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Doorbuster deals this weekend.
Speaker 2:Black Friday the age of internet.
Speaker 1:I know that helped eliminate a lot of the crap, but people still.
Speaker 2:They still go out for deals there was probably a 15 year period where Black Friday was insane. People were lining up at 2 o'clock on Thursday.
Speaker 1:Probably from 85 to 2000.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Even into the early 2000s, because they would do those, and I don't know if they still do it, because I haven't had kids that needed these kinds of things in ages. Even Dakota stopped wanting anything whenever she was 16, as far as like that would be technical yeah. Anything that we couldn't get easily. So like I just never had to deal with that, I just don't, I don't get it.
Speaker 1:I'd just rather not deal with that at all, Like I'm not for the person that's, I'm not lining up for nothing.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:I don't want it that bad. I don't need it that bad.
Speaker 2:Oh, but what I was getting ready to say with that is they used to do that on purpose, though, and only release certain things. On Black Friday, they would release a shipment of nintendos when nintendo was the brand new thing and fucking you couldn't get them, and I mean it was insane, and it was very calculated to make sure that they sold out the first batch doorbusters.
Speaker 1:Um, but no, I but yeah. So the beauty of black friday to me was as a kid growing up was everybody else was working, so we got to stay at Grandma's.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean On Thanksgiving night.
Speaker 1:Yes, so that was my favorite part Staying at Grandma Reed's Thanksgiving night. You're watching whatever you want. You're eating her homemade rolls. Leftover ham sandwiches, turkey sandwiches. You're going to be eating cinnamon rolls.
Speaker 2:So much so that he was still sleeping over her house on Thanksgiving Eve. In like his late 20s I'm joking On Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 1:I was Because I lived there Still. Oh, my goodness, dude, all the pies, dude.
Speaker 2:No wonder I became a foodie, I know me too because it was just like oh man so, speaking of pies, one of my very favorite things around the holidays is pecan. Anything I love pecans.
Speaker 1:I love candied pecan is it pecan or pecan?
Speaker 2:I'm gonna say pecan, you say how you want. I don't know if you're in the south, I think it's pecan, but regardless. So the one year that we lived in South Carolina, my girlfriend lived in South Carolina as well, but she was originally. She was originally from the south, but she lived in Pennsylvania for a lot of years. So we wanted to bring her kids some pennsylvania dishes and I did some shit that I'd never done before and I don't I did some kind of amish corn pudding I love corn pudding.
Speaker 1:I love corn pudding.
Speaker 2:But I also did a wild sequence I also did candied yams like four different ways.
Speaker 1:I, I swear I loved some of your sweet potatoes, that one that you made.
Speaker 2:So it's Paula Deen's recipe. It's my favorite sweet potato recipe of all time. But it has pecans in it and pecan crumble on top and brown sugar and it's more like a pie.
Speaker 1:I tell you what she may say the N word, but that pie is almost worth it speaking.
Speaker 2:I see black people at her restaurant now, I know I know people don't care if the food's good. People don't care if they say the n-word but so I made mashed sweet potatoes, I made traditional like just cubed with marshmallows, and then I made the paladins and I made the corn fucking soup, and I will say I'm not a big fan of sweet potatoes.
Speaker 3:I like them.
Speaker 1:I love sweet potatoes but I don't. I get tired of eating them at Thanksgiving like the sweet way. I don't like a lot of that, but I've learned to love them Because, no, but those ones that you made, the Paula Deen ones, were like I could eat those all day. But I'm just saying, normally I eat a few of them and I'm done.
Speaker 2:I'm like I'm good, but those I could. I mean my goodness. And I just like my mom's with the marshmallows on too, because I just love toasty, roasty marshmallow. Burnt marshmallows are my favorite flavor, I think I don't like them when they're like mashed.
Speaker 1:Do you know what I mean? Like that's. What does it for some people? Just?
Speaker 2:dump them in sand syrup and put the marshmallows over top and let it go I like that when they're still chunky I like that. Yeah, that's how I like it because if you mash them and you add too much like milk or butter when you're mashing them, sweet potatoes get really runny easily see.
Speaker 1:So grandma reed had good ones that I always loved. They were like always the hunks, but she just made like her monkey bread syrup. Basically it was just butter and like brown sugar and that's all that they were, yeah, yeah and they weren't. But there was no marshmallows, but they were sweet as all get out you know what I mean it was syrup I love it.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think my. I mean, I always look forward, obviously, to my mom's stuffing, but the one thing that's weird and store-bought that my family does on Thanksgiving is those brown and serve rolls. It's coming in like a 12.
Speaker 1:Now that we're back to food, let's go to cranberry relish. So I enjoy both kinds. I enjoy the weird shaped form in the thing from the can.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's what I like.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:When you said we're shape-formed, I was thinking of the chunks.
Speaker 1:No, because it's like you could take it out of a can and it looks like a can no I get it, but I love, no, I love the fresh cranberry salad too, like Grandma Fliggle makes.
Speaker 2:Grandma Fliggle makes good cranberry salad.
Speaker 1:I just don't prefer chunky, and she also it is, that's how good that fruit salad is.
Speaker 2:And you'll hear about it at Christmas time because it's that good, because I'm bringing it back up and she makes it in that giant Tupperware container.
Speaker 1:I swear that thing's got flavor locked into it from the 1980s.
Speaker 3:It does.
Speaker 2:Do they even make them? It's like a five gallon bucket. It's not five gallon, it's two. At least it's two. It's not one, it's definitely not one, it's. It might even be three it might be three.
Speaker 1:It might even be three.
Speaker 2:It's big do we have any tupperware consultants that can tell us the biggest size? It's clear has a blue lid or does it have a?
Speaker 1:no, it has the old. It's about the color of a cigarette stained white wall because it's been around for so long it's got the baby.
Speaker 2:Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:well, originally, I think it was white or clear ish. Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:and now it's just I love it.
Speaker 1:It's a good size, though she might not even have that anymore, I don't know, but that's the one I grew up eating she had a big ass one at the last.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know they.
Speaker 1:Like I said, I'm pretty sure they don't make that one anymore. That's why she's been using that one.
Speaker 2:Does your mom sell Tupperware.
Speaker 1:No, but she definitely knows who does.
Speaker 3:She knows who does.
Speaker 1:I love it. She keeps her ear to the streets.
Speaker 2:We need to talk about that.
Speaker 1:My mom sells Tupperware.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll do a small business episode where we talk about all that bullshit.
Speaker 1:You know what this is so funny? We talk about all that bullshit I. You know what this is so funny?
Speaker 3:we talk about my memory and food.
Speaker 1:I remember driving to a tupperware convention in york and the only reason I remember it is because they mom and had pre-made egg sandwiches just white bread egg like waynesboro style just egg no, scrambled egg, white cheddar, american cheese on bread and a good old-fashioned egg sandwich and it is delicious and but we had them to go.
Speaker 1:I remember that. I also remember one time we went to a flea market with dan linda and carlisle and we stopped at a hardy's. There was a hue, a Huey Lewis, and the News were there. Their tour bus was parked outside. We went inside and had raisin biscuits, the cinnamon ones, Did your dad talk to Huey Lewis? No, he wanted to, though I was like who's Huey Lewis? And why is this news?
Speaker 2:So Dakota actually touched the hand of who's? The lead singer of Alabama, um, johnny Bama. No, I should know this, but anyways, how? So Alabama was in town, they were playing at the war memorial and I had um been pushing Dakota around in her stroller downtown and my Deanna, whose wedding we were at, she was working inside and she's like, was she working or was she just happened to be in there? And she's like, I just said hi to Alabama in the restaurant because they were in the hotel restaurant, and so I just walked in and asked if I could have an autograph and they said yeah, and he shook Dakota's hand. She was in the stroller. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Speaking of the War Memorial, Jim Brickman is going to be at the War Memorial. I want Jim Brickman's hand.
Speaker 3:You did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, jim Brickman, I told you he was friends with Norm.
Speaker 2:And he shook his hand. I didn't know that. You said he was friends with Norm. I didn't know you met him. I didn't know that, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:He used to do promotional events at the radio station all the time he was because he's not- popular.
Speaker 2:Why did you say it like normally he's not popular.
Speaker 1:He's not popular, but I'm just saying he's not even. He's not famous. I would bet you could go ask a hundred people in the street who Jim Brickman is, and they don't fucking know.
Speaker 3:I'd never heard of him.
Speaker 2:No, but he's more famous but people who like that kind of music and music know who?
Speaker 1:he is clearly all 40 of them, yeah he's getting booked here in johnstown. I'd be interested, yeah no, but he does what I think. He had a christmas album that was very popular.
Speaker 2:It's like piano. Christmas albums like back I don't care who the artist is. If they're doing christmas music, I'm down but uh, I'm in, he.
Speaker 1:Uh, yeah, jim burke, he's not even it's.
Speaker 2:I'm joking. We've got so much going on, I'm not talking about that.
Speaker 1:I'm talking about you were like you shook his hand. Yeah, and I also met lou scali. It doesn't really. It's not that big a deal. No, even john tesh isn't that big of a deal. You know what I mean. Out of all norms, people that cohorts. We went to a mariah carey listening party one time. I didn't get to meet her, but like we saw her, like we're hanging out there and she was in the room lots of people.
Speaker 1:Norm was hobnobbing with celebrities. Dude you kidding me. He held when you were a radio music programmer in the 1990s. You held the keys.
Speaker 2:Oh, didn't you like meet Shania Twain?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, he met everybody, but he was a director of music at a radio station and that's how they get people to play their stuff, is they? Let them meet people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they get all the local radio stations together. They have a little meet and greet. That's exactly right. They have what they call a listening party and then they have all the radio station people in there shaking hands and taking pictures, and that is basically how they're like bribing the radio station people to play their music, to play their music, yeah, and of course there's food and all that stuff.
Speaker 2:So yeah, and nowadays it's not even like that because, yeah, they still do have listening parties. I'm pretty sure that's how Brandy and Taboo's are friends, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm sure they still do. I mean, it's just probably not as big now that radio is not as big, but whatever it is now, those people were there at the listening. Whoever's controlling what?
Speaker 2:people are listening to.
Speaker 1:On like places where they're not in.
Speaker 2:Speaking of listening to people, I'm just going to give this girl a shout out real quick. Everybody's talking about Bella France, so I won't bring her up the one that does the. Grand Tour.
Speaker 1:Okay, we do love her, but Billy bob gave her a shout out that's his crush. Oh, okay, that's not. I did hear that, but I didn't put that together.
Speaker 2:That's who that, but no, the, the girl that I'm talking about is carter faith oh, that was. She was very good yeah she's very that's like the style writing that I. It felt like loretta lynn when she's talking about very good this City and all that bullshit. It's cool, it's cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 2:Anyway. So Carter Faith, if you are looking for new country music to check out, check her out.
Speaker 1:No, I agree that I miss about Thanksgiving Like warm Thanksgiving memories Is A lot of times mom would take us to look at Because people put up their Christmas lights. So a lot of times Like we drive around, a little bit, like when we're leaving Wherever, and look at some Christmas lights I love looking at lights, put some. Christmas music on. Because, most of the radio stations would start playing Christmas music.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, I love looking at lights.
Speaker 1:I could drive around looking at lights, listening to music all day long.
Speaker 2:What's that one house out in Lightersburg that always does the big?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Out there on Lightersburg Pike. I don't know what it's called, but it's just a. That's the thing it's like every community has known people that do it every year right like a lot of the people. They do it every year. It's like a big thing and everybody knows to go and watch and right check it out and I tell you what the best light display I think, though, that we went to was that at the park there in williamsport yeah that was awesome yeah williamsport maryland it's just like
Speaker 1:their little town park or whatever.
Speaker 2:They have it all done up yeah, it was, and you drive through it and you turn your radio, it's.
Speaker 1:It's really cool because it's a park, so they have lots of.
Speaker 2:There's lots of room and stuff for them to decorate, so it's a big property one of the ones on my bucket list for this year is the pittsburgh zoo has an amazing light display right now they let the monkeys do the whole thing they let them. They let just give them free reign.
Speaker 1:Some of it looks crazy, but some of it's good yeah, I heard that the pandas pick the music.
Speaker 2:This year, though, I don't know, this thanksgiving is going to be a little bit shitty, even though I am with my friends and family, because it's going to be the first thanksgiving in all of her adult life that I'm not going to be a little bit shitty, even though I am with my friends and family, because it's going to be the first Thanksgiving in all of her adult life that I'm not going to see my youngest child because she's one of the crazy liberals that think all her rights are being taken away and I voted for Trump. Here's what I'm going to say about this.
Speaker 1:She blamed not only her mother, but the rest of the people that voted for Trump for.
Speaker 2:Half of America hates her. Yeah, so I'm going to break this down real quickly, because I've talked about it in my socials, but I want to have my story on record and I can finally say all the things out loud that I want to say out loud. Right, not even going to get into whether or not I was a good mother, because that is.
Speaker 1:None of that's relevant.
Speaker 2:It's subjective. Yeah, you could debate that all day. It's subjective.
Speaker 1:But put it this way she didn't want for anything she didn't. She was probably a little bit spoiled.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very spoiled. Did I take care of her mental health as well as I should have?
Speaker 1:probably not there's lots of things, 2020 vision but that's about the kind of, but she had counseling.
Speaker 2:She had, yes no, I agree I also continued to pay her phone bill. Until last year she was still on my insurance, until friday, it's not and she's how old she'll be 26 yeah, she just turned 25 yeah we didn't say that, yeah, she just turned 25.
Speaker 2:So here's why we will not be spending thanksgiving together, even though she has disowned me. It is because you look like you're gearing up to fight somebody. I'm just kidding. It is because her sociopathic partner and I'll call it a partner for right now said in the car one time and once I heard that I never could unhear it that they thought they were a master manipulator, that they like to play chess with people's emotions in their lives. And if I failed at parenting, it was in that moment when I recognized that he was a little psychotic. Fuck that I should have cut it off there, but I didn't because I was so happy.
Speaker 1:Perhaps we should have cut it off at the sundress and Easter bonnet.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about that. We're going to get into that because here's. So she thinks that I voted for Trump because I'm transphobic.
Speaker 1:Because her boyfriend, who's a man, says that he's a woman and says that, and I don't know what they have going on, but like neither one has ever dated anyone else.
Speaker 2:She did date that kid in South Carolina for a little bit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but that was like.
Speaker 1:Puppy love. Elementary school love. This is her, like they're their only so.
Speaker 3:I hate to tell you this kids.
Speaker 1:but my book you're straight Like you've never, even, you've never, and yet you want to change all these rules.
Speaker 2:Sorry. So I'm just saying don't jump on somebody else's cause. Here's what pisses me off about. It is that I literally had a female fiance for two years. It wasn't two years, we were off and on for two years, I would say, of Dakota's life. I had a living girlfriend. I raised her to be liberal, right, but maybe where I don't know where, I fucked up and all that. It's this generation.
Speaker 1:I don't even think it's just her generation.
Speaker 2:Everybody was gay or you had to be something, you couldn't just be straight she came to me as a junior in high school and said that she was a lesbian and I said have you ever kissed a girl? And she said no. And I said then you're not a lesbian yet. I just didn't understand what these kids all. I felt like she wanted to be a lesbian because it was like the thing to say.
Speaker 1:That's just it. It started off that, but then they got into all these other things. Then, when they had their, now they have their own weird identity.
Speaker 2:Who knows what. It is even classic and her literal. And her argument to me about why she was cutting me off is because she was a trans female with a uterus. Now that doesn't even fuck. How can you be a trans female with a uterus? You were born a female and you've taken zero hormones.
Speaker 1:You've gotten no surgeries now here's the other thing.
Speaker 2:Let's be very clear I don't give a shit what you do that's what I want to get to here, because I wanted to straighten out the whole whether or not I'm transphobic.
Speaker 2:No, the day that I found out that she blocked me on all social media, I was getting ready to send her a video from a trans content creator that I fucking love, who voted for Trump, and I wanted her to have another opinion. And I found out, oops, you're blocked on all social media, 25 years old and doesn't even have the balls to come and tell her mother that she's cutting her off. She just lets her find out, right. So then she throws around the word suicide to me, which pisses me off, because she knows that I've experienced that in my lifetime. If she needs mental help, she needs to go get it, but she has a family who's going to accept her and love her, so they can take her to get the mental help. Now, I'm not, but the reason why this pisses me off is because I watched this kid go from wanting to be a journalist, wanting to be on Broadway, to working 40 hours a week at a fucking broken down shithole hotel, while her boyfriend does nothing.
Speaker 1:Nothing.
Speaker 2:Because he can't do anything, because he's a spoiled little twink that needed his ass whipped by his dad, which is why he doesn't have a relationship with his dad, because his dad probably wanted to whip his ass for the way that he was being and his mom wouldn't let him. His mom, who is a welfare queen and who has a live-in pill-popping boyfriend, is all of a sudden mother of the year. If you're a mother of the year, amy, why are they living with your mother next door and not you? Because Daniel doesn't like you. And the final thing I'm saying on this is that the reason why I'm so livid about this is because this boy clearly has mental health issues that have been swept under the rung for far too long. He needs help, and my daughter is never going to get help until this kid gets help, because she's fucking sucked into his little sociopathic world and he's a loser.
Speaker 1:Any man, woman, trans, he's a loser. So it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:But I'm going to end this on a funny note, because I want to tell this story. So they're living with Daniel's grandmother, who does not know that he cross dresses as a woman and we were going to a wedding that Scott was performing the ceremony. Scott was performing the ceremony and they know. If they thought that I was transphobic, do they think that I would transphobic? Do they think that I would let them pull this motherfucking stunt? No, somebody walks out onto the porch when we go to pick them up and I thought it was my daughter and it was her boyfriend in a dress to go to a wedding with us, a family wedding, where Scott was performing the ceremony. Didn't say a word. Didn't say a word. We were like word. We were like okay, cool, whatever, let's go have fun. Took pictures of them together.
Speaker 2:We did not care, did not care till this dumb.
Speaker 1:You got to tell it we're standing there and the whole time he was talking in his lady, answering questions in his lady voice.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, ah, very nice to meet you and then somebody asked a question and I don't remember, yeah we were talking about the it was about it was about the beatles.
Speaker 1:The beatles. There was some kind of. I don't know why donovan was talking about the beatles, but Donovan bless his heart the stepfather of the bride this hilarious Jamaican dude fucking incredible and he just roamed with it he's just so much fun to be around.
Speaker 3:He's hilarious, he's always a cut up and the whole time Daniel was talking like this yes, mr Donovan.
Speaker 1:and then they got talking about the Beatles and he's like you know, the whole time Daniel was talking like this yes, mr Donovan. And then they got talking about the Beatles and he's like. You know that John Lennon and Paul McCartney once gave Ringo Starr a handjob in the bathroom.
Speaker 2:That's not what he said.
Speaker 1:But that's how he said it. Though that's how he said it.
Speaker 2:Because he forgot that he was in character and he forgot that he was pretending to be a female and then donovan turns around, he looks at me, he goes.
Speaker 1:I thought that was a woman. The whole time he said I thought it was just a really ugly girl but, and I'm not here to like, I'm not even.
Speaker 3:No, I'm not being petty, no, I.
Speaker 2:I don't want to go into the look shaming because that's a whole nother rabbit hole that I could go down.
Speaker 1:I will. He's an ugly fucking broad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's not going to make a good looking woman, and so there. So the problem is that how are they going to pay for any surgeries if my daughter is working a minimum wage job because she couldn't finish college because of him?
Speaker 1:And now he once asked how to sweep up glass at his job Right, and he was the so-called maintenance man.
Speaker 2:He's the maintenance man at a hotel and he asked how to sweep up glass.
Speaker 1:With a fucking broom.
Speaker 2:And I'm transphobic. No, honey Honey girl, sister girl, girl darcy is that your name, darcy? I'm not transphobic, I'm fucking sociopathic phobic. That's what I am. You've spoiled little twink. Oh but anyway but so that's why I'll be spending my holidays from here on out doing all the fun things that I want to do and not taking hours out of my PTO to ferry around two kids that can't get their shit together.
Speaker 1:Right, which was a big part of every holiday.
Speaker 2:Yeah Was because neither of them drive either.
Speaker 1:All right. People don't want to hear any more of our worries and troubles but that brings us into the next two. Christmas Christmas. But that brings us into the next two episodes. Two episodes Christmas Christmas. The weather outside is frightful.
Speaker 2:And all the craziness that ensues because you can't spell families.
Speaker 1:Without lies. Yes, that'll be fun. That is going to be so fun. I don't want to speak ill of your mother on Christmas, but she's nothing but a common street whore.
Speaker 2:If you can't tell, we love the movie Four Christmases, so we're going to break the next two episodes up into Four. Christmases, two Christmases apiece, two Christmases apiece. So all things Christmas. For the next two episodes. We're going to keep it fun, lighthearted and funny. All right, maybe that ending was a little harsh, since it is Thanksgiving and hopefully you are listening to this on or right around Thanksgiving. We want you to know that we are thankful for you, our loyal listeners. What else are we thankful for, babe?
Speaker 1:I'm thankful for you. I'm thankful for the opportunity to do this podcast to do comedy.
Speaker 2:You I'm thankful for the opportunity to do this podcast to do comedy, to thankful that we're in a position in life that we can do that, meaning that, like we have good jobs, we have a stable life yeah, yeah, thankful for family, obviously friends, everybody's thankful for this yeah, and of course, I am very thankful for you and all that you have to endure with my mental illness, because it is a challenge and I get that, but you are with me and stick with me. So I'm thankful for that. Also thankful for all my family and friends and my extended family who we are going to be seeing over Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:Goodbye Peace, peace, welcome to Scott's Thoughts. Scott's Thoughts. My quote today comes from the great author David Sedaris in his book let's Explore Diabetes with Alves. That's right, I promise you that's real. But there's a quote in there that says it's trash, you're trash, your whole family's trash. Now's a good time to remember that some of your family members are trash, but it's okay, because family is family. You love them, you hate them, you accept them, and that's Scott's thoughts.
