The holidays, holidays, holidays, stop it with the holidays.
I'll tell you, if I hear my mother say,
let's all go sit in the living room one more time.
I'm gonna dive right out the window.
That is my holiday fantasy to just dive right out the living room window
and just come back now.
I was a little bored there, brushed the glass off.
You see what it is? Well, it's the people.
You know those people.
You're relatives there.
They're always the same.
They dress the same, same face, same food.
No conversation in my house.
And those family things ever ends without one line.
It's the same line every time, no matter what
we're talking about, controversial mundane doesn't matter.
Always ends, one of them kind of sits up and says,
well, what are you gonna do?
And I sit there thinking,
I can think a lot of things you could do Uncle Matt.
You could finish chewing the potato salad before you talk.
You could have one meal in your life
where you don't sunk out on the sofa with the top of your pants
open afterwards.
There's a world where I can go and tell my secrets too.
In my room.
Not a cold morning with the beach boys.
I'd always warm-jip.
I saw them at summer festivals to ones.
I did too.
And sort of.
Yeah, this is when Summer Fest didn't have the amphitheater,
the Marcus amphitheater.
No, beach boys were on, if I recall,
when I saw them the one year,
I don't remember if they were on that main stage on the north then.
Right.
That's the one.
Yeah, exactly.
You probably there.
I didn't stay for the whole thing.
I was in ice, got the time.
And although I liked the beach boys,
and I had some beach boy albums,
I just stayed around for a couple songs and then moved on.
Well, this is before they had tickets.
There was a rush.
People were falling over the bench.
It was bench seating.
People were falling over the bench.
It's tripping, running in there.
We waited two years in a row all day long for cool in the game.
And then when they opened up the gate,
even though we were fairly close,
we were still halfway back, if not further.
So I'm thinking they used to let their friends in the back way.
And not you though.
No.
But anyway.
They used to have a lot of great acts on the side stage.
It's a Miller.
The Miller stage used to be a jazz stage.
And so I made our Ferguson on there.
And he was the guy that did the rocky theme.
Now, people can find this hard to believe.
Tina Turner, when I saw her there in the 80s,
she was on a side stage.
Yeah.
Because this is before her comeback.
I mean, Tina Turner was kind of forgotten about.
Right.
And she was on a side stage.
And just people were standing there watching her.
You'd never, by today's name, that you'd never believe it.
But back in the 80s, Tina Turner wasn't a big act.
Well, you know, these rock groups that used to pack stadiums
are now playing the side stage.
And they're playing county fairs.
And you know, are you speed away again and sticks and all these?
We saw my son and I saw Kansas on one of the side stages one year.
So, you know, and these were,
these were groups in there.
Hey, Dave, that, you know, we're packing it out.
So, we were supposed to go see Santana and Earth Wind and Fire.
And my wife splurged, actually,
first concert ticket she'd ever bought.
And splurged.
And they were like 300 bucks a piece.
And Santana got sick.
You got to change your evil ways.
Now, you talked it up very good.
She was actually more interested in seeing Earth Wind and Fire.
And she had her outfit all picked out.
It was going to be great.
But, you know, it was a shame I would have liked to see in Santana.
Got to hang out one night with a guy that plays guitar with him.
And it just, it would have been, it would have been cool,
but it didn't happen.
What could have been in life?
Oh, evil ways, Santana.
Great rock and roll.
I don't know.
I mean, I like today's music, but I like,
I like going back to those days as well.
Yeah, like a satellite radio year.
But what's nice about it is you don't have the commercials,
but also you can just zone in on a genre.
So, I like to listen to the blues station.
I do listen to WRJN and now that you're back down,
I'm listening to it again.
As I'm pointing to the door to get out.
The WRJN was my drive time.
I would listen to it in the morning because I want to hear the local news
back when you and my clements and some of the others.
Tom Carco, forgot that name already.
No, no, no, no.
I said the news.
I said the news, but then I talked, you know,
you did this morning slot for a while, my climate,
and then our buddy, Ted Allen,
it was, so I would listen on my way to work and on my way home.
But when we take long trips, I can't get WRJN on my radio in the Kia.
So, I have satellite radio.
So, I used to listen to the Elvis station.
We stream.
Do you really?
Mm-hmm.
The only thing we don't stream.
How do you stream on my car, though?
You with Bluetooth.
Oh, I don't do Bluetooth.
You do everything else with your phone.
There's a Bluetooth button on your phone and your phone radio.
My wife's got it on her.
She just turned it to Bluetooth on your car.
That's too complicated.
I figured it out.
It can't be that complicated.
Plus.
Takes up my, eats away at my...
Well, the thing is, you could do any station streaming in the world
or anything on your phone.
It just goes through your radio.
Right.
So, you do it that way.
So, I can't believe you.
I thought you were like a techie guy.
No, no.
Just some degree.
More so than others.
So, you know, the Elvis station I got programmed.
I got the 70 station program.
I got the 80 station program.
I have a R&B station.
I love the old R&B stuff.
The soul music from the 70s.
The motowns.
Yeah.
And even the stuff that's straight, you know.
But yeah, a lot of it was, was more town.
And then the Bluetooth station.
And then I listened to LL Cool Jays hip-hop station every once in a while.
But I got to keep turning it off.
Because I like the old school hip-hop.
Hip-hop 50 years old.
Yeah.
I know.
And, you know, the stuff that came out in the later 80s, 90s,
the profanity, the words and stuff.
I don't like it.
But the early stuff was fun.
It was, you know.
Nothing wrong with satellite radio.
The only thing you just got to pay for it.
Right.
Exactly.
Where the radio is free.
And you can never charge regular radio because who wants the airwaves in America?
The government.
Nope.
You do?
The public owns them.
The public go wild.
The public owns them.
And you can't charge.
I want my cut.
It's like walking on a sidewalk.
You can't tell people when people are taking pictures on a sidewalk.
You can't tell them they can't do it.
And when a person is walking on a sidewalk, there's no expectation or privacy in public.
And you're like, I could take a picture of you all I want.
A video of you.
Any building I want to see.
I mean, they tell you sometimes, well, you can't take picture of a government building or a prison.
Sure you can.
You can take pictures of anything you want from a public site.
Well, I took a picture at the parade.
Yeah.
And it's the fourth of July.
Fourth of July parade.
So I take pictures and I put them in our archives and they use them for Facebook and everything else.
So I take this picture, this nice family on the lawn in front of their house.
And I get a message on Facebook saying, please take that picture down.
Because their address of their house was showing.
Yeah.
So it was like, you know what?
I'll take it down.
Right.
You could do it if you want to be nice, but you don't have to.
Right.
I didn't have to.
But you know what?
If you want to be nice and you're a nice guy.
Exactly.
And everybody loves David and they don't want to set a bad president.
Yeah, you could do that.
But it was a great picture.
It was a great family picture.
But you know what?
Couldn't you put it around the house address?
The problem was that I tried the way some doing Facebook through the phone or whatever.
And I couldn't.
So it was just easier to take it down.
I like when the on these first amendment audit videos.
People say, you're not supposed to be taking pictures of people's license plates in a parking lot.
Excuse me.
There's nothing more public than a license plate.
Everybody sees.
Why would you think you can't take a picture of somebody's license plate?
Everyone's on I put.
I have a parking hall of shame on Facebook.
Somebody that takes up two, three, four slots with the spots of their car.
And I'll take a picture of it.
And then I'll put it up.
And I've started to, you know, cross off the license plate.
And it's like someone said, what are you doing that?
Yeah.
Well, yeah, I like this guy on YouTube, I watch.
He's called the cart NARC.
I don't know if you ever seen him before.
He goes around parking lots where there's a supermarket.
And people not putting their shopping carts back in those cart corrals.
Now there's what you gotta do.
And there's one every few feet of cart.
Exactly.
So they'll take the cart and they'll leave it in the back as someone's car.
Or they'll leave it between the doors.
And they'll say he runs over.
He says, cart NARC, cart NARC.
Why don't you put your cart back?
She goes, well, where am I supposed to put it?
Six feet from you, there's a cart corral.
How can you miss it?
And they refuse to do it.
And he puts a bumper, a magnetic sticker on their car saying, I won't put my thing back.
He's called the cart NARC.
Sometimes they'll put it back.
They'll say, oh, yeah, they just to avoid the problem.
Other times they get violent, they have to throw in stuff at them.
Just put the cart back.
Why does my car have to bump into your cart because you're too lazy?
And why do you have to take up two or three spots?
I know.
Especially at a busy place.
And the worst part about it, sometimes it's not even the nicest car.
And it's like, yeah, some people with brand new cars will do it.
But others, like, nothing special about your car.
So these are sheer laziness or I'm not sure.
But you got me on a roll this morning with the...
Wait a second, there's one other thing.
The other day I'm parked.
I think I'm waiting for my wife.
She went into the supermarket.
And I'm waiting.
And this lady next to me opens her door.
Now there was plenty of room.
She swings her boot into my car.
And I'm just about to get out.
And she closes it and pulls away.
And I look at my car and there's the paint chip on the car.
Not even, I'm sorry.
Not even, oh, I got away from me.
It's this sense of entitlement that I'm a lot to open my car door full swing.
You know, lady, you know, you can't do that.
You can't bang into my car.
And she made a chip, you know.
And the writer says, you know, you got an old car.
Well, you don't have to make my car any older.
Right.
You know, just because...
So I always have the girl she started a few years back.
Thank you for this wonderful Thanksgiving morning.
I was in a good mood when I woke up.
I made the girl she started a few years back.
And I had to stop because it's a car in front of me.
And this old guy pulls out plume.
He hits my car.
I get out.
You all right, dude?
And he looks at me and says, are you David Mack?
I'm like, yeah.
You were an alderman, weren't you?
I was like, oh, boy.
And let's come on after that.
Anyway, there was no damage to the car.
Front of mine actually was behind me.
I didn't realize it.
I get this text later on saying, oh, I see so and so hit you.
And I forget who the guy was if I knew of him.
But he's like, that guy has no business driving at all.
I guess he was.
And it's like, yeah, probably.
You know, when I come to work in the morning,
I hate to make this a gripe session.
But when I come to work in the morning,
it's called therapy.
No, it's not.
It's called letting it out.
Anyway, when I come to work in the morning,
people are always on my bumper for some reason.
And I travel.
It's like five in the morning.
And I'm going the speed limit of 30 miles an hour down Memorial Drive.
And they are so close to me.
I can't see their headlights.
So if I have to hit a break for an animal crossing the street,
it's going to hurt me.
I can't.
I can't have my break plates at that point.
Break checking?
Yeah.
Then they get even worse.
They get mad at you.
It's 7.19 at WRJN Radio.
Thanks for being here on this Thanksgiving morning,
more coming up at WRJN.
Good morning yesterday.
You wake up and time has slipped away.
And suddenly it's hard to find.
The memories you left behind remember.
Do you remember?
The laughter of the tears.
The shadows of misty yesterdays.
The good times and the bad you'd see.
And all the others in between.
Ah, Paul Anke.
He was, uh, he did some good acting turns.
He was in that movie, Captain, I think Captain Ron,
with Kurt Russell.
Did he write my way?
Yes, he wrote my way.
He wrote the theme song to the tonight show as well.
Oh boy.
And he wrote that.
He had a couple of hits when he was, you know,
I think there was a teenager at that point,
but he had a couple of rock and roll hits in the 50s.
So who did a better job on my way?
Elvis or Frank Sinatra?
I mean, Elvis really made it his own.
Oh, I'm going to go with the original.
Ah, they're both good.
I can't remember.
And Frankie.
What was it?
Frankie Boucher.
What was that guy?
Frenchy, Frenchy.
Frenchy Bouton.
Yeah, Frenchy Bouton.
I'm not thinking about the time I played that song on the air, are you?
No, but.
So I, I'm a kid I call up.
I'm big Elvis.
I liked Frank Sinatra too.
Saw him in Chicago at the Grand Opening of the Chicago Theatre,
but I called up Frenchy Bouton.
I said, would you play my way favorite song of mine by Elvis?
He played it by Frank Sinatra.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
It was fine.
So.
I love the Elvis version.
So Frenchy Bouton was in the hospital.
And he wasn't doing that well.
And we decided to pull out a Frenchy Bouton album here.
And this is when we were using records.
Because he, that's what he had.
He had a vinyl record.
And we still had a vinyl record player at WRJN.
We still do now.
Yeah, I noticed that in the corner there.
Of course, they're brand new and pretty specific.
That's for Lou Regani on Sunday morning.
Well, actually, they're, uh,
vinyl's making a comeback, guys.
Yeah, right.
I bought a couple vinyl albums that are autographed,
but I haven't played them.
So.
So anyway, Frenchy Bouton's in the hospital.
And they say, let's play it.
So I take his album.
I just dropped the needle on a song.
And it's, and now the end is near.
Oh, no.
And as soon as I hit, as soon as we started that,
I wasn't on the air.
I was just in the studio.
And I said, oh, oh, stop it.
Please.
Oh, please stop the music.
I can't, but here he is clinging to life.
And now the end is, he did get better, by the way.
It wasn't the end.
But I said, oh, no.
Why did I do it?
And of all the songs to pick, but I didn't know.
I just dropped the needle on one of them.
Just, you know, here's the voice.
Right.
And it was that.
Well, Frenchy used to have, um,
Sammy the Elf call up.
Or they called the North Pole.
And they talked to Santa every night.
I don't know if it was like five, six o'clock.
And so I'm in, I'm in grade school at the time.
And we had this little square transistor radio from radio
Shaq.
I think you pushed a little lever down.
And my dad listened to WRGN in the morning.
And back in the old days, they used to do a show from AMC.
There was a guy.
Right.
And yeah.
And so, but Frenchy Bhutan in the, in the, in the evening during Christmas time,
every night they'd call Santa and Sammy Elf would answer the phone.
Santa, it's Frenchy Bhutan.
So Frenchy's sitting in this exact chair I'm sitting in right now.
And one of the lights burst.
Don't they need to upgrade the furniture here?
Well, I wasn't the exact, it was the position, the way the chair.
It was the position he was sitting in right here.
And the light burst above his head, one of the overhead lights.
It would not these.
We got better ones now, but it was a cheap set we got.
And a birthday class in his hair and everything.
And we had a, what a mess it was.
It just popped.
So immediately the manager, get those lights out of the track lighting.
Get them all down.
Buy some expensive stuff.
And so I don't know who put them in, but they bought the cheapest lights they can find.
And they weren't very good.
Even the guy who, uh, the electrician came in to replace him, said, who bought this stuff?
I don't know.
I don't, I'm not the quartermaster here.
Okay, karate kid films, you're a big fan of them.
I have never seen them.
Okay, this, this won't make sense to you.
Ralph Machio and Jackie Chan are coming together for the next karate kid movie.
Ralph will play Daniel LaRusso again from the original movies.
Jackie Chan returns as Mr. Han, because Mr. Miyagi is no, but this anymore.
And a global casting search is underway for the next karate kid acting experience not required.
It tells you how good this picture is going to be, but you have to note some martial arts.
Guy New Hampshire named Jeffrey Holt recently passed away at the age of 82.
You don't like this story.
He lived this simple life.
He managed the mobile home park where he lived.
Didn't have a TV.
Didn't have a car.
Rand Aaron's on his writing board.
So people in town was shocked when he died with $3.8 million in his bank account.
Oh, wait, it gets better.
Here's the cool part.
He left every penny of it to his hometown.
Oh, very nice.
I don't know what the city budget is in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, but I got to know the $3.8 million.
It's a big help to it.
You know, in a big city, it probably wouldn't mean anything.
Right.
That's craft money in a big city, but that.
Well, you know, I'm sure there are people like that.
They live a very quiet life.
There's money sitting in the bank.
And you hear these stories every once in a while.
But here's the one I really like.
You heard the Rolling Stones are going on tour again.
Yeah.
Okay.
Did you hear the sponsor of the tour?
ARP.
AARP is sponsoring the Rolling Stones 2024 tour.
It's not joke.
Members are even getting access to tickets two days early.
The tour kicks off in Houston on April 28th of next year.
Boy, they picked their target audience for that one.
Mick Jagger is 80.
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow.
Is all the good your eyes?
Well, you know, I touched.
I met Kiss recently.
September 1st it was.
I drove up to Carter, Wisconsin.
So I'm waiting for the ground breaking for the new restaurant.
And they said it was a groundbreaking, but it was inside the restaurant.
Or inside the casino.
They had a little stage set up.
And a bunch of old guys there.
And these guys are wearing their Kiss Army t-shirts.
They're tugging tote bags with records and kiss figurines.
And they're old guys.
I'm looking at them like guys grow up.
But they're all waiting in there.
They're thinking that they're going to get a handshake and a picture and an autograph from these guys.
And they didn't get anywhere near Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons.
Even the meeting greet that I went to was controlled.
They said no shaking hands, no selfies, no autographs.
So I was surprised when they fist-bumped all of us that were in the line for the meeting greet.
They had a professional photographer take our picture, which was nice.
I didn't even bother to talk to Gene Simmons, but Paul Stanley, I said a few words too, like I said.
But those guys are in their 70s.
And they're putting on their makeup and wearing their eye-heeled clothes.
Listen to this.
Mick Jagger put money into a pension account.
This is when he was in his 20s.
Because he said to himself at the time, he would be ridiculous to think he could still be a rock star at age 60.
And here he is at age 80.
Now he recently showed him a lady Gaga on stage.
He looked 80 years old.
Here's a guy who did drugs all his life with women, drugs, and showing it signs in his face.
But he's still jumping around on stage.
And he had a new valve put in his heart a couple of years ago.
Yeah, he was out of commission for what.
He had the same valve.
I had the A or a valve.
He had surgery.
And he was up jumping around about a month later.
You know?
He's Mick Jagger.
What am I going to tell you?
Hey, it's sunshine out there.
34 degrees.
Today's sunny, highs near 44.
Tomorrow's sunny, highs 35.
Cloudy Saturday.
Maybe some snow before noon on Sunday.
But it's going to be 37 for the highs, so it'll melt.
It's 6.29.
You're at WRJN.
I'm Don Rosen.
We've got David Mack with us this morning on this Thanksgiving morning.
Thank you for joining us.
We're not a pre-recorded show like everybody else is doing.
We're live.
We're right here.
We showed up.
Well, I don't know why I came here today.
I'll just smile at real big and then go away.
These dinners with the family are great.
One year I somehow got hit by a plate.
And it's to the left of me.
Uncle's to the right.
Here I am.
Spending Thanksgiving with you.
Being here is the best I could do.
Everybody's drinking way too much booze.
But my cousins are starting to fight.
And neither one of them's what you call bright.
Sisters to the left of me.
Drop roll on my right.
Here I am.
Spending Thanksgiving with you.
You're not smart.
You're not smart.
You're not smart.
All the leaves are brown.
All the leaves are brown.
And the sky is gray.
And the sky is gray.
I've been for a while.
And for a while.
I've been on a winter's day.
On a winter's day.
I've been safe and warm.
If I was in LA.
If I was in LA.
At a 4-year trip.
I've been for a year.
I've been for a year.
I've been for a year.
I've been for a year.
I've been for a year.
Here's a hint for Thanksgiving today.
Don't play any board games because you know what's going to happen.
The board?
Yeah, it's going to go flying across the room when somebody's losing.
There were three things you cannot discuss at the Thanksgiving table.
Obviously politics, religion,
and the amount of Christmas music to play on the radio.
Oh.
Because nobody...
It's their friend of mine told me that once.
He said, nobody will agree on that.
People went, well, they should play one song here.
What's it?
No, all Christmas.
No, not all Christmas.
And then it turns out to a...
It Donnie broke at the table.
He had never played games on Thanksgiving because...
Somebody's a sore loser.
And it never works out.
Especially a monopoly.
You cheated.
And then the board goes...
There's some meme somebody put up.
It's a picture of a monopoly board laying on the ground with all the money
in the hotels all over the room.
And it says things didn't go well at the end of Thanksgiving.
Well, you got some of those radio stations that all they do is play Christmas music now.
Non-stop.
That's right.
And you know what?
They do very well in the ratings.
People love it.
People love hearing Christmas music.
You know, there's a couple of stations in America that start in the end of September.
On my radio, I have a radio page I go to for radio news.
And they start at the end of September.
They always try to beat the competition by going, well, we're playing it now.
Oh, it differs to make.
How many times can you hear Jingle Bells?
Yeah, before the July.
We're going to play.
We wish you a Merry Christmas.
Well, next.
On hot days, I did that once.
We had a heat wave here.
I was when I was in Milwaukee.
I had a heat wave for over 100 degrees in the summer.
And I brought out a couple of Christmas songs to cool people off.
I know.
I know you've probably been there.
Frank and Muth Michigan.
They have the largest Christmas store year round.
And big huge ornaments and everything in the parking lot.
And it's everything Christmas every day.
Every day is Christmas.
By the way, you have been there, right?
No.
You have not been there.
Mr. Road Trip.
Well, I've been to Michigan, but I haven't been to that place.
You got to go to Frank and Muth Michigan.
And it is a Bavarian, German-themed town.
Very quaint.
There's two restaurants.
They're across the street from each other.
And they both have chicken dinners.
But one is a German-themed restaurant.
The other one is, I don't know, more American-themed, I guess.
They have a river.
We took a paddle boat on the river.
It's a really quaint, really cool town.
They are the only sanctioned city in America
to have a sanctioned October fest celebration,
sanctioned by the Germans.
And they have this huge, huge store.
And it's just Christmas stuff.
And it's always packed.
And in the parking lot, they have a supersized Santa
and all this stuff.
And they have a reproduction of the chapel
that Silent Night was written in.
And it's really cool.
You and your wife would love it.
And...
You just see David's face talking about this.
He's like a nine-years-old.
Well...
You see, it's like a little kid talking to his face.
Well, the one thing that we share in common
is, you know, our love for road trips
and finding unique places.
And, you know, my wife, one day, told me,
she had a bucket list.
I'm like, what's a bucket list?
Things you want to do before you die.
So I thought, boy, I need to have a bucket list.
First, you need a bucket.
Get the bucket, and then you can work from it.
So then I thought, what's going to be on my bucket list?
I want to picture with the Jolly Green Giant
in Blue Earth, Minnesota.
I have a picture of me and the Jolly Green.
You did that, I realized.
Wait a minute.
That's the only item I have on my bucket list.
We're in trouble.
So then I said, all right, I'm changing my bucket list.
I'm going to get my picture taken with every roadside attraction
between here and where we're going,
which is driving my wife crazy.
And then I planned a trip last year for our anniversary.
I said, Amy, how would you like to go to KCL and I?
And she says, as long as it doesn't have to do with two things.
What, Amy?
Elvis and large things.
I said, oh, no, Amy, it doesn't.
So we're driving into KCL and I.
And all of a sudden, she sees these huge antlers.
She goes, David, look over there.
You know, in the opposite direction.
So I, oh, Amy, and I'm driving.
But as we drove into town,
and she started seeing the world's largest rocking chair.
I've been there.
Well, that's right.
KCL and I stole it from.
There was a place off Route 66.
I had the world's largest rocking chair.
Until KCL and I built theirs.
And they have the world's largest wind chime.
The world's largest pencil.
And then the world's largest golf tee.
And when she started seeing this,
she knew that she'd been snookered.
There's the website.
RoadsideAmerican.com.
There it is.
By the way.
So last year, also, I took the outlaws,
my father outlaw and my mother outlaw,
to Michigan.
We stopped in Frankenmuth on the way back.
But we went to the Henry Ford village
that they have out there.
Have you ever been there, Don?
You have to go to the Ford House Museum
that is spectacular.
And the stuff in there,
they have the limo that Kennedy was riding in
when he got shot.
No, they have it.
They have five presidential vehicles
dating back to a horse and buggy
that Teddy Roosevelt used.
And then some other,
and then one of Reagan's limos.
They have one of the
Weenermal bills from the 50s.
It's just, it is the coolest
museum that I've been to.
And then, Jason, you got to spend two days there.
One day for the museum.
And then one day for the Greenwich Village.
So I thought Greenwich Village
or maybe Greenfield Village,
I forget what it's called.
They have all these old houses.
And I thought they were reproductions.
And there's a bike shop.
And did you know that the Wright Brothers bike shop
was Henry Ford moved it from Ohio
to Michigan at the request to one of the rights.
They no longer had on the bike shop.
But the city never put a plaque on there.
So Wilbur Wright was upset with the city.
And he was friends with Henry Ford.
He says, you need to buy this and move it to your village.
They had, it's just too much to explain.
They have the house.
Thomas Edison first put an electric light bulb in
or wired for electricity.
And they have a reproduction of his factory
where he invented all this stuff.
And it's just, it's really a neat place.
My wife went there.
Yeah, I'm sure she did.
And I wonder what guys she went with.
You go with me.
You got to go.
So anyway, we're driving in all of a sudden.
I see the world's largest uneroil tire.
Which was at the world's fair in 1964.
So I pull off on the side of the road.
And this is a freeway mind you.
And I jump out of the car and he said, Amy,
you got to take a picture of me.
And she was not happy.
First of all, she did the big things again.
First of all, she thought I was going to get killed on the freeway.
But it's like, and then I wanted to take a selfie with her.
Amy, you got to get in the picture with me.
And the look on her face.
I never posted that one on Facebook.
It was not Facebook worthy.
But it's cool.
And then we found a really neat thing outside of...
Where'd you go any further?
Was that the unit?
Was that the tire?
That's a big one.
That's at the world's fair in 1960.
It was big like that.
That's about the biggest I've ever seen.
Yeah, I don't know if it's that one.
But you know, what do they make in Detroit?
They make cars.
And that's where we're outside of a Detroit, actually.
Who's the biggest manufacturer of car tires in the world?
Good year, Legos.
Legos?
Wow.
They make more car tires, the little Legos,
trucks than any other manufacturer in the world.
Wow.
It's a good trick question.
Yeah.
So my wife went to that.
There's a car museum.
My wife plans out road trips and we go on the road.
She spends weeks planning math.
So we don't get from A to B.
We get from A to B to D to EF.
And one of the places went to was in Murdo, South Dakota.
This was on a trip.
We went out to Wyoming, Devil's Tower.
And went to Murdo, South Dakota.
And that's a car museum.
There were so many cars there.
I couldn't see anymore.
I was so tired.
But Elvis's mint green motorcycle was there.
Wow.
They have it on display.
And they had the picture of Elvis on it to make it authentic.
But they have a tire to recede.
Some owners and or niece or something.
Right.
They got a tire to recede.
But there they had the case car from J.I.K.
Wow.
And it was in a barn.
There were just too many cars to see.
There's too much stuff.
And after a while, we said enough already.
But we go on road trips.
And my wife always plans out cemeteries because that's a great source of history.
We went to Louisville and we spent two days at the cemetery.
No, not six full days.
Sixty five acres.
I know.
We were Muhammad Ali's buried there.
Right.
We went there at the tail.
We actually got kicked out the first night because we didn't realize that they were closing
at a certain time.
And we were there past closing time.
But we were on a quest to find.
Well, we found Colonel Sanders.
Right.
We never did find Paul Horning.
We ran out of time.
The lady that wrote Happy Birthday.
We went to her grave.
Had he Smith Hill.
That was a hard one to find.
It's a little tiny.
Yes.
Yeah.
And then I met Muhammad Ali back in the 90s.
My buddy Pete Rodriguez and I drove to Michigan and we stopped off in Barion Springs.
We knocked down his door and spent about an hour at his house.
And so I wanted to pay my respects to the champ.
And so we found his grave.
We heard what David didn't hear was.
Call security.
Yes.
Two crazy people at my door.
It's got call security right away.
I'll keep them busy.
Thank you.
Thank you.
What my wife was on a quest for because it's this beautiful Victorian cemetery.
She had heard about people that put recipes on their gravestones.
So she had my 70 year old grandson scouting out.
You know, if you find a tombstone with a recipe on it, let me know, Kai.
And so we never did find any recipe tombstones.
But took a ton of pictures because some of some of these old gravestones monuments.
Oh, yeah.
Down in.
Beautiful.
And we've got a couple of so annoying and we're metropolis.
We've been there too.
Off to the right about it.
Miler, two out there's an old dilapidated cemetery.
And it looks like it hasn't taken care of for years.
We did not go there.
Okay.
Very there is a guy named Robert Stroud.
Name sound familiar?
Nope.
He's the birdman of Alcatraz.
Oh, wow.
He's the guy, the original guy who, he's a killer.
He's a two time killer.
He's buried next to his mom.
And he was the guy that to this day they still use his books on curing bird diseases.
And this guy never, never finished elementary school.
But in 11 worth where he did all the research.
And he was incarcerated at 11 worth.
But the time he got to Alcatraz, they were no longer, you know, no longer allowed to keep the birds.
But there's a guy who self taught himself and he's buried there.
Also, he got to go to Mount Carmel Cemetery and Illinois.
He's buried there.
Well, not been there yet.
Al Capone.
Yep.
The Capone family.
That's on the bucket list.
Wait a second.
Okay.
He's in a mausoleum.
And all the youngsters that Capone killed are buried there.
Well, they couldn't get along in life.
They're getting along now.
Six feet under.
David Mack is here with us this morning at WRGN.
It's Thanksgiving morning.
No pre-recorded shows here.
We're live.
Unlike TV people.
They took pre-recorded all this stuff from Alcatraz.
We don't.
749 at WRGN.
Sunshine all day.
Today with a high-tier 44 right now.
Sonny's guy.
34 degrees.
Keep it right here.
Oh, morning.
A poor little baby child is born in the ghetto.
In the ghetto.
And his mama cries.
Cause if there's one thing she don't need is another one.
We're about to feed in the ghetto.
In the ghetto.
Are people, don't you understand?
The child needs to help me.
Someone's talking about Elvis.
How to get an Elvis song in this morning in the ghetto.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Did you see the new movie, Priscilla?
I have not seen that, Chad.
We went to the movie theater and we saw the other movie.
The other movie.
Oh, that was great.
It was Austin Butler playing Elvis.
A little little campy start to it.
But actually, he nailed the moves.
Yes.
He just, it was, uh, and they took some liberties with the story.
I had to explain to my wife afterwards, you know, but it captured, I think, yes.
And so that was Elvis.
Excellent movie.
The problem they had with Priscilla was the budget was cut when filming first start.
So she had a slice a lot of the movie out.
They could not get permission to play any Elvis music in the movie.
Really?
Yeah.
The Elvis estate would not give them permission.
So it was really not a great picture.
The acting was mumbling throughout the picture.
It was very dark.
In other words, like they didn't turn the lights on.
You couldn't see anybody when they did indoor scenes.
It was based upon the book Elvis and me by Priscilla Presley.
And there was a better three hour made for TV movie, which I had on VHS, by the way.
Elvis and me, which we watched.
And it was much, much better to watch that.
We did see a good movie last night.
That's a long movie.
Three hours, three hours and 27 minutes.
It's killers of the flower moon with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro chewing up the screen.
Yeah.
I mean, these two and Martin Scorsese directing now.
If you know Martin Scorsese, it's just about every movie he makes has either Leonardo DiCaprio or Robert De Niro in it.
These two together, just eating up the screen.
And Lily Gladstone, who plays a major role in the picture, just wonderful in this picture.
Everyone who's good.
And you'll see some cameos along the way.
Even Martin Scorsese has got a cameo in it.
I'm not going to tell you any of the movie, but you know what it's about.
The Osage and the Invaders of the early 1920s.
Front of mine gave me the book several years ago.
We went to France.
We did a cultural exchange.
And my grandfather moved to Racini.
He was born on the White Earth Indian Reservation.
And Amy's family came up from Mexico, but you know, the DNA testing.
And also she's a tribal member of the La Pana Apache tribe of Texas.
And so we both have strong Native American roots.
And we're involved in the culture.
We got invited to France about 12 years ago to do a cultural exchange.
They wanted to dedicate a monument to the Ojibwe people.
And the lady that organized it was friends with cousin of mine from the reservation.
And so we got invited to be part of this delegation.
Well, in South of France, the Osage Indians are revered because there were some Osage Indians.
They got left behind in the Wild Wild West show.
And that's how they got there.
And that's how they got there.
And the bishop of one of these towns in the South of France had been a bishop in New Orleans.
And so these Osage Indians knew of him.
And so they walked from the Paris to this town.
And the bishop helped them get back.
So there's been this connection between this community and the Osage.
So they started a Facebook page, some of those people, for this killer moon thing.
And invited me to join it.
And so I've been watching for the last couple of years.
Production of this and waiting in anticipation.
And yet my wife and I have not found a chance to get to the movie theater to watch it yet.
I don't know how many bathroom breaks I'll have to take.
Well, there is a site.
And Brett Hoffman who joins us on the air from Marcus theaters every week.
And I forget the name of the site.
It's like, got a pee or went to pee or have to pee.
And it gives you any movie you want.
And it tells you where you can go to the bathroom and you won't miss anything.
And that's a great idea.
I have to check that out.
I have to get the exact name.
I know it ends in P.E.
But I can't think of the first words.
I didn't write it down.
But he said, yeah, people use it when they go to long movies.
So they know when to leave.
It tells you how many minutes in and what scene.
If you leave, you're not going to miss anything.
And they can't sit in the bathroom for 20 minutes.
You can do what you got to do real quickly.
It's an interesting movie.
It's a sad chapter in history.
Today's Thanksgiving.
A lot of native peoples have mixed emotions regarding the stay.
It's kind of, it's more of, I don't want to say,
do people actually celebrate holidays?
Or is it just another day off in a time to get together?
And sadly, I think in America, a lot of these holidays
have turned into that Labor Day Memorial Day.
Fourth of July, maybe some people go to the parade.
But it's a day off to have a family gathering.
And Thanksgiving's like that.
So even native peoples, a lot of native peoples
that we know that don't necessarily acknowledge Thanksgiving.
Still are making the turkey and having friends over.
And it's an opportunity.
That story about the Oklahoma and the oil fields, you know, tragic.
Yeah.
And it was filmed in Oklahoma.
Yeah.
The entire movie was filmed there.
They brought all the actors out there.
And they use Osage Indians in the movie itself.
Versus Italians like they used to use in the old days.
Right.
I mean, it's sad.
They see some of the old Westerns with actors,
with makeup on to darken their complexion.
Yeah.
And you know who they are?
You know, Martin Landau played a native American idiot
in the Hallelujah Trail.
It was a big center on the movie.
It's embarrassing to watch it today because today
they use real native Americans in these films.
But they didn't do it back then.
I got to thank you for coming in today.
You made the two hours really nice.
Oh, it's time to go.
It's time to eat.
Well, yeah, I got to go play football.
I've never played 54 years.
They've been getting together.
I've never played.
I did show up for their 50th because Steve Cupsy
got to come out.
You got to come out.
And so I came out to watch the game.
And then the newspaper was there.
And so they took a group photo.
And Steve's like, get in the picture.
So if I get in the picture, people are going to think
that I played.
And he's like, no, no, come on.
So my picture was in the paper.
It's being part of this 50th anniversary football game.
And I never, never played a snap.
You know, but this year I thought,
you know, I'm going to bring the grandson.
And whether or not they let him play or not
be to be determined.
But he's like, grandpa, can we go play catch?
So I have this little football.
And I throw it to him.
And he catches about 50% of the passes,
which is probably better than some of the NFL greats.
But then he takes off running down the yard.
And I'll yell, touch down.
He's like, yay!
Let's hope the hostages come out today.
Yeah, the latest news.
Set him maybe delayed a day.
Well, let's hope.
Yep, let's hope.
Hope and great.
David, happy Thanksgiving to you and your family
are a wonderful human being.
I love talking to your good friend all these years.
I'm Don Rose, and it's 758 at WRJN.
Keep it right here.
We're looking for a beautiful Sunday day on this Thanksgiving.
Have a great time with your family and friends.
Okay?
Peace to everybody today.
