A lamppost fell on three guests at Disneyland's Main Street, USA,
and it was still more fun than the Hall of Presidents.
You know, it was Taylor Swift night on Dancing with the Stars,
which means millions of young Americans found out
that Dancing with the Stars is still on television.
I thought love was only true in fairytales,
then for someone else, but not for me.
Our love was out to get me, that's the way it seemed.
Disappointment haunted all my dreams.
Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer.
Written by Neil Diamond, sung by Neil Diamond originally,
and he gave it to the monkeys.
And of course, the rest is history.
Nobody remembers the Neil Diamond version.
Although it's a good version, you know, it's Neil Diamond.
But he wrote so many songs for other people as well.
Wow, the monkeys.
I think we only have two members.
One member, yeah, one member left.
Yeah, Mickey Dolan's.
We only got a circus boy from one of the kiddies,
young TV and his little kid actor.
Then he became a DJ at WCBS FM in New York,
the oldie station.
He did mornings there for a while.
But he's got anything around the world.
David Mack is here. Hi, David.
Good.
Good Thanksgiving.
Good morning, happy Thanksgiving.
And thanks for waking me up this morning.
Well, I didn't wake you up, whoever all we made.
Just to be here.
Yeah.
Well, you know, life is tough.
What am I going to tell you?
Hey, let's talk about music for a bit.
Yeah.
Well, you know, you brought up Neil Diamond and these songs.
It's kind of interesting.
I'm in an interest and place in my life because I talk about
contemporary 20th century pop art music, TV shows.
And people look at me with a blank stare on their face like,
what are you talking about?
I know.
You mentioned the Beatles to a lot of people.
Oh, the Beatles.
My parents were a few years back.
I was with some of my age and I was talking about Dion,
the singer.
I said not, not Celine Dion, but Dion.
Dion, Dion.
Dion, the moochie.
And they have this look on their face like, who's that?
And I'm thinking, these are all the classics I grew up with.
And I'm teaching this year over at Trinity Lutheran English language arts.
And I was with my six graders who were reading a book called Freak the Mighty.
And there's references to Star Trek.
And they're clueless.
And then I started doing Danger, Will Robinson Danger.
Lost in space.
Yeah, and they had no idea what I was talking about.
And I said, you guys, you have no concept, no idea, no knowledge of 20th century pop art and stuff.
And you guys sit here and watch these YouTube channels with the short little sketches.
And it's like, that's your, your world view right now.
And it's kind of sad.
Where's Leave It To Beaver?
And I was trying to explain Gilligan's Island.
And so, you know, yeah, Gilligan's Island was a true story.
It was about these, these castaways.
They went on this, this three hour tour.
And next thing you know, they're stranded on a deserted island and never got found.
And they were able to build rate working radios.
They were able to build a complete island that looks modern, but they couldn't fix that boat.
No, they get out there and look for even the Harlem Globetrotters were on there, left them there, didn't bring them back.
Exactly.
I'm still amazed at Thurston Hall, the third is wife for a three hour tour, traveled with trunk.
A year's worth of glad they were going on a transatlantic cruise.
And they had cash in there too.
That was a million dollars worth of cash in that trunk.
And the movie star, Tina Louise, decided to go in an evening gown on a three hour tour.
Now, on my birthday, my son got me a birthday message.
Not a message, but a live conversation with the lady who plays Marianne and the guy who plays the professor.
Well, Marianne couldn't have been sweeter on the phone.
I think she passed away.
She did.
She couldn't have been sweeter on the phone.
She was supposed to say happy birthday and said, but she talked to me.
We talked for about 10 minutes on the phone.
And she was very, very nice.
And you know what?
She sounded exactly like she did on Gilligan's Island.
The professor on the other hand, I think he was near his last days.
He was, he got on.
He said, happy birthday, Donald.
But we talked for a few minutes.
I heard my throat.
You know, I don't pay for autographs.
I collect autographs, but I don't usually pay for them.
And I've kind of broken that cardinal rule in the last few years,
because there's some that are just more difficult to get than others.
And I splurged on a Marianne autograph before she passed away.
One of the more interesting ones is remember Rosemary from the Dick Van Dyke show.
I am on her daughter's Facebook page with her daughter.
Yeah.
And I wrote a real nice letter one year before she had passed.
And boom.
She sends me a autograph picture.
Oh, wow.
Which was pretty cool.
That's cool.
The, my wife was getting ready to perform at her first animal crackers jazz series here in Racine.
And she was studying all kinds of, you know, divas and Rosemary is one of them and didn't realize what a phenomenal singer she was back in the day
and traveled with a couple of other gals.
And I was going to send her a letter saying, hey, my wife was influenced by you and just had her first big gig.
And she passed away.
Rosemary was actually a child actress, baby, baby Rosemary.
She was, and they've been more than about four years old, five years old.
So she's been acting all her life.
And her dad was friends with Al Capone.
She looked at Al as Uncle Al.
Her, I think buddy guy became her husband.
He was a, I don't know if he's a musician, but the day he died was the night they were filming the Dick Van Dyke show.
And she went on like a trooper.
She said, I'll get through it.
And she did.
And I don't know which episode it is, but I have all the Dick Van Dyke's on DVD.
And I looked on the IMDB site.
And they say the night that her husband buddy guy died, that's the night that she did this show.
And she didn't like a trooper.
Shoes were ribbon in her hair, but it turned to black after her husband died.
Really?
Yeah.
I think don't, don't quote me on that.
Dave Max said that.
I'm going to put that in the IMDB.
Dave Max said that he has no doubt.
You know, if I don't get this out of my head, I'll forget it.
You ever watch the TV series, the odd couple, the TV series, the odd couple?
Yes.
There's only one episode where they broke the wall between the audience and the performance,
where they actually addressed the audience.
It was Leonard Barr.
Remember that old guy at comedian?
I claim he was Dean Martin's uncle or something.
He was on in that episode.
And when he was telling a joke and Oscar pushed him away, he faced the audience and telling
jokes to the audience in the studio while they were filming.
That was the only time that they've ever broke that fourth wall and he just did it.
It wasn't in the script.
He just kept going.
He's a comedian.
Let me tell you a little bit about the guy who was talking here and swore that Rosemary's
ribbon on the hair turned black after her husband passed away.
David Mack, former alderman here in Racine, former Wisconsin emergency management.
Well, Racine County emergency emergency.
Racine County emergency.
I'll give you the whole thing, Wisconsin.
Racine County emergency emergency management.
He worked for it.
Fourth fest committee.
You're still on that, right?
Yep.
Okay.
Leadership Racine.
Still work with the scouts, the Boy Scouts.
Not as much as what I was younger, but still there.
Oh, what else did I have here?
I wrote something down.
Animal crackers.
Don't forget that.
No, no, I'm not up to that.
Yeah.
Grandpa time.
Oh, yes.
The column in the journal Times.
Journal Times.
Animal crackers.
And you're currently a substitute teacher.
No, actually teacher.
Oh, now you got promoted.
Yeah.
From substitute to real teacher.
Well, good for you.
You know, I used to love my aunt.
It was a teacher in Brooklyn.
And she used to get the teacher's editions of the books.
When I went to visitors, she says, you can have that one.
Wow.
It was a book that we were studying.
But it was, it really, it was a teacher's edition.
But it didn't really change my life at all.
I mean, I didn't get into college because in the third grade,
I got the teacher's edition.
But yeah, she had all the books.
I don't know.
Oh, it's like you hit the gold mine.
You know, this is the secret tablets.
I finally found them here.
Radars of the Lost Ark.
Ooh.
I didn't talk about this yesterday, only because we were doing
a good move yesterday.
And I want to break the mood.
But yesterday was the 60th anniversary of the assassination
of John F. Kennedy.
I know exactly where it was.
Now, I don't know how old you are.
I am 57, so I wasn't here.
You weren't here.
I was here.
I was in the fourth grade.
But I can tell you where I was when Elvis died.
1977.
Yep.
I was in Atlanta.
Where were you?
I was in my parents' living room, and I was watching Star Trek,
and the little rider came across at Elvis Presley.
It passed away.
You know, when I moved from New York to Atlanta,
I formed a sister.
Set me a letter in the mail.
She says, did you hear that Elvis died down there?
No, no, no.
The news didn't hit Atlanta yet.
Sorry.
Did I hear Elvis died down here?
First of all, I'm close to the Graceland than you are.
I'm just in one state away.
Anyway, John F. Kennedy passed away.
It was 60 years ago yesterday.
He passed away.
He was assassinated.
And I was in the fourth grade.
Mrs. Beatty's class.
He's like elementary school.
This is Massive Peak, where Long Island.
And I remember a girl was running down the hallway saying,
the president's dead, the president's dead.
Mrs. Beatty went in and stopped saying that.
Who are you?
What were you saying this?
These were Long Island so-and-so's class.
Why are you saying this?
The president's dead.
So she called it the office.
And Mr. Dodd, who was the principal, who I spoke to, you know,
when I was at a doll, we hooked up again.
We talked.
He said, yes, it's true.
Mrs. Beatty came back.
Her eyes were all red.
She was crying.
She came back and said, everybody has to go to the gymnasium right away.
And Mr. Dodd brought this tiny little black and white television
from his office that he had.
He had kept it for emergencies.
So when the space law chap in when John Glenn went up and Alan Shepherd.
And we stood in this gymnasium on the stage because he's a little tiny black and white
and was talking about the president passing away.
It was something I remember exactly where I was when Jack Ruby killed Oswald.
I just got home from religious schools on a Sunday.
My parents were watching TV and bam, right there live on television.
It's hard to defend yourself in court when the entire country saw you do it.
Right.
And when are you going to get a jury?
So Ruby died in prison anyway.
Well, you know, something interesting about that.
There was a television reporter from Kenosha.
And he was at the Kennedy compound that day that Kennedy got shot.
And it catapulted him into the national limelight because he was right there and was able to get reaction.
I mean, it wasn't planned.
I think he was there doing something.
And he was a long time anchor in New York on ABC.
Jensen was his last leader.
Oh, I know you don't.
Yeah.
But he was from Kenosha.
And when I was a young high school student, my journalism class, he was related to one of the kids.
And so he came and talked to our class.
And it was pretty interesting how, you know, you were in the right place at the right time and boom.
Kenosha, you are under the national scene.
Oh, I was talking to skipping there.
That's okay.
I think I'm skipping too.
It's 618 to WRGN Sunshine today with a high-tier 44 right now at Clear Sky 34 degrees.
Keep it right here.
I got something else to tell you.
It's really interesting about the day that they can be dying.
Coming up.
Music
This time turns me off and I've done it, maybe.
Nine to five minutes, they can be where I'm bound.
When it's gone, I run out to see my baby.
It's 621 to WRGN Sunshine today with a high-tier 44 tonight.
Partly cloudy lows 25 tomorrow.
Sunshine again with a high-tier 35.
Saturday cloudy with a high-tier 38.
Sunday snow, likely before noon, a high-tier 37.
When it's 37, the high, you know, it's going to melt.
It's not the guilt of shoveling or anything.
David Mack is here with me spending Thanksgiving morning.
He didn't bring any food with you.
That's not a good guest.
I could barely get up to get here.
What do you mean?
Yes, you're supposed to bring a piece of an offering or something.
I did that one time.
Remember when we used to do election night coverage here and went to Bernie's pizza and I brought in a couple pizzas for us.
And one night you left us with an open mic for 45 minutes.
And the station lost its license.
And you were gone for a hiatus, but you're back.
You know what?
I was going to say one more thing about John Kennedy.
My wife, my wife.
My mother collected, as a Freudian slip, my mother collected newspaper headlines and life magazines at that time.
And one of the life magazines she got was the only time at that point.
I don't know if they've done it since.
Do you remember the old logo on life magazine?
It was a red rectangle with a white letter's life.
They changed it to black with white letters on the John Kennedy issue.
And I remember a photo in there of Lee Harvey Oswald's burial.
There were just three or four people.
His wife was there.
And I think I had a kid and I might have been there.
And there was a priest and two guys with shovels threw him in the ground and that was it.
And I was listening yesterday to the station here.
I don't forget what show it was, but they were talking to you.
Oh no, it was Rob Reiner was talking.
He's on the radio.
And conspiracy theories are still around.
And some of them make sense, some don't.
But he said when Kennedy was shot and it went through his neck and the famous picture of his brother film, he's only his neck.
John Conley, the governor of Texas, was also hit.
And he was hit in the shoulder.
The shoulder went into his ribs, a broken rib, and then went out through his arm.
And they said, one bullet did all that, made right turns, left turns, right turns, yielded, and then went off to the...
And when they say it like that, it makes sense that there might have been a second shooter.
I don't think there was.
People kind of changed a little bit of history there.
I think Oswald did it.
I don't know why he did it, but he did it.
Did you watch it?
By the way, it doesn't matter because everybody involved in it's dead anyway.
Right, did you watch it show?
Was it HBO Max, the Watergate one with...
It was about the guy that orchestrated it.
Forget what it was called, but it had that one actor.
Now I'm escaping me.
You know why?
Because you're in your late 50s after all.
No, it's 6 a.m. in the morning.
And that was a late 50s.
Woody Harrelson played one of the CIA...
I guess he worked in the White House.
He was a CIA operative at one time.
And supposedly his character was based...
The plumbers it was called.
It was very good.
The Watergate plumbers it was really good.
And that one individual was supposedly had a hand in Kennedy's assassination.
And it all stems to the Bay of Pigs.
And just all this...
Well, they also, Kennedy was going...
He's actually his brother was going after the mob.
Right.
Robert Kennedy, who was Attorney General.
Well, you mentioned making your brother Attorney General today.
And he was a good Attorney General.
He just went, I'm going after the mob.
Nothing's going to stop us.
The administration is going to bring the end of corruption in this country.
And that whole thing, you know, Frank Sinatra built an add-on to his house out in California
because that was going to be the Western White House for Kennedy.
And Kennedy gave Sinatra the cold shoulder after Bobby started heating things up.
So it was very interesting.
But yeah, there were a number of things with Kennedy at the time.
He had ticked off the Cubans because of the Cuban...
Well, ticked off the Russians.
No, he...
Well, he had ticked off the Cubans that wanted freedom.
And that had agreed to participate in the Bay of Pigs.
And we're not talking the Castro Cubans, we're talking the resistance.
And so they were upset with him.
You had the mob upset because they were pulled into the Bay of Pigs.
Fiasco, and they...
It's orchestrated, set things up.
So it was just this whole list of things that took place.
And a bunch of people had grudges against the president at the time.
And, you know, who knows?
You know, it's like one of those Agatha Christie movies where there's like 30 suspects.
Right.
Everybody's got a great motive for doing what the crime is.
And now you got to sort it out.
It was a movie made right after that called Rush to Judgment.
Who was the guy who made that movie?
A big on the Kennedy assassination.
You look at it today, it's kind of archaic.
We have it in home on VHS.
It's kind of, you know...
Still have a VHS player down, huh?
Yes, I do.
Because I have a lot of home movies.
Oh.
And I have a lot of older movies that are out of print.
You can't get anymore.
You can't have those digitized now, you know?
I know.
We're going to have our home movies done.
We were supposed to have it done with a company in Milwaukee and Blue Mount Road.
And then the COVID restrictions hit and they closed down for COVID.
I was just had it all packed right at the go.
It's about $600.
It's not cheap to have it done.
That's the eight millimeter movies.
Oh, boy.
And I'm one of those eight millimeter movies.
You're a big star person.
And my backyard running around at my six-year-old birthday party is...
I mean, yes.
You got it, Jerry.
Jerry's on the field, huh?
Running around at six years old, playing with my toys, breaking them.
Church Costanza wasn't there, wasn't there?
No, Jerry's wasn't.
I've got a...
You were George Costanza, weren't you?
I, you know, people say I'm Albert Brooks, you know?
Well, a friend of mine who just passed away, I spoke to his funeral, he said that you are
Albert Brooks.
You are it.
When we get back, I want to do this quiz for you here.
These are things that can and cannot be brought on planes during Thanksgiving.
The TSA said, yes to some, no to others.
You could pack them in your luggage, but can't bring them through on the plane.
I've got ten items here.
I'm going to get back.
I want you to tell me.
Yes or no?
Don't cheat.
I see a look at your eyes going down already.
Interesting.
I don't know.
See if you get this.
Have you ever traveled by plane?
Occasionally.
I used to, more so, but...
Not today.
Not today.
The only time I traveled by plane was for my mother's funeral after COVID.
And my dad's funeral, but he died before COVID.
And I didn't travel since we were big road trip people.
I used to fly out to DC a lot for my previous career.
And so I did some that way.
But we went down to Disney World, Amy and I in June, and decided to fly down there.
When we drove down to my daughter's wedding a year ago last May.
And when we went to France, we had to fly that one.
I would have loved to road trip that one.
The GPS had the coordinates going across the Atlantic Ocean.
They did it.
Very.
It's 6.29 at WRGN.
David Mack would be on Thanksgiving morning.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
Don't touch that turkey before it's fully cooked.
And I try.
I know you're looking out of the oven there.
You want to take a piece off.
It's got to be fully cooked.
Don't touch it or anything.
So fun.
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because of the food.
And also because, well, it's the only meal that it's all right at the table.
As soon as you're done, just to go, oh, that was really good.
Oh, yeah.
Sure, I'll have more pie. Why not?
I'm going to fall asleep with my mouth open.
Why don't you just jam in my head because I'm not enough of a bloated toad.
My pants aren't tight enough.
It's the only holiday my mom doesn't go.
So get off the floor.
She goes, oh, that looks pretty good.
I guess I'm coming down there with you.
Thinking about my baby, trying to get home.
Walking in rhythm, moving in sound.
Coming to the music, trying to move on.
It's been so long since I've seen her.
Happy Thanksgiving.
It's 636 at WRJN 1400 AM 99.9 FM 98.1 FM.
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We've got a clear sky.
Some might be coming up around now.
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I'm Don Rosen.
David Mack is with me this morning.
I got a Thanksgiving quiz for you today.
A lot of people traveling.
It could be one of the busiest holidays ever in the history of air travel.
Especially on Sunday.
They say when people are coming back.
Yeah, I got to work this in real quick.
I forgot about it.
Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving.
Today is the annual Steve Botsell turkey bowl over at Gilmore School at 9 AM.
They've been doing this for over 50 years.
You forgot about it?
I forgot about it.
And I said to Steve, yeah, I'll mention it on the radio.
But a few years back, Peter Jacko from the Journal Times did a story about their 50th year
of getting together.
And they started his kids in the backyard.
And every year since then, they go and play football.
So I'm thinking about taking my four-year-old grandson there this morning.
And I'm going to tell Steve, I got the perfect play.
You hand off the ball to him.
He's four years old.
He runs underneath the legs of all the other players, scores a touchdown.
And if they try to grab his flags or whatever, he shows short.
And these guys are all old.
There's no way they're ever going to be able to reach down there and get it.
You know, flag football is going to be an Olympic sport.
No way.
Yeah, way.
It's going to be an Olympic sport we have the story on.
Flag football.
I used to play that in high school.
Because they didn't want you, you know, if we went outside, they didn't want to get any more mud all over your clothes for the day.
Hold on, they got it.
Make sure there's water to this.
But my wife bought these bottles of water.
But they like, it's like the leading tower of pizza.
Some of them are worse than others.
I don't know.
Gotta keep it away from all the equipment.
Okay, see what?
That's it.
We got the promotion in for them.
We got the promotion in.
So the turkey ball, 9 a.m.
Gilmore School and the football field back there.
Can anyone's welcome to comment to play or watch?
Place your bets.
Okay.
No betting.
I got 10 items here.
Yes or no.
Can you take these through TSA and bring them right on the plane?
Let's start off with the big one.
A whole Thanksgiving turkey.
Yes or no.
Can you bring it on the plane?
Yes.
Yes, you can.
That includes raw cooked or frozen turkeys.
You can also carry on other meats like ham.
A frozen turkey could be a deadly weapon on a plane.
Well, it's a lot of throw.
About gravy.
No.
Even if it's thicker, frozen, it's still a liquid.
You have to check it in and put in your luggage.
Could you imagine what that your clothes are going to look like after having a thing of gravy in there?
With the tender care that those luggage people have.
With your luggage.
Could you imagine what it was going to look like in there?
Stuffing.
Yes.
Cooked or uncooked.
It's allowed macaroni and cheese, too.
It's allowed.
How about green bean casserole?
There's liquid in there.
It might be explosive.
So is that a yes or no?
Yes or no?
That's a no.
It's okay to bring it on.
Any casserole is okay as long as it's not too liquidy.
Oh, okay.
Well, I've never seen a green bean casserole that's not too liquidy.
Cranberry sauce.
By the way, green bean casserole is one of those things I read an article that says nobody likes,
but everyone makes it so don't make it.
I don't like it.
I've never had it.
I refuse.
I refuse as well.
I'm coming to your Thanksgiving dinner.
Cranberry sauce.
Yes or no?
Allowed on the plane, or you have to check it.
The, the gel, the one from the chicken.
This is just a yes or no.
This is not.
Well, I'm going to say no because it's a liquid.
Both kinds are considered spreadable.
Both kind of the regular, the mushy kind and the can kind.
And so it's too liquidy to carry on jellies and jams also have to be checked.
Yep.
I, we had that experience coming back from San Antonio with a choir tour, I think.
One of the ladies spots them jams and they try to carry it on and they say to either mail
it back or you give it to us.
You can probably get this stuff through if you give a turkey leg to the TSA people.
Well, you can bring a turkey on.
So you give it, well, the other stuff though.
Yeah.
You can give a turkey leg bill if you have the other stuff through.
How about canned vegetables?
No, because they're liquid in there.
That's right.
Maple syrup.
Nope.
Yep.
Again, too liquidy.
Fresh fruits and vegetables.
Yes.
If you want to bring it back in potatoes or several heads of broccoli, go for it.
How about alcohol?
No.
No.
This one's obvious, but a lot of people still try.
You can buy stuff at the duty free store, but you can't take bottles or cans of wine, beer, cider or any type of booze through the TSA line.
I was going to mention duty free because that was the one exception.
But they'll let you buy all the booze you want on the plane.
That they'll do and they'll get you drunk and then they'll rest you from being drunk on the plane.
I never understood that.
They juice you up at the airport before you get on the plane at the bars after the TSA.
They'll juice you up at the bars there.
They'll juice you up on the plane.
Then they were outraged when you get unruly in your drunk.
Right.
You know, I don't drink anymore.
And for a number of reasons.
But back when I was in college, flew out for Reagan's inaugural ball.
There was four of us that went.
This is 19.
What was it?
85, January of 85.
Coldest inaugural ball on history at the time.
And we're in Chicago, Ed O'Hare.
It's a Sunday.
It's Super Bowl Sunday.
Well, now Super Bowl's are in February, but back then it was in January.
And they said, we're sitting in the plane.
We're sitting there for a couple hours on the runway.
And they were trying to fuel the plane.
And the fuel was jelling up.
And so they said, free drinks.
And so we're already having a party.
And they bring out these little bottles.
And I think we each had four of them, and they cut us off.
Not because we were belligerent or drunk, but because, you know,
they realized that they were going to.
We were going to end up drinking more than our plane ticket was worth.
That's good.
All right.
One more pies.
Can you bring pies directly onto the plane?
Oh, do you have to check them?
It depends on what kind of pie it is.
Yes.
Or no.
I'm going to say yes.
Yes.
You can bring them on the plane.
Home made or store bought.
In general, most desserts are okay.
Now, five foods you can't bring on.
I told you.
But pies was not one of them.
Yes.
You can't actually bring it.
You know, turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole, fruits and veggies pies.
Get the whole dinner there.
Yeah.
And nobody wants that cranberry sauce anyway.
Nobody wants those canned vegetables.
Maple syrup.
For Thanksgiving?
Yeah.
Well, you put it in.
You sit on, let's see, make squash.
Put a little maple syrup on top of the squash, bake it.
Oh, it crystallized.
It's good.
Maple syrup is...
Well, maple syrup is good.
I just like it on pancakes and lots of things.
No, it's actually good in cooking.
Okay.
When...
This is a poll of people.
When is the most common time to eat Thanksgiving dinner?
Four o'clock.
Four to five o'clock.
Absolutely.
Afternoon is generally the most popular time.
Zero percent said before noon.
You know why it's before noon?
Because that's called breakfast.
It would be Thanksgiving breakfast.
It wouldn't be dinner.
Well, it takes too long to cook the turkey.
You'd have to get up at 3 a.m. like you do and...
Put the turkey in and nobody wants to do that.
I order from a restaurant and Thanksgiving.
Yeah.
I order my meal and my wife gets hers.
I have the traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
I'll tell you where after we can take a break.
Well, I found it's hard to cook for too, so...
So you do what I do?
Well, there was a point where Amy and I were going out
to eat every night because it was cheaper for me to go out to eat.
You know, we just hit one of the little Mexican joints
and it was cheaper to do that than it was to go buy all the stuff
and cook dinner.
My wife loves cooking.
She has a great job.
She, yeah, was getting this mail order stuff from a company
that just the recipes were delicious.
And we got it for a couple of several weeks
and now she has the recipe cards and now she can make it.
Delicious.
A plus all the way.
I mean, I'm not a big connoisseur.
Just take the frozen pizza out and make it and I'll be happy.
Okay.
29% of hosts say they will ask their guests
to bring part of the meal while 16% will ask them
to share the expense.
That's like shooting them cash.
Who would pay somebody?
We're having Thanksgiving dinner.
That's gonna cost you 40 bucks.
Does anybody actually ask people to pay when they come over?
I don't even like people bringing stuff.
I just like cooking the whole thing.
I like to cook and don't get me wrong when I say that.
It was back when I was working full time.
Amy was getting home late.
It was just easier for us to go up to one of the Mexican restaurants
and have dinner.
Who doesn't eat Mexican every day?
I mean, we do.
But anyway, but I love to cook.
And so I'll cook the whole thing.
I'll say just bring yourselves.
Because I like making all the side dishes.
Well, pay attention here.
And I don't charge.
A lot of hosts will not ask their guests to bring anything like you.
Just yourselves, but etiquette experts say you have to ignore that
and bring something, whether it's a bottle of wine, craft beer
or something nice like a cheese and fancy crackers.
And if you are asked to bring something specific, bring that in only that.
Thanksgiving is not a time to go rogue.
And for the host, it's not a time to experiment with your foods.
One of the things we had on the other day we were talking about
and said, how to get out of a Thanksgiving dinner early.
And one said, I'm not feeling well.
That's not a good excuse.
That implies they poisoned you with dinner.
You know, I will apply that.
I ate that food.
I'm not feeling good anymore.
That was in everybody's not feeling good.
Some places have been open on Thanksgiving in the past.
Walmart and Target closed today.
Hmm.
Yeah, look at your eyes.
Eyebrows went up.
Wow.
Oh, they went up to the ceiling on that one.
And that surprises me because Walmart has, like,
the grocery store is now in addition to all the other stuff.
And all the people who do self-check out got the day off today.
Yes, that's true.
I was going to do self-check out yesterday,
but the line was too long.
I never do self-check out.
I never do it.
The only reason I do it is usually there's no line.
And I hate waiting.
And I hate crowds.
But yesterday, I was strategic.
So I saw these two people.
And they went over to a line or to a lane that there was nobody there.
And all of a sudden, I saw the gal come.
She hadn't turned the light on.
And I was in the lane over.
There were three people in front of me with full carts.
I didn't have a full cart.
I had enough, I mean.
But I pivoted my cart and bam.
So I bypassed the weight.
Figuring it out.
Yeah.
Using trigonometry geometry.
Exactly.
But calculus and everything for you.
Just getting in the right place at the right time.
Well, it gets me to say,
have seven lines of the supermarket, not counting the self-check out.
And two check out.
Two check out.
One.
If they had two, I'd be happy.
It's one.
And I have like four items.
And I'm stuck behind somebody's doing grocery shopping for the apocalypse.
And they're, they got ten carts full.
You go to all these.
They got five lanes.
And they got one checker.
And they got 50 people lined up waiting.
And it's like, well, I did talk to the manager of the store.
I went to, I don't get the name of it.
And she said, I can't find people to work.
And she said, it's just impossible.
Nobody wants to work.
Which I don't know what happened.
Before COVID, all those lines were filled with checkers.
Right.
And after COVID, nobody wants to.
What are these people doing for, for food?
How they paying their bills?
Yeah, I'm trying to figure that out.
Oh, and the worst part about it is so, so they had three of the self-check checkouts
that were closed yesterday.
It's like, have them all open.
Look at you.
Oh, boy.
I see Andrew in your face.
This is not the David Mack.
I've seen people from this side of you that's brand new.
No, no, no.
It's just, I don't like crowds.
I don't like waiting.
And this is the guy who works the fourth fest for it.
I don't like crowds.
I don't like waiting.
You're not wearing crowds.
I don't like crowds.
I think I'll work at fourth fest.
One of the busiest parades in America.
Then I'm on a golf cart.
I'm in the middle of the action.
I'm not in the crowd.
David Mack is going to be here at WRJ.
And it's 649.
I'm Don Rosen.
Sunshine.
I had come it up now.
34 degrees.
Sunshine old age today.
The high-tier 44 is Sunday.
The Mario cloddy Saturday.
Maybe some snow before noon on Sunday.
And read where you are.
649 at WRJ.
I had the 45 RPM of the song, Ticket to Ride by the Beatles.
And underneath the title it says, from the United Artist movie.
Not help, but eight arms to hold you.
Perth calling David Mack.
Sorry about that.
You love that phone, don't you?
No, no.
You love updating Facebook.
Let people know that I'm still on WRJ animation.
Tune in and listen to Don Rosen and I.
Eight arms to hold you.
The original name of the movie.
And then on subsequent capital records.
Releases they put down as help.
I saw the Beatles at their 1965 when they were promoting the movie.
Help at Chase Stadium.
My dad got tickets.
I did not see the Beatles.
Yeah, I saw the Beatles.
They were on.
They were only on for about 45 minutes.
Sunny and Sher with the opening act.
Nobody ever heard of them.
The Bull Brumbles were there.
Ed Sullivan was there.
There were some other groups and I forget who they were.
I gotta tell you who I met recently.
Paul Stanley.
Ah, Kiss.
And Gene Simmons.
From Kiss.
Up in Carter, Wisconsin.
And they were doing what were they doing?
They were there for a groundbreaking for their new restaurant at the casino up there.
Okay.
My friend of mine is a head chef over the two casinos and got invited to a meeting greet
that almost didn't happen.
But the Kiss Destroyer album was the first rock album, first record album I ever got.
And I was in the fifth grade and it was a Christmas present.
And I told Paul Stanley and I said, yep.
Kiss Destroyer, first rock album I ever had.
And he says, good one to start with.
The Gene Simmons was on it.
Some kind of promotional tour several years ago.
And this is when they came out with the Kiss Coffin.
Hmm.
You got to get a coffin and it had the Kiss logo on it.
Which is great for about a half hour and people see the casket at the funeral home.
Other than that, it get thrown dirt on it.
It's right in there.
From what I understand him and Paul Stanley have made a ton of money through merchandise.
Did you just selling that logo?
Yep.
They would for them.
Somebody said the other day they were talking about Gene Simmons says,
oh, we don't have to wear the makeup anymore.
I remember when they didn't allow their pictures to be photographed.
And so the first time the National Enquire whoever was had a picture of them with all
makeup is like, wow, you know, it was a big deal.
Now they they go out and about.
But yeah.
The Macy's parade today.
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
It's not the Macy's Day Parade.
They still hear people say, oh, watching the Macy's Day Parade.
That Macy's Day.
It's Thanksgiving Day.
It's the Macy's Thanksgiving Day.
Don, you're not going to change it.
That's what it is.
And you're not going to change the checkout people.
No.
The supermarket.
But you know, it's funny how things, you know, work their way into the vernacular of society.
And, you know, it's supposed to be this.
But this is what people call it.
And, you know, it's like SC Johnson.
It's still Johnson Wax here in Racine.
Hi, Johnson Wax.
They don't make wax products anymore.
But it's Johnson Wax.
Yeah.
Anyway, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade turns 99.
The Macy's Day Parade.
The Macy's Day Parade turns 99 years old today.
The first one in 1924 featured floats, professional bands and live animals borrowed from the Central Park Zoo.
So were you over in the Macy's Day Parade?
You were from New York, you know, I've never seen it in person.
My brother.
No, I asked where you ended.
I just never ended.
What was I going to do in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Juggle.
I don't know.
Juggle Santa Claus.
What was I going to do?
They have a lot of things.
You could have carried a balloon.
Yeah, you have to.
You know, my wife works with somebody at the hospital.
I won't play his name.
But he was on TV when he played an instrument for this high school in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
And they did a close-up of him playing his, I think it was a brass instrument.
And they took a close-up of him.
And he showed it to me.
He's got it.
And he keeps transferring it to different media as you go along in life so you still have it.
So there's an actor from Wisconsin, Ty DeFoe, who is Native American, went out to New York to make it big,
has ridden some plays and things like that, and helped set up the Native Float several years back.
And we all watched as Ty was on the float and singing and other stuff.
And it was pretty cool.
My brother went once.
None of my family ever went because it's very difficult.
He probably can't get around Manhattan.
And all those people you see on the main route, they're invited guests.
They are not people just walking off the street.
The closest my brother was able to get with his family.
Now, I don't know if people know of the way New York runs.
Avenue's are the long streets.
Streets are the ones that cut across.
So when you think of Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, Seventh Avenue, Sixth Avenue Avenue, Avenue of the Americas, they call it now.
When you think of those are the big long streets that you see these on.
Big long avenues.
The streets cut across.
So my brother was only able to get on one of the streets.
Now, Macy's at 34th Street.
So I think he was at like 38th Street or something like that.
And he couldn't get on the Avenue.
They wouldn't let him because he didn't, he's not an invited guest.
So he was open.
Now the buildings are pretty big.
He was only able to see what was between the two buildings.
That's all you can see.
What was crossing on the Avenue by the street.
It's hard to describe it if you don't know.
They lay out of Manhattan.
But he was all, he was, that's it.
All he was able to see.
You couldn't see anything.
And that's why we never went.
Right.
Because all the muckety mucks in New York give out the tickets to these people for the main.
Now you can get on the Avenue way up at the beginning.
But if you want to go where NBC's showing it all the way, you got to be an invited guest.
Which I don't know how they can do that because it is public property.
Right.
They can't keep you off public property.
They really can't.
So I don't know how.
Well, you cordoned off the sidewalk on the 4th of July and sell tickets for people to watch.
You're, you're placed there on the freight route.
But if they don't, but if they ever told me that it's public property, I can't do it.
I said, all right.
I won't do that.
But what we do is we wait till 5 o'clock.
You cannot on the parade route.
Put your chairs out.
Right.
You're on your dress strip there.
You can't do it until 5 a.m.
And the cops come by.
They'll chase people off.
We wait up.
We have our atomic clock set up.
And it does the countdown like the clock I'm looking at now.
Does the countdown.
And here we go.
49.
Up.
55.
59.
And we run out there with the chairs, the rope and everything.
And we do it right on the, uh, right on the mark.
But, you know,
Well, you know, you talk about the Macy's Day Parade.
And I, I always thought the same thing about the Magic Kingdom Day Parade on Christmas,
where, you know, they have this parade with all these celebrities.
And I'm thinking, wow, that looks like a huge parade.
I'd never been to Disney World before.
And so my wife and I in June went to the Magic Kingdom.
It's like, well, Main Street isn't that long.
And every day they do this little parade.
And, you know, it looks so much bigger on TV than it does in real life.
And I'm thinking, wow.
And you know, these people must be packed in there.
So I'm Christmas Day.
So I don't know if I'd go to Magic Kingdom or Christmas Day or not.
The cops can buy it.
Hey you.
Get off that street.
Yeah.
Hey you.
Only, only, uh, invited guests are allowed on Main Street.
It's WRJN at 6.59.
David Mack with me.
I'm Don Rosen.
Thanks for being here.
It's sunshine and 34 degrees now.
We'll see.
