Turkey Tips And Giving Thanks (Hour 1)

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We are on Facebook, YouTube, and what used to be Twitter, it's gonna be a lighthearted show today.

Yeah.

We'll talk lots of...

things about Thanksgiving and what we're grateful for in appetizers and all those wonderful things.

I'm thankful for appetizers.

Appetizers.

Pat Critello, host of Mornings with Pat Critello.

We'll be joining us after the 9.30 news to talk about, again, all things related to Thanksgiving.

Feel free to join us at any point in the show.

Let us know where you are in your Thanksgiving Day preparations at 855-752-4842.

Um, did want to start off with this just to give you a little heads up.

Everybody that we do have a major winter storm possible for southeastern Wisconsin.

Anything is possible.

I guess

anything is possible.

Uh, they are looking at modeling 24 plus consecutive hours of snowfall moving into the southern part of Wisconsin Saturday night into Sunday.

Now what I'm seeing is that the winds aren't going to be as bad as they were yesterday.

It was nuts yesterday.

And if you were in northern Wisconsin, Ashland, that whole area along Lake Superior, they just got creamed.

Yeah,

it's... I'm nervous because it's going to be a town.

Yeah, you're going to be on the road.

So just keep this in mind for Saturday, they say...

They're expecting winds about 20 to 30 miles an hour just for a couple of hours as opposed to the whole time through.

And we're looking at potential of eight to 12 plus inches of snow Saturday into Sunday.

So get out there, shovel.

Get out the blower.

Get some gas in there.

Minus battery powered.

Oh, is it?

Yeah.

Nice.

Boom.

Nice.

And please be careful because we have lots and lots of people on the road.

AAA estimates 1.65 million Wisconsinites will be traveling at least 50 miles away from home during the Thanksgiving period, which runs to Monday.

Okay.

And you're going to be on the road.

Uh-huh.

And we will be traveling.

I'm trying to think.

I don't actually, I should look at the forecast through where we're going, but yeah.

You leave

tomorrow.

Yeah, we leave tomorrow.

I just don't like coming back to snow.

I don't.

And honestly, it's not even a matter of doing the cleanup.

When we get home, it's a matter of being the neighbor who hasn't done any cleanup at all and being the one cause my neighborhood is vigilant.

Oh, about

getting right to it.

Yes.

Very much so.

And it's a good neighborly thing to do.

It's actually, I think a legal reason you have to do it because if someone slips on your, on your sidewalk, you're in trouble, but.

Yeah, I just I would I maybe call my neighbor like hey man.

Can you do me a song?

I just do the walkway

Just do this sidewalk.

Well if he's got a snowblower Yeah, you know you can just go along and do your sidewalk as well You're not gonna be the only person who's out of time out of town and isn't gonna get around to right away

I

know but for a lot of

western thing I mean

like I don't want to

be

a bad person

extra guilt.

Yeah.

For a lot of folks, the snow is going to start before we wake up Saturday morning.

It is expected to snow all Saturday long and into Sunday morning.

And if we're you're along the Lakeshore, one of the Lakeshore counties, this could linger into Sunday afternoon and evening.

Yay.

Oh, yay.

It's November.

This is, these things happen.

Oh, and be in December then too, because Monday is December.

Monday

is December.

Time is flying.

And then begins the countdown.

Last two weeks.

The last two, the, we kick off the text to win contest.

We'll talk more about that in a moment, but it's also the beginning of your final two weeks here at Civic Media.

on the radio.

I mean, I'm sure we'll talk to you here and there, but you are retiring.

I am retiring

December

12th.

December the 12th, you are retiring after 45.

I said 45.

We're

rounding up.

We're rounding up for school and terrible bosses and all the things.

But you are hanging up the headphones, pushing the mic away for the last time.

And then you're going to do whatever you want.

I'm not going to ask you what you want to do, because apparently that sets you off.

Can I just say, by the way, thank you to Sagewile and to Civic Media for giving me these last two weeks, these last couple of weeks and the opportunity to have some special guests on and go a little bit down memory lane.

That's very, very generous of them.

I mean, it's a good thing done by good people and we're going to have a really good time.

We're going to have a lot of laughs.

There's a Jane Will cry.

I'm a squish.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You want to, you want to get her, show her a dog video and then ask her for 20 bucks after that.

She'll be just like,

that's fine.

Take whatever you want.

I'll give you money.

Sure.

But yeah, but, but that, but during that time, we will be having the latest and greatest text to win contest here.

We are.

It starts on Monday.

It's the grown up gift list.

And you can, there's, we got a snow blower in there.

Yep.

stainless steel cookware set, portable air conditioner, that's for later.

That's a little later.

So yes, this will start on Monday.

You're going to have multiple chances to enter, but there's one critical piece.

What's that Jane?

Who do I have to pay?

Who would have to just send in something?

Some box tops?

No, don't have to do that.

You just have to download the Civic Media app.

Okay, that's fine.

The last time I checked, apps are, it's like a $2 million deposit.

It's free.

It's free?

Yeah.

What are we doing here?

I know.

Just go to wherever your app store.

Look for Civic Media.

Download the Civic Media app and then when you do that, you're gonna see all of our stations from all across the state.

You can pick your favorite station.

You can pick the station that is closest to you.

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We will have keywords for you.

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You have an hour to enter the keyword.

That gets you in there running for 200 bucks in cash.

And again, a chance at those great grand prizes.

So be ready.

Do it this weekend.

Hopefully you have a day off.

I

hope

so.

I hope so.

I remember it gets one chance to relax.

I know.

That's the thing.

We talked about this with Pat, I think, a little bit on yesterday.

No, today's Thursday.

Today's Thanksgiving.

My God.

Time's a construct.

We're live, I just want to say we're live today.

Tomorrow is going to be a prerecorded show for Black Friday.

I bring that up because we talked to Terry Barr about days gone by with Thanksgiving and quote unquote, the old days Calvin listen up.

We're about to tell you how things were

and they were good.

But you know, I really hope those who, especially those who work in the service industry are getting a one day in these next four days off, whether it's Sunday or today or it's.

I've worked thanksgivings.

I've worked Black Fridays.

I've worked and man, you would at least think that in those situations, people would come to you with a modicum of understanding and empathy towards the fact that you don't get to be with your family or you are maybe, you know, those jobs don't pay billions of dollars a year.

And yesterday I got a really good reminder of that because I went to a grocery store.

to pick up our Thanksgiving foodstuffs and there was a mix up and they didn't have our order.

It was fine.

Everything we ordered was prepareable.

And so they kept apologizing.

I just stopped saying it's okay because there

was not the end of the world.

It

wasn't the end of the world.

No one's life was in danger.

And at the end of it, she just said to me, thank you so much for not yelling at me.

Thank you for not being angry.

Thank you for your patience because I've already been yelled at a lot today.

And when a lady named Karen says that to you, you take into consideration your attitude.

But yeah, I mean, it's just, if you're going out for the next few days and you're, whether you're shopping, Thanksgiving stuff, remember people are working.

They're trying to do their job and you getting upset at them doesn't help anything.

Be kind and be.

Be a little gracious.

Be human.

Just be a little gracious.

Be human.

It's not that hard.

Not at all.

I'm doing it right now.

You made that woman's day.

I'm sure she went home and she said, I had the nicest man and the order wasn't ready and I was waiting for him to go off on me.

And he didn't.

Yeah.

And he was so nice about it.

I bet you made her day.

I hope, I hope at the very least I was not one, like that's my thing with, with in customer service situations is that I either hope that you completely forget about ever helping me or that I made you smile and made your day a little bit easier in the moment.

If that's what you remember.

I never want to be the reason you come home and go, I had this guy who absolutely dot, dot, dot.

I never want to be, if I'm that man, oh my God, I'm so sorry if I was ever that man.

Be nice.

It's not that hard.

Yeah.

And be patient because again, and talking about days off, I am really delighted now to see stores moving away from, we open at 10 o'clock on Thanksgiving night.

So you can go push people for stuff you need to have.

Laces are closed today.

Yes as they should be.

Yeah I Delighted I do

have to go to the grocery store after this though, and

I'm I almost terrified.

I almost texted you last night.

I'm making quiche when I get home.

We don't do turkey Oh, so I'm making a bacon and mushroom cheese quiche and I looked in the fridge last night

And I don't have enough eggs, so I almost texted you and said, can you just bring two eggs?

I would have, too.

That brings up a whole other conversation.

This is going to be fun flowing on good times today.

But you could have.

I know.

A co-worker of ours yesterday needed a ride to work.

She was literally three minutes away, and she Ubered over.

Instead of calling.

Instead of calling us.

I don't understand.

Why?

Is it a Midwestern thing?

Is it just whatever, but like... Not asking for help?

It's the 21st century version of, hey neighbor, can I get a cup of sugar?

Just ask.

If I don't have any eggs, I'm like, you're on your own.

But no, I mean, like, you could have easily done that.

I would have brought them for you in a heartbeat.

Well, I appreciate that.

Yeah.

In retrospect.

In retrospect, exactly.

I'll come with you to the grocery store after we get off the air at 11.

I'll

cover you.

You cover me

because I'm going to

Woodman's and that place is going to be a

battlefield.

Oh, wow.

I'll we'll put a attach a rope to you and then we can.

Pull you back out, just in case.

Pat Crichtlow from Mornings with Pat Crichtlow is going to be joining us after the 9.30 news.

His wife is a doctor.

She's an LBGYN.

And she actually signed up to pull a shift today.

So Pat is on his own and has graciously offered to join us and have a little Thanksgiving fun.

That's going to be a good time.

Pat is, I'm looking forward to having Pat on the show.

Like when you said he was going to be here today, I literally was like,

because

we're gonna

have a blast.

We're gonna have a good time.

And yeah, throughout the show, call us.

Let us know about your day to day.

Let us know about thanksgivings of your... Is that turkey in the oven yet?

Is the turkey in the oven yet?

Is it sitting in a bag of brine like ours is right now?

Oh, is it brining?

Oh, yeah.

It's a farm fresh too.

From a local farm.

That's one thing I'm really happy about is that we buy our turkey and our meats now.

From a local farm, that's great.

Kind of leads to Small business Saturday, correct.

I know a lot of you know, of course all the big places are gonna be open tomorrow Everybody's gonna be open tomorrow for Black Friday If you can spend your dollars locally.

Yeah

your little local bookstore Your little local gifty shop.

Mm-hmm.

That is a better choice

Yeah,

then then you know that the big monsters.

Yeah, certainly Amazon because Jeff's gonna

be well and

Don't worry like I said this yesterday.

I'm gonna shop local.

I'm gonna shop on Amazon It's really

little balance

exactly so yeah, but give us a call Let us know and we're

gonna keep having fun eight five five seven five two four eight four two when we return Have you ever poisoned some one at your Thanksgiving meal?

Shut up!

Have you ever been poisoned?

Who talked?

What are your options?

We'll kick that around next.

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Alicia on the live stream said, uh, no, the chicken is not in the oven yet.

All right.

That's okay.

Yeah.

Not everybody does turkey.

I didn't do turkey for years.

I, okay.

So here's the thing with me is I actually, I really like turkey and I used to hate it.

and then I just had good turkey and then that's what I really like.

But I don't think, I hope my mother-in-law isn't listening, I don't think an entire turkey is necessary.

Just a turkey breast would be okay.

A turkey breast or two turkey, like just something that's easier, smaller, because we just do the

apps.

big because you have so many, right?

By the time you get to the main meal, you're not hungry.

I have never, I cannot remember the last time I went up for seconds for Thanksgiving dinner and I rarely finish my plate.

So it's about like.

a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

And then I'm going to go in the corner and sweat somewhere and just feel really bad for a while.

But yeah, I really enjoy these past few days, people talking about how they are working with the tradition of the dinner, but doing what they want and, you know, trying new things.

I think it's very, very,

very cool.

Well, for Audio Sorbet today, which comes up after 10 30, we're going to talk about an all appetizer Thanksgiving.

All the best appetizers.

I really think that I love that I really do too and and also something that we saw you see articles on is Friendsgiving thanks families giving you know people in the past few years have said you know what I don't have to Be around my family this day.

I Can be around people who I enjoy that's not a knock on my family at all.

Please don't yell at me

But yeah, it's really about your chosen family.

Do you want to sit in a room with people that you like, or do you want to sit in a room full of obligation and just saying, if Uncle Daryl says one thing about ISIS and terrorism, I will lose my

mind.

This article we found from the Milwaukee Journal's Sentinel Gina Lee Castro has the byline, and it says, can a guest sue me if they get sick at my Thanksgiving dinner?

That's a really good quote.

And here, Jim Santel's not around.

I know, unfortunately, you can try according to this article, but it's tough to prove.

Jay McDivitt, an attorney with Cannon and Dumpy, is quoted in this article.

They specialize in personal injury claims.

He says Thanksgiving guests would have to test samples of every food item on the table to prove that that is what got them sick.

and then show the medical records, the costs for testing would quickly add up and likely not pay off.

I feel like your best bet is that if everyone got sick, if everyone was there who got sick, maybe they, but I mean, talk about how much do you not love somebody if you...

This guy says, you know, I wouldn't take that case.

I don't

want

to, I don't want to sue your mother-in-law.

Yeah.

It's probably not going to end well.

Yeah.

Have you ever had a, have you ever had like a Thanksgiving disaster with the food?

And that's in that sense, like we've all had dry turkey.

We've all had burnt something or undercooked that or.

No.

Yeah.

Neither have I. No, thankfully.

Thanksgiving fully.

Yes, that too.

Nowadays there are enough digital meat thermometers on the market where.

undercooking a turkey is really just about the, it's about how lazy you are.

I mean, I, it's not hard to cook a turkey all the way through.

It's not saying it's going to be good.

Isn't it slow and low?

It's slow and low.

And yeah, it's, it's really about, um, if you're doing it the right, cause some people will say, well, if I, if I turn up the temperature higher, it'll cook faster.

Or if it's frozen, it really is about.

I am a big fan of following all of the steps.

If they say, here are the five things you need to do while cooking your turkey.

You best be sure that that's going to be printed out, magnetized to my refrigerator.

And I will be consulting those five things because while I don't want to get anyone sick chain, I'm even more afraid of someone going, the turkey was fine.

Oh no.

You wanted the turkey was great.

I want the turkey to be really good.

I want the dinner to be really good.

Cause you know, it's.

Not to mention, it ain't cheap.

No, it's not.

855-752-4842.

If you would like to just check in with us and

let us know where

you are on your prep and how many folks you're cooking for today.

Are you not doing

anything?

Maybe, yeah, maybe you're just, you're going to watch the Packers Lions game.

Oh, there's football too.

There's football.

I've heard there's football player playing.

Yes, we'll talk about that with Pat.

Roger from Stevens Point texting in says, after all these years, I remember a turkey prepping poem

by Nipsey Russell.

Here we go.

Marinate your turkey and brandy and vodka and place it in your fridge overnight.

It won't make the turkey taste better, but the gravy will be out of sight.

Shasta and Eau Claire listening on WCFW says cranberries are made sweet potato pies are in the, oh shasta.

Sweet potato pie.

I

love

sweet

potato pie.

I like, I love a pumpkin, but sweet potato pie is mind-blowingly good.

Working on my famous stuff.

I'm okay.

Oh, okay.

I'm coming to Eau Claire.

Looking forward to a wonderful day with my family without worrying about anyone.

offending anyone because we're all liberals.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Don't worry, Shasta.

It doesn't matter if you believe in the same politics.

Someone can still say something I turn and be a wise mouth.

Not this time.

She's going to have a nice Thanksgiving.

Yeah.

Shasta, I'd love details on your famous stuffing because I have very hard and fast stuffing rules.

Shasta, would you do us a favor too?

Would you take some pictures and text them through the civic media?

I want to see those sweet potato pies.

I want to see this.

I want to see everything.

This sounds like a Norman Rockwell type of spread.

We have news coming up next.

And on the other side, Pat Krightlow will be here to talk all things Thanksgiving.

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Happy Thanksgiving.

Thank you everybody for joining us and welcome.

And happy Thanksgiving to our friend and colleague and host of Mornings with Pat Critello.

Pat Critello joining us from Lake Wissota Studio.

What are things like up there, Pat?

Lonely.

Oh, it's a

quiet day.

But Dr. Crichtlow is ever the team player picking up a shift today.

And so we'll see if there are any Thanksgiving babies delivered in the Chippewa Valley today.

They don't get quite the same attention as a New Year's baby.

But then again, the New Year's babies shouldn't get attention.

You know who should get the attention.

Who?

The last baby born of the year.

Because you get the whole tax deduction for the whole year.

Boom.

I've never actually thought about that.

I wonder how

many parents or really good hearted doctors are like, the baby was born at 11, 59 and 50 seconds.

There

you go.

I'm not gonna say

it never

happens.

Really quick question for you with regards to Dr. Kratlow, who is an amazing, amazing person.

I really enjoy her.

She's been a doctor for decades now.

Yes, she has four decades literally.

Yes.

But my, my, my point is, is that I feel like she could be at the point where she says.

I'm not taking these holiday shifts.

I'm spending with a family.

Let the newbies, let the interns and the-

Let them earn it.

Let them earn it.

Yeah, this is how you make the medium to big bucks depending on where you're a doctor.

But she still signs up for the shifts.

She still does the thing because she- Well, because you're part of

a team.

There you go.

It's all about the teamwork.

And honestly, the other thing is she does not mind racking up days like this.

You know, our daughters live far away in Michigan and Texas.

We've already seen them.

We'll see them again over the holiday season.

So we'll pick up.

She'll pick up.

shifts like these quite a bit because then when we take that slightly longer vacation and we're on a beach someplace there is no guilt because she has and you know we have put in the work hours to get there.

And honestly like I'm not calling myself a doctor but I'm doctor adjacent and that basically makes me a doctor.

Oh yes.

When we told people that we were going to do a live show today some people said well why don't just have the day off it's like

We can do it though.

It's,

you

know, we're early enough where a lot of those things aren't taking place.

Like things are still prepping and whatnot.

And by the time we're done, still can get lots finished, still enjoy the day.

And I don't know, it's fun being on the radio on Thanksgiving.

We're having a good time.

The studio is full.

We have more food here.

It's unfortunate you're not done.

We got cupcakes.

We have cheese and crackers.

We have cringles.

We got

everything I'm telling you.

I'm so far away from cringles up here, but as I've mentioned on the show a couple of times, I do have a catalog for a place in Racine, and we do tend to get cringles ordered for some folks to send as gifts.

Is that O

and H?

Yep, you can't really get that up here.

It's

really

the

best cringle out there.

I mean, Racine is

no.

Cherry ones are to die

for.

Oh, that cherry cranberry and cream cheese will change the course of your life.

Oh, noted.

I

bought two of them yesterday.

A pecan.

And then the cherry cream cheese.

Oh, exactly.

We're doing

ourselves here.

I know.

I know.

See how much fun we have when we don't have to talk about politics for half a moment.

Oh, my

gosh.

Oh, yeah.

I'm also glad the Packers are playing today.

I've got my packer hoodie on.

I'm ready

to go over our neighborhood watering hole.

We watch

the games.

Oh, you

go

to

the bar.

It's

going

to be open.

Yeah.

And so like the pilgrims themselves, I will be having some deep fried chicken wings, you know.

Yes, indeed.

That's so traditional.

In lieu of turkey.

In lieu of turkey.

So traditional.

I read I read somewhere that someone's a great pilgrim uncle, whomever was cited seeing dropping the turkey into a vat of

of oil

and just set the cabin on fire.

So we had to make do with what we had.

Do you know, I cannot believe I was this ignorant, but it wasn't until yesterday talking to Earl Ingram.

All I ever see are those great big deep fires for the turkeys, you know, the videos with the fire department puts out.

I honest to God had no idea until yesterday that indoor, like electric based turkey fryers are a thing.

And he makes multiple turkeys every Thanksgiving.

And I'm looking online and I'm going, how have I never seen this before?

Basically it's like a broaster size thing that

you

can put a turkey in and you seal it up and it's still deep fries it.

It's just, it's

amazing.

I don't feel badly.

I didn't know that existed either.

I honestly didn't know that either.

I thought the only way to deep fry our turkey was outside in one of those ginormous containers.

Okay, good.

I'm so glad it's not just me.

One of those ginormous containers.

I've never made it sound so good.

I'm gonna have to head down there next year.

I have never had deep-fried turkey or at least I think we've never done that.

I've had it

once.

Is it good?

It's still the best turkey I ever

had.

Really?

Okay.

Crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside?

It's not a sentence you can say a lot in the

world.

Not a health food.

So good.

And you know, I appreciate it because you know who doesn't appreciate it?

the vice-freaking president of the United States.

Did you hear

what JD Vance said to our troops about Turkey?

Wow,

everybody,

feel your wind, your hair will blow back, his patches

took a hard right turn.

And what I read about this this morning, because I did not see it yesterday, but he's trying to do a stand-up routine.

Basically, he should really stop.

Oh gosh, it's so current.

Look, I know he won the election, but the label still fits.

He's so weird.

He's

just weird.

And he's, he's sitting there, you know, telling people, you know, he said, raise your hand if you're like Turkey and a bunch of troops did.

And he said, you're all full of crap in so many words, you know, nobody, nobody does that because Turkey doesn't actually taste that good.

He said, I would hasten to add that in Wisconsin, our farmers here raised 5 million turkeys a year.

Turkey is a big business around here.

And we've got the vice president of the United States, you know, just

Dumpin all over the turkey farmers of the of our country of our state Way to play up to your crowd there JD guys.

No kidding and You know, maybe most of us don't make a whole turkey over the course of the year But I buy turkey at the deli

all the time

year round and look I I too have joked about turkeys and that you know again compared to chicken and everything I'm not the vice president talking to troops and insulting you know an entire sector of the American economy so fine he's not getting turkey today a whole bunch of the rest of us are going to you know enjoy it at some point

well since we're on the topic of turkeys you think that the vice president got weird about turkeys uh-oh his boss you know

King Trump himself got even weirder when he had to, as every president does, has to pardon the turkeys, do the thing, go outside, make a small speech.

It's the chance for any president, popular or unpopular, to get laughs and attention and fun.

And a light heart and happy

nothing.

Unless you are Donald Yulianovich, Jonathan Trump.

who had to do this.

Calvin, we have the clip ready.

Can you please play?

This is from, I pulled it because Seth Meyers did a really good compilation.

This is just a highlight reel of the things he said when all he had to do was pardon two turkeys, Gobble and Waddle.

Play that clip, Calvin.

I have determined that last year's turkey pardons are totally invalid.

And I am officially pardoning them.

Gang members, drug dealers, they poured in to a country like...

Are they

turkey gang members?

We're stupid people.

We're not stupid people anymore.

I won't tell you about murders.

We're having murders, like a lot of murders.

I don't talk about people being fat.

The governor is... What?

What?

A big fat slob.

You can open your family down the middle of any street, go to a restaurant, you won't get in.

We have a department of everything.

You know what that is?

I think that's called the White House.

The pardons of about every other person that was pardoned other than, uh, where's Hunter?

No, Hunter's was good.

That was the one pardon Pam that was good, right?

The rest of them are all invalid.

I don't know what the hell you're gonna do about that But that's now we're gonna take a little of the joke and that is a mess despite their size secretary Kennedy Has formally certified that these are the first ever maha turkeys.

I don't know if I agree with that.

These are maha Great, they're diseased.

I don't have brain worms.

I just look I know that we're living in tough times and I know that he says a lot of things that are weird But I could not do anything but find this

absolutely hilarious.

Because again, this is a situation where he has handlers, he has speech writers, and all they're doing is gripping their hands in the cold wind of the White House going, can you just say

pardon?

Stick to the script.

Stick to the

script.

He can't.

But if I may do my usual rant on the back end of this, you know, 90 plus percent of the news coverage, just

did the part of oh and because I saw it on our local station here and President Trump pardoned a couple of turkeys.

I promise you that if Obama or any other Democrat had said even a percentage of those things it would have been like president insults turkey farmers president insult president threatens to jail people this guy gets a pass I don't know how he always gets a pass because

we allow

it to happen

well it's I'm

sorry but I blame the media

I do, that's what I'm saying.

The same washing has been going on for the last decade and I saw more footage yesterday from when Bob Kennedy and Dr. Oz made that big announcement about Osempic and how they were going to lower the price of Osempic and he was sleeping.

He was asleep.

in the middle and that was out

any trip to fan on

board.

I'm sure he did not have

turkey

friends.

This was a press conference that was going on live and he was napping.

We listen to the turkey pardoning audio and PJ in the live stream says, should have named the turkeys Jeffrey and Galane.

He would have said pardon right away.

And what's funny is that the one thing they didn't put into that, that smash clip was the fact that he said, he goes, I wanted to call the turkeys Chuck and Nancy, or Chuck and Nancy, but I'd never pardon them.

I would never, but they're terrible people.

I was like, dude, you are like, like, if you want one piece of evidence of the man who's losing his mind, it is this right here, because at least it's kind of funny too.

But I would even say, Jane, you said the sanewashing thing's been going on for a decade.

I would say it's been going on for longer because.

We live in a country in a society and a news media where it's easier to say things like just don't worry about that Just let this let that and we've been saying washing the actions of a lot of people politicians true and Just leaders and things of that nature people of celebrities because it's easier to let it go and and put it away But like it's like boys will be boys and that's what we we don't talk.

It's none of our business.

We don't talk about that kind of stuff He is just the hyper

version of all of that where we just are terrified of saying something because well they have corporate overlords and stockholders and they can't say anything to make the Mad

King upset.

I like that we get this out of our system now because I know you guys wanted a fun show and everything, but much like a Thanksgiving dinner, there's

just that time when

crazy uncles got to do the rant and we all give each other a look like, okay, and

then we let the

moment pass and we carry on as we were doing.

So I'm glad we got, glad I could perform this public service.

So lead y'all and

get this, get the crazy uncle segment out of the way and then we can go back to the fun stuff.

Exactly.

A cleansing kind

of break.

Except for

crazy uncles and president of the United States.

It was so much better when we had

Milkman, my God.

When we return, we have a nice voice note we're gonna share, we have a couple texts coming in, we have pictures of Pies, and Dietrich and Meg, we see you on the line, we will take you first when we come back, so stay close.

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After 10 o'clock, we're gonna talk turkey tips.

I found a big article about turkey tips and we have some tips coming in on the text line as well.

Right now though, Dietrich and Meg have been waiting on the phone for a long time from Eau Claire.

Good morning.

Thank you so much for joining us.

What's up?

Good morning.

It's a pleasure to wait for you.

And thank you so much for being a part of our mornings.

almost every morning like we greatly appreciate your show

thank you

we're we're so sorry to hear that you're retiring but we're happy for you and that great guy's pretty good too

so your check is in

the post thank you so much Dietrich and Meg we really really thank you so very much it it means

hey we do have one tip for you and and this is an interesting one and this is the first time we're doing it

Meg is sous-viding turkey legs.

What does that mean?

Huh?

It's a it's a slow heated water bath.

It's called sous-vide sous-vide.

He did it for eight hours yesterday Now they're air drying in the fridge and then they will be finished with a saute

So what does that process provide for the turkey?

I'm very I'm in this but I want to know

more intrigued okay, so so sous vide it cooks the protein evenly so that the consistency of the heat of the water bath and then the length of time allows the proteins to gain consistency unlike heat from baking,

okay?

So you're cooking it, so Dietrich, so you're cooking it in water.

In an airtight, in a

vacuum sealed bag.

You put it in airtight, yes Pat, exactly.

One of my daughters has one of these and swears by it.

So yeah, it's a boil in a bag situate kind of sort of, but the way that the sous vide, which is what the water is in, cooks it very evenly and

then

when you.

take it out of the bag.

It is, again, it retains all of its juiciness.

If there weren't the bag, then we'd be British, but we're not boiling our turkey today.

Putting it in the airtight bag first.

Two things about this.

First of all, Dietrich, would you mind emailing that process to janesaysatcivicmedia.us?

I am very interested in this because I

As I said earlier, I always want the turkey to be good.

And if this is a way to make it even better, I'd like to try it possibly next year.

But if you could just, whether it's an article or it's a process you do, your recipe, send it to janesaysatcivicmedia.us.

And the second thing is, I really enjoy Dietrich how you just

Slow roll this beautiful description almost like I was gonna say are either one of you a chef Where did you study and Pat's like it's boiling a bag?

Leave it to me to see

it's like rice

oroni boiling

about I mean, did you where did you where did you come on to this?

Suvi Turkey D trick

I'm the chef Hi, I studied in New York and cook in San Francisco.

Oh amazing

I stumbled upon this sous vide machine actually at a state sale and then have been doing everything from burgers to chicken to pork chops.

Ooh.

And I just figured turkey legs would work and turkey legs are cheap this year.

So.

Smart.

Casper.

Casper texting and listening at WAUK.

I use a sous vide all the time.

Just use one on Monday.

I love it.

I have never heard of this.

So do you use a station or do you use a.

a precision cook, because I'm looking right now online, because I'm already shopping Meg.

I see what looks like a big air fryer-esque thing, but then there's also a, like, it looks like a wand that you put into a pot as well.

Is there a difference?

Do you prefer?

I mean, one is $500 and I'm not made of money.

Yeah, I use this called my SUV, but as I said, I got an estate sales half off.

I think it was like 25 bucks.

Oh, nice.

Oh, nice.

The bigger question actually Dietrich and Meg is, what time are we eating?

Because we're all coming to Eau Claire now.

And then Shasta, you're coming over too.

Bring your pies.

It's a big party.

Could you make it?

I'm sorry, we missed what time we're eating.

Oh, I'll be there.

Jane, I gotta go.

I'll see you up there.

Thank you so much.

That was amazing.

Oh my

goodness.

Please stay in touch and thank you again for the kind kind words

as well.

Because yeah,

that's what we're always

hoping we're doing when we're on this show.

And it's, it's kind of like that thing is like, you probably hear more complaints than you do, like good wishes.

And we all love hearing that.

And someone on the text line too, by the way, that is Julian Wasau says, I am thankful this year that I have been able to listen to

Jane on Bull Falls Radio, I will miss her beautiful voice.

Thank you so much, Julia.

Really appreciate that.

We have a voice note too that we wanted to play.

Calvin, can you play that

quick?

Happy Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving, Jane, Greg, and Calvin.

Tidy children and the wonderful people.

Thank

you so

much.

Thank you so much.

And an unidentified human on the text line.

sums up our discussion of JD Vance and his attitude towards Turkey with very, very succinct.

Turkey sandwich meat best all year long.

That is true.

I actually prefer Thanksgiving turkey in the sandwich leftovers,

that

concoction versus the night of because it feels like a lot of pressure.

To eat all the turkey.

It feels like a lot of pressure to eat that food.

So it's like, no man, I'm gonna make a big ol' sandwich.

We have news coming up next.

And then when we return, we're gonna talk more turkey tips.

And also Green Wednesday.

Oh, baby.

I didn't know that was a thing.

Oh, Pat's got his recipe book.

We will be back.

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Pat, coming up in a little bit, we'll

talked Packers Lions.

Of course, you got your Packers jersey on already for the game coming up later on today.

I did want to start just how much snow did you guys get up there pet?

Because you're in Lake Wissota.

Yeah, here in Chippewa Falls, we were kind of in that dry slot of it, you know, where the rain to snow.

Didn't happen right by us.

It happened north of us.

So we only got about an inch of snow here, but the wind.

Oh my goodness,

right?

It was

crazy Amazing for a little over 24 hours.

It just howled here

But we did not get dumped on nearly to the extent of our friends say in Ashland with their 15, 20 inches

that

they got there.

I'm looking at snowfall totals from the journal Sentinel Hurley with 14, Hawthorne with 14, Cable got 12, Bayfield more than 10 and a half, Washburn 10 inches, Hayward 8 and a half, and we have more snow coming.

Jane is just a bringer of good news for everyone.

I just want people to be prepped.

Yeah, that the snow is expected to start Saturday and then go all day Saturday and then into Sunday morning.

It looks like for the southern half of the state, of course, this is one of those systems that they're watching to see if it moves further north or south will affect how much snow we're talking about.

But right now they are predicting eight to 10.

Eight to 10 inches.

Yeah.

And again, on, you know, the.

snow hit on Wednesday and on Sunday, the two busiest travel

days

of the year.

So I hope everybody is just extra cautious and patient and we'll get through it.

And a good reminder, 511wi.gov.

It is a free website.

It's a free app.

Correct.

And you can check road conditions all around the state.

So get some heads up about what's going to be greeting you when you head out the door.

Yeah.

It's a wonderful resource.

So 511wi.gov.

I've been keeping an eye on this throughout this morning.

They're scattered.

We do have a bunch of scattered accidents around the state.

Looks like most of them are out of the way, off on shoulders and things like that.

But still, be careful.

Our sales manager was in an accident last

night.

And luckily, he is OK.

He is good.

But seriously, just take care.

It's starting.

It is beginning.

We

are

back to winter.

And as we said before,

If you are in an all wheel four wheel bigger car, please remember you're not the only ones on the road and not everyone has the same access to that kind of drivability in bad weather.

Just be cognizant, be aware and don't try to take over the road.

If you can go, it's great if you can go 55 and 55, but if everyone else is going 30 or 35 because of the snow, just

You know, yeah,

be cool, bro.

I got it Have we scolded enough?

Yes.

All right, that's your scolding for today.

Be

careful

But it also gives me a reason to yet again be thankful for the public servants of the past who did not mind investing in infrastructure.

And I'm talking specifically about expanding Highway 29 to four lanes across the state because I am old enough that I drove on Bloody 29 for all those years with a girlfriend, now wife who lived on the other side of the state, whether it was 29 or Highway 10, we had to take that thing in snowstorms and ice storms.

You name it.

And to be able to do that on a four-lane road instead of white-knuckling it on two lanes, every little bit of infrastructure investment helps.

And I'm very thankful on a day like this that we had people who appreciate that.

So here's the question.

And I don't want to get too far into infrastructure talk.

But as you just said, highway

20.

I

love that.

I know.

But I love to talk.

Don't get me wrong.

As opposed to what?

President Obama and Biden both said, I think infrastructure, infrastructure talk is sexy, but yeah.

Highway 29 being expanded to four lanes was a, or giving more lanes to highway 29 was a good thing, right?

You feel a necessary thing.

And it was, I still can't understand.

why Milwaukee, we're giving more lanes to certain parts of the freeway that do not need them.

It's gonna cause-

Oh yeah, diminishing returns actually in that

case.

Oh, big time.

And this is one where I wanna look at both the GOP and the Democrats going, why does anyone here support this?

What are you getting out of this?

What are you, I mean, Tony Evers is leaving office, so it's not like he's gonna get a bunch of money to his campaign.

It's not like, I mean, I know that the building, the road building lobby is very strong here in Wisconsin, but-

No one has been able to properly explain to me why this is happening and I see I hear Conservative talk people kind of saying the same thing like this is unnecessary Why are you and they're of course blaming Governor Evers?

And that's what

they

naturally but it's just no one has been able to properly explain to me why we need the goal of this project on top of the fact that we have so many other projects happening in Milwaukee County right now

Craig I don't want to take one of those icky, you know

buses or trains.

I want my car.

I want my F-150 that I haul things in maybe two times a year, but it's great big and it's mine and

I want to

take that down the road.

You know, mass transit, if you live in so many other cities where people do take, you know, a metro or an L or whatever the case is, and it's just second nature.

But Milwaukee's just one of those cities.

It's not special, but some cities embrace it faster than others.

But I know from my

time, what little time I worked in talk radio in Milwaukee, a long time back.

Oh, they, the fewer connections between, you know, the suburbs and the downtown, the better.

Let me just get in my car and get in and get out.

And if we have to have 14 lanes, then that's what I want.

And that's, you know, politicians give into that very easily.

Well, and I think you make an interesting point, Pat, because I live in the city of Milwaukee and I don't know anybody

who is a resident of the city that wants this, it's the suburbs that want this.

Right, it is.

Because they want five minutes left on their commute back onto a column walk.

And I've always

said, I've always said, I'll be happy to support that as long as it's everybody in the suburbs is if that's where you put the toll gate.

Yeah, yeah.

If the people who want to live in suburbia.

will pay the toll, then fine, more power to you.

But, you know, that's, that's your choice.

Whereas that money could be better invested in things like, you know, commuter rail and buses and things like that.

Yeah, I guess what it comes down to is if, if, if it's so anti mass transit, which I understand because we, you know, I had an experience when I worked for the mayor of Racine.

Oh my God, many years ago in 2010, we sat down with some people to talk about the massive 94

Project that was happening and we said you're you got three billion dollars and then that was back when three billion dollars was a lot of money But you had three billion dollars if you took a small percentage, I think it was one percent of that money You could one to two percent you could actually Build out an extension of the metro line from Kenosha to Racine giving access to all of those stops and Robin Voss's response was

They can buy a car.

That was his response.

I

was in the legislature at the time.

We