good morning everybody welcome to waking up with Allen here on a Saturday great to have you along it is the fourth Saturday of the month can you believe that means we're going to have a food talk fourth Saturday segment. In studios later this morning with cooking with Miss Holt if you don't follow her on Facebook you should Valerie Holt will be in studios with me we're going to talk about Thanksgiving. It's next week and we'll probably get into our annual discussion about what belongs and what doesn't belong on a Thanksgiving day table and I will use the same caveat that I have always used with this discussion. Well I may not agree if it's on the table I may still eat it if you have lasagna for Thanksgiving you have a dish sitting on the side. I probably won't say no but there's got to be certain things that you have to have to consider it a Thanksgiving day meal so we'll do that next hour. Now I'm not going to drag the show down okay I can't I don't want to do that and I don't think our loyal listener would want me to do that but I do need to take a moment to say a fond farewell to one of our loyal listeners. Those of you who listen to this show for a long time those of you who have been members of the audience for a long time you'll hear Jeff call into the show sometimes multiple times. Jeff used to be in the tree business used to be a sheriff he's weighed in on a lot of issues. A lot of times I think it's funny he'll feel like he's almost part of the show and he would call in and say we got to talk about tree amigos I was like oh okay let's do our live shout out right now. Some of you may not have known but Jeff had back in his history a somewhat debilitating stroke that put him into a wheelchair and so he was not able to continue to lead a normal physically robust life being confined to a wheelchair. He was a motorized chair so he could get around loved listening to the show loved listening to the radio became a friend of mine and a just a staunch supporter of my podcast as well trying to get people to listen to it. We would text almost every day if not every other day I'd hear from him if I was running behind on a show if I had a bunch of meetings and I was running late on delivering my daily show because as a subscriber you get the show early. So he was like hey where's the show I want to listen I'm I'm I'm chomping at the bit I've been waiting for it and I'd have to sometimes right back say sorry I had a meeting today I'm running behind it's coming out or and or when I would release it and like okay it's coming out right now go check your inbox. He's been battling health obviously when you have any kind of a significant issue like a stroke and any other medical issues. You're constantly on the edge of a disaster. I hadn't heard from Jeff for four or five days and that was really weird. And so I sent a text message to his phone I was like hey just wondering if everything's okay haven't heard from you a little bit have you are you still enjoying the show. Got any notes for me no kind of wink wink any feedback how can I make it better. And I didn't hear from him a couple of days went by. And now for those of you who have an iPhone you might be able to relate to this but you know the iPhone will sometimes try to be helpful and tell you who it thinks might be texting or calling you. Based on previous messages or previous numbers. And I looked down at my phone and there was a message and it says might be Jeff but it wasn't his profile it wasn't his phone number. And I thought to myself oh I bet Jeff got a new phone. I bet that's what he got a new phone and either didn't have everything transferred properly or just now got it set up and was finally getting back to me. What I got was a message the message is hey this is Jeff's wife Jeff fell on last Wednesday and has been on a ventilator ever since. Unfortunately we are having a conversation about end of life he absolutely loved your talks and podcast. Obviously I was shocked. I said of course I was like oh no what can I do what do you need what can I do to help. And she's like there's no there's nothing really at this point we're just kind of letting the doctors take care of business. So I said no matter what please keep me informed as much as you can I know my wife and I will be keeping him in our prayers and please reach out if there's anything we can do. I got a response the next day from Jeff's wife. She said thank you unfortunately we will transition into comfort care. I said I'm so sorry is he conscious he said no. I said for what it's worth I'm still thinking of him and you both. She said it means a lot thank you. I go yesterday I opened my Friday podcast which is the Alan Sanders Show. I opened my Friday podcast with my normal greeting I did my normal shout outs and then I did a special dedication that the episode the show was going to be dedicated to Jeff and told the story up to the point where you are right now. Transferring to comfort care what I didn't know when I recorded my show yesterday is what I found out at six thirty here in the studios. We had already been halfway through the the the Glenda Mitchell pregame show Countdown to kickoff. And Jeff's wife sent me this Jeff passed away this morning at nine twenty. Life is fleeting. Life is precious. Life is to be experienced and enjoyed it's to be explored it's to be challenged. It's not to sit in a little bubble of comfort doing nothing with your day. Never once going out and challenging your mind to new ideas or new experiences. It's not about playing it safe and sitting in and shutting out anything that might be an irritant or anything that might make you angry. Life is something to be experienced and. There were a series of I guess motivational speeches or sermons if you will. My mom got when she when I was a lot younger I remember her listening to them. And it was called life is worth living by Archbishop Sheen. So remember the Catholic Church a dynamic speaker and had a series of lectures to help inspire people that life is worth living. But so many and I get it we have been bombarded nonstop for at least the last decade or more with nothing but fear. And the what Elon Musk calls the woke mind virus which is all of the nonsense all of the all of the wokeness that has been embedded in so many of the things that we have been force fed through media. Through media through social media. As a nation we we no longer have a trusted mainstream media. It is a propaganda machine that is nonstop trying to program you that there is a one size fits all approach to everything and that's more or bigger government that they will take care of everything. Don't question anything. Don't actually do your own research. Don't actually ask anything that would be that would run afoul of the government narrative and please don't post anything online that would run contrary to what big government your big mommy and daddy are telling you. And we watched the height of that during covid we watch the height of an all powerful nanny state that wants to be in charge of you from cradle to grave not there to support you not there in case you need them. They want to control you from cradle to grave. How does that relate to life is worth living is so many of you have withdrawn from friends from debate from discussion from opening your minds to saying you know what we may not agree on this this or that but we agree on these these other things. We're heading into Thanksgiving week. For a lot of people that officially starts their holidays for those of you who know me we've already started we're actually pretty much done decorating our house for the holidays for us it starts in November. We love the Christmas season so much because it is about family and about togetherness. We love getting things for our kids we love surprising things we create a whole evenings nights days even you know activities all centered around family and togetherness. And like any family we have our disagreements. We don't see eye to eye on every single subject I don't see eye with my own wife on every single subject. But I love her. I know she loves me I sense it. I do my show every single day and I do this Saturday show because I want to bring information to the audience that I know you're not getting from traditional sources and you're not going to get the analysis you're getting air headed people who read scripts who think they're smart because they read scripts and they have no depth no understanding all they are is a political mouthpiece for a political party and that's what you are going to get 90% of the locations you look for any kind of actual news. Now this doesn't relate to the fire the flood the thunderstorm the tornado those things there's nothing political with those there's no manipulation with those except for maybe climate change. But if there's like a murder that's a murder okay there's no political bent to that if a house catches on fire so that's real news and I think that's part of the problem so many of you watch the news and half of it might be real because they're real stories such and such store got robbed this guy got stopped speeding on the interstate and decided to go into a police chase such and such store shut down declared bankruptcy all those things are real news. It's the other stuff that they put in between the analysis of what's going on in government the analysis of what's going on in the public sector. That's where the lies come and the programming the psychological operations that have stoked fear in so many of our population fear of one another fear of color fear of gender fear of fluidity just divide divide divide divide it's all meant to divide and while we're all debating and arguing and living in our own different thought bubbles they find ways to take more and more. And I think a lot of people have finally started turning off media not local not I'm not talking about you know our station I'm talking about at the national level I'm talking about federal politics I'm talking about politics politics in general anything that can be politicized. I think more people are turning off the legacy mainstream media and I think we saw a reflection of that in this past election cycle. People are waking up and realizing just how bad our government operates how badly I want to be grammatically correct our government is so poorly run. They lose lose they don't even know where it went billions of dollars. I had a story I was going to get to and I might start with this in this next segment to you to realize just how bad it is. The Pentagon has failed its seventh audit in a row. How many of you have a small business? How many of you are part of a large business? Imagine the company wide memo saying our accountants have gone through the books and we've had an outside audit to make sure we're fiscally sound and we failed our audit. Now imagine you're in a business that did it seven times in a row. The Pentagon has an eight hundred and twenty four billion dollar budget and they don't know where their money went. We're paying two hundred and thirty six billion dollars in improper federal payments said the government accounting office. More than two hundred billion in pandemic relief was squandered said a government watchdog report and U.S. failed to track one billion in Ukraine military aid. We're going to dive into that and more when we come back it's the bottom of the hour. Jeff this is for you. Here's Gene in. Hey everybody welcome back to Waking Up With Allen a little Trans-Siberian Orchestra there first snow. I say that because there were some I think flurries up in was it up in Blaier'sville way up in the north northeast corner of the state. Yeah we're heading toward winter and yes I love the season and so holiday bumps will make their way into the rotation from now through the first of the year. Welcome back everybody waking up with Allen this is Allen Sanders in studios the phone number is seven seven zero three eight six fourteen fifty if you want to be part of the program this morning. Love to hear from you and we were talking about inefficiency in efficiency in government the government wants to be in charge of every aspect and element of your lives. The government that keeps us so divided with one another while we pick up each other apart over stupid things and now some of these things are important. Men in women's bathrooms is an important discussion men suffering from self delusion thinking they can morph into something that they're not that is something that we need to have discussions over. People need to be treated with dignity and respect nobody should be living in fear of their lives for the choices they make but you are a product of the choices you make and you have to accept the consequences for the choices you make. You don't get to go around and tell everybody else that because you made a choice that nobody sees or understands or agrees with that we have to conform to make you feel better. You made a choice live the life you chose but understand there are societal norms and there is biological fact that we have known our whole lives and just because you feel and want to believe doesn't make it so. While we're out here having these discussions and some of them like I said are worthwhile a lot of them are petty and stupid. Our government has grown so bloated so big so onerous so bureaucratic that that's what they live for. They live for their own bureaucracy because that's where all the money goes. That's where all the people get rich and grow their power. How in the world do we allow the Pentagon, the Department of Defense to fail seven times in a row, an annual audit of accountability of where our tax payer dollars are going. That's an $824 billion budget. That's nearly a trillion dollars just in defense. And I got to tell you that's where they hide a lot of the pork, that's where they hide a lot of the pet projects, that's where they hide a lot of the stupidity and then they don't know where the money went. And they do it because here's what happens every single time and I've heard it my whole life. We're going to have to reform the Pentagon, we got to get that budget under control. Oh you can't, you're going to jeopardize national defense. And it's a great argument if you're really up to defending the nation. But when you fail seven audits in a row folks, when you can't tell me where the money's going, I have no, I have no confidence that if I cut your budget or if I increase your budget that you still know how to defend the country. I don't think that's a good argument anymore. I don't think this idea of, oh you can't touch the Department of Defense, that's our national security. Well you're losing every year billions of dollars, you have no idea where it's going. How is that conducive to our national security? If you can't even tell me, did you buy a tank with it? Did you buy a jet with it? Did you train a troop with it? Did you promote somebody? Did you start a new program? Where did the money go? Serious reform needs to happen in the Pentagon. That budget likely could be cut in half. And it could be cut in half and not lose a single service, not lose a single bit of our effectiveness if we started getting back to the business of understanding that our military should be about one thing. How do you kill people and break things? That's it. That is, that is what the military is all about. I've said that in my show for the last few days now. When they talk about Pete Hexit being the Secretary of Defense, it's because he's written the manual on what went wrong with the military and how to put it right. He wrote the book about when woke took over the military, our effectiveness has gone to pot. We have people who don't want to join the military anymore because it's become a woke ideological lab for these cultural people in the ivory tower. It's become a woke mind virus where they spend more time training members of the military about DEI and CRT than they do about how to kill people and break things. They've forgotten the mission of the military. You want such a strong, effective, lethal, devastating military that no one wants to ever see it in action. That's the irony, isn't it? We need a military that is so powerful and scary to the bad actors on the world that they go, you know, I'm going to mess with my neighbors. I'm not messing with the United States. And if my neighbors are an ally, maybe I'm going to leave my neighbor alone. I don't need the full force and might of one of the most powerful forces ever in the history of mankind, the biggest, most devastating army. I don't need them to come after me. Right now, we don't really have that. We have the memory of that. We have the illusion of that. It's a faux description of our military right now. If you really think that our military is thought of as this behemoth that you don't even bother poking, look at what's going on in the Middle East. Look at how the Houthis were shooting at any of our ships. We had to put people out there. We spent $300 million building a floating dock as a publicity stunt that actually got one of our servicemen killed. It sank after 18 days. A publicity stunt in the Mediterranean, right outside of Egypt. We have a government that needs to be culled, that needs to be brought to bear and to size. And starting at the Pentagon is just one of my headlines. The other headline I read to you, $236 billion in improper federal payments. This was a review of 2023. This came out in March of this year. I reported it to those folks who follow my daily podcast. What do we mean by improper federal payments? Let me give you an example. Let's say I work with our local representatives from the state of Georgia. I work with Congressman Lautermilk and Senator Warnock and Senator Ossoff. And I say, you know what? Carter'sville. Carter'sville could really use another bridge. And we're going to need some government grant money doled out over, let's say, the next five years. Can we set up a program where every year we get a payment of $100 million to put into this project to build another bridge? And it's set up to expire in five years. So in 2029, or let's say that we put it in place next year, so it's nice and even. In 2030, we turn around and say, look, we'll have our bridge done. So can you set that up to recur every year we get our payments until this project sunsets in 2030? And it goes through, it goes through Congress, we're just, we're playing example here. What I'm talking about with improper federal payments is we roll into 2031, the year after my project has sunset. And all of a sudden we get an automatic payment for $100 million. We go, okay, I guess they're still funding the project. And so you take that $100 million. And then the next year, hey, we're going to give you your annual payment. And then it happens over and over because some bureaucrat and some desk because of all of the convolution, because of all of the people and all of the moving parts, nobody knows what's going on. And so whoever set up the program, because it was initially authorized to make payments to go out, they don't even realize that the program's done. It's over and they're still sending money out. The government accounting office looked at 2023 and realized the programs that had, were supposed to have ended, the money that was already allocated that was already spent, they're still spending. That's the 236 billion in improper federal payments. That's astounding, folks. That's a quarter of a trillion dollars that they lost. Or to me, they're paying that they're not supposed to. But it's because the bureaucracy is so thick, so muddy, so convoluted that that's all they live for now is, okay, what's the process today? What's our procedure? What are we going to follow today instead of looking for results? Let's bury themselves in the bureaucracy. This story from ABC News, more than $200 billion in pandemic relief was squandered, said a watchdog report. The sum amounts to approximately 17% of the $1.2 trillion that was dispersed by the Small Business Administration. $200 billion. No idea where it went. Not toward COVID, not toward the things it was supposed to go toward. Gone. Miss fraud, waste, abuse. $200 billion. Why? Because we put a big bucket of money out there as rapidly as we could, and no one bothered to follow through. It was another bureaucratic program. Just set up something, send money out the door, we'll worry about the accounting later, and then when we start doing the accounting, where'd it go? I don't know. It went into someone's pockets, folks. Someone made money. I mean $200 billion. Hey, I don't need $200 billion. Heck, I'd be happy if somebody just wanted to funnel $200,000 into my account. I'd be okay. And the other headline that I have for you. U.S. failed to track a billion dollars in Ukraine military aid. The Pentagon Inspector General's findings come as President Biden urges Congress to pass a massive package of additional assistance to Ukraine. We have since given Ukraine billions more, and then Biden, just two days ago, and you probably didn't hear about this in regular news, two days ago has said that I want to forgive $4 billion that we've given to Ukraine. It's a money laundering operation, folks. And if you think of it as anything else, you're fooling yourself, or you've been so lied to, you don't see the real truth. If you think we're sending money to Ukraine because of the war, because, ooh, Putin bad, you're fooling yourself. That money is going right into the back pockets of everybody in the military industrial complex, and it is used to buy and pay for the Ukraine to keep their mouth shut for all of the previous money laundering operations that have rolled through that country. We've got to get our government under control, and I know the voters in this country picked the candidate overwhelmingly, both from an electoral perspective, and more importantly because of the country as a whole, the popular vote. That means more than half the country wants reform, wants to get rid of the wokeness, the DEI stupidity, the CRT, pitting one another against each other, simply on race. It's so stupid what we've allowed to have happened, and I'm going to tell you, it's partially the fault of us, those of us out here who love our country, we love our constitutional republic, but we get so heads down. We are our own lives are busy, we're focusing on our jobs, some of us have multiple jobs, in fact, almost everybody I know has at least a side gig. Most people can't afford to just survive on a income, both spouses are definitely working. We're busy, and we're so busy, we assume that when we elect a representative, we call it a representative because they're supposed to represent us, but nah, that's not how they think of it. I think, okay, I won, I'm going to go rule. I'm going to go rule, and I'm going to do what I want, and then I'll come pander when it's time for re-election. Alright, let's go to the phone lines, we got somebody who wants to join in, good morning, you're on the air, WVHF, who's this? This is Todd. Hey Todd, welcome to the show, what's up, buddy? I have a question that I'll let you answer when I hang up, because I don't know enough about it to even have a conversation with you, but I need you to load me with information when I have Thanksgiving dinner with my left-leaning folks. Okay, you've said that the premise now, and I get your, I get your trepidation. Yeah, so I need you to build me up with info. Can you explain what you just talked about, the money laundering with Ukraine in the past history of that, and what's going on now? I don't understand it, so love for you to explain it. Like I said, I don't know enough to even have a conversation, but I'm going to hang up. Okay, I will, I will do that for you next, so thanks for calling, Todd. Alright, let me do that before we go to the break. I will do a very quick summary here, just I'll give you the cliff notes, and then I will bring you a little more in depth, because I have to take a commercial break. Todd, I know you're listening, so just between the two of us. Mitch McConnell said it on the floor of the Senate, just a few months ago, when he said, "We're not giving this money to Ukraine. This money is going to buy the weapons systems that we're giving to Ukraine." Which means we're putting the money that we're quote, air quote here now, the money that we're allocating for Ukraine is going to Raytheon, or Lockheed Martin, or any of the other military industrial partners, and when you choose and you tell the government of Ukraine, you have to buy your equipment from our approved military vendors, the military industrial complex. Well, there are certain baked-in standards, and a lot of uplift, a lot of overhead built into those massive companies, and what we're doing is while we're saying, "Hey, we're aiding Ukraine, what we're doing is we're taking taxpayer money, that we're telling the people, this is going to help Ukraine, and we're sending it to our private sector partners in government that build missiles and tanks and planes, and they're getting rich off of it, and then we're going to donate the rockets. The rockets and planes and say, "See, we gave them $4 billion." Well, we gave them $4 billion in maybe aircraft and jets and missiles, but we didn't give them the money. We took taxpayer money and funneled it into the contractors, the military contractors that have constantly been looking for the next war. You can't make money if you're not building new rockets, planes, and bombs, right? You've got to have a war if you want to make money in your war business. The taxpayer money is not funneling into Ukraine. It's funneling into the preferred military contractors that work with the Pentagon and, oh, by the way, all those companies, they all have 401ks, they all have investments, they all have a lot of money. Obviously, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, multi-billion dollar organizations. Someone's got to manage all those pensions and all those funds. Do you know who does that? BlackRock. I'm going to leave it there for the commercial break, and we'll come back and chat more right here on Waking Up With Allen. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Welcome back, everybody, Waking Up With Allen here. A little of the carol of the bells underneath the way only Trans-Siberian Orchestra can do it. If you've never gotten at least the first two Trans-Siberian Christmas albums, they are phenomenal. I was blown away the first time I heard any of the music by this band, this group, this symphony. It's like a symphonic rock fell in love with it. You heard the advertisement for Tree Amigos of America, and I need to tell you about my good buddy Shane, who has been working, I think almost non-stop in the Augusta area. I'm not even sure if he's back home. I hope he's listening. He can text me and tell me where he is, but they have been so busy. And you know you must have a great reputation when other communities are like, "Can you please come help us? We've got trees down everywhere." They're still helping with hurricane relief and hurricane cleanup and those efforts because that's their specialty. That's what they do. So if you've got a tree issue, if other communities are okay, if other states want to use them, well then my goodness gracious, why won't you use them? Give Tree Amigos a call today, 770-676-2300. That's 770-676-2300. Ask for Shane, tell him you heard about him on Waking Up With Allen. We're going to go to the phones and say, "Good morning, you're on the air." W-B-H-F, who's this? Good morning, Allen. This is Philip from the sunny state of Florida. Oh, hello from the state of Florida. We've got 90 seconds, unfortunately, because I'm at the top of the hour. That's fine. First off, Shane Barker, A+, I used him when I live in Atlanta. Awesome guy. Definitely go to see him. Second, I'm sorry to hear about your listener, Jeff, and I hope that that ends in the way that God intended. Three, I'm sorry, from your podcast from yesterday. Three, from your call repeatedly, you don't have to... Politics doesn't have to be the topic of the chore throughout the Thanksgiving. We have lots of differences. We have lots of similarities. You don't have to always be at a race throughout. It's trying to force an opinion or have in a conversation. Let this time be the time that you enjoy each other as they are your family, and let Vignon be a background to that point. I don't think we need to have in-depth political conversations and debate that's going to separate families. Yeah, I don't disagree with you. I think the caller was worried about having people that bring it up and being able to have the facts if it's brought up. I would say, I would shut it down and say, listen, let's not have that conversation. If you don't have the facts now, you don't try to arm yourself right now to have the facts to have the conversation. Try not going to end up well because you're not going to know what they're going to throw at you. Try a bunch of lives. It's going to be a little bit less. Whatever. Hey, you know what? If you want to call back, I've got to go because I'm at the top of the hour, but good advice, man. Thank you. All right, take care. All right, bye-bye. It's the top of the hour, Todd. I will bring you a little more thought as well, and I will dovetail on what Phillip just said when he called in, but it's eight o'clock. [MUSIC] Good morning, everybody. Welcome back. Waking up with Alan. Hour number two, officially underway. Got word from Cooking with Mrs. Holt. That she is on her way. We'll be doing some Thanksgiving food talk after the bottom of the hour. So get ready for that. It's a food talk fourth Saturday no matter what we're talking about, no matter how much we're diving into the news of the day. We'll have a guest and we will shift gears and have a little bit of fun on this Saturday before Thanksgiving. Two things. Let me go back to Triomegos. We just had the spot, so I might as well dovetail on it and remind you to call 770-676-2300 when you call that number. You're gonna get Shane Barker or you're gonna get Shane Barker's answering or his message from his phone. It goes to him. He doesn't have an answering service. He doesn't have some other company. It's him because he wants to make sure you talk to him. So leave a message if he can't get to you. If he's in a spotty area, I know he's been doing a lot of work, like I said, in the Augusta area for the last few weeks. But give Shane Barker a call. Don't wait for the for the leaning tree to become the fallen tree. And if you're not sure, he'll come out and give you a full estimate and take a look and tell you what you need and what you don't need. And I'm gonna tell you this. When he gets done, when his crew gets done, you'll be like, I didn't even know that people cut anything down. It looks like it's this is how it's always been. 770-676-2300. For Todd, let me start off with, I want to give you a little more background, a little more information on the whole money laundering that's been going on through Ukraine, but it's not just Ukraine. It's every one of the partnerships that have grown up behind the scenes, people who are in the Pentagon that go work in the private sector, the revolving door of people that work in the, in the defense industry, then going to work for the big defense contractors. It's the same thing that's happening in the FDA where you've got these doctors serving on a board. They turn around and rubber stamped the drugs. They rubber stamped the, the foods. And then they go work for the big food or big pharma company with a cushy salary because they were helpful. They were a good government helpful stooge to the business, not doing the job of protecting the American people or being a good steward of American dollars. But let me first dovetail on when Phil called. It may be a really good strategy to say, Hey, look, I, I know you want to talk about this, but it could very well lead to a discussion that gets out of control. And maybe we ought to just give thanks for being together and just, you know, maybe, maybe let's leave that to the side for another time. You know, I'd be happy to discuss it. I think it'd be a great discussion, but, you know, there's a lot of people here. We're all gathering. Now, if you're having people over and I get this, and maybe I, maybe I read into it too much, Todd, if you've got people staying with you for a few days, it's a lot harder to avoid that conversation. And I understand wanting to have the knowledge, but never, ever, ever hesitate to do two things in any kind of a quote debate. Never hesitate to not accept the premise. A lot of times what happens, someone sets a false premise to the conversation. And I'll talk about like, let's talk about how Donald Trump wants, is going to help Russia and they're going to, and he wants, he wants Russia to, because of their buddies, and that's why he's going to, he's going to just let Ukraine surrender to Russia. Well, that's a false premise. They're building their argument initially. They want to have this conversation on a false premise. If you remember back when Donald Trump was president for four years, not only was that the only time Russia didn't move on any territory, it was also the only president in the 21st century to not start new engagements, new battles, tried to ween the ones down that we were already in. Notice the people really upset with him, the military industrial complex, of which Mitch McConnell is a huge supporter of, and has made a lot of money in the stocks of people like Raytheon, like Northrop Grumman, like Lockheed Martin, like Boeing. The money is flowing out of government faster than anyone knows what's going on. We're just writing bills, committing money, sending it, and no one follows up, no one knows what's going on. Quick history lesson on why Russia and why Putin's doing what he's doing. If you listen to my Daily Show, by the way, Todd, I would suggest if you don't know how to pull down a podcast, if you don't know how to use even Spotify, which is a free app, now you can sign up to get, you know, ad free and you can sign up to, you know, get music services and things, but my show you don't have to pay for. WBHF radio is on Spotify, but I'm on Apple Podcast. I'm anywhere you find shows. In fact, this episode right here, what we're talking about, this very show, over the weekend, I'll edit the commercials out and I will upload it as a bonus in case people missed it. I had a lot of people say, "Why don't you ever upload your Saturday show so I've started doing that?" You can get my show and you can subscribe and I talk about these kinds of things every single weekday. But a quick history lesson. Back in the 80s, when the iron curtain fell, thanks to Ronald Reagan and the policy is leading into then George H.W. Bush following on Reagan's coattails, we didn't want to expand NATO, we didn't want to expand the reach, and we wanted the Soviet Union to divest. They had fallen apart, they were going to divest all of the properties of the USSR. Remember, it was the United Soviet Socialist Republic. So a lot of the countries that we're talking about were under Soviet control and then during Reagan's era, they all went to their own sovereignty. And some of those countries did well and some not so well. In fact, there's still some doing not so well. As we move into the late 90s, you started watching Bill Clinton followed by George W. Bush, followed by Barack Obama, add more countries to NATO that were encroaching on Russia. And Russia's stance has been for at least two decades. Don't put your missiles in my backyard. If we want to find peace and coexist, we are always going to be distrustful. Don't expand NATO. And what did we do? We kept expanding NATO. We kept putting our presence there. Then we'd move rocket systems. We'd move missile systems. And the line, the final line in the sand was, don't make Ukraine a part of NATO. Don't do it. And initially, we weren't going to do it. And then here comes Joe Biden. Yeah, Ukraine's going to be a part of NATO. Now, why did Joe Biden want to make Ukraine a part of NATO when he knew Vladimir Putin said, this is it? That's the final. You cannot, we cannot allow, as a nation, our sovereignty, we don't trust you, just like we don't trust them. What would we do if Russia started parking missiles in Mexico? And we're just here to help defend our friend Mexico. And you're like, wait a minute, you've got your missiles right on our border. What would the United States response be? It's the same thing. You have to put yourself in the position, even if it's our enemy, or somewhat bad actor on the world stage, you need to put yourself in their position. How would you feel if your quote, enemy was parking missiles on a country right on your back door? Joe Biden, I'm going to make Ukraine a unit of NATO. Okay. That, that kind of sealed the deal. But Putin didn't move. Putin didn't move yet. Why? Because he wasn't quite sure what Joe Biden was going to do. And then he watched the Afghan withdrawal. He watched what a botched, absolute train wreck that was. And every bad actor on the world stage has realized what a joke the Biden regime was going to be. A bunch of kids in adult bodies pretending they know how to run the government, but they're in the positions of power. And boy, were they going to wield it? They were going to wield it. And anyone who got in their way, they were going to crush. And that's what you've been seeing for the last four plus years. But remember, the deal was no NATO don't make Ukraine a part of NATO. There was an actual sit down where everyone was going to walk away happy. And suddenly, Joe Biden, we're going to make Ukraine part of NATO. Hey, anybody see my pants? That's it. Russia says, Okay, we watched you. We watched you completely botch Afghanistan. You keep telling us you're going to put missiles. You're going to keep. We're going to, we're going to take part of our Ukraine back. We're going to take our country back. We're going to have a buffer country because you guys keep trying to encroach when we had an agreement that as long as you didn't, we'd be fine. We are the ones, and I say we, NATO countries have been pushing and pushing and pushing. I'm not apologizing. I'm not an apologist for Vladimir Putin. Okay, I'm not, I don't want you guys to misunderstand. But you have to always put yourself in the position of the other side and go, how would we react if all of a sudden the folks in El Salvador and Nicaragua and, and other, maybe those Central American countries? What would we do if all of a sudden they said, you know what, we're sick and tired of dealing with the United States. We're going to partner with Russia, and then we're going to become part of Russia. We're going to become a, you know, a kind of a floating colony, and we're going to ask them to start parking their missile systems to help protect our country. And we're going to slowly move and we're going to get closer into Mexico and eventually partner with Mexico. What would we do? We wouldn't like it. We might actually have to say, well, we better, we better create a buffer zone. We might have to encroach into somebody else's territory to protect our own interests. We've watched mismanagement from this government and others. I mean, I told you, it started with Bill Clinton. It rolled into George W. Bush and then it rolled into Barack Obama. Notice new wars were started with each one of those presidents. Who's the one disruptor? Who's the one person that we were told would never, ever win? What a joke was, was trailing by 16 points in some polls heading into 2016's election against Hillary Clinton. Who was the disruptor? Donald Trump. Donald Trump wasn't supposed to win. Suddenly, we're stopping the wars. We're stopping the expansion. We're telling Putin, we're not going to go to Ukraine. No, Ukraine's not going to be part of NATO. No, we're not going to put missiles there. No, in fact, we're going to try to figure out how to pull our military back. And that doesn't make the people at Raytheon, at Boeing, at Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin, and all of the standard, the de facto contractors that you have to use for your military industrials, you have to use those approved contractors if you're a part of NATO. Which means those companies make a lot of money in the war business. It's all one big incestuous pile of money where they tell us, "We're giving money to Ukraine." And what they're doing is they're giving money to Northrop Grumman. Or they're giving money to BlackRock because BlackRock owns Northrop Grumman. We're giving money to Lockheed Martin. We're giving money to Boeing. You're like, "No, no. My taxpayers are going to help those poor people in Ukraine." No, it's not. You're getting people here in the war industry rich. And you're getting them rich while they're lying to you. And that's, in my mind, a version of money laundering. You're telling me the money's going for this, but what you're really doing is you're disguising the money to then take taxpayer dollars that we didn't say, "No taxpayer voted for. Let's go ahead and ingratiate Northrop Grumman and make them go through the roof through profit." No one's done that. We said, "We want to give it to that poor country." Well, here, we're going to give it to that poor country. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, and we don't. We give it to Northrop Grumman. I think Joe Biden made that move for another reason as we head to the bottom of the hour here. Don't forget the Biden, the Hunter Biden laptop showed that they put Hunter Biden on a board, a major energy board in Ukraine solely to buy influence from when Joe Biden was the vice president of the United States. Let's not forget. That's a fact. That's for real. Remember the laptop we told was a lie and then we found out only after three and a half years? Oh, no, it's actually a real thing and they actually did all this. Joe Biden couldn't afford to have Ukraine talk. So, of course, we're going to just pony up the cash because we got to keep that quiet because there's a lot of malfeasance that's gone on in that country for more than a decade, for decades. All right, we're going to shift gears. It's bottom of the hour, 830. We got a Food Talk 4th Saturday coming your way. But first, let's get you caught up on statewide headlines from GNN. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Yeah, it's time for some Christmas bumps that's close enough. We're heading into Thanksgiving week. A lot of people already on Friday, you can tell it took the week off because it was so easy to travel. Mike Garcia, even here from the studio, said, "I'm going to take Friday. We're going to head out of town and we're going to be back on December 2nd." I'm like, "Okay, adios, my friend." Right now, we're going to shift gears. We're going to move away from the world of politics and money laundering and Joe Biden and everything else. And we're going to talk about food, specifically Thanksgiving. It's our Food Talk 4th Saturday. Valerie Holt, good morning. Good morning. Good morning, Alan. Do we need to get our Zen Garden out like our Sam? Oh, that's why I played that. I want to play some Christmas music. I bring myself down. No, I know. We get in this country now, including me. We all get so intense about politics. There's nothing wrong with having passion as long as you're listening. The problem is too many people don't listen. I know, I know. But you have to come down from that every once in a while. You have to be calm. Let's shift our passions to something else that we both love, food. Food. That's right. That's right. So I'm going to have a couple of preface things here before we start. But yeah, we're going to talk about Thanksgiving foods, but not Thanksgiving foods that we love. But anyway, we're going to come back to that in a minute. But anyway, I want to give a big shout out to one of our loyal listeners, Sheryl Hyde. Sheryl Hyde was a longtime Cardisville resident and she is now in North Carolina and blessed her heart. She and her family have really been through some challenges with Hurricane Helene. I mean, really. And so we just want to say we appreciate her. We love her. She's thought about. She's prayed for by pretty much all of Cardisville. I can say that because everybody loves her. But thanks, Sheryl. And we love you and we miss you. And this question now, this week, switching to the conversation of the week, this question is brought to you by my friend, Chris Smith. And I will tell you, Chris Smith is a longtime friend of mine and she is a great cook and a foodie like me. She's just all things food. She's very smart. And so just at random one day, I saw this week where she posted on, you know, how they have just random surveys on whatever page. Excuse me. And it said, what Thanksgiving food do you hate? Not what do you like. What do you hate? Hmm. What you hate? That's an interesting look. Not what doesn't belong. We've had that discussion before, which by the way, there's a lot of dishes that I don't think belong, but I'll still eat it. That's right. I hate it. I just don't think it's Thanksgiving. I don't serve lasagna for Thanksgiving. Some people do. That's right. It doesn't fit. It just doesn't go. So anyway, so I just happened, you know, how things pop up on your Facebook feed. So I saw where Chris had said, like, I just, I hate green bean casserole. So that night I was in the car. I was on my way home from a meeting. And so I just called and I left her a voicemail because she was busy at a charity function. And so anyway, I called her and I said, okay, we can't be friends anymore. I said, that's it. We're done because you don't like green bean casserole. And of course, I was teasing her, but I said, I can't believe you don't like green bean casserole. And so anyway, that kind of started this conversation of the week. So I put up this question online and I said, what do you hate? And I got this long list of things and I will have to say, in Chris's defense, the number one thing, it seems like the most answers I got was green bean casserole. I'm just going to say, I'm just going to say the thing that people always say to me when I say, well, I have never really liked that. Like, oh, you just haven't had it made correctly. I'm going to say that answer now. You just haven't had it made right because I make that. I am begged to make that. Everybody that used to make it and then the one year I brought it, this literally, I shouldn't have made it, apparently. Because when I made it, everyone was like, it's never been this good. Can you please, what did you do? I literally have been asked, well, what did you do? I'm like, I followed the recipe. Do you put fresh green beans in it from the garden or do you use the canned, like it says? Do you use canned greens? I use canned. Like just regular off the shelf, like canned green beans? Well, high end, I don't buy, you know, like store bread. Yeah. Well, and so I can tell you, I don't know. I know what I tell my girls. I'm like, well, because you know what, I love doing this. Maybe that's the difference. I make it with love. That's it with love. Well, I will say, when I was teaching high school, I would make my kids a Thanksgiving dinner every year. Because... I agree with what this person just texted us. We'll talk about it in a second. Yes, yes, I just saw that too. That would be on my... I'll bypass that. Yes, yes, we're going to get to her. Get to her, just in a minute. I saw her text too. But, you know, I made my kids Thanksgiving meal every year because a lot of my kids otherwise would not have gotten it, and I knew that. So, we had the whole bit, the turkey and everything. Well, one year, I made just a ton of green bean casserole. I'm telling you, I threw almost all of that out. The kids would not eat it, and... Did they even try it? You know, I think... Did they just look and go, "Oh, it's mushroomy, creamy, green stuff. I'm just not even going to try it." Well, it had onions on the top, and most kids, I'd say 50% of my kids would not eat onions, so... Regular onions or fries? Or any kind of onions. They just don't like the taste of onions, so... But I will say this. There's two big camps in the green bean casserole deal, and my friend Paige Lockridge, she came in here on this. There's the homemade from scratch. I'm going to make my... The cream sauce base. I'm going to make that from scratch, and then there's... I'm doing it just like it says on the can. I'm going to use the cream of mushroom. So, my friend Paige, she put up... Her daughter makes a good scratch version, so I think... And then Paige says, "I didn't like it until my daughter, Katie, made the great kind." And I get that. I mean, Chris said, "Anything with butter and cream has got to be better than the can." So, I don't know. I guess there's three big camps. But I'll eat it if it's homemade, if you're not putting the can soup in it. There's people that... I hate it, and then there's people that I just like the original version. I get mad at myself for not remembering to make it more often, because I love it. My kids love it. My whole family, everyone. But maybe I do it just differently, but I use the fried onions, which what I do is I make sure I take half of what it recommends, and I actually mash them up and put it in the green beans. Then, after I cook it for about 25 minutes, I layer the top with the rest of the fried onions to get them crunchy and crisp. Oh, my God, it's like a slice of heaven. See, and I'm like... I'm like you, my whole family loves it, but we only make it at Thanksgiving. And I don't know why... It's twice a year Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yeah, I'm like, "Why do we..." There's some things like cranberry sauce. If you like cranberry sauce, why do we only eat it at Thanksgiving? Because this is good with ham, I like it. It's just kind of one of those things. It's a sweet to go with the salty, is what it is. I gotta tell ya. I don't know why we only eat it once a year. Shout out to our friendly restaurant underneath the bridge. I learned to put cranberries, the dried cranberries in salad, and I eat cranberries now all the time because of that. Yeah, I do too. I buy pretty much a bag about every three weeks, and I get the low sugar. I buy the low sugar. Yeah, you don't need to. It's naturally good for ya. Well, and since our great friend Jennifer Matthews just texted us here, I'm gonna go on to her thing while it's on my mind. It's just a name. It sounds gross. Congeal salads, Jennifer's telling us she hates congeal salads. We read the health department reports where people get failing scores because of congealed waste around like the ice tray and the bins and the walking. When you get congealed, that doesn't sound good. Well, and my daughter just said this last night. My daughter always asked me on Friday night for a show. She goes, "What are you gonna talk about tomorrow?" And I said, "We're gonna talk about things that we hate for Thanksgiving. We're kind of gonna let everybody get everything off their chest and talk about what they hate." And my daughter immediately said, "Jello salad." She goes, "Any of that jello, fluff, put the jello and the cool whip together." So my daughter was immediately on board with Jennifer. She says, "I hate the jello salad stuff." See, I like marshmallows. I'll say this. I don't like marshmallows unless they're melted and in something. So I will eat a jello salad. I will eat any kind of pretty much anything as long as there's not whole marshmallows in it. That just tastes like eating like wet styrofoam or something to me. I don't like that. I just pulled up a recipe. This sounds appetizing. Grandma's lime green jello salad. Yeah. And so many people will say, "Oh, we gotta make grandma's green stuff. They call it the green stuff." The green stuff. We gotta make the green stuff. Which makes me mad because my wife makes pistachio pudding. I love, but you could mix it up for this because it looks the same. Well, and see, and this is the whole reason we're doing this. My friend Chris just texted me and said, "What? Can Jill's salad is the southern thing? I love it." That's why this is really funny. I think this whole conversation is funny. Look, there are people who say they hate turkey. I don't get that. Well, Cheryl Hyde says she hated dry turkey. Not all turkey, but dry turkey. Well, yeah. If you don't know how to make, once again, you just haven't had it cooked properly. Well, and here's another one. My friend, Karen, the lovely Karen Bons, who I actually taught years and years ago at this week, Karen Bons, she said she hates cranberry sauce. And I think cranberry sauce is kind of like, "You either in the love camp or you're in the hate. You'd love it or hate it." And I used to make homemade cranberry sauce for my kids at school. I would take the bag of cranberries, some orange juice, orange just, some sugar, boil it for about 15 or 20 minutes, let it cool. It will naturally get thick. It's just pecked in it. It naturally gets thick. My kids hated it. And they're like, "Miss Hall, we want the kind that slides out of the can when you cut it in the circles." And they're like, "What is up with this fresh homemade stuff? We don't want this stuff." That is a staple for me growing up as a kid. If I did not see that gelatinous thing, talk about congealed, of cranberry with the rings of the can still seen. That's right. And you cut by the rings and the can and all that. And I think basically what that is is cranberry jelly. I think people don't think about that. But if you put it in a jar, it is cranberry jelly. You're just cutting jelly in a slice. But anyway, I think about my kids every year at Thanksgiving. And they're like, "That's fresh. It's homemade. What's up with that? It's terrible." So we want the stuff in the can. It's so tart. Where's all the sugar? Yeah. What is that, Miss Hall? But I like it. I like the homemade can. If you put pecans in it and like some orange sections, it's really super good. I'll tell you, my palate grew a lot from being a kid because I'll eat. I will eat pretty much anything. I mean, if someone said, "Here's congealed salad," and they put it on the plate and I was like, "Okay, I'll eat it." But I guess I don't hate a lot of foods. I would probably just maybe bypass if I didn't have to. If somebody served me a salad with marshmallows in it, I would eat it. I would eat it. That's just how I'm not rude. Okay. Well, that's right. And here's one I will not eat. Well, some people would argue and be like, "Have you heard yourself on the radio?" I mean, that's different. Well, here's one. I don't know that I wouldn't eat it, but I would have to pick the peas out of it. If you know what an English pea salad is, or a seven layer salad, like where people layer like, it's iceberg lettuce, mayonnaise, parmesan cheese, and like cold English peas. Oh, I love seven layer salad. Oh, no way. When my mom makes it, she actually crumbles bacon in it as well. I would just have to pick out the lettuce, mayonnaise, some of the cheese. I can't. Give me the whole pan. Like, I can't be in a house where English peas are cooking. You don't like peas at all? I like black eyed peas, Crowder peas, Phil peas, but not. There's something about the smell of English peas. I literally have to go outside. Yeah, I can't. It's like a sickening smell to me. My wife can't stand peas, but it's more of the texture thing. You go and it's mushy the minute you bite into it. That's right. That's right. It's like butter beans and lima beans. It's immediate mush as soon as you bite into it. I love it. I love it because then I'll put a can up and it's all mine. And it's my husband's favorite. He said when he was a kid, he used to ask for English peas on his birthday with chicken, fried chicken, or whatever. I love peas more than corn growing up. Oh. She just shows us that. I know. This is why we're all unique and different. I know. I think this is very interesting. Okay. Now my friend and a former educator, Lori Sifers, said she doesn't like sweet potatoes. And I had to have a moment of silence for sadness right there because sweet potatoes is my favorite thing on Thanksgiving. That's the other thing that I make and everyone loves, but we do it more like the souffle, where I mash it all up. Yeah. I make a sweet potato souffle. I put cinnamon and brown sugar and kind of mix that up so it's almost like a dessert. Yes. Well, that's what it is. Sweet potato souffle for people who really haven't thought about it. Sweet potato souffle is sweet potato par filling without the crust. Exactly. That's exactly what it is. It's verbatim down the line. You don't like marshmallows. My kids always like me to put the little minis and get them to where they're just golden brown to have that marshmallow on top. I like it either way. I like the brown sugar pecan, the crunch. I want the crunch against the soft underneath. Now, I will say last week, I made sweet potatoes where I just cut them up in circles. I just peeled sweet potato, cut it up in circles, and then there was a recipe where you melted butter and brown sugar and just sprinkled some cinnamon and some ginger in it. You poured it in a pan and you just baked it and the slices kind of baked and that's that liquid. Super good. Super good. Really easy. And then the liquid kind of stays in the pan so you're not getting all the sugar but it sweetens it. I will tell you, we go through phases where instead of using regular potatoes, we will dice sweet potato, put it on a pan to put in the oven. And we will drizzle olive oil, put a little, just a little bit of like Himalayan salt and crack pepper. Then we add chili powder and cinnamon. Do you think, I'm telling you, you let it bake and they're all super soft and you've got that hint of cinnamon, just a little hint of heat. Oh, it's so good. So that's how I normally do sweet potatoes is I just dice them up, toss them in some olive oil and salt. You put them in the oven, they turn to immediate sugar and there is no sugar. You don't put sugar on it. But that's how I cook them most often. It's like eating candy. I mean, I stand at the stove, you know, eating them off the cookie sheet. It's really good. We got to take a break. We are already running. We won't have any time on the backside of the break. So this is how much fun we have on a food talk for Saturday. We shift gears and for those folks who think I'm only, don't you ever talk about anything else? Do you ever listen to my rest of the show? I talk about a lot of things. We'll be right back. You know what? It's Thanksgiving. Be thankful for whatever's on the table, right? Valerie? That's right. That's right. I'm looking at you. I'm looking at you, kid. Listen, I'm reading all my comments from great people like Betty Jane Tilly. Yeah, let's talk about the great debate. Stuffing versus dressing. Yes. They're not the same. No, stuffing is just what it says. It goes inside a turkey and you bake it inside a turkey and then dressing goes in a pan. I think that dressing should be able to be cut into squares like cornbread. I heard somebody say this week that it's too dry. You can cut it. You should spoon it. It should be more liquidy and I'm thinking gross. No. But again, that's everybody's cup of tea. Betty Jane Tilly just told us that no stuffing, it better be dressed. And I agree with Betty Jane. To me, they're two separate things. I like them both. To me, dressing is usually cornmeal based where stuffing is more bread. True. That's true. That's true. Yeah, because in the south, we say we make cornbread dressing. And you bake cornbread two or three days before and you let it get stale and you crumble it up. Terry Cox. Here's another one. Terry Cox. This is a big one. Pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie. I think people think because they look the same, they taste the same, and that's what your eyes tell you, but no. That can mess with your perception. When you think you're about to taste something, it may still be good, but when you're expecting one flavor and your mouth gets a different one, it can wire you to go. I don't like that because you were expecting something else. You know, with my students, I used to take Sprite. This is for an experiment. I used to take Sprite and clear cups. And seven up. And I would, no, I would take food coloring and I would diet purple and have it sitting at their table when they came in and they tasted it, expecting to get grape drink, grape soda. And they're like, oh, it's hot. What is it? I said, it's just Sprite with purple food. But they're like, we were expecting grape. And I'm like, that's, but that was the whole lesson about you eat with your eyes first. And yeah, it's your eyes place tricks on you. But I like sweet potato. I don't like pumpkin. And that's what Terry said. She doesn't like pumpkin pie. Yeah. They look the same, have the same texture. I'm this weird cat. I like them both. And Alan and I have been sitting here off the air talking about, you know, there's a difference between if we went to somebody's house, I would eat everything on this list, even the seven layer salad. I just would not eat the peas out of it. But we would eat all of this if we were at somebody's house. But if we were at a buffet and we were choosing things, it's like, what would we choose to pick up and what would we choose to not? So I would pick up the sweet potato pie and not the pumpkin pie. And I went here, Danny Knight. Here's a good one. Danny Knight made a good comment. I think this is so true. He said, I don't think any of these foods are, I don't hate any of these foods we're talking about. But I wish we had more fresh vegetable options at Thanksgiving and not so many casseroles. And I got to go with her on that one. I mean, I would like to see, you know, maybe some steam broccoli on the table, some steamed asparagus. I like the casseroles, but we need a little fresh on there too. But we would have to change the perception of what belongs. And that was something we've talked about before. What belongs versus doesn't belong on a Thanksgiving day table. Yes. And let me just tell you. I love asparagus. Well, I know, I know. I do too. And let me tell y'all, if Alan sees you in the grocery store buying mac and cheese ingredients for Thanksgiving, he's going to get you. He's going to get you because Alan does not believe that mac and cheese belongs on a Thanksgiving table. We talk about this every year. That is a correct statement. And you know what? I did a talk for the Bartow retired teachers this week about Thanksgiving. We talked about food. And somebody asked me, what is your favorite food on the Thanksgiving table? And I said macaroni and cheese. So, yeah. Maybe this goes toward that comment about why don't we do more fresh things? Why don't we do things? Maybe it's because I associate Thanksgiving with the things we only have once or twice a year. And I eat mac and cheese all the time. I don't put hot dogs on a Thanksgiving day table because I eat them all the time. I don't put, I mean, then you go, do you do carrots all the time? Yeah. Do you do corn all the time? Okay. Yeah. But I don't do the dressing and the turkey and the cranberry sauce. And then the casseroles tend to, like, my sister-in-law does a corn casserole. I do that too. I do that too. And I think it's the format. You know, we eat green beans all the time, but we don't eat green bean casserole. We eat corn all the time, but we don't eat corn casserole. And I think it's just the format. But I think, let's see. And so, and Lori Kilgo, she just takes me, says, my husband always wants yams and not sweet potatoes. And then she said, green bean casserole is a must. But I just think that it's, I just think it's just so interesting. Giblet gravy. Oh, this is a good one. Melody Dittmer, boy, this is a big, this is an hour-long conversation that we have about 10 seconds to have. Yeah. So, Melody Dittmer says she hates Giblet gravy. I'm with her. I'm in that camp. And I think that's a love-hate camp. And I don't want to think about the ingredients in that. And it just looks not really appetizing to me. I don't think I want chunks of things in my gravy. I'm fine with the turkey gravy, like just the gravy itself, but I don't want to have chunks of stuff in it. And my mother used to make a gravy, but it didn't have giblets in it. It was just some kind of, it was like a little clear sauce. And you put it over your dressing and all that. But no, but I'm in the melody camp with that. No giblet gravy. I'm a big fan of the, I just call it turkey gravy because it's got the color of like a light beige color. And I'll put that on my mashed potatoes and my turkey. I'm just like, oh, slather it. I want the dressing to be crispy and crunchy. And then I want to have that gravy over. So then you get the contrast of the gravy and the crispy edges on the dress. Can I just tell you, no matter what, whatever your favorite, everybody, there is no right answer. No, there's no right answer. There's no right answer. So looking forward to Thursday. Get to be with family, going over to my mom's going to have a great sit-down with my brothers, my wife. I think two of my kids may be there. Everybody kind of scatters, but looking so forward to that feast. Yeah. And thank you, everybody, for putting in your two cents and having a fun, a fun, it's just fun, having a fun conversation where we all get to vent a little bit. We could probably do this for the next hour and a half. We could. Valerie, it'll be Christmas next time we meet. I know, I know. Happy Thanksgiving to you. Happy Thanksgiving to everybody who's listening. We've got to take a break. It's top of the hour. WBHF Carter'sville. Here's Fox News. [MUSIC] Good morning and welcome back to waking up with Alan, or just good morning to you. You might be just tuning in for the first time. You might sleep in. You might be one of those people who likes to sleep your life away. And hey, you know what? That's fine if that's what you want to do. That's your choice. I'm going to get enough sleep when I shuffle off this mortal coil, but I like being up. I like doing things. I didn't when I was a kid. When I was a kid, when I was a teenager, I was the whole thing about Romeo and Juliet. I mean, that's one of the funny things when you have to explain to people some of the language the way they phrase things back the way Shakespeare wrote. When he said, "Duro Romeo, he shuts himself up in his room and makes himself an artificial knight." What that basically means is he closed the blinds because he wants to sleep all day because he was up all night. I mean, that's what most teenagers like to do. I am so happy to be with you guys here every single day. Bright and early, I get up every day between 4.30 and 5 to be on the air by 6. And on Saturdays, I get that little extra, to me, I'm like sleeping in. I didn't have to get up until 6.15. Just get up quickly, take a quick shower, pop in the car, come straight here because I don't eat before I go on the air. I don't have to worry about making breakfast. All I have to do is, while I'm kind of getting my water bottle and some other things, I just take the dogs out, let them go do their business. They come in and I come straight here and boom, I'm having fun with you guys. So, it's 9.17. The phone number is 770-386-1450. If you'd like to be part of the program this morning, I want you to hear this news story from last night. This was a breaking. This was a breaking. I have something else playing in the background. Let's turn that off. Boom. There we go. That's better. Why is this considered a breaking news item? Well, let's see what you think. On the question of whether former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. intelligence community, was placed on a TSA watch list this year. Let's go to CNN Zachary Cohen and Zach Gabbard is a former member of Congress. You report she was placed on the Quiet Skies list and then was subsequently removed. What is that list and how did she end up on it? Yeah, Jack, this is a government watch list and it identifies passengers who require additional security screening before they get on a flight. And it's based around an algorithm that uses certain criteria to identify these passengers that are then added to the list. And this criteria includes things like foreign travel patterns and foreign connections. And those are both reasons why Tulsi Gabbard, according to our sources, was placed on this list. Again, it's a security, additional security screening list for passengers who do ping multiple of these pieces of criteria. And now Gabbard has claimed publicly. Now, I'm going to stop him right there. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. This is a smear campaign. And once you know what, once you understand how a smear campaign works, once you understand the nature of it, and you learn to listen for what they're leaving out of the story, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, and they're making it all of a sudden, the breaking news item last night. Hey, CNN, go back to August. It was a breaking story that we found out that someone in the Biden regime, when Tulsi Gabbard decided she was going to go work for Donald Trump, suddenly she's on the watch list. Oh, no, no, no. It's an algorithm that randomly picked her because of her travel patterns. You're seeding the idea, seeding S-E-E, you're putting the idea, you're planting the seed. It's because she's traveling to places that may not be conducive to the national security of the United States. She must be a Russian asset, just like Hillary Clinton said, because Hillary Clinton is such the bastion of truth. I was like, are you kidding me? Jake Tapper putting what's little left of his credibility on the line, CNN gasping for trying to figure out how they're going to make payroll. You're telling me you're going to run a story from August as if it just happened, and listen to the words, listen to the phraseology. Jake Tapper, Tulsi Gabbard, who's going to be nominated for director of national intelligence, found herself on an actual national security watch list, the planting of the seed. If she's somebody that we suspect is being a and not friendly to the US, if we suspect that she might be a spy, do we really want her to be director of national intelligence? Stop your pearl clutching and stop your lies and your psyops and your propaganda. This is a nonsense news story designed to do one thing. Put fear into people who don't know what's going on. To get enough of you out there to be fearful, and it gives the Congress people who don't like her, specifically the senators, well, you know, while she may seem qualified, we have some concerns. What put her on that watch list? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's regime is who put her on that list. Give me a break. It was an algorithm. It just randomly picked her for some extra security. Oh, just randomly after she decided to say pound sand Democrat party, you guys are ruining the country. I'm going to at least go work for the guy. This was before she even changed party. I'm going to go work for the guy who actually wants to stop wars, not start them. Well, we've seen how the military industrial complex reacts to that. You can't take their gravy train away. You can't take their free taxpayer laundered money away. They've been making profit on that. What are they going to do? I can't believe this story. This was all over last night. This story of her, which is from August. And we find out that when she discovered she was on it and raised the question, they were like, oh, sorry, our bad. You weren't supposed to be on the list. Folks, do you see how the media does this? This is why I tell everybody every day I think on my show. Turn off legacy mainstream media at the national level. And a lot of your state run media now, as far as like you like Atlanta news, they just rip and read these headlines. Anyway, they don't actually do any investigative reporting. They don't actually know. They say, oh, the New York Times said, so we're going to say it too. CBS ran this story, so we'll run it too. Not even doing the job of journalism. Not even scratching below the surface to say, wait a minute. Is there any truth to this? Should we be a little skeptical? Maybe we had to do a little research. Maybe we had to vet it on our own. They don't do that anymore. It's rip and read. Oh, it came from a trusted source. Oh, let's look at how trusted those sources have been in the past. Turn off legacy mainstream media folks. Stop listening to them. They are doing nothing but sowing fear and spewing, well, lies. This entire story, the whole premise of the story is a lie. It's an orchestrated campaign to bring up something that broke back in August, and it shows to me the depths of despair and desperation that CNN and the other legacy mainstream media is dealing with right now. They're still reeling, reeling from the loss of the presidential race. Donald Trump, Alex, or decides after Matt Gaetz withdraws, says, oh, okay, fine. Fine, fine. You don't like Matt Gaetz? Okay. I'm going to get somebody else. I'm going to get, I'm going to get Pam, I had Pam Bondi, who was the former Attorney General of Florida. I'm going to nominate her instead. Let's go to the phones. Good morning. You're on the air. W.B.H.F., who's this? Hey, it's Chris. Well, hello, Chris. How are you doing, buddy? Not too bad. Did we become the hippie party? Yes, I think so. Yeah, when you were talking about that, I was like, wait, all of a sudden, we're the party of, you know, wanting peace and everything. Right. I don't know. Yeah. Anyway, I was just going to say that. And also, just wanted to say how much I'm going to miss hearing Jeff, because that was quite a shocker hearing about that. It took me completely off guard. Like I said, if you listened to yesterday's show and I talked about it in the first hour. I just thought he had maybe gotten a new phone because I hadn't heard from him for a few days. And then when I got a message on a different phone number, I'm like, oh, that explains it. And it turned out it was his wife. I'm like, oh, no. Yeah, I was completely punched in the gut on that one. Yeah. You know, I never met him or anything, but I felt kind of a connection because I like to call him just as much as he did. Well, I know he probably, he did a lot more than I did, but still. No. Yeah, I feel for a family. Oh, yeah, especially, you know, there's never a good time for a death in the family, but just on the onset of the holidays. It's just, it just somehow makes it worse. But anyway, yeah, I was just going to say that. All right. I don't want to keep you. All right, Chris, thank you so much. Keep listening. You know, I love you out there, buddy. Absolutely. All righty. Bye-bye. There we go. Chris checking in and condolence is once again dedicating. I dedicated my Friday show because I hadn't heard that Jeff had passed away. I only heard that he was in serious, serious condition. And so I dedicated my Friday daily show to him and did a shout out. And then if you missed it in the first hour, and I will upload this show later over the weekend, or maybe even Monday as a bonus to my podcast. But I opened the first segment of the show today talking about that chain of events that Jeff, one of our loyal listeners, fell. He was already kind of, I don't want to say medically fragile, but he was certainly not 100%. But must have been a bad enough issue that he just didn't recover and never really woke back up. And he passed away yesterday morning. I didn't find out about it until yesterday evening. And so, yeah, gonna miss him. Gonna miss the conversations. Gonna miss the text. It's why I also then dovetailed immediately into don't forget to live your own life. Don't forget to get out there. Don't get so caught up. I get caught up a lot in what's going on with the news of the day because it's my job. But my wife and I, we've got our garden. We've got our backyard. We've got our dogs. We like to go camping. We like to go hiking. She likes hiking more than I do, but we like to go camping. You know, we remember you're supposed to go out there and actually do things. And I know, by the way, we schedule game nights with our friends, or we'll go out and meet people at a restaurant once in a while, do kind of a special thing. We went to go see Guardians of the jukebox. Some friends of ours were like, "Hey, it's Alan's birthday. Why don't we get a table?" And we're just like, "Okay, you know what? We don't do that every day, but we do remember we are part of the human race and we can do things together. We don't have to be online for everything. I have some great relationships that I made online. People that I haven't met because they're across the pond or over in the Middle East. But for the most part, you live in your community. Don't forget you put some of that away. You don't have to be arguing politics all day. You don't have to get involved in an argument. You can actually find the commonality and have some fun. And we're going to have some fun here in just a few minutes. We're going to have BK and me. We're going to have our Vulcan mind milled. I needed to play this sound bite of Pam Bondi, followed by an immediate comment from Jessica Levenson. Jessica Levenson is a professor at Loyola Law School. She's a legal correspondent or contributor to CBS News. She's a columnist to MSNBC. So we're about to get a wacky read on Pam Bondi. First, let's play a clip that they used to talk about what they're going to do if Donald Trump can clean house in the Department of Justice. I want you to listen specifically to the words Pam Bondi is saying in the back of your mind. Remember what this administration has been doing for the last four years and then listen to a loyal order of the left propaganda machine comment. When Republicans take back the White House, you know what's going to happen? The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad ones. The investigators will be investigated because the deep state, last term for President Trump, they were hiding in the shadows. But now they have a spotlight on them and they can all be investigated. The question is whether or not actions follow the rhetoric. And if she does, in fact, do something that we've not seen in modern times with the head of the Department of Justice, which is use that very powerful agency to go after a president's political opponents. That obviously is not what we're accustomed to. It's not what we've seen in the past. It's quite arguably not what the Department of Justice is there to do. But again, I'm looking not really so much at the rhetoric, but at the actions. So, according to this learned professor at Loyola School of Law, a columnist for MSNBC, a contributor to CBS News, she's never in her lifetime seen the Department of Justice leveraged against political foes. Apparently, she's not been living for the last four years in modern. She's been asleep. She's ripped Van Wingaldus. She jumped in the DeLorean and skipped over the last four years. It's called projection, folks. They're terrified that the same things they've been doing will now be done to them. Here's Gene in. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Oh, man. I am going to be digging on my Transciberian Orchestra albums later. I've got some projects to be done inside the house. These are just great albums to put on. Start to finish telling you a musical story. Welcome, everybody. Back to waking up with Alan. We are in the, at least, as far as my show's concerned, we are in the point where we use our Christmas bumps. We use some different music, but it isn't, nonetheless, time for the Vulcan Mindmill, two shows merging to one, and I say good morning to BK from BK on the air. Good morning to you and good morning to everybody. And a pre-happy Thanksgiving since we're heading into the Thanksgiving Day Week. Yes, because this is our only day to do a Thanksgiving-like show. Next Saturday, it'll be post Thanksgiving, which I'm sure that we'll open the belt notches a few times, extra things next Saturday. There was that one Thanksgiving. You left over? Oh, I was hurting. I couldn't stand up straight. But, yeah, I'm going to talk about a lot of Thanksgiving stuff today and some memories and stuff like that. And by the way, thanks for Valerie Holt and you this morning because I'm never hungry when I leave the house. But by the time I get here listening to you two talk about food, I'm like, man, I'm really hungry all of a sudden. Wow. Well, I never eat before I go on the air, so I'm always very hungry by the time we get re-wrap up at noon. Man, I was dying talking about turkey and dressing and mashed potatoes and green bean casserole and dessert. And I tried my best to think of a Thanksgiving staple food that I hate and I couldn't come up with one. There's not a lot of foods that I hate. I do. I dislike them. But the word hate doesn't really come in. And the two that you guys mentioned, the congealed, whatever thing, I don't think I've ever had that thank goodness. So maybe I just haven't had anything really bad for me to hate. Even oyster-based stuffing, which some of my relatives from the northeast that grew up in the northeast area of the United States make an oyster-based stuffing dressing or whatever, it's not my favorite. I'll go for the other dressing that's regular that I'm used to eating. But I don't hate that. I don't eat it, but I don't hate it. So it's hard to hate. It's like I told Valerie, I'm not picky. If you served it to me, I would eat it. I wouldn't be rude and go, oh, I don't like that. But if it was a buffet, I may not choose to add it to my plate. Right. There are things that I'm not really as... No, I would argue with people who would say some things don't deserve to be part of Thanksgiving. They're good, but they don't deserve to be there. Well, way back when it, before it ever started, things got added to the list. Oh, it's changed. Things started somewhere with, oh, who decided the turkey? Who decided to put dressing with this or stuffing? Who decided this? And other little things got added in. So I guess there's room to add in something else, I guess. I don't know. Has the time come home? We've stopped adding the traditional stuff and nothing else can be added, I don't know. I don't know. Because I know if you go back to the original, there was a lot of fish on the table because that was something they had in lobster. Sure. Yeah. You know, there's a lot of seafood to be able to eat right off the ocean there with the original Plymouth colony. So if people serve lobster for Thanksgiving, how can you say, "That's non-traditional." I'm like, I think it is. It's not anymore. Yeah. The tradition has evolved. Well, yeah. And I guess it will continue to do that. Good, very well. And we can go backwards. I guess that's why some people put mac and cheese on the table, whatever. You know, that's fine. Hey, you know, I can, I can, I can, I can, I start to say I can take or leave mac and cheese. No, I can't leave it. I'll always take it. It's always really, it's always just really good. You know, I prefer the velveeta shells and cheese though. If I'm going to get one in the store and make it because it just seems to be the best, best made one that you can get. It's not cheap tasting or whatever because there are some bad cheaper brands that are bad. Oh, I'm the, and it was a survey that came out study finds and it drove Valerie nuts. I said, the original craft in the blue box is still considered by many the best boxed, not, not gourmet boxed mac and cheese. Because that's the one that you always had. I love it. You know, it's kind of... I still love it. No, I, I had three additional slices of American cheese to mine. I like it really cheesy. Well, I told her off the air, if you guys make green bean casserole, try it sometimes without the cream of mushroom soup and substitute cream of chicken soup instead. And it makes it, it's still really good, but a little different. It'll be interesting to try that sometimes. It's really good. I just know, I made it the one time back several years ago. And everyone was like, oh my God, how did you make this? I was like, I followed the recipe. And like, no, you couldn't have because I followed the recipe and I never liked it. Like, well, maybe it's because I made it, maybe you didn't have to worry about it? Yeah. I've never had green bean casserole that was bad, so I guess I don't have such a discerning palette, I guess. Mine's all, every time I've tried it, it's been, oh, it's good. I like that. Well, all I know is the one time I made it, they were like, okay, can you make this from now on? That's what I got to make? Well, like I've always said, if I wasn't married, you weren't. I'd be marrying you up in a second there, buddy. Because of the way you cook, so that would be great. I don't know what I'd bring to the table to the marriage, but you definitely have cooking on it. Your knowledge of film on your side. Yeah, we really use that, can't we? Yeah, that's great. Let's all sit down and eat Alan's great cooking while Barry talks about Star Trek. Yeah. Yeah, that doesn't work as well. You'd be the person to go, oh, you know, it's just like that movie. I'm like, what movie? Oh, no, guess what? We're going to watch tonight. You know the one where they have green bean casserole, like yours. You know, we'll talk about that. It's Jimmy Stewart in that old movie. Oh, you know, I want the moon? I'll bring it down for you. That sounded like Jimmy Stewart and Sean Connery mixed it up. Oh, it was a little weird. Sean Stewart. Oh, my God. That's funny. But yeah, thanks. Right around the corner. I'm ready for it. I'll have three different places to go. Oh, we got someone before we take our break here. Someone who's wanting to weigh in. Good morning. You're on the air. WBHF. Who's this? Hey, it's Chris again. Well, hello, Chris again. What's up? You were talking about you made what did you just say that you made and the green bean casserole. Was that what it is and that? They said you have to make it from now on. Yep. So the thing that happened with me with that was stuffed jalapenos. Because I'm always the appetizer guy of the family. So I made stuffed jalapenos one time and my family decided I'm making that for the rest of my life. Oh, so yeah. I like jalapeno. I like food with a nice little kick to it. So I'm curious what your stuffed jalapenos taste like. I do two different kinds. One has sausage, ground sausage and cream cheese and a little bit of Parmesan on the top. And then my alternate version is just the cream cheese and the Parmesan. So I do it either way. You know, whichever one that they prefer. Oh, the pork cream cheese Parmesan, that sounds delicious. Yeah, just make sure you don't touch your eyes after you. Oh, I learned that with... Pork on the jalapenos. I learned that when I accidentally got the mislabeled bottle of da bomb all over a chicken wing and I was suffering for about 30 minutes. Yep. Yep. That was what I am doomed to make for the rest of my life. You're doomed. Isn't that great? All you were doing was trying to be helpful one time. And now I was like, no, you got to do it all the time. Yeah. Well, the nice thing is when it comes to my... I don't mind making the green bean casserole because you know what? If everybody loves it, there's nothing better to me than when I bring the entire plate or the casserole dish and there's no leftovers. I'm like, okay, everybody liked it. Well, the thing I'm doing now, we have so many cooks in the kitchen that can't have everybody use in the oven at the same time. So, now what they have me doing is that I came up with this last year is a nut bar. So, because I love nuts so much. So, I've picked out about eight or nine different kinds of nuts. And so, you know, pistachios, almonds, macadamia, things like that. And they like it, and then I could take the leftovers and have it for my lunches. There you go. Yeah. That's me from having to make the hat. And it keeps me from having to make the jalapeno. That's always at my Thanksgiving dinner get together, Chris, eight or nine kinds of nuts. Yeah, that's your family. Yeah, that's your family. That's different. Yeah. I think every family has a nut bar like that. Yeah. Oh, yeah, definitely. All right, Chris, thanks for calling and sharing, buddy. All right. All righty. Bye-bye. Yeah, did you used to say that we, when we would have three of us, when it was our perpetual honeymooner now, the three of us, you were like the mixed nuts? Yes. Yeah. You were the pistachio. I was the pistachio. Walt's the pecan, or pecan is pecan, how I say it. And I'm the cashew. This is our, it's our, I'll get into the details later. It explains our personality, I think. Yeah. We're the mixed nuts here. Careful about mixing your nuts sometimes. You're the one with the hard shell you have to break through and you find out you're green underneath after all. You're a little, you're a little green. Not, not green, new deal green. No, no, not that, no. Far from it. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm actually, when you think about it, I'm like the dusty red ones that they used to eat that would stain your fingers and lips. Okay. Yeah, that too. Yeah. Remember that scene, naked gun, they're just chewing on the pistachios? Yeah. And then the pileups. And when they've been allowed out of the car, they can't even open the door. I'm like, geez, how many pistachios? They're good. They're good though. I do not want to follow a frank driven into the bathroom after that. No. We'll take our break on your mic off though. We'll be right back. Yeah. Make sure you turn your wireless mic off. [Music] [Music] Hey, man. We're doing a little rockin' Christmas here with that. That's another, that's from the Lost Christmas Eve. I think that's the third Christmas album from Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Oh, I love the mix. It's like, they call it Symphonic Rock, where they'll add full on symphonies. They'll add a lot of the instrumentation you would normally associate with maybe an orchestra, along with drums and rock guitar, bass guitar. You have guys who would just bang out the vocals and it's a combination. It's called Symphonic Rock. Wow. Symphonic Rock. You take rock music and mix it with classic instruments. I wonder if I could think of a group that does that. There may be only one because you only know of one. No, actually there's several. And I love every group that does that. Queen does it. Pink Floyd has does it for a long time. To a certain extent Led Zeppelin would do it sometimes. Anytime that you take that and pull it together, of course, ELO does it too. They just do it better. Do they? They just do it better to everybody else. But I always wondered what Beethoven, Chikovsky, Mozart, if they were alive today can hear what they do like that when they make a song roll over Beethoven and mix these Beethoven's fifth into the song and rock song. I could only imagine, I have an answer for it and it's just a guess for me. I think they would love it because they were musical geniuses and I think they would probably like anything music has morphed into over the many hundreds of years to hear what it is. I often argue when I was younger when they were like, "How do you like metal? It's so fast. It's so, I mean, that sounds like noise." I'm like, "Have you ever heard how fast some of Beethoven's symphonies ended? Have you ever listened to the finale of his ninth symphony?" Have you ever watched the conductor? He's sweating at the end because he's moving so fast because it's just pounding out. They called his music classical thunder and lightning for a reason. That's what they would call Beethoven's. I think anybody that's a musical genius is always drawn to new sounds, new ways to create new sound, to create to evoke new images. I think that's why I know you're not as big of a fan of some of the stuff. That's why I like Hans Zimmer's stuff. He's done more classical scores, but then he's also been like, "Okay, the director wants to hear like never before heard sounds and I'm going to create this symphonic thing. I'm going to create these instruments. I'm going to look to scrape metal from a junkyard." I kind of dig where you're thinking, "How can I creatively add to the movie with sounds that you've never heard before?" Yeah, Wendy Carlos used to do that, the person who would compose a lot of music for Stanley Kubrick and did the Tron soundtrack very ahead of their time. Oh, I love the Tron soundtrack. But classical composers, especially Mozart, if you watched the movie Amadeus with Tom Holtz, which is a great movie, if you've never seen it, why have you not seen it? There were rock stars back in the day. Yes, there were groupies that would follow them around like groupies do rock groups now. And it was the way it was. Why would we think music's any different? It drives me nuts when I mentioned Romeo from Romeo and Juliet when I came back after the bottom of the hour. You know, people like, "Oh my God, these teenagers, they just want to sleep all day." I'm like, "That's been forever." Romeo, they reference it in the play. He's like, "He goes out and parties all night and then he wants to sleep all day." Yeah. That's not new. Let me tell you that the moment, I don't know when it kicked in with me, but there was a time in my life where all of a sudden I changed. Now I don't, and I have for years, not stayed up really late at night. I can still do that sometimes when I have to do it. If I'm over a friend's house and we're doing stuff or doing something at a party or something. But now it's the same thing. You can either go to sleep at night at 10 o'clock and get up at 6 o'clock in the next morning. I'm just using those two times for references because you're going to get up and do the same thing. It's just you're turning the clock back a little bit more. Then if you stay up until 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. and get up at 10 o'clock the next day. Now I don't do that anymore. I haven't been doing that for years. I don't know when it kicked in. I used to make fun of my parents. Why do you get up when the chickens make a cackle noise when you don't have to? You don't even go to work anymore. Why don't you still get up at 6 o'clock in the morning? Well now I know because I do it automatically. It's age. Sometimes that kicks in with people. That's how I do it. And I also realize I'm different. My wife goes at some point is going to catch up to you. I don't need as much sleep. I still like to get now about six hours. I used to be finally five. But I'll go to bed sometimes around 11 and I get up at 4.30. So it's five and a half almost. I rounded up to six in my head. Right. But be careful that you don't, what you think you don't need. It may be in your body's going, it may catch up to you one day. It may not be just because you're like, I feel fine. Just because you feel fine doesn't mean that you probably are fine. I can honestly say this. I used to until about five years ago. I could go three, four nights in a row with maybe three hours of sleep and it wouldn't affect me. I can go one now. If I go two in a row, I'm going to be miserable on the day three. It's called age. I can't, it's almost like it's catching up to me. Yeah, I learned, I learned I can't jump on a trampoline anymore either because I learned that a few or just about three or four years ago. I'm like, oh trampoline, you're just so fun. Come on Barry, get on. I got on. I jumped about three jumps. I'm like, oh, I'm done with this. Let me off. Because I can't, now if I were to do it every day again and start building up again, I could probably do it, but I just couldn't do it. I used to jump as a kid. This was terrible. I would never ask your kids to do this or that's going to do this. I would dismount from a trampoline by jumping off of it onto the ground, right on my legs. I'm like, wow, just landed like Superman. I'm like, if I were to do that now, I would have to do my show remotely from the hospital, probably. Reminds me of the story that we talked about on the Wilder ride. Walt telling us, some of the adventures of Walt, I'm not, I'm surprised he's with us. Yes, true. They had a trampoline and they decided to set it up underneath their deck. Yeah. So they could jump from the deck onto the trampoline. Yeah. And they didn't think about the trajectory that if you land coming in at an angle, you leave going off at the equal, but opposite angle. Yeah. And hit a tree. Yeah. Kind of the coyote. Oh, boy. I was like, well, so you could do that back then and survive. Yeah. Obviously he's still with us. Let's go to the phones and say, good morning. You're on the air. We'll be BHF. Who's this? This is Stephen. Hey, Stephen. Welcome to the show. What's going on, buddy? Man, this one do a shout out to Jeff, man. I woke up this morning thinking he'd be calling in at dawn on me. And I guess it just hadn't sunk in, but I'm going to miss a comment. I am too. He and I were friends enough that, I mean, I would get text messages. He'd be like, where's your show? I'm like, dude, I got things to do. It's coming. Just relax. So I'm going to miss it. Yeah. But at the same time, I set the beginning of the day. I did not want to make it a maudland day. I do, obviously, a passing is sad, but I think Jeff, the way he loved to listen to the show, I wasn't going to bring the show down. I wanted to do a normal show with just a shout out to him. Well, I appreciate that. And I'm thankful for WBHF and all you all do, all of a sudden, you know, every day you know that. And a quick shout out to Chris, take pecans and put butter on them and roast them with some seasoning. Perfect. Very simple. It's very good. See, I'm getting hungry again, Stephen. All right. I'll let y'all go, but just thankful for WBHF and I'm going to miss Jeff and I'm going to miss a comment. Yeah. Well, hey, you don't have a happy Thanksgiving to you, and hopefully you don't have to work too hard this week. I love working hard. I'm like you. Okay. Well, if you love what you do, it's not really like work, is it? You know, I love my employees and I love my customers. Well, that's awesome, folks. If you need to go get something cooked, let's do a quick shout out. Your Provenos, you've got to, where's your main location? Where do they find you, Stephen? My baby is at Barrett and Buzzfeed, right on the corner. Right there on Barrett Park, where you probably have a few people that drive up and down Barrett Park way every day. I'm top sales on the company. I would imagine. I would imagine. That's awesome, dude. Right down there one afternoon, and have lunch, and we can chat. I'll go with you. Hey, that sounds great. All right, Stephen. Take care, gentlemen. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving. Bye-bye. 770-3864-15. Not much time left in the Vulcan mind meld, but that's okay. If you're enjoying this kind of conversation, it's the Vulcan mind meld for a reason. We're going to be moving on with similar conversation. Yes, and we'll start it up a little after 10 o'clock. Yep. We can do every Saturday. Right after Fox News. We got each cut up on what's going on around the world. Hey, why don't we do this early in case somebody does call. We only have three minutes left. What's going to be coming up on BK? Well, Fox News will get you caught up on what's going on in the world. I'll get you caught up on what's going on in other worlds. What, not just Wink Week. There's a guitarist that passed away this week, and I don't want to say who it is. I'll just tease it, but I'm going to play a piece of music that he's well-known for, and you know exactly who I'm talking about. Very well talented guitarist. I'm going to be talking about Thanksgiving. I've got Thanksgiving facts and figures and stuff, some of the interesting ones that you may not have heard about. And a phenomenon which hits CBS television this week, had an anniversary this week about a certain character on a nighttime soap that got shot with two initials in his name. We'll talk about that. That happened at the anniversary earlier this week, yep, and we'll talk about some things returning that I'm going to talk about to one of our fast food locations that will probably make half the audience disgusted, yep, and half the audience go, oh, yeah, I can't wait for that. And we'll talk about it and see where we fall down on that side of whether we're looking forward to it or not. Let's save it for the show, and we'll talk about that. Flash the audience. I got on this day in history, some real cool things on this day in history as well, which does have a Larry Hagman tie-in, believe it or not, along with the Who Shot J.R. thing coming up on Beak Hill in there. We're going to have a good time. Fantastic. Now, let me ask, have you guys started decorating for Christmas, or is that after Thanksgiving in your house? How many times have I told you that? I didn't feel, I wasn't just trying to see if I had an influence on you on Thanksgiving. Okay. So you still think? So it's probably killing you. I'm playing Christmas bumps. It's killing me a little bit, but I'm okay with it, because remember I told you I hated it because I worked in a mall for so many years, but over the past, I don't know, it took me a little time to get over it like about 20 years, but over the last 20 years or so, I've been able to ease into it and be okay with it, so I'm all right. I don't want to take a life now when I hear it, so I'm saying that's progress. See, I learned very quickly that I was not going to stay in retail because of that one Christmas I yelled at Christmas, I'm like, "No, no, I don't hate Christmas, I hate people shopping at Christmas, I don't do it to you." If you worked at a Nabisco pie factory, you'd probably get sick of pies after so long, and that would be hard. I don't know. I'd try that one out sometime. That would be hard to do on somebody. I try to imagine me not liking pies. Yeah, that's terrible. Because I love pie. Get too much of it. You put anything in a pie crust, I mean, I even like turkey pie pie. Oh, I love meat pies. That's the British English in me. I love meat pies. I even like minced meat pies. I do, too. I love them. That's very... I'm getting 79% British in my DNA, 79%. Well, that's going to wrap me up, so get ready for BK to take over. We will have that Fox News break between. Thanks, everybody. And I remember to shout out to Jeff, who is no longer with us in body, but he is here in spirit and will always be remembered as one of our loyal listeners and good friends of the program. It's 10 o'clock, top of the hour. W.B.H.F. Cartesville. Time for Fox News. ♪ When I get back home you're always there to rub my back ♪
