Speaker 1: And and Hi, how are you welcome? Welcome to the
Big Podcast. It is Wednesday. Today is the twenty sixth
day of November, Year of Our Lord, twenty and twenty five.
My name is Tom Sullivan. We asked we're getting set
to record today. There is breaking news out of Washington,
d C. Two of the National Guard troops have been shot.
It was just about a block and a half from
the White House for those of you familiar with Washington,
at seventeenth and H Street by Farragut Park. So apparently
there was by some citizens reporting there was a shootout.
So the originally when the National Guard was sent to Washington,
d C. They were unarmed, but since then they have
replaced some of those with troops from West Virginia and
from Georgia. Well, these two soldiers apparently are from West Virginia.
And to add to the confusion, the West Virginia governor
had sent out this is why I'm a little delayed
getting started here today. He sent out a tweet saying
that they died, the two soldiers had been killed. Then
half an hour later he says, well, we're not sure,
so there's a lot of confusion, and I'm sure that
will be sorted out as we work our way through here.
But this was apparently a shootout, so the West Virginia
National Guard soldiers are armed, and this will bring up
the whole discussion about National Guard troops that are being
sent to cities, especially those from other jurisdictions, other states.
There are apparently, according to WRC in Washington, nine hundred
and fifty national Guard troops on duty in our nation's capital,
four hundred and twenty of those about half from West Virginia,
and I'm not sure if the balance is Georgia or not,
but it's so it's a breaking story, and we'll bring
up the whole discussion about National Guard troops in patrolling
in our nation city. The story I wanted to start
with today was how the word affordability. It was brought
up after the Democrats won Virginia and New Jersey governorships
and also ma'm Donnie's win in New York City about affordability,
and the President brushed it off and said, it's that's
a Democrat hoax. You know, we're doing better than we
ever have and all that, but that's the way he talks.
The thing is, there's always been an issue around affordability.
For as long as I can remember. There are always
people that are struggling. There are always people that are
far from struggling. They've got plenty of money. So it's
interesting as we approach the holiday buying season. Yeah, the
commercialization of Christmas, the fact that there are a lot
of and I've learned this over the years. Alan green
Spent even one time made a comment about one of
the statistics that he likes to follow when he was
the FED chairman. He says, I like to see what
people do, not what they say say. So people are
saying to the pollsters that oh, yeah, we're going to
be cutting back on Christmas, We're going to be cutting
back on everything that we're doing. And I'm looking and
I'm seeing the crowds that are traveling, record level travelers
this Thanksgiving week. So if you don't have any money,
it's stay home. But apparently there's a lot of people
who have enough money to go travel. And well, I've
got a clip for you too from the National Retail
Federation talking about how they from polling thought that retail
sales were going to be done. It's too early, but
they said they're off to a gang bangers start. I mean,
it's just fabulous the amount that people now are they
putting it on their credit cards. We'll find out as
we go along. But here's the President who referred to
the whole busines. It's about affordability. This was from last night.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're also making incredible strides to make America
affordable again. Walmart announced that the course of their standard
Thanksgiving meal is twenty five percent lower than just one
year ago. That's a big deal. According to the USCA,
the price of Thanksgiving turkey is down thirty three percent
from its Biden era highs. Potatoes are down thirteen percent,
hamm is down fifteen percent compared to last Thanksgiving. So
we are down to a level that we haven't seen
in a long time.
Speaker 1: I know the President's really fixated on that Walmart turkey price.
The problem with that story is that in their basket
of things that you could buy for your Thanksgiving dinner,
it's down twenty five percent from last year. But the
problem is is there's also fewer items in the basket
of goods that they put in. But there, let's give
the President to do that. Maybe turkey prices are down
and potato prices are down. We still have inflation. It's
not rampant inflation, but it's still inflation. And this is
where the problem lies is that during the run up
of inflation, prices went way up and some have come
down a little, but most have not. So even though
inflation is only at three percent, it still means prices
are higher than they were a year ago and the
year before that, and the year before that. Charlie Hurt
weighed on this whole business about inflation and affordability.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think that it's vitally important, and I think
it's also important that they continue on their efforts to
bring those prices down. As you know, there's obviously a
lot of stuff going on, especially around the world right now,
but I think the Trump administration wants to actually stop
talking about Ukraine, stopped talking about anything else except affordability,
because they recognize that that's what's most important to people. Look,
you know, it's a tough order to climb out of
the kind of inflation that Americans went through the previous
four years. You know, you were looking at seven and
nine percent inflation in some years under the Biden administration.
And the problem with that is that you know, obviously
the Trump administration has done a lot to kind of
stop the bleeding, but the problem is that that stopping
the bleeding doesn't fix the problem.
Speaker 4: You still have that inflation that.
Speaker 3: Piled up, and you've got to get somehow get growth,
to get wages to sort of catch up with it. So,
you know, the Trump administration is dealing with situations where
they've done all this everything that they can to try
to bring to bring this prices down and to stop
the inflation. But you but people still, you know, there's
a lag there, and so obviously there's more work to
be done. Probably the most important thing that they have
focused on, of course's energy prices, and when we talk
about it, drop in Turkey prices for example. You know,
for farmers, you know, seventy eighty ninety percent of their
costs is always going to be fuel. So bringing fuel
prices down is probably one of the most important things
that they have done and probably will continue to try
to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who knew that turkey prices would be politicized, But
I've seen some people on the left say prices are
up forty percent President and Walmart prices are down twenty
five percent. So take whichever side you want to believe.
Kevin Hassett, who, by the way, the rumor is that
he's going to be the next bed chair. This is
his response.
Speaker 5: The prices for those goods weren't necessarily going up just
because of tariffs, and so so they might says will
go down. Well, the prices will go down, of course,
but because the tariffs have been taken off right well,
and because the supply of the goods into the US
is going to increase.
Speaker 1: So he was being challenged there about, well, the prices
are going down because the tariffs. You you've backed off
a lot of tariffs on food. That's true, they have.
They have took taken a look and said, oh, we
better reduce these tariffs on food items from coffee to
you name it, go down the list. But he said, no, no,
it's because of increase in supply. Why is there an
increase in supply. This is one of the problems with
tariffs is that they hamper supply chain. So if you
take the tariffs off, the supply chain opens up again
and prices start to lower. Well, what about this National
Retail Federation. They keep a very close eye on what's
going on with sales during the holidays, and here is
Matthew Say, the head of the National Retail Federation.
Speaker 6: I think it's a sign of consumer confidence. And I
say that knowing that the next question is going to
be from your Andrew. How can that possibly be when
we see what the confidence numbers look like. And I
think what we know from history, especially in the last
five years since the pandemic, is the consumers are really
able to do two things at once. They can have
very low attitudes about the economy, and yet their actions
continue to demonstrate that they're engaged in commerce. And especially
I think when it comes to the holiday season, all
of our survey work and all of the data that
we produced in our forecasts indicates that consumers worked very
very hard to protect themselves and their families for the holidays.
They want to have a bit of a moat around
this time of year so they can make those kinds
of investments. And the ways in which they're doing that,
of course, is they're looking for value. They're trying to
find convenience, and they're reducing savings in some cases, they're
taking on more debt, but they really want to protect
holiday spend and I think that's really what we're seeing.
And on the inflation numbers, with the exception of the
last couple of months, the trend line has been on
goods inflation down almost flat, and even food with a
few category exceptions, has been about one percent. So I
think there's real growth in there and we're seeing asumers
really behave positively, hence the record number for the forecast
and also for this Thanksgiving weekend. The chart you've got
up there now is a survey of consumers asking them
their attitudes from about six weeks ago, and our forecast
of the four point two percent growth three point seven
to four point two which is a trillion dollars, is
our economic forecast, which we've done for twenty years. You
all have reported on at leastman has reported on it
many many times last year. That produced four point three
percent growth this year. That's our forecast as opposed to
what consumers tell us, and we know frequently again to
the comment a minute ago, they tell us one thing,
but they do something else. So they may say they're
going to spend slightly less this year, but when they
get out on these big weekends like Black Friday and
Cyber Monday, Super Saturday, the big Saturday before the Christmas holiday.
They tend to spend more than they told us they
were going to spend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not unusual. That happens. Usually every year people
spend more more than they think they're going to and
then they've got problems. As far as the overall economy
got best, Still very optimistic about twenty twenty six. But
he was asked about Mam Donnie and the fact that
Mam Donnie one based upon focusing on affordability.
Speaker 7: You've got to have some admiration for a candidate who
ran a campaign the way he did it is a great,
great campaign. He is clearly the leader of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: Now he's part of the new speaking line about Mam
Donnie is the head of the Democrat Party. Well, Kevin Whaling,
who's a Democrat strategist, is trying to avoid that.
Speaker 8: Well, listen, Republicans are certainly going to try to tie
the mayor elects to a lot of races up and
down the ballot and all kinds of different jurisdictions. I
wrote an op ed back in July for Fox Digital
right after Ron won the primary, saying that the actual
leaders of my party are Mikey Cheryl in New Jersey
and Abigail Spanberger in Virginia. That was in July, way
before their massive double digit election victories in Virginia and
New Jersey this past November. So I am still with
those two women. That is the future of my party.
And uh and we'll see if zoon Mond Dominie runs
with Donald Trump on a third time around ticket.
Speaker 4: Has Some people have mentioned.
Speaker 1: He spoofing a little bit there about all of that,
but James Carvel also is trying to do everything he can.
Watch the Democrats. They're going to say, Maam, Donnie Has
is nowhere near the leader of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 9: L one represents the party. The only person that can
represent the party is a presidential nominee who will be
chosen by the party members who vote in the primary.
Congressional parties don't have generally don't have a defining person
and Desert people said, what is no leader the part? No,
they won't be, but Desk for Democrats are going to decide.
Speaker 1: And that's going to be very interesting to see is
the Democrats line up to see who wants to be
the nominee, the guy that I hear a lot of
Democrats strategists talking about right now Gavin Newsom is in
the lead, but that he's way too early and he's
not going to peak at the right time. This is
twenty twenty five. The election isn't until twenty twenty eight,
so we'll see what he does. But that apparently Newsom
is if you pull it right now that people say,
well he is the leader. Well, Jeff Bush was supposed
to be the leader too at one point for the Republicans.
That's way, way, way too early to figure that out.
Norah Rosman from National Review weighs in with this.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 10: I think James Carvill is expressing the very same trepidation
that I heard just now over the prospect of Zori
Mondani becoming the face of the Democra Party. I see
the Republicans attempting to engineer that, and it makes sense.
Zori Mundani's popular sort of in the city. He managed
to eke out a majority of the vote in New
York City, but his brand of politics is not necessarily
supported in the suburbs. James Carvill wrote an outbed for
The New York Times in which he appeared to declare
surrender of the moderates. However, he in that piece he
described how all the energy and the passion and the
enthusiasm was on the young left, socialist left, in my
view of bigoted left, which approaches the issue of Israel
with monomaniacal zeal And that is rising within the party,
and James Carvill essentially advocated they should get out of
the way, so they should bank on the votes of
the suburbs, really affluent, pretty well educated moderates, and they
should appeal to the radicals, which is an abdication of
what James Carvill has advocated his whole career. That tells
you something, that tells you where the passion is and
how much enthusiasm the so called establishmentarians and the Democratic
Party have for stopping it. I'm trepidacious about the rise
of this sort of politics. I don't think it'll be
good for the country, but Republicans are making a pretty
savvy bet by attempting to elevate him as the face
of the new Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: It also, like you told you, maybe a mistake to
even count Gavenusmith the leader, because he was in the
in the lead of the polls as of last week.
But way, way, way too early. But then then Harry
Entton goes out and does a poll, and because Eric
s Walwell was on Jimmy Kimmel's show earlier this week
and the people there in southern California, they were all
cheering for him. Well, apparently it's bigger than that. Here's
Harry talking about Swalwell's chances. I know it's way early,
but here's what he had to say.
Speaker 11: And the prediction markets think he has a pretty decent
chance of pulling it off.
Speaker 4: I mean, take a look here.
Speaker 11: Chance to be the next governor of California, according to
the Calshe prediction markets.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna spell Calshe right like this, And what do
we see.
Speaker 11: We see that he's at a forty five percent chance
to infect be the next governor California.
Speaker 4: You take a look in October seventh, he wasn't even
in the race. It was Na Tom Fire, Na Katie Porter.
Let it forty percent.
Speaker 11: She's all the way down out a twelve percent chance
to be the next governor of California.
Speaker 4: Her chances have absolutely slip slide down.
Speaker 11: And now the two front runners are, in fact Dirk
Swalwell and of course Tom Stared of the billionaire forty
five percent and a twenty four percent chance of taking
the be the next governor California.
Speaker 4: According to the CALSI prediction.
Speaker 1: Ad been Katie Porter was in the lead. What happened
to the big lead that she had? She's now at
just twelve percent.
Speaker 11: Well, Google searches for Katie Quorter in California up ten
thousand percent on October ninth. The interview is the top
top search topic associated with her name. Of course, if
you may recall this, there was not one, but two
interviews in which Katie Porter was not very nice, once
to a staff member, once to a local television reporter,
and a lot of folks reacted poorly that interview. It
generated a lot of press for her, and it turns
out not all press is good press.
Speaker 1: But Eric Swalwell has gone after President Trumps as often
as he possibly can. He's a thorn in his side.
So how does that impact Eric Swalwell's chances to be governor?
Speaker 4: Why might it be an impact?
Speaker 11: Well, I mean, look, you want you want Donald Trump
to go after I mean California to disapprove of Donald Trump.
All voters sixty six percent, Democrats ninety three percent. So
Donald Trump going after you, that is a good thing.
In California. Eric Swaall definitely welcomes those attacks against ittle.
Speaker 1: Wow. So Donald Trump talking badly about Eric Swalwell in
California actually gives Eric Swalwell some brownie points? Are you?
For those of you in California, you're going to talk
about this at your Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow?
Speaker 4: They don't want to talk about politics.
Speaker 11: I mean, look at that seventy one percent say avoid
talking politics with your family.
Speaker 4: Talk it with us.
Speaker 1: Though, So on this Thanksgiving and Eve, let's let's get
into manners and and what to do with the turkey. Yeah,
it's well, right down to the nub here. I think
it's somewhat funny, but it's actually true. Sean Duppy, the
Secretary of Transportation is lecturing Americans. Not lecturing, He's He's
trying to gently say, look, would you would you act
nicer when you're on an airplane, when you're at an airport.
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 3: Your shoes off and put your feet on the you know,
the chair had to that's just or maybe don't play
your movie without headphones on to some simple things that
can annoy the folks around you.
Speaker 4: But you know, I mean, we don't have to do that.
Speaker 1: What you shouldn't take your shoes off and put your
feet on the seat ahead of you, and and you
should probably put in some something to keep the playing
your movie so that everybody around you doesn't hear it.
I mean, these are common sense things. But sadly, yeah,
you know, that's the kind of behavior you do see
from some very uncouth people that travel out there. Speaking
of traveling, phil Abo, who travels, follows the travel industry,
talking about the air plane industry and the infrastructure at
the airport.
Speaker 12: And the good news is that the airports should be
relatively calm, and when you look at the numbers who
are flying, we've seen a rebound from where we were
just a week and a half ago when you had
the government shut down, you had a much lower schedule,
number of scheduled number of flights thirty one million passengers
for the Thanksgiving travel rush.
Speaker 4: That's up about one percent compared to last year.
Speaker 12: Sunday is expected to be the busiest day, though you
can make an argument yesterday was the second busiest day,
or could rivals Sunday in terms of the number of
people flying take a look at the FAA numbers of flights.
Technically there were more flights yesterday than what are scheduled
on some but in terms of the number of people,
the expectation is that Sunday is likely to be the busiest.
By the way, forty five thousand more seats in the
air per day compared to last year. American Airlines, Delta,
Southwest United. Take a look at all of these stocks
going back to when the government shutdown happened, because I've
had a number of people say to me, well, did
they all snap back? Not exactly a snapback, but certainly
an improvement compared to where they were. It also helps
that we haven't seen any of the major airlines changed
their guidance for the fourth quarter due to the impact
of the travel or of the government shutdown. Also take
a look at Alaska, Jet Blue, and Frontier. Similar story,
though these are three companies that are more challenged than
what you see with the four largest airlines. Bottom line
is this, if we get relatively good weather, and there's
a weather system moving through Chicago right now, but if
we get well at relatively decent weather across the country,
it should be not only smooth but also a profitable
Thanksgiving travel week for the airlines. But the bottom line
is this our aircraft, our airline and airport infrastructure in
this country.
Speaker 4: It needs to be upgraded. Secretary Duffy has talked about this.
Speaker 12: This is not a partisan thing, this is not a
all well, the Republicans are just trying to get some
money for these projects here. Our system is antiquated. There's
no way around that. And until we as a country
make a decision, we will spend the billions that are needed.
And they've already got twelve billion allocated, need about another
twenty billion. But until this country decides we truly want
to see a more advanced system, it's going to be
a case where you have this we bump up against
what might be the limit in terms of the nation's
air system. Air traffic control airports is a big deal.
We don't hear enough about it, but it's a huge deal.
These are landlocked areas and you always hear people say, well,
why can't they take more flights? The issue is in
taking more flights, it's where do you park the aircraft?
Do you have enough gates? Can you add gates? That's
the reason why you look at an airport like Denver International.
And I know people complain it's way far away from
the city of Denver, but they can add, they can
add more gates, which is why it has grown and
continues to grow.
Speaker 4: That's the advantage of building a new airport.
Speaker 1: All right. So let's assume that the airlines do their
part and the customers keep their shoes on and don't
play the movies without some headset on. What about the
rest of it? About when you get to your destination,
when you get with your family, even cousin Eddie, what
are you going to do about manage? So I thought, well,
this is a perfect time to call up a lady
who is basically that's what she does for a living.
She tells people about how to behave what manners should be.
Her name is Elaine Swan, and these are I've just
some clips from some of the advice that she gave earlier. Today.
Speaker 4: Is rude.
Speaker 13: When someone is rude, I say, call them out. Don't
let people get away with the Polite does not equal pushover.
So when someone is rude, say to them, you know what,
that wasn't nice, that that was really hurtful. And I
tell you that'll be the one thing that'll just pull
them all the way together and let them know that
what they said hurt you. I think this is the
thing that we have to do, is call people out
instead of being bulldozed over during the holiday season.
Speaker 4: Naming any names here.
Speaker 14: Who says something to you like, oh, I see you've
gained a little weight, Yes, I don't know you've never
done that. That crazy, Or they say something like I
can't believe you voted for that fool.
Speaker 4: When you start something and they start, what do you do? Yeah?
Speaker 13: So this is where I think it's really important, especially
this with the climate that we're having right now, it
is important. People think don't talk politics, but I believe
it's absolutely acceptable to talk about your beliefs to help
people to understand why what's important to you. But we
cannot punch down at people. That's the thing that we
don't want to do. So when the person says I
can't believe you voted for that person, you can say, well,
tell me why did you vote? What was important to you?
Put them on the spot and help them explain what
it is. And if it's a bunch of nonsense, just
do it a mile and nod and.
Speaker 4: Say thank you for sharing. The host will say, don't
bring anything, just just bring yourself. You seem skeptical. I
can tell you, well, here's the thing.
Speaker 13: The host does not want you to infringe on their meals,
So do not bring anything meal related.
Speaker 4: Uhha.
Speaker 13: But what you do is you bring something host related.
You know, of course, you know, you have the bottle
of wine and what have you. But there's so many
wonderful things that you can get for a host, everything
from really cute kitchen towels to some sort of fun gadget,
to a wine opener or a set of wineglasses, things
like that. But when they say don't bring anything, they
really mean I've got the meal plan.
Speaker 4: Stay in your lane when.
Speaker 14: The dinner or lunch or whatever you're eating is over,
and they're like, don't worry about this, go go, go, go,
enjoy the football game, enjoy this, don't worry about the cleanup.
Speaker 4: Yes, but there are dishes. This but their dishes power.
Speaker 13: That means the host has staked their territory and they
do not want you there. Really, yes, absolutely, yes, absolutely,
and this is the thing we eat and we feel
like we have to give something back. But you have
to keep in mind that a host, this is what
they do, this is what they love and to them
to see their guests being comfortable in their home and
enjoying themselves that is more meaningful to any host than
to see their guests being put to work.
Speaker 4: So there you go.
Speaker 1: There's some manners just bring stay out of the kitchen
and don't bring something for the meal unless you're specifically asked,
and I say thank you. There's another guy who I love.
Speaker 4: This guy.
Speaker 1: His name's Arthur Brooks. He's done a lot of different things.
He probably his most prominent job, he's a Harvard professor.
But he is just the most common sense guy I
think I've ever followed or read. His names Arthur Brooks.
And he talks about this whole thing when we get
together with family and friends at Thanksgiving.
Speaker 15: And the truth of the matter is there's a lot
written about this, there's a lot of research on this.
Behavioral scientists have talked about not how to disagree less,
but actually how to disagree better, and a couple of
things to keep in mind. For a lot of people
were going to their extended family. For example, there's Aunt
Marge is going to be there. You don't see her,
but once a year, and she's going to insist on
talking about the federal government or something. And there's a
couple of two don'ts that are actually just as important
as the two dos. A couple of things to think about.
The first is to remember that when you have a
disagreement about something with somebody, you rarely see a contentious
topic like politics. That's actually not you're not going to
convince anybody. But what we want to do is persuade
when we're arguing, and we almost never persuade anybody. When
somebody is shut down when you're arguing with them, that
they have something a psychologists called a boomerang effect and
actual actually believe their ideological viewpoint more strongly than when
you started arguing with them. So that's the first thing
to kind of kind of game out a little bit
and to be thinking about. And the second thing to
keep in mind is that every time you talk about politics,
this is almost always the case, not just that thanksgiving
you get less happy. There's a lot of research that
shows that the more you think can talk about politics,
the less happier you're going to be, and that makes
you less grateful is kind of the counteracting mechanism to
the whole point of Thanksgiving. So don't go in ready
for a fight and don't actually get into politics.
Speaker 4: Those are the two.
Speaker 15: Don'ts actually so well, you can make it explicit if
you want, But you know what, I recommend to people
who are sort of the odd man out. I'm the
I'm kind of the odd man out in many ways
in my family discussions. I mean, all my kids are
ideologically different than me and their spouses. As a matter
of fact, Mike stended family they're more conservative than I am.
And that doesn't mean that we can't talk about these things,
but it means that we have to not get into
a big argument about it. And that requires kind of
a skill on my part of leading the conversation into
something that's more pleasant that we all think about as
a source of gratitude as opposed to a source of
conflict in the family. Now we can talk about those
things we've known these differences exist the whole time.
Speaker 4: But life is short, man.
Speaker 15: Why would you want to talk about politics when you're
around the Thanksgiving tape?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Well, one of the things to actually be thinking about
is to introduce a topic of your own gratitude, which
is really important and say, you know, I got something
I'm going to say that I'm really really grateful for,
and it'll be a memory. It'll be a shared idea
that you all have together. And especially when you're talking
with extended family, when you have memories of something, when
you reconstruct a memory of something that that you all share,
that's something that people are really quite interested in as
a matter of fact. So shared values are a lot
better than unshared ideological viewpoints.
Speaker 2: So let's see.
Speaker 1: Don't take your shoes off and put them up on
the state of the people in front of you on
a plane. Oh yeah, put headsets on when you're watching
a movie on a flight, and when you go over
to wherever you're going for Thanksgiving or maybe the people
coming to your place. Yeah, try not to get into
an argument. Bring up things of shared values. Remember Uncle
Harry the back back when we went fishing at whatever
it might be. So everybody's it's always interesting, isn't it
that we have this tradition. One more tradition the butterball lady,
And I'll just play clips from what I heard from
her earlier today about how to do the turkey, so
you look like you know what you're doing.
Speaker 16: We are expecting a lot of calls this year. You
can reach us via email, chat, tech, social media. We
open this morning at seven am Central and we're taking
all of your phone calls through nine this evening, and
of course we're open on Thanksgiving Day six am to
six pm Central.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 16: Number one question over forty four years if the talk
line has been open is how do I found my turkey?
If you haven't used a refrigeration method, have no fear.
You can still use the cold water bath method, lead
the wrapperund put it in the sink. It's a half
hour per pound using that method. Well, I have four
little butterballs at home myself, and we tend to purchase
a turkey that's a pound and a half to two
pounds per person. We love the leftovers. You can hop
on the butterball dot com website. There's a lot of
fun ways to incorporate the leftovers. Another common question we
get is how long can I keep the leftovers for?
You can put your leftovers in the zip block bag
or container in the refrigerator for up to three days.
For longer storage, you can put your leftovers in the
freezer for up to three months. Well, let me address
I can the stuffing suggesting first. When we're asked if
you can stuff your turkey, it's really a personal preference.
My mom our family tradition was always to stuff the turkey.
Absolutely safe and acceptable to do that from a food
safety perspective, you do want to make sure that you
do not stuff the turkey the night before. All of
your wet and dry ingredients would be combined the day of,
and you stuff that turkey right before you put it
in job. I've had butterball turkey experts tell us in
the past if you do stuff it inside, yes, that
is a good recommendation. It's usually three quarter cup, maybe
even one cup of turkey per pound of turkey. I've
been on the talk line for over twenty years and
I do get that phone call quite often just stuff
or not just stuff, but really the key, Becky. Regardless
if you stuff your turkey or not, you do want
to make sure turkey is done with your best friend
on Thanksgiving Day. That's your meat thermometer. It's going to
register one seventy in the breast and thigh for best
eating quality. And if you stuff your turkey in the
center of the stuffing, that thermometer goes and it's going
to register are one sixty five for best eating quality.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we helped you have manners on the plane.
We helped you have manners wherever you're going for Thanksgiving
or if people are coming over to your place. We've
helped you with how how to cook the bird. So
we wish you and we are very thankful and grateful
for all of you in this audience. It's it's always
surprises me how many of you have tuned in for
this podcast. And I feel very blessed on this Thanksgiving Eve.
So with that, we let's see how blessed we were
on Wall Street today. Light volume, people bailing out, but
the now nice and positive again, up three hundred and
fourteen points to forty seven four twenty seven, the S
and P up forty six, Nasdaq up one hundred and
eighty nine, the price of gold up fifty six dollars
to four four thousand and one ninety six, and oil
was up sixty cents fifty eight dollars in some change
for a barrel of oil. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you for coming by. And I mean that with
the thanks from the bottom of my heart. Have a
wonderful Thanksgiving, and I think we're going to have a
best of tomorrow. We'll be back on Friday. Have a
great Thanksgiving.