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Speaker 2: Like I picked the wrong week? How does Sasa Jonnifer,

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Diasberry juice? Hey, this is Tom Chapin.

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Speaker 3: Hello, this is just peaching in Rock and Roll History Show.

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Speaker 2: You're listening right now.

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Speaker 3: Hello, everybody, Welcome back to the Rock and Roll History

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Show on Hudson River Radio and Brian Horrowitz. It is

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Thanksgiving Part two. We hope you survived part one. Okay,

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We're gonna bring this plane in for a nice smooth

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landing for part two, and I hope you make it

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through fingers crossed before we hop in. As always, allow

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me to introduce all the cranbones joining us here tonight.

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First and foremost, from the Richter Observatory, he says that

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Thanksgiving always ends with a g. Neil Richter's here. I'm Neil.

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Speaker 2: Took us back Thanksgiving, everybody. Oh you Jerky's out there.

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Speaker 3: I think Gale needs another second. Didn't click yet? All right,

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we'll explain it later. From Paranormally Yours, she says that

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a bunch of turkey ghosts is called a poultry geist.

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From the silver screen. The night before Thanksgiving, she saw

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a turkey walk into a bar go over to the

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jukebox and select I will survive, I say here, but

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will he he's in the bar the night before. Yeah,

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I would say he's got pretty good odds.

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Speaker 4: So happy Thanksgiving, everybody. I can't believe it's Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy time flies our official teacher. He says, Plymouth

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Rock was so brave because it was a little boulder.

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John Kelly's here.

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Speaker 5: Oh hey, everybody, Brian, you are true. It is a

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little bolder.

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Speaker 6: I was just gonna say the most disappointing landmark I

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think I've ever seen.

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Speaker 5: I completely agree with you, Neil.

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Speaker 3: I never bothered to go out of my way to look.

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Speaker 2: You look down as like kind of warm shaft, you know, cement. Yeah,

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it's like I.

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Speaker 3: Saw it on The Brady Bunch.

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Speaker 2: They stood around you wouldn't even stub your toe.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, not by Bunch episode where they kept talking about,

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you know, how great everything was and wildly historically inaccurate. Yeah,

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and that was enough.

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Speaker 2: That's good enough.

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Speaker 3: And last, but not least, before we get two sidetrack,

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the host of Shaving Cream she saw a turkey crossed

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the road because it wanted everyone to think it was

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a chicken. Barbara Ville is here, high.

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Speaker 7: Barbara, the one day of the year you're safe?

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Speaker 2: True?

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Speaker 3: So or are you so?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I love traveling and being on the road and all that,

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and Plymouth Rock has just never even made the top

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one hunt. Now, were you expecting some monolith or something.

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Speaker 5: No, I think it's just something a little more, a

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little more, something with a little more I don't know, pizazz, perhaps,

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I don't know me.

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Speaker 4: How does it? How does it compare with the Blarney Stone?

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Speaker 6: Oh, the I've I've never seen that, but John, you have,

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Speaker 5: Yes, And I would say the Blarney stone is a

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is uh is more entertaining than Plmouth Rock rock.

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Speaker 2: I think you know, a bar of soap is more entertaining.

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Speaker 7: I'm just highly entertained by the fact that we are

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now comparing rocks.

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Speaker 5: You know, I mean, this is what we do.

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Speaker 3: The thought of the Blarney stone thing is just kind

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of gross that you might as well share.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hang upside down or.

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Speaker 5: Something people have to hang upside down?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, would not let me like, no, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Germs don't know they're upside down. So it really just

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Blarney stone.

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Speaker 2: I was ever in. It was a chain of in

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Speaker 5: Neil do Tael do tel.

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Speaker 4: We'll leave that alone, can't remember.

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Speaker 3: Still a good story. Yes, all right, we're gonna hop

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right in and John, you're gonna leave us off this week.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 5: Well, my Thanksgiving selection is a little odd, I think

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some people might think. And I'll tell you a little

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bit about the song and uh uh, you know what's

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the story is with it? With the song itself, and

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we'll play it and then I'll tell you afterwards how

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it's related to Thanksgiving. Came out of the Sky is

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written by John Fogerty if Creeden's Clearwater Revival in their

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nineteen sixty nine album Willie and the Poor Boys. It

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was released as a single in some countries and has

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appeared in several of the group's compilation albums. It was

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included occasionally in the group's live set even after John

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lyrics and the music. What is it about it came

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out of the Sky. It's a satirical song and one

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of Creden's Clearwater Revivals first forays into political themes. This

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is the season for that, I guess, folks. The lyrics

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described what happens when an object, presumably a media write

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or flying saucer, falls on the property of a farmer

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named Jody. Various politicians and other figures attempt to use

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the incident for their own purpose. The US Vice President

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Spiro Agnew wants to use the incident to impose attacks

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on Mars. Then the governor of California, Ronald Reagan called

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Ronnie the Populist, and the song claims it is part

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of a communist plot. The Pope claims it is evidence

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that the Lord has come, and the movie industry quickly

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makes an epic film out of the incident. Walter Cronkite

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and another newscaster interviewed Jody, and the Vatican and the

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White House argue over who should keep it. Finally, Jody

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gets the last word by claiming possession of it and

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offering it for sale at the exorbitant price of seventeen

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million dollars.

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Speaker 3: That is the song.

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Speaker 5: Now, what the heck does any of that have to

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do with Thanksgiving? I don't even know if I should

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ask this question yet. Why don't we just play the

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song and then I'll ask the question. Came out of the.

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Speaker 8: Sky up a little shower holy j't do that out

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on the training to morn to leave what he's seen

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round shut very morel let it run all away the

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time scream. It came out of the guy just saying

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it was MARGI we okay to make up speee of

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the raising.

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Speaker 2: The lord's down.

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Speaker 8: Where you say the lord Holly wooll rushed down the

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men film brown in the commoner say he wouldn't coming man.

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The man came and made Jody anas shall up the hero.

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Speaker 3: What would every said him moment?

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Speaker 2: It wouldn't be the show?

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Speaker 8: W I said the thing in the moon the same

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mom belongs home. Joey said, Mama, you can had it

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for seventeen years. You came out of the stop and

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jumping in the show. The motut the shack and see

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what he sees, laid off the brown shape and very

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fool shaking red all the way.

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Speaker 3: The cows premade.

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Speaker 9: It came out of the sky.

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Speaker 5: Okay, everybody came out of the sky. Now, my fellow Crambonians,

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does anybody have an idea of what how this is

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related to Thanksgiving?

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Speaker 2: I'm stumped.

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Speaker 4: It landed on a farm, and farm farms grow vegetables,

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and vegetables are eaten at Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 7: Well, it came out of the sky like the turkeys

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or did you got it?

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Speaker 5: Barbara?

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Speaker 3: You get the call?

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Speaker 5: There you go at the twenty minutes and fifty second

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mark and the famous Turkeys Away episode after Johnny Fever

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takes it back from les Nessman. This is the song

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he plays, and that is how this is related to Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 4: All right, you got me.

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Speaker 2: You got me on that one.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome.

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Speaker 4: And you didn't know either.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know that. No, I would have put him after.

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Speaker 5: You need to go to about twenty minutes and fifty

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seconds into the episode and you'll catch the very beginning

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of it. Came out of the sky.

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Speaker 3: That is outstanding.

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Speaker 2: I have.

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Speaker 5: I know I'm not the music file, but for some

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reason I picked up on.

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Speaker 3: That is that's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Catch Yeah, that is I never would have caught that.

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Speaker 3: That is outsides.

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Speaker 5: That's my Thanksgiving selection, folks.

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Speaker 3: Well that's a perfect read in because we're going to

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talk about that episode right now. Still, the most popular

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episode of WKRP in Cincinnati came from season one, episode seven.

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It's called Turkeys Away, based on a real event. In

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the show, the station manager, mister Carlson is feeling left

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out because all these youngsters have come in and kind

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of taken over and have changed the station into something

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more modern that he's not familiar with. So he takes

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it upon himself to set up a secret promotional event.

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He gets Herb, the advertising sales guy, to buy a

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bunch of live turkeys, and he charters a helicopter. They

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promote a surprise event at the fictional Pinedale shopping mall,

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but nobody knows what it is. Carlson and Herb wind

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up tossing live turkeys out of the helicopter onto the

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live waiting crowd below. In reality, Jerry Bloom did drive

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did drop live turkeys on a crowd at the real

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station WQXI in Atlanta. It was either from a truck

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or it may have been from a helicopter. Those are

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the details they got. Kind of murky, I'm going to

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guess from the back of a truck. They were just

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tossing turkeys. Why anybody would want a live turkey right

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before Thanksgiving, yeah, beyond me. But that was the idea

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for the promotion. So in the show, reporter Les Nessman

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is out doing a live report. So this is the

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clip when Johnny just turns it over to less Just

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listen to this real short clip.

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Speaker 8: All right, fellow babies, And now it's time to go

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to our live remote man on the scene at the

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Pinedale Shopping Mall for.

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Speaker 2: The big WKRP turkey giveaway. So take it away, less ness.

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Speaker 3: Man, So less to standing outside the fix Pinedale Shopping Mall. Nowadays,

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you can do remotes, you know, reporters do live reports

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from anywhere. You do it on a cell phone. You

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needed a landline. You had to run a phone line

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to this little mixture that was built just to do

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remotes and hope that nobody picked up an extension and

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interrupted your report. So it could be a bit of

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a headache. I had to do that way back.

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Speaker 2: It can be a nightmare.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you had to hope that somebody do.

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Speaker 2: It several many times.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you just had to hope that somebody would let

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you use their phone line because it would tie it

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Speaker 6: Now they couldn't take it off like a storefront like

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as in you know what, the lessons in front of

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you had to like beg them and they would give you,

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and they gave me one that was connected to the

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credit card swiper. Uh huh, oh lord, every time they

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made a sale and swiped the credit card. Yes, who

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got bumped off the air?

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Speaker 3: I didn't know this, So if the listeners knew, then

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they could have had some sort of receiver and gotten

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everybody's credit card number as it was being swiped.

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Speaker 2: It was oh you were yeah, it could be a headache.

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Speaker 3: It could be a headache.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 3: So you had to plug in somewhere, so less of

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standing outside this shopping center and you hear the sound effects,

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you hear the helicopter coming, and less it's just describing

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what's going on. And the dialogue is based on the

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Hindenburg airship disaster when it blew up, and less even

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says the line, oh the humanity like the reporter did

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when the Hindenburg exploded. They filmed this on one stage

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in real time, no editing. It was done straight through.

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you had your fixed set and you had a swing set,

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so your fixed set. It would be like the broadcast

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booth that they used for every episode. The office spaces

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Carlson's office that kind of stuff that changed. They built

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the shopping center on a swing set off to the side,

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So less Nessman is standing off to the side and

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everybody else is in the broadcast booth and they are

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just going back and forth with this dialogue. And how

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they did it straight through without losing it is just

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beyond me because it is so well done.

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Speaker 2: The beauty is you.

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Speaker 3: Never see a turkey, you never see the helicopter, you

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never see a turkey getting hurt, none of the It's

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all less Nessman's description. So listen to just this classic

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clip from wkrpy Culture.

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Speaker 10: Seems to be circling the parking area now, I guess

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it's looking for a place to land. No, something just

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came out of the back of the helicopter. It's a

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dark object, perhaps a skydiver, plumbing to the earth from

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only two thousand feet of the air. The third's no

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curshue yet, can't be skydivers.

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Speaker 2: I can't help what they are. Oh my god, the turkey.

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Speaker 6: To get this. They're crunching in their.

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Speaker 8: Brighter the win chuni pot.

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Speaker 2: My mother's running around pushing each other.

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Speaker 5: Oh my dams, Oh but you moments people are.

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Speaker 2: Running the bobs of the turnkeys.

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Speaker 10: Are hitting the ground like sets of w SAMs.

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Speaker 2: It's like, I don't know how much Logan the theatron

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is running.

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Speaker 8: For their lives.

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Speaker 2: I think I go to step in site. I can't

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stay out here and watch the city halls.

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Speaker 5: No, I can't go in there.

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Speaker 11: Tregedy hasn't been anything like that.

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Speaker 5: I don't know how much longer I can.

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Speaker 2: Hold my position here.

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Speaker 6: Johnny the last are you there?

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Speaker 4: Lass isn't there.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how he could have pulled that off

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without just losing it. Oh, it's so funny, hitting the

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ground like sex of whit submit. That was such a classic.

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Speaker 2: I was done. I was that that line. I was.

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I was done.

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Speaker 3: Oh so great.

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Speaker 2: I had to change my underwear.

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Speaker 3: I love it all right, So his remote broadcast gets interrupted.

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You got dead air, and then Johnny comes back on

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and does this and listen on.

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Speaker 2: The spot report just tuned in. The Pinedale shopping mall

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has just.

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Speaker 8: Been bombed with.

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Speaker 5: I don't have the song part john but oh yeah,

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right when he says film at eleven and he goes

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right into that is so cool.

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Speaker 3: I never knew that. That's awesome, absolute classic episode, most

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of it, you know, it's all on YouTube. You may

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have to dig around a little bit, but it's worth

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a watch. It is so well done and it's just

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so funny.

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Speaker 6: Well that adding that song, which I didn't even catch,

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was a testament to how brilliant this show was. It

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was not it was like just a minutia, but it

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was like the perfect song to play. Even if if

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you didn't know what it was, they were on it.

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Speaker 5: They knew it, you know. I just I'm such a

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Fogerty fan. I've been to so many shows over the years,

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and I was just a little rewatching the episode and

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I just caught that that guitar riff right there at

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the beginning of the you know, right at that at

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that moment, right when he goes back, you know, to

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Johnny Fever there, and I'm like, that's Fogerty, And I

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looked it up and yep, sure enough, it came out

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of the sky by Fogerty.

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Speaker 3: That's great, it's perfect. All right, We're gonna take a

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real quick break and be back with one more round

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of Thanksgiving happiness right after this a stick.

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Speaker 4: This concludes the first part of this cassette. Please turn

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the cassette over and begin again.

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Speaker 3: Hudson River Radio dot com. A favorite among shut ins

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and dogs, and welcome back, Mercedes. We are up to you.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Brian. I don't know how I'm supposed to follow

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any of that. Between John's song and KRP the turkey chop,

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I don't know. Can I just do mine next week?

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Speaker 3: You should have done what I'd done.

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Speaker 10: Did it?

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Speaker 3: I got a whiskey sour right here.

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Speaker 4: Good for you.

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Speaker 2: That was smart, Okay, I say it was wild turkey.

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Speaker 3: But now those are college days that's long gone.

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Speaker 4: So I have a hard time every year picking a

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song for this topic. There seems to be so few

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legit songs on the topic of Thanksgiving, and the ones

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that there are either too obvious or total saccharine. So

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after some random googling and some thought, I found this.

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This is something that everyone can relate to at the

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holiday shopping. Excuse me, this is something that everyone can

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relate at the holiday shopping in the grocery store. And

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we talked about that last week a little bit with

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Gail Song. We all got to do it. There's no

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way to do Thanksgiving without some food. Shopping unless you

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get it catered, or you just don't acknowledge the holiday.

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I guess anyway, the song title is lost in the supermarket,

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and it is by the song, It is by the clash.

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It was released on the nineteen seventy nine LP London,

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calling their third album, and was written by Joe Strummer

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and Mick Jones. Rolling Stone ranked the Double LP number

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one on its list of the one hundred best albums

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of the eighties, even though it technically came out in

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seventy nine, but to be fair, the magazine was using

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the American release date of January nineteen eighty. The supermarket

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referred to in the song as the International, which is

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a leading chain of grocery stores based in London. Joe

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Strummer wrote the chorus on the backside of an Ernie

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ball strings envelope and correct me if I'm wrong, Brian.

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But that's pretty small, isn't it.

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Speaker 9: Uh?

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Speaker 3: No, like guitar strings would be five by five, six

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by six. Yeah, okay, I could guess if yeah, it

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wouldn't fit.

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Speaker 4: But Mick Jones claims the song was written about him.

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It has been suggested that Strummer spun it that way

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because it was a highly personal song for himself, and

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that might explain why Strummer asked Jones to sing it

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for him. Either way, it worked out perfectly Jones. Jones

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captures the feel of the song. The song is about

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someone struggling to deal with the increasingly commercialized world and

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rampant compute commute consumerism. It speaks about suburban alienation and

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young people's feelings of disillusion.

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Speaker 3: Wow, what a night I'm along with the whiskey sour.

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Speaker 4: Should have shared dish disillusionment?

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Speaker 2: Is that right? Is that right?

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Speaker 4: Doesn't need to sound right for modern society. So here's

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a cheery little Thanksgiving song for you. Let's just play it.

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Speaker 12: Oh my lesson the super can long shop, Can's gonna

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share it up?

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Speaker 11: Peoples, minty.

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Speaker 13: So much as I fan out, no body scene to

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notice me. We had a h back home and a

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suburb over which I never could see the people who

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live on the ceiling screaming five for scon Hearing that

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noise was my first e buffy healing. That's how it's

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been all around me, all last in the super market,

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I can long and shut that.

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Speaker 14: I came in here a special love, the guarantee personality I'm.

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Speaker 13: On tuning, I see all the programs. A safety ponds

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back at the teeth. I've got my giant is discoc album.

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I empty a bottles.

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Speaker 3: I feel a bit free.

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Speaker 11: Kids and halls and the pugs in the walls make

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good noises for cont longest of callers, make long list

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of colors.

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Speaker 14: And the silence it makes me long.

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Speaker 11: All last in the super market, I can no longer

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shop happen.

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Speaker 2: I gave it he of the.

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Speaker 14: Special alta I guaranty person.

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Speaker 11: Malty that's not here, just a.

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Speaker 14: I'm all lost in the super market.

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Speaker 11: I can no longer shop happen. I came in here

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for a special offer guaranty post bart to me. I'm

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all lasting the super malcome, I can no longer shop happen.

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I can make a special Loca guarantee personality.

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Speaker 3: I'm all last month.

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Speaker 9: All last calls the super.

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Speaker 11: Market happen.

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Speaker 14: Specifics all lost, I'm all lost, I'm all I'm all

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last the super market. Come along the shops.

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Speaker 4: So I don't know if you caught the chorus, but

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it's I'm all all lost, all lost in the supermarket.

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I can no longer shop happily. I came in here

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for that special offer, A guaranteed personality.

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Speaker 3: That's deep.

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Speaker 10: So.

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Speaker 4: The Clash were an English rock band that were formed

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in London in nineteen seventy six. Their lineup consistent of

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Joe drummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonson, I'm sorry, Paul Wow,

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I'm really having a rough time tonight, Miss Simon, and

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and Nikki Topper headn Is that right? Or is it headen?

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Speaker 6: I thought anybody, but I've never I've never been clear

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on that either, So just aver, He'll come okay.

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Speaker 4: They had a US Top ten hit with the rock Decasma.

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Speaker 1: Of course, one of my favorite songs.

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Speaker 4: They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of

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Fame in two thousand and three. Throughout nineteen seventy seven,

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the band was arrested for some interesting crimes. For example,

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Strummer and Tip what was it Tipper Topper Popper were

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arrested for stealing pillow cases from a hotel room in Newcastle.

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My guess, my guess on that is that they didn't

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have like luggage or something like that. They needed a place.

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Speaker 3: What that's a laundry bag.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: In the early days, the Clash often went hungry once

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after a long night spent putting up posters. Back in

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the day, you had to use flour and water paste

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and you would smear it on and post it up

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on walls. Paul Simon and heated up the remainder of

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the flower and water paste on a rusty blade and

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ate it.

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Speaker 2: Now that's pumped.

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Speaker 9: Punk.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so the Blockheads. Ian Durry's band UH once turned

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off unexpectedly at a clash recording session dressed as policeman,

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causing Mick Jones to flush all of his illicit substances

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down the toilet and the rest of the band to flee.

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British Telecom wanted to use London Calling for an advertising campaign.

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They were told to bog off Russian. I had not

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heard before.

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Speaker 2: Is that like, yeah, yeah, a derivative of booger bog.

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Speaker 4: And something I've often.

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Speaker 5: You got me.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. This is all news to me. There's

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something I've often wondered about. Why wasn't Train in Vain

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listed as a track on London Calling on the LP.

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Mick Jones has said, the real story on Train and

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Vain is that we originally we needed a song to

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give to NME, which is a magazine in music paper

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for a flexi disc, which I'm assuming is one of those, like, yeah,

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the flimsy Yeah, I was gonna say floppy disc, but

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that's a whole nother story, like a really thin plastic disc.

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Speaker 3: Inserts and magazine.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, like I did one of my shows

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on flexi discs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so cool.

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Speaker 3: Early when I was learning based way back when the

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instructional books came with flexi discs in the back, play

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the examples.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's how they started off as instructional usually teaching

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like a foreign language or something, but that's how they started.

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Speaker 4: So it didn't work out. So they had this spare

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track that we that they had done as a giveaway,

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So he said, we put it on London Calling, but

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there wasn't time because the sleeves were already done. The

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result of this late edition was that it was the

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only song without lyrics printed on the insert and was

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not listed as a track. Although his presence isn't noun

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as the title obviously and no, not obviously.

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Speaker 6: Wait a minute, what, Yeah, I don't. I don't think

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they actually ever say that, right, No, but.

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Speaker 4: They did say that the In the original vinyl recording record,

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it was scratched into the vinyl in the needle runoff

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area on the fourth side of the album, which I'm

477
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assuming is around the center label. Right, is that the runoff?

478
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's where, yeah, where the record ends, and then

479
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then it goes fast to the annual.

480
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Speaker 4: Right yeah, right, yeah, so apparently it's etched there. I

481
00:29:40,039 --> 00:29:42,039
don't know if that was just certain amount of copies

482
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or whether that was all of them. But this is

483
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,640
just a reminder to shop early and please don't get

484
00:29:48,759 --> 00:29:51,079
lost in the supermarket this time of year. It is

485
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not a good place to be.

486
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Speaker 3: No, it's not fun.

487
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Speaker 2: I am.

488
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Speaker 3: I avoid the supermarket. My wife does that. I do

489
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,200
the hardware store, stuff in appliances and whatnot. That's the deal,

490
00:30:03,079 --> 00:30:07,559
so I can't complain. But yeah, it's awful cool. That

491
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,880
was a surprisingly deep song. Nice, excellent. All right, one

492
00:30:12,039 --> 00:30:16,720
last look at WKRP. The ending of the episode of

493
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Turkeys Away is what cemented it like a sack of

494
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:25,240
what cement into history. All the turkeys were dropped on

495
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the crowd. Everybody went nuts. Less nessman got dropped off.

496
00:30:28,759 --> 00:30:31,319
Johnny ed libs. They go back in the end of

497
00:30:31,359 --> 00:30:35,039
the episode, the last scene, it's like attack on It's

498
00:30:35,039 --> 00:30:40,200
almost like they an afterthought, Carlson, Herb Tarlic, and less

499
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,759
Nessman come back into the studio. Less Nessman comes in first.

500
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His clothes are ripped up because he was attacked by

501
00:30:46,119 --> 00:30:50,079
the crowd. Then Carlson and Tarlk walk in. They are

502
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:54,480
covered in turkey feathers that they got from wardrobe. But

503
00:30:54,599 --> 00:30:56,480
they didn't tell anybody else in the cast what they

504
00:30:56,559 --> 00:31:00,279
were going to do. So they're all standing in the

505
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,119
lobby of the station and Carlson and her come walking

506
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,880
around the corner. Their suits are ripped up and they

507
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,960
just have turkey feathers all over them, and everybody just

508
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000
starts laughing. And that's legit, that's real because they didn't

509
00:31:13,119 --> 00:31:18,799
know that that was gonna happen, which is great. Carlson

510
00:31:18,839 --> 00:31:21,759
goes into his office. A couple seconds later he comes

511
00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:24,440
back out and he says the most iconic line of

512
00:31:24,599 --> 00:31:27,319
WKRP in Cincinnati. Let me play it for you, as

513
00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:30,920
God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

514
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:39,519
Speaker 2: I love that line.

515
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 3: I have several T shirts with it printed on it.

516
00:31:44,559 --> 00:31:46,400
Didn't buy any of them, they were all given to me.

517
00:31:47,119 --> 00:31:50,880
They're all awesome. So what a line, what a closing line?

518
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It's great one last thing, So we talked about the

519
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,400
opening thing to the opening theme to w CA. The

520
00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:03,920
closing theme is just as memorable. That was written and

521
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,480
played by Jim Ellis. There was a melody that he wrote.

522
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It was originally going to be played by a saxophone,

523
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but instead Ellis himself recorded a demo with just gibberish

524
00:32:16,559 --> 00:32:19,000
made up words that were supposed to be a placeholder.

525
00:32:19,079 --> 00:32:20,759
He was supposed to go back and make them into

526
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:25,599
real words later on, but Wilson, the show creator, decided

527
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,599
that he wanted to use that demo as is for

528
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,519
two reasons. One because it was a tongue in cheek

529
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,079
joke that you can't understand rock singers most of the

530
00:32:35,119 --> 00:32:37,799
time anyway, and you don't know what they're saying. And

531
00:32:38,119 --> 00:32:40,599
the genius part is that he knew that there was

532
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,839
always a voice over at the end of every show

533
00:32:43,519 --> 00:32:46,680
about what's coming up next your local TV station, you know,

534
00:32:46,799 --> 00:32:49,200
the ten o'clock news, or coming up next, or they

535
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,359
would always have some sort of announcement over it, so

536
00:32:51,519 --> 00:32:54,039
even if there were real lyrics, you wouldn't hear them

537
00:32:54,039 --> 00:32:56,599
anyway because they would be spoken over. So it was

538
00:32:56,759 --> 00:33:00,799
just genius to leave the gibberish words as is, and

539
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,119
I had it memorized as much as I had the

540
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opening theme memorized.

541
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Speaker 4: So give seriously serious gibberish.

542
00:33:08,559 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 3: I had it down that yep. But give a listen.

543
00:33:12,079 --> 00:33:52,319
Listen to how catchy it is. Check this out. Of course,

544
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,160
the mew, the mt M mew, which was a goof

545
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,200
on the MGM Lion. So tell me that's not a

546
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,480
catchy song like you could catch lyrics?

547
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know how you learned the lyrics. Learned

548
00:34:07,319 --> 00:34:09,320
the quote unquote lyrics.

549
00:34:11,039 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 2: Yeah.

550
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Speaker 6: I never paid that much, but I did sticker. I

551
00:34:13,519 --> 00:34:15,679
didn't like, you know, go get a sandwich or or

552
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,559
switch to the next show another chance. I stayed for

553
00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:23,239
that song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, even want to talk over

554
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,719
you know, blotted that out and rocked out to the song.

555
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:28,199
Speaker 2: Yeah.

556
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Speaker 4: I was very frustrated though that I couldn't understand the lyrics.

557
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:36,920
I thought, Yeah, I felt like I was.

558
00:34:37,079 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 3: So close, you know.

559
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Speaker 5: But I think when people hear that who don't know

560
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:46,239
what's gibberish really do It's fun to see people struggle

561
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,039
to figure out what the heck is being said fits.

562
00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:52,519
Speaker 6: And yeah, you make you make up your own words.

563
00:34:52,559 --> 00:34:56,960
That kind of sound like it maybe exactly, and it's

564
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the way.

565
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 4: It's definitely about a girl, right.

566
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,599
Speaker 2: It's kind of like it always is.

567
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 6: You're listening to a song, you know, and you don't

568
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,079
really know the words, so you got it. Then you

569
00:35:11,119 --> 00:35:14,159
get to the words you know, but you know, yeah,

570
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,079
that's it all right.

571
00:35:16,679 --> 00:35:20,159
Speaker 3: Well, I hope we helped everybody get through Thanksgiving. I

572
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:24,920
hope they survived without strangling any relatives or anything along

573
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,920
those lines. Any final words from anybody, any of the

574
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:30,559
crambones before we pull the plug on this.

575
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Speaker 4: Don't drop a turkey one word.

576
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen a live turkey in person?

577
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,639
Speaker 4: They're huge, they're skinny, though the legs are skinny.

578
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:47,079
Speaker 3: It depends on the turkey. But yeah, they're They're pretty big,

579
00:35:47,119 --> 00:35:50,400
and the wild ones can get nasty. They're chasing cars crazy.

580
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 2: They're ugly and crazy, and.

581
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Speaker 3: Ugly is in the eye of the beholder because they

582
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:55,800
look back at us and go.

583
00:35:56,039 --> 00:35:57,679
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't say that was a bad thing. I

584
00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,320
just said, you know, they're scary.

585
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what I could what I could say?

586
00:36:02,599 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 2: The same could be said about me. I have been

587
00:36:06,039 --> 00:36:07,280
called a turkey before too.

588
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 4: We had a bunch up in Piermont and they would

589
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stand in front of the post office and they wouldn't

590
00:36:13,559 --> 00:36:16,159
leave and we couldn't go to the post office.

591
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's funny.

592
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Speaker 3: Actually, like weeks we had some by our town hall.

593
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We had some by bus stops where kids were hanging

594
00:36:23,679 --> 00:36:26,480
out because they were getting territorial. And yeah, they could

595
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,039
be pretty nast and they're fast. They can run alongside

596
00:36:29,039 --> 00:36:29,280
a car.

597
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:30,639
Speaker 2: Wow.

598
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 3: Really Oh yeah, they can keep up with them.

599
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 2: For a while. Well, they can't fly, so they got

600
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to do something.

601
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Speaker 11: M h.

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Speaker 1: It's it's crazy because how aggressive the wild ones can be. Normally,

603
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I am not afraid of any animal. I will my

604
00:36:46,519 --> 00:36:51,119
cause of death eventually will probably be from petting something

605
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:51,880
I shouldn't.

606
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, just don't climb a fence to get to it,

607
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,639
because that's a clue that you shouldn't. Well, no, okay.

608
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:07,679
Speaker 1: I had quite an interesting encounter with the town crazy

609
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:12,079
wild turkey, who's who had been called Chad because he

610
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,440
was just just annoying.

611
00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:16,159
Speaker 3: Uh.

612
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: He would he would peck at the police cars. But

613
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,239
when I met him, I thought he was really cute.

614
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,320
So I started talking to him, and he did not

615
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:32,360
like being spoken to directly, and he started, you.

616
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 3: Know, fanning out the feather and everything.

617
00:37:40,079 --> 00:37:45,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly exactly, And I was actually I was actually nervous.

618
00:37:45,199 --> 00:37:47,239
I did not want to turn my back on him.

619
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Speaker 7: He was kind of a jerky.

620
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, they can't fly, so they got a fight,

621
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,960
you know, you know, it's the fight or flight. There's

622
00:37:59,000 --> 00:37:59,840
no flight involved.

623
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 1: I hear that they actually, like animal control, relocated him

624
00:38:07,519 --> 00:38:09,960
somewhere else from what I heard, because.

625
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, did they use a helicopter?

626
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: The hens at least can fly.

627
00:38:20,199 --> 00:38:21,199
Speaker 3: Short distance.

628
00:38:22,039 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 1: And it's hilarious because they're very unwieldy and it kind

629
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,039
of looks like a flying basketball.

630
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 3: Well, it's best to steer clear, don't mess with him. Yeah,

631
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:41,360
from experience, I say, all right, Cranbones, thank you all

632
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,119
excellent selections. I think this was a good one. And

633
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:48,880
w k r P yes, go ahead, please Neil.

634
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Speaker 2: All together now? One, two, three.

635
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Speaker 8: Came rock cop bottomed crumb.

636
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Speaker 6: Okay, bye bye.

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