Pat's Peeps Podcast

Ep. 363 Today's Peep Features Our Thanksgiving Spectacular 2025 Including Thanksgiving Affirmations, Peanuts, Weird Al, Rosanne, Clarence Wright "She Ain't Got No Groceries" Tim Slagle, All About That Baste, WKRP, Ohio Players, Paul Harvey and More!

• Pat Walsh

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A gray, rainy Tuesday turns into a full‑blown Thanksgiving spectacular as we pull you close to the wood stove, ladle up second‑day split pea soup, and say a heartfelt thanks to the people who make this community feel like family. We set a warm, easy tone, then let the season’s greatest hits play out: kitchen saves and flubs, classic radio moments, family quirks, and the songs that turn a meal into a memory.

We kick off with a gratitude roll call—health, friends, peace, joy—and jump into a playful tour of holiday cooking. Think undercooked turkeys, rogue basters, and that eternal debate over the right fork. Humor keeps things light while we swap stories that sound a lot like your own kitchen: the empty‑fridge scramble, the gravy that needs a miracle, and the table set a little crooked but filled with love. Nostalgia threads through the hour with the WKRP turkey giveaway, a timeless reminder that the silliest traditions can hold the most heart.

Family dynamics get their turn too: the forever‑late cousin, the “no food touching” truce, and the moment someone carves too soon. We nod to the deeper roots of the holiday with a brief look at migration, community, and the evolving promise of gratitude that became part of American culture. Then we let music do what it does best—carry the feeling—moving from tender blessings to the sing‑along comfort of Alice’s Restaurant. By the end, you’ll have laughed, remembered, and maybe picked up a new way to offer thanks that lasts longer than leftovers.

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SPEAKER_18:

Hi there it is, Pat's Peeps Podcast for three hundred and sixty-three. Thank you for checking it out. We've got Pat's Peeps merchandise at PatsPeeps.com, supporting local businesses, of course. And free dinner for you at Rock and Soul. As I look out my studio window into the beautiful foothills of Northern California on this Tuesday. A uh rainy gray day. Got the fire and the wood stove again. Nice and cozy again, just like yesterday. The split pea soup I made last night told you all about. You know what? It like condenses overnight. It goes from split pea soup, like now it's condensed down. But it is just it's so delicious the second day. Y'all know what I'm talking about. That next day, spaghetti or whatever. Seems like it's always better. Anyhow, wherever you're listening, I thank you. Alright, I'm very grateful and thankful for you to be a part of our Pat's Peeps family here. By the way, my name is Pat Walsh. I host the Pat Walsh show, heard on uh KFPK Radio Monday through Friday, 7 to 10 PM. Very thankful for that as well. You know, tonight we'll have Scott Robinson on, talk a little bit as we get closer to Thanksgiving. You know, we're keeping it light, which I like to do that. But I just want to make it very clear here during uh this th this season and always that I am very grateful and thankful thankful to you. So I'm giving thanks for you listening to my show and my podcast and for supporting these local businesses and for being friends. So with that, I thought today we would just celebrate Thanksgiving and do our Thanksgiving spectacular. Alright? So with that, I have accumulated some Thanksgiving stuff I thought I would share with you in this beautiful time of the year, this this season. And with that, as we proceed here on Pat's Peeps number 363, yes, indeed, I present to you our Thanksgiving extravaganza, or did I call it spectacular? That's right. Hold on, where's my buttons? Here I go.

SPEAKER_17:

Thank you for my health, thank you for my wealth, thank you for my friends, thank you for my family, thank you for my peace, thank you for my joy, thank you for my happiness, thank you for my love, thank you for my abundance.

SPEAKER_04:

What's the matter, Big Brother? Nothing. I was just checking the mailbox. What did you expect? A turkey card? Holidays always depress me. I know what you mean. I went down to buy a turkey tree. And all they have are things for Christmas. For Christmas? Already? Anyway, why should I give thanks on Thanksgiving? What have I got to be thankful for? All it does is make more work for us at school. Do you know what we have to do now? We have to write an essay on Stanley Miles. You mean Miles Standish? I can't keep track of all those people. What's all the commotion? We've got another holiday to worry about. It seems Thanksgiving Day is upon us.

SPEAKER_03:

I haven't even finished eating all my Halloween candy! Sally, Thanksgiving is a very important holiday. Ours was the first country in the world to make a national holiday to give thanks. Isn't he the cutest?

SPEAKER_08:

Man, this turkey takes forever. Maybe should have planned it better. All of your family and friends, they are waiting until the baking ends. It's still cold inside the center. You could take it out now, however. You would give everyone salmonella. You would give everyone salmonella. Ella, Ella, ay, ay, ay, everyone's salmonella, Ella. In the gravy, you can add a little cream in the gravy. You can add some more your feet in the gravy. You can pour it on your hand in the gravy. Oh, you can pour it on your hand.

SPEAKER_14:

Poor little bird. They probably hung you up by your toes in a dark room somewhere till it was time to cut off your head. Well, stop complaining. My headache's just beginning. Here I am, five o'clock in the morning, stuffing breadcrumbs up a dead bird's butt.

SPEAKER_02:

Hello. I came over late. She was looking like a snack. But a fridge said hell no.

unknown:

Damn.

SPEAKER_02:

Bitch fine ass up, laid out on the couch. Told me come eat, but ain't got a shit in the house. No bread, no juice, no peanut butter. Just a dirty ass fridge and a single stick of butter. Talking about we can order some food. Bitch, I'm broke. I was hoping you'd come through. You got lashes, wigs, a BBL too, but not a damn egg or a pack of ramen boo. That's wow. She said, make yourself comfortable. I said I'm finna pass out. I'm uncomfortable. Even your cat looking hungry as hell. He licked my ankle like please break the spell. She ain't got no groceries. She ain't got no groceries. She look good, but a cabinet's guilty. She ain't got no groceries. She ain't got no groceries. How you find what you got in no sex. No Kool-Aid, no surface.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, yeah, I mean there might be some PETA people in the room. You know those PETA people. They're awfully sensitive. They see a blind homeless man with a seeing eye dog, and they go, Oh, I hope that dog eats. And I always hesitate making fun of PETA members and vegetarians, because you're not supposed to insult women. Because most of your vegetarians are they're women. You see a few pale anemic girlish boys. Nine times out of ten, when you see a man that's a vegetarian, he's fake and five. Yeah, you show me a man that's a vegetarian, I'll show you someone trying to f a vegetarian.

SPEAKER_10:

On Thanksgiving Day, I think it's pretty true. Us dads can't make it make it like we're supposed to do. The dining room, room, room. We have no taste. We put all the wrong forks in all the wrong places. I see the magazines with all the recipes. My daughter, she could make it for me. Daddy's me. So mommy hands me this and says, You gotta stop till every inch of it is perfect from the bottom to the top. Oh yeah, mama said, told me, Don't worry about the five.

SPEAKER_09:

Don't worry that I burn it because I screw up everything I tried. He's got the fingers, the fingers trying. You got the rules made a wrong. It looks like pudding. Fiscus, this baster and timer and go ahead and move along.

SPEAKER_20:

All right, fellow babies, and now it's time to go to our live remote man on the scene at the Pinedale shopping mall for the big WKRP turkey giveaway. So take it away, Les Nessman.

SPEAKER_06:

This is Les Nessman, your man on the scene here at the Pinedale Shopping Center where the excitement is mounting. We're here to witness the big WKRP turky Thanksgiving giveaway. Hey, you got permission to be out here? What? You're blocking my store here, buddy. Don't you know who I am? I'm Les Nessman. I won the Buckmine News Fox Award last year. You Buck of mine, I'll get out of my doorway. Sorry. Happen to witness what has been described as perhaps the greatest turkey event on Thanksgiving day. All we know for sure is that in a very few moments there's going to be a lot of happy people out here. Now the crowd is I think I hear something now. Oh, yes, I can see it now. It's coming this way. It's finding something behind the side.

SPEAKER_11:

I used to touch you catchy for now. I just think that you've got to go.

SPEAKER_21:

But it's a holiday. It's a holiday.

SPEAKER_15:

Yeah, we never have taken the rest of the year, but now we have to eat it. It's a funny holiday, if you ask me. It makes no sense. In a minute.

SPEAKER_21:

Gabriel should be here any minute.

SPEAKER_15:

Yeah, that man will be late for his own film.

SPEAKER_05:

Then what do we eat? I'm hungry.

SPEAKER_04:

No, no, no, no. We should wait for Gabriel.

SPEAKER_05:

We should wait for Gabriel. We have to go to the same thing.

SPEAKER_21:

We can't touch the turkey because the game.

SPEAKER_14:

I hate those food touches. What's the difference? It all ends up in the same place. I hate that. I hate food touches.

SPEAKER_01:

Michael.

SPEAKER_16:

Sorry, but late. Gabriel. You started without me? You got the turkey without me? Come on.

SPEAKER_21:

We go. Every year you're late, Gabriel. If we were hungry, the kids wanted to eat, we were late if we couldn't wait. You all flesh and blood and you couldn't wait. You cut the turkey. That's it! That's the last time you call for Thanksgiving. Gabriel, come here for God. Gabriel Gabriel! Gabriel! Come on! Such a movement.

SPEAKER_10:

It's ridiculous. It's the same thing every year. You know, he we wait for him and he shows up late and then we cut the turkey.

SPEAKER_00:

Now the rest of the story. In the medieval Dutch town of Leiden in the early 17th century, the immigrants were getting restless. There was a significant immigrant population. Even back there. Even back then. You see, the people of Leiden had a model in those days. Leiden refused no people. North Americans recognize the registration of marriages, for example. Or eventually, however arguably, freedom. One more. You know.

SPEAKER_12:

We've come to the time in the season when family and friends gather near to offer a prayer of thanksgiving for blessings we've known through the years. To join hands and thank the Creator. Now when Thanksgiving is due. This year when I count my blessings. This year when I count my blessings, I'm thanking the Lord He made you. And oh love that you've made new. And this year when I count my blessings, thanking the Lord He made you.

SPEAKER_13:

Hey, grandpa! What's for supper?

SPEAKER_05:

Well, tonight you're really in for a treat. I've got three kinds of pie and three kinds of meat and four kinds of vegetables and five kinds of drink. Even Junior will get full for once, don't you think?

SPEAKER_18:

Thank you for listening to Pat's Peeps number 363. Lil Thanksgiving. Happy Tuesday to you. We'll see you on the radio.

SPEAKER_19:

This song is called Alice's Restaurant. It's about Alice and the restaurant. But Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant. That's just the name of the song. And that's why I call the song Alice's Restaurant. You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant. You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant. Walk riding, it's around the back, just a half a mile from the railroad track. And you can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant. Two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the restaurant.

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