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Thanksgiving Rankings & The Wizard of Oz Curse
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Happy Thanksgiving week and we are talking about who's performing at the Macy's Parade, some Black Friday stories and ranking our favorite Turkey day foods! We also get into some annoying encounters with people who don't have theater etiquette and round out the episode with talk of the (alleged) Curse of The Wizard Of Oz. Does it transfer to Wicked? I guess we will find out!
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Allison Florea
Alex Hinsky
The a-List Podcast Thanksgiving Wicked
Speaker 1this voice which is wild is like kind of a dream, for if it was like something I could put on for singing yeah, you could also record some sexy stories only when I lose my voice.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's like not, it's not a very lucrative business because it's really dependent on once a year. That's a um a thing that in friends right? Yeah, because Phoebe is sick and she likes, likes the way she sings, and then when she gets better, yes she tries to get make herself sick again.
Speaker 1Paper machine man. Yeah, that's what she sings.
Speaker 2Well, what are you going to do when you can't sing defying gravity in the theaters on Friday? Well, what?
Speaker 1are you going to do when you can't sing Defying Gravity in the theaters on Friday?
Speaker 2I'm going to walk out of the theater if people are singing Defying Gravity? No, actually I just I remembered earlier today when Haley and I went to New York a couple of years ago I think two years ago and it was her first time seeing a show like in New York on Broadway and we saw Wicked and there was a girl behind us fully singing out loud, defying during Defying Gravity, and I couldn't believe it, because we are in the theater like this is, you know, fancy, like you know, and first of all, don't get me started on people not dressing up for the theater anymore.
Speaker 2It really makes me mad, yeah, when you're wearing like a sweatshirt or like jeans, at least like put on a nice pair of slacks, if you will sure sure but yeah, this girl behind us was fully out loud singing and her boyfriend was like, oh, you know all the words, or something oh, she was trying to impress.
Speaker 2Yes, and it could have been just a date, I suppose. But I kept looking back at her like doing that thing, like to see if she would be like. Oh, I didn't realize I was singing out loud, no, the whole time, and it was so bad Like I was really really upset about it.
Speaker 1Yeah, that is upsetting.
Speaker 2And that's like a high probability that could happen on Friday.
Speaker 1But they are having sing along showings.
Speaker 2So I wish people would go to that. But I do know that someone's going to sing out loud, especially if it's like some girlies that have drinks before and they're a little tipsy and they lose their ability to think critically.
Speaker 1Yeah, because Wicked is for us.
Speaker 2Oh, it's a theater kid's time, but like our age.
Speaker 1right, we were like in high school when it came out.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's 20 years of like. I know every single word, except for not the boring songs. True, I've never learned like Madame Morrible's songs or the Professor Goatman Sorry to him.
Speaker 1It's okay, or the wizard.
Speaker 2Do you know his song?
Speaker 1The wizard. I am a sentimental man who always longed to be a father.
Speaker 2Pretty, um yeah, I don't care for those which okay. Also sorry, talking about wicked, which this is the thanksgiving episode, so welcome back to the week oh yeah, we should do that intro oh yeah, let's put it right here. Yeah, the a-list welcome back to the a-list podcast with allison and alice. A long intro, my bad, it's a cold.
Speaker 1It's a long cold open long uh, as you guys can see, this is my apartment and I have started decorating for, and so allison has a beautiful background wow, so, so nice, I um it's disco themed.
Speaker 2I was going to put mine up this week, but I don't know if it's going to happen, so it might have to be when I get back.
Speaker 1Want to know something fun, real quick about that tree.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Christmas Decor and Wicked Musings
Speaker 1So it spins, but I'm not going to turn it on because there's too much pressure in having to decorate all parts of a tree. I have to make sure everything is good, it fits perfectly in that corner and if I had to like if it spun, I would need to pull it away from the outlet. Anyway, those disco ball ornaments, the ones like at the bottom look at the bottom of that one. I have four of them.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I have had those since my brother and I shared a Christmas tree when I was nine years old.
Speaker 2Oh really, Disco balls was have been in your life that long.
Speaker 1Yeah, so our Christmas tree, our Christmas tree theme. We had blue lights. My parents, like each of us, got a tree in our room. So, our theme was blue lights and then space, so my mom got us disco ball ornaments as part of that theme, so it was like silver and blue.
Speaker 2Yeah, and I've just held on to them. Yeah, and.
Speaker 1I've just held on to them and then at walmart you guys can't see it, but at walmart the other day for six dollars they had that disco ball, tree topper oh, it is actually a tree topper I thought you just fashioned no, it is a an actual tree topper for six dollars so on a budget work literally because look how sparse this tree is, but it's okay. I have some filler bulbs, but I realized I didn't have any hooks, so I need to hooks.
Speaker 2You could get tinsel, because that would fill in and that's very cheap.
Speaker 1True, I did think about I had not considered tinsel, because I do think I'm going to throw away this tree after this year or so.
Speaker 2Oh really.
Speaker 1Yeah, because it doesn't stand up straight. But anyway, there's a hidden pickle in there, everyone. So don't worry. Don't worry, maybe next episode you can put it in view.
Speaker 2You can see it actually. Oh, okay, do you?
Speaker 1guys see the pickle. It's in view, but do you like the disco ball, snowman?
Speaker 2I really do.
Speaker 1And I have a cowboy carter.
Speaker 2Cowboy hat, disco hat oh, I see the pickle.
Speaker 1I also like the ring pop so I did buy that as a um in memory of Kirsten. It was like the.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, you guys ring pops.
Speaker 1Walmart was there, like their ornament section was incredible.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And really fun and it's all that kind of stuff and that's actual ring pop brand Cute and her favorite flavor was cherry, so I was like okay, well, that's okay.
Speaker 2It is okay.
Speaker 1And when you get up you can look for the Titanic that you got me fits perfectly. And then I got one it does, cause it's like shiny. And then I got a disco reindeer. That's on there too, you can. You can check out that disco reindeer. Okay, back to the wicked.
Speaker 2Right, because I thought we could talk about what get a little bit, because it does come out on Thanksgiving. No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1No, it comes out the week before. Weird, I thought initially it was coming out on Thanksgiving, it was. It got pushed back. Oh, they moved it. Okay, so listening to this episode, wicked has been out for the weekend.
Speaker 2Okay, for sure, for sure. What was I saying?
Speaker 1I cut you off. They were sing-along versions in the theater yes, and people should do that.
Speaker 2I don't know what I was gonna say, but I do have. We can talk later, um, about some Wizard of Oz curses, if you, if we have time, if we want to get into it, if we love it have the time, but, um, since it is our Thanksgiving episode, we have some Thanksgiving Thanksgiving things to talk about.
Speaker 1I also think that, um, before we get to that last thing about wicked, I have a theory that cause the soundtrack comes out on Friday as well, or it comes out the same day.
Speaker 2Oh, they're recording.
Speaker 1The recording from the movie. Yeah, you know, when um greatest showman did like a surprise album of like artists that redid the songs.
Speaker 2I just listened to that and then Hamilton did it.
Speaker 1Yeah, I have a feeling that that's something that's going to happen with this.
Speaker 2We're going to get like pop versions of okay, what do you? What's your predictions? Do you think? I do not. She can't sing like that anymore.
Speaker 1No, she can't. No, I think like I my um. My fantasy is that we would get a defined gravity version by Ariana Grande.
Speaker 2Oh fun, I thought that would be cool, like if she did like a little you know who? I would also like to hear my girl, kelly Clarkson. Oh I of course, cause she did Hamilton so well. Yeah, you're going to say Billie Eilish. I actually just listened to the greatest showman, that um soundtrack, and I listened to Kesha singing. This is me and it's so good.
Speaker 1It is that version of rewrite the stars too, with Anne Marie. Oh, I didn't make it there. Oh, my God's so good, anne marie. Wow, yeah, it's anne marie. And um, british man, british man, I mean, it's an incredible version. Sam smith, no, is he british? Yeah, of course someone else.
Speaker 2Oh, zach brown band, though singing um the big hugh jackman song at the end from From now on. Cute. Yes, I didn't love that. I feel like they could have done better. I agree, but I will say do you know that YouTube video of Hugh Jackman, of them singing?
Speaker 1I feel like you have brought this up on the podcast so many times.
Speaker 2Yeah, I was going to say I randomly watched it again like two days ago and I still get goosebumps and cry.
Speaker 1Isn't Sutton Foster in that too?
Speaker 2No, but Cynthia Erivo is. That's why I watched it?
Speaker 1Cynthia Erivo.
Speaker 2Yes, Because I didn't know that that was Cynthia Erivo at the time when that came out. Like however many years ago, like seven years ago, right? Was it that long?
Speaker 1Maybe longer. Yeah, when that came out I didn't know that that was a theory about that singing the really high riffs and the whatever. So I think that resurfaced, because she's in it, true. And also, lauren, what's it is in there too, lauren, she's the girl that does the singing voice for the actress that sings those big about never enough oh, and also natalie weiss is in it and jeremy jordan is singing, is supposed to be singing hugh jackman's part.
Speaker 2It it's like star studded actually, and I think it did resurface because of Cynthia Erivo.
Speaker 1But that tracks.
Speaker 2I didn't know that it was her and I was like wow.
Speaker 1But anyway, I just, I just have some. I have like a little gut feeling. That's like I bet we're getting some sort of a on it in that way too.
Speaker 2Who do you think would sing popular sabrina carpenter?
Speaker 1oh my god that would be so iconic. What other songs? But it would be really fun. Yeah, that'd be really cool.
Speaker 2They should for sure yeah, anyway all right.
Speaker 1Happy thanksgiving everyone yeah well, no, not yet. This week is thanksgiving yeah, but it's the it's the whole.
Speaker 2It's like people have Friendsgivings and you'll be out of town. I will be home and it's my best friend's birthday Is it. Monday is Reagan's birthday.
Speaker 1So when this comes out, it is her birthday. Stanley's birthday was yesterday.
Speaker 2Happy birthday, Stanley. He's so cold. Have you talked to them about the haircut? No, guys, here's our quick updates.
Speaker 1We didn't win our dodgeball game. Oh yeah, you guys, we lost, we lost, so we did not advance to the championship round so sad.
Speaker 2We were too confident, we were really confident.
Speaker 1We didn't lose terribly. There was four to six.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1It was a fun season. Tbh, I'm okay, I'm ready.
Speaker 2I need a break.
Speaker 1I'm okay. It would have been cool to win the championships again, but it is what it is Um that's that update.
Speaker 2And then I got Stanley groomed. I'll insert a photo here.
Speaker 1Guys, can you believe it? He is a different dog. Long story short. There was a miscommunication. They thought I wanted him to be all the same length short. That's not what I said. That's not the picture I showed. Oh, actually, here, this is the picture I showed them, bing. And then this is what I got Bing. So Stanley is.
Speaker 2You're going to have to go to the video to see.
Speaker 1Stanley is frigid, so thankfully.
Speaker 2He's constantly shaking, constantly shaking. It's like he is in the light boat from Titanic.
Speaker 1Yeah, I feel so bad. So right now he's in a sweater curled up on his dog bed. He's asleep. This is what he needs. Yeah, I mean the way he cuddles me at night, though I will say it's a little selfish of me, but I'm like all right, this sucks for you, but you didn't do this on purpose.
Speaker 2You weren't like please shave my dog as close as possible so that he will cuddle with me more.
Speaker 1It's just a last night was the biggest cuddle yet, like he woke me up by like pawing on my shoulder, so I turned onto my left side and then he got so close to me and his ears were freezing cold and I did not sleep with the air on last night.
Speaker 2So does he not get under the covers?
Speaker 1no, he likes to get like his body kind of under them, but I kind of move around a lot, so he was probably exposed for too long and was just like dad I'm so cold freezing, so I I spooned him. He like sat up right by my chin for the rest of the night. Cutie.
Speaker 2Well, he is something he's seven years old now.
Speaker 1Happy birthday, Bubba.
Speaker 2Oh my gosh Wow.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Oh, because last year you thought he was six, but he was actually five.
Speaker 1Yeah, I did what you did with Macy.
Speaker 2It's honestly, if you've once, you've had them for so long it yes, and with how much?
Speaker 1I've moved and how many people have come in and out of my life. It's hard to keep track.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1But he's seven, seven years old.
Speaker 2Happy birthday Stanley, happy birthday Reagan.
Speaker 1Happy birthday, Reagan.
Speaker 2Yes, I will be home for a few days and it's just like so hard to fit everyone in.
Speaker 1Are you doing both families for Thanksgiving? Are you doing both families for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2Like both sides, yes and no. My full dad side of my family is not getting together until December 1st.
Speaker 1So I'll miss that one.
Speaker 2I'll miss like that, but I will be with my dad.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah so are like does your sister host?
Speaker 2Yeah, she'll have a lunch, dinner, whatever.
Speaker 1On the day.
Speaker 2Yeah, and then we're actually going to a hockey game.
Speaker 1Oh, the Fort Wayne. It's a Comets, comets yeah.
Speaker 2So Thanksgiving evening I will be going to the Comets game.
Speaker 1That's kind of fun, though, if anyone is there. Anyone want?
Speaker 2to say hi.
Speaker 1Go to the War Memorial Coliseum him. It's pretty epic it is.
Speaker 2I took him. I took arlen, my nephew, to see disney on ice there and he was like five and I was the first time I had ever taken him, because often by himself daphne wasn't alive then, so just him. It's the first time I had taken anywhere him anywhere by myself, and I was just like showering him with whatever he wanted. Yeah, like whatever food whatever, drinks like whatever, and he had too much of that and he got sick in the bathroom.
Speaker 1Oh, wow, because I had.
Speaker 2I let him have cotton candy. He had like a slushy, whatever.
Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Traditions
Speaker 1I was just like and Allie doesn't say no yeah.
Speaker 2And I was so stressful. Obviously, I don't know what it's like to have a kid, yeah, but I was so afraid someone was going to steal him. Oh yeah, that I was the whole time just stressed about holding his hand. But I was by myself, yeah, and he had spilled something in the seats and I was like, well, I can't leave him to go get napkins to clean this up.
Speaker 2So I had to. It was a whole thing and so I have really a lot of respect for mothers and any or father, whoever, like a single parent taking care of a child. Like it was a a little glimpse that I was, I was like I am not equipped right now.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's a lot, um, but yeah, this, but yeah the. Are you doing like anything, since you're not going home for Christmas? Are you doing anything for Christmas, are you just not? Um, maybe something, but nothing super planned okay, cool something um on a on a whim I love that if you are on a whim but you are right I am what you're doing something for christmas well, I'm going.
Speaker 1I'll be there for the christmas, but for thanksgiving I'm like. Well, this ihop gift certificate is about to expire yeah so I might do that that sounds delicious.
Speaker 2Yeah, are you? You don't want to, because you the thing you make on thanksgiving morning, that's one of your traditions your french toast.
Speaker 1That's a lot of work, though, right it is, and I don't have a crock pot anymore. So oh well, you can use mine if you want to make it it was more like me and my boyfriend yeah I don't really care to do anything this year which, mixed with this voice, sounds really like it does sound very sad um, emily might be hosting something and she might not, but I don't, I don't really it's, it's not thanksgiving for you.
Speaker 2You're never super excited about thanksgiving. Since I met you, yeah, is that because of the association with your ex, or is it just? You have never been, like, super into Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1No, it was like our favorite holiday together, so I think yeah, and then I've just never had when you were younger, you liked it. Yeah, I loved it. It was always like lunch at my grandparents and then dinner at my grandpa's. But it's I'm. I will get to see my fam for christmas this year, which will be nice yeah I speaking of thanksgiving, reminiscing on days of yore um. Did you ever participate growing up in like black friday madness?
Speaker 2never, like, never super seriously. Uh, every once in a while we would just be like, let's go, let's just go peruse.
Speaker 1And if we if there's something we want to buy.
Speaker 2Yeah, cause I guess when we were young young it still was kind of midnight when things would open, correct. So I feel like a couple. I can remember maybe a Walmart situation or something, and just we didn't have anything specific in mind. We were just like let's go and if something jumps out at us we'll buy it. But I don't think I've ever been. There's this one thing that I want and I have to go, stand in line to get it and then, as the years have gone on, where Black Friday is really Thursday evening, the same kind of thing. Just been like, oh, let's go, like let's go to the mall or let's go, you know, run to meyer, to walmart and just see what deals and maybe buy some. I feel like I remember buying dvds yeah, that was a big one because they were, so they were already cheap.
Speaker 1And then on black friday, they were even more cheap blu-rays for five bucks yeah, yeah, so never seriously did you.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, Like we wouldn't sleep we would just stay up With like a specific thing in mind you wanted to get Sometimes like it was always like Kohl's Walmart Kohl's. Yeah.
Speaker 1Kohl's was a big one, kohl's, walmart, sometimes Meijer, and then, like we would do that from like midnight until 7 am, and then we would go to the Glenbrook Mall.
Speaker 2The mall was always fun. It felt like wrong to be there because it was late, so it was kind of like you were a little bit more goofy. It was like fun to walk around and be silly.
Speaker 1But it was always a tradition that we would be exhausted and then just like go home in the late afternoon and like nap slash, just like veg out.
Speaker 2Yeah, but yeah, I took it so seriously.
Speaker 1I mean I would budget for black Friday cause I would be able to get like most of my gifts for a fraction of the price now because it is not actually Friday, it's the whole week before. There was a few years before it all shifted, the first, like I would say the first two to three years I lived out here, I participated out here in it.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And it was like really fun. Me and my brother did it one year with his ex-girlfriend. Yeah, I loved it so much, yeah, but now it's like you couldn't pay me to do that. No, because the Walmart in Burbank is like Black Friday every single day.
Speaker 2I went there recently for some reason.
Speaker 1Every time I walk in there I'm like what the hell am I doing here?
Speaker 2I know it's madness. In there it's wild and I don't actually know why. It's because there's not another Walmart nearby. Correct, it's the clue and it's pretty big.
Speaker 1It's big, but also their aisles are so skinny. Guys, this, I'm not kidding you. I took my family there and they were all like this is black friday. It's a wild. Do you know why it's called black friday?
Speaker 2um no, tell me because sales go into the black, which is like really good sales okay like money for the store I thought it was like you get too excited and you black out and you just buy a bunch of stuff, literally that is the same thing that I thought it was.
Speaker 1Like you get too excited and you black out and you just buy a bunch of stuff. Literally that is the same thing that I thought it was. But my dad owned a Radio Shack franchise, so I learned the actual reason for it Because it was good for sales.
Speaker 2Yeah, what was I going to say? Oh, I feel like I remember my dad talking about when my sister was young and Cabbage Patch Kids were the rage. Yeah, rage, yeah, yeah that he had to go wait in line and it was madness.
Speaker 1It makes me watch that arnold schwarzenegger christmas movie. Oh yeah, what is that called? Jingle? All the way?
Speaker 2yes, good job oh my, I can't believe I knew that I don't know anything. Yeah, that's cute um, so when, if, when, and if we're parents or you know anti-uncle duties and we have to go, do that, I I don't think I'm prepared because I will yell at someone. If someone's acting out of line or cuts me off or something, I will be rude to them. Yeah, because I hate when people don't have like common decency and I feel like on Black Friday people lose that and I will not be okay.
Speaker 1No, it's interesting. I went to Santa Clarita Walmart. You know I did my yearly trip there the other night and they had already set up like aisles in the parking lot with signs directing people to Black Friday pickup. So I feel like you can do Black Friday shopping.
Speaker 2Kind of takes the fun out of it.
Speaker 1That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2I would rather just have it delivered to me, then Exactly, I kind of takes the fun out of it.
Speaker 1That's what I'm saying. I would rather just have it delivered to me then, exactly. I don't necessarily want to do it again, but I do think back fondly on Black Fridays Like that was a fun thing, that we would have our Thanksgiving dinners, take a little nap and then reconvene and go out for literally like 24 hours.
Speaker 2Go get a coffee at midnight and Power the F through.
Speaker 1Yeah, I Power the F through.
Speaker 2Yeah, I will say one of my favorite traditions. I mean, we have, that's one thing we were going to talk about, so I can just segue into that. So in my town Marion. In Marion Indiana. Yeah, it has the name of Christmas City, usa. Like I don't know where that started, but that's what it's called.
Speaker 1Someone dubbed it.
Speaker 2Yeah, we have this really cute light display that goes all through our park.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2And it is lights made. I don't know they're really big installations. Yeah, I don't know they're really big installations and it goes throughout the whole thing. And on Thanksgiving is when it gets lit for the first time. They light it up for the first time. There's a big Thanksgiving Day parade that goes through the city. It's like you know dance studios and all the schools, the county schools, their bands and all of that. And then then, yeah, they light the um park up and then you go through and you get drive through a walk through bow okay when it's this time of year, you can walk through easier because it's not snowing yet or not snowing badly yet.
Speaker 2Yeah, and you get a little hot chocolate and you walk through. It's a cute little date night, um, so that's like one thing I always love. And they have the 12 days of Christmas. Uh, a different light installation for each one of them, and when you drive through you drive really slowly so you can see all the lights. My dad always made us sing the song as we drove through.
Speaker 1Oh, that's cute so it was cute.
Speaker 2Wait, what was your question?
Speaker 1Like they have one at headwaters park, similar called festival of lights.
Speaker 2It's probably the same it's like linked to a radio station so you can like hear they actually don't do that with ours, but when we go to that, ever since I've lived here, we've gone up to a neighborhood in pasadena like our friend group. Yeah and they, they do that there the radio sync to that one one house it's only one house. Yeah, that's for one house wow, for some reason in my head it was multiple that's magical it is magical was it last year.
Speaker 1We went and did that and we were too late and as soon as we got to one house, like all the lights shut off yeah, that was, that was bad.
Speaker 2It was bad, but we could do it again.
Speaker 1We could, we could.
Speaker 2We can get there earlier.
Speaker 1We could try. We definitely could try.
Speaker 2Do you? What are your? What were your family's Thanksgiving traditions?
Speaker 1It was always growing up. It was always breakfast, breakfast, it would be lunch. Well, I would always wake up early to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade. Um, and then lunch was either at my. When my grandparents lived in Muncie, it was usually lunch there, so we would get up and drive to Muncie have lunch there and then drive to Decatur and have dinner at my grandpa's.
Speaker 1Lots of driving, oh all constantly, and then literally I think that is that's literally what we did every year until I moved. I moved out here was lunch in Decatur, and then we would drive to Michigan and do Thanksgiving dinner, and then we would stay the night there and then in the next day we'd spend the whole day decorating my grandparents' house for Christmas.
Speaker 2Oh cute.
Speaker 1My grandma has always done it the same way every year Decorates for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving takes it all down on the 26th Wow so.
Speaker 2It's's. That's so much work it is and they have to actually plan, yeah, to do nothing that day you have to put in your calendar.
Speaker 1But that was like if you wanted to stay at grandma and grandpa's, you were helping put it up and you were helping take it down. So I did like really enjoy thanksgiving time growing up because it was just a lot of like fun yeah, a. A lot of cousin time and then, yeah, I was never at my mom and dad's. Like we never hosted, we always we always went, but mom always made stuff, you know.
Speaker 2Yeah, my, I feel like my mom would make like a cinnamon roll type thing for when we would get up and watch the parade and then we would go over to my grandparents and I think she would make like sort of like an egg casserole and that would be like a brunch situation Cute. Which I think we still try to do, like my brother-in-law makes it usually, and then when I've been here, I've made it. I feel, like you had it last year probably.
Speaker 1You made something yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, so I really enjoy that. And then I can't remember in the evening, like for dinner, we probably just stayed there the whole time. Yeah, leftovers and just had leftovers, which I'll get into when we talk about ranking the foods, because I have some.
Speaker 1I have some interesting opinions.
Speaker 2Oh, you do.
Speaker 1I do.
Speaker 2Mine are probably pretty regular. I have some interesting opinions. Oh, you do, I do, I mine are probably pretty regular, I feel but, I do have like a, the culmination of it all when you have your leftovers you know, but yeah, cinnamon rolls Yum.
Speaker 1Love a cinnamon roll.
Speaker 2And they were the Pillsbury from the can, which probably people think ew, but actually no, so good.
Speaker 1Actually no so good the icing so good.
Speaker 2Iconic, wow, yep. And or the one with the orange.
Speaker 1Oh, I love that one. Yum, maybe I'll do that for myself for Thanksgiving morning. You should We'll see.
Speaker 2Love that. Well, I have speaking of the parade I um have the who's performing slash guest appearances that I can read you and we can you know please tell me sabrina's doing it well, I don't know. Okay, I can double check if there's been any new announcements, but this is what I have from me what you got so so Jennifer Hudson is performing Kylie Minogue, which is kind of fun and Billy Porter, okay, and then Cynthia Erivo not Ariana. We'll see if we get down in this list.
Speaker 1They don't really do it in the first movie.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1I guess they do loathing.
Broadway Holiday Performance Lineup
Speaker 2That's what I was going to say earlier. Is that, uh, reagan and I were talking earlier and really the second half. We already know that it shouldn't be two parts in general, but the second half is, I hate, like the first quarter of the second half I know it's like a lot and I don't think normies, who don't know the show, are going to like it, unless it's really cooked up.
Speaker 1Yeah, unless they make it really from the book.
Speaker 2But it's like the first quarter is some of the boring songs the wizard song and something else no one mourns the wicked is a reprise I don't like that one, but I don't know it's just boring until you get to as long as you're mine, yeah, it so whatever, but yeah, cynthia isn't listed here. And then, oh, mary's cole escola. I don't know if, oh mary is a show that I'm unaware of. Cool Escola, oh Mary, oh Mary.
Speaker 1It's a Broadway, one act or one person Broadway show.
Speaker 2Oh, so that person? It's a comedy. Okay, wait, are you making that up? No, it's real. Okay, well then, he'll be there Then, bishop Briggs.
Speaker 1Hello old classmate.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, kylie Cantrell. I don't know who that is. Chloe, I believe that means Chloe Bailey. Yeah, although I thought I didn't know that she didn't use her last name.
Speaker 1No, she doesn't.
Speaker 2Interesting, dan and Shay.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Dasha, who had that big song on TikTok, the country song right Like the the. Everyone was doing the dance to it.
Speaker 1I have no singing voice. Do your best. Yeah, everyone was doing the line.
Speaker 2dance to that Uh, jimmy Fallon and the roots Cute Coco Jones, love Walker Hayes.
Speaker 1Love.
Speaker 2Ariana Maddox. I wonder if she's performing with Chicago.
Speaker 1Ariana Maddox from the show. Oh, she's definitely doing a number with Chicago. Yes, from Vanderpump rules. Ariana Maddox from the show. Oh, she's definitely doing a number with Chicago.
Speaker 2Yes from. Banner Pump Rules. I don't know if she's currently still in Chicago, but she has been.
Speaker 1Must be. I don't know why they'd have her performing it.
Speaker 2Which is good because everyone lip syncs, so there's nothing at stake for her to mess up, so she definitely should. That's a big thing for people to see her, joey McIntyre.
Speaker 1Cute.
Speaker 2Idina Menzel, natty Natasha. Okay, this one is exciting for me. T-pain.
Speaker 1That is fun.
Speaker 2Rachel Platten.
Speaker 1Just continues to sing fight song for the rest of her life Fighting for fight song.
Speaker 2This one is very exciting to me and I am so excited for what she's going to sing fight song for the rest of her life Fighting for fight song. This one is very exciting to me and I am so excited for what she's going to sing. But Lea Salonga.
Speaker 1Oh cute. I wonder what she will sing.
Speaker 2Something Disney. Maybe, the Temptations that's fun.
Speaker 1Does it say what floats they're on, or just that they're featured?
Speaker 2I don't know, there's like it's hyperlinked, so let me see if I can if it tells me broadway legends bernadette peters and leah salonga to bring old friends musical to la ahead of new york debut. See, they're doing a production of steven sondheim's old friends okay, don't know that uh, I don't know but the temptations, the warren treaty cute alex warren. Who's that? Do you know? Okay, sebastian yatara yatra okay charlie d'amelio, I bet. I mean she's obviously performing in and juliet, so I assume and juliet is performing.
Speaker 1That would make sense because what is?
Speaker 2she doesn't sing, she's so she's just gonna be. Yeah, ballet dancers tyler peck and roman mayha mayha. Jonathan bennett which, what would he be doing? Just a christmas song? Yeah, probably. Liza cologne, zayas tom kenny, gina claire mason, lon Zias Tom Kenny, gina Claire Mason. That's all that list said. It's hosted by Savannah Guthrie, hoda Kotb and Al Roker, which Hoda just announced she was leaving, right, and um, they announced who her replacement was on the news portion that she's on. It's a guy. He looks very cute, queer. I don't think he's queer, I think he's straight. He seems straight to me. I don't know, maybe I shouldn't say that. Anyway, he seems nice, but they haven't announced who is going to be with her and Jenna, okay, and Jenna, apparently, is going to cycle through people and see who fits, like they did with Kelly.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2So interesting, but Hoda has been there forever. It's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1That'll be fun. Yeah, so I won't be waking up for it, but it'll be fun, Are you? So I won't be waking up for it but it'll be fun.
Speaker 2Are you just going to watch the re do?
Speaker 1I'll see whatever pops up on Tik TOK.
Historical Events and Thanksgiving Food Ranking
Speaker 2I do want to watch it, but I will be in Eastern time. So it'll, it'll be easier, yeah, but yeah, there you go. Cute, 98th annual, 98 years Wild. What was the year 98 years ago?
Speaker 1Hey Siri, what year was it 98 years ago? It was Friday November 19th 1926.
Speaker 21926. Let's see what was happening in 1926.
Speaker 1My great grandmother was 16 years old 16.
Speaker 2Wow, yeah, this is the AI overview, so we'll see. But many events occurred in 1926, including political unrest still happening today, scientific discoveries and births of some notable, notable people. The year was marked by political unrest in many countries, including Britain, poland, portugal and Lithuania uh, trades union strike. Scientific discoveries Albert Einstein and Leo Slizzard invented the Einstein refrigerator invented the Einstein refrigerator and some tractor plows and an electric chainsaw.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 2Queen Elizabeth. The second was born.
Speaker 1Oh, my God.
Speaker 2Fidel Castro was born Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 1You love her, the queen.
Speaker 2Which is that? The queen? That I know, yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, the queen that you know the queen that I know, marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 2Wow, you know I that. You know the queen that I know, marilyn Monroe Wow. You know, I never have thought about when she was born. But she definitely had to have been born. I just thought it was later than that, to be honest. Well, don Juan may have been the first talking picture shown to the public, premiered in New York city. So a video, a talking picture, does that mean a video?
Speaker 1I think so that's a crazy way to say it, yeah.
Speaker 2The United States highway system, route 66 was established. That's cool.
Speaker 1Nice.
Speaker 2NBC radio opened. Harry Houdini died Sorry.
Speaker 1I didn't mean to laugh, I just wasn't pretty ready for died.
Speaker 2Sorry, I didn't mean to laugh, I just wasn't ready for that. No, he died of peritonitis and I can't look that up.
Speaker 1Don't do it.
Speaker 2Anyway, that was what was happening in 1920. Okay 1926., 1926. Happy anniversary to To that To Harry Houdini's passing.
Speaker 1He passed and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day began.
Speaker 2Wow, he didn't. I wonder if he got to see it, you know.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2Dang it sucks.
Speaker 1The odds are no, because there's only two months left in the year yeah. A month actually, when the Thanksgiving Day parade is happening.
Speaker 2Well, I am sorry to him.
Speaker 1I am too.
Speaker 2I wonder what it had to be so much shorter.
Speaker 1For sure.
Speaker 2Cause it goes on forever, it never ends.
Speaker 1So another thing we wanted to talk about was ranking Thanksgiving food.
Speaker 2So do you want to do that?
Speaker 1Yeah, let's, let's do it.
Speaker 2How many foods are you ranking here?
Speaker 1Well, do you have a list of the foods?
Thanksgiving Food Rankings and Favorites
Speaker 2Um, I don't have a formal one, but I can pull it up. Well, let's okay, so my I have my own list, but it's just a few. But here we go. This is such a big list but I will read them. Cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, brussels sprouts I think that's more of a british thing. They have sprouts.
Speaker 1Okay, sweet potatoes, thanksgiving stuffing, turkey, pumpkin pie, mac and cheese, sweet potato casserole different than sweet potatoes it is green beans rolls apple pie that's a summertime thing but I don't know I, I, my grandma, makes apple dumplings for thanksgiving oh yum, so good mashed potatoes, pecan pie.
Speaker 2there's kind of repeats things, so that's kind of it yeah.
Speaker 1Here's. Here's my hot take.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Starting with the main course. I hate Turkey.
Speaker 2I'm I'm. A lot of people do not like it. I like it.
Speaker 1I'll take a ham. I love a Thanksgiving ham a juicy chicken. Nope.
Speaker 2Oh, just a ham, that's, I feel like. Not a lot of people like that. I'm down with a ham, but I like Turkey.
Speaker 1That's great. A lot of people do. It's just like no, not for me.
Speaker 2I will say I like the dark meat better, which is what's worse for you, that's juicier. I don't want super dry white meat, but I still I'll eat it. Because you like cranberry sauce, though, oh yeah, and you'll put that on the turkey. I do not.
Speaker 1I do not yeah, so cranberry sauce, the canned.
Speaker 2I like the good old canned. I don't need fancy, I don't need it to be artisan cranberry sauce.
Speaker 1You like the jelly, thing, I like the jelly can that?
Speaker 2you just slurp right out of the can and slice it up.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's like a fleshlight.
Speaker 2I hate that.
Speaker 1So right out the gate, I'm going to say for me, I don't know how we rank them.
Speaker 2I had. I just made a list of two, three of, like the top five for me.
Speaker 1Okay, what's your top five? But I have an honorable mention. Okay, great, go Of the last one.
Speaker 2So this is an order of importance Best to worst.
Speaker 1I could do, I could do worst to best it's like the five things you want to see on your plate, but number five, if it wasn't there, it's like that's sure, but number one definitely.
Speaker 2Better fucking be there, correct so number five for me is turkey. I do want it if it's like oh, it's too, too much to make the turkey. I'm okay with a chicken or a ham. I would guess I would rather chicken because it is the closest to a turkey, but whatever.
Speaker 1Next is the cranberry sauce. Like I, said jelly.
Speaker 2So that's number four, that's number two, that's number four. Okay, sorry. Number three is a Hawaiian roll. Here's my thing. I want the Hawaiian roll. I'm fine. I know other people do different dinner rolls yeah.
Speaker 1I love a crescent.
Speaker 2That's good too, but I like the Hawaiian roll, and I'll get to why later.
Speaker 1Oh, later Okay.
Speaker 2But it's number three. Number two mashed potatoes. Okay, I'm okay with there being some type of gravy. Oh, I am okay with some lumps too no gross. Oh, really no, but I prefer it to be smooth. Yeah, I'm okay with a gravy. Do I like a white gravy over a brown gravy? Yes, okay. And then number one is mac and cheese. Okay, honorable mention. Super number one is when you have your leftovers and you put all of these things into the Hawaiian roll little sandwich.
Speaker 1Okay, a Thanksgiving day leftover sandwich.
Speaker 2Yes, In the little Hawaiian roll you put a little piece of Turkey, you put the mashed potato you put the cranberry sauce, you put the um mac and cheese, make a little uh sandwich and then that's your leftover.
Speaker 1Okay, cute fire. That does sound good. I'm a sides guy for sure, like yeah I probably wouldn't even put a main meat on the list. If there was going to be one, it's going to be ham. But I am, uh, I want stuffing, I want I want something is good.
Speaker 1I want a dinner roll of some sort. Yeah, I can be, hawaiian is fire, but I love a crescent. My mom makes fire homemade crescent rolls um mac and cheese, mashed potatoes and, like sometimes my grandpa would used to do, like a corn type dish like a corn casserole. I also love that corn casserole or just like cream corn. I just love corn.
Speaker 2My mom makes a good corn casserole, yeah it's really just the recipe on the jiffy yeah corn box yams or like a sweet potato casserole or yams are fine. I'm not like yeah, if it's there, I'll have a scoop.
Speaker 1But my grandma on my dad's side, my grandma, she would make this like mayonnaise salad. That sounds like the ambrosia salad no, I mean kind of it's like apples, grapes, mayonnaise.
Speaker 2Yes I know I'm freaking here for it. I know it does seem gross and like now as an adult thinking about it. Oh, it's just hard.
Speaker 1It's hard, but I know exactly what you're talking about and it is good, it's delicious and my grandma would make that for was it green too?
Speaker 2no, I feel like my grandma made one with green jello. It had green gelatin in it?
Speaker 1Yeah, that's normal.
Speaker 2It's the most Midwest thing.
Speaker 1It really is.
Speaker 2What was that? In the 50s there was all kinds of salad like that. There was yeah.
Speaker 1And a lot of it was. Jello was the component.
Speaker 2And mayonnaise, and mayonnaise. I love mayonnaise guys, of course I love you just reminded me of something when you said oh, and pumpkin fucking pie that's what I was thinking. I am a pecan pie girl always have been. Since I have come around on pumpkin these days the past couple years, I'm like pumpkin's kind of good. I hated it my whole life. I'm not mad at pumpkin pie now, but I pump. Pecan pie is my jam pecan pie.
Speaker 1Here's the thing. Pumpkin pie is superior. However, it is really best when it's all cold, like I know people like a hot pumpkin pie with whipped cream I don't think, or that I do. No, I want that shit to be cold.
Speaker 2Yeah, Cold cool whip cold. It holds a shape more yeah, oh yeah. Pumpkin pie yeah, yeah, I like it now, but I still, if I have the choice between the two, I want pecan. I hear that oh my mom always makes monkey bread on thanksgiving.
Speaker 1My gosh, yeah, my grandma made monkey bread too, so good, that is very good.
Speaker 2You can buy it frozen you can yeah which we have done in a couple years. My grandma made again. I don't know how grandparents did this it was the same, for we've talked about this before after church like how did they have so much food prepared all at the same time yeah, ready at the same time, hot at the same time, all ready to be served? Like I do not understand it. I feel like it's a grandparent thing. I agree, and yeah, my grandma always had in the morning.
Speaker 2Yeah, the the cat the breakfast casserole and the monkey bread and then lunch, or you know, linner was all ready at the exact same time and she had a singular oven. Yeah, like it wasn't like a you know kitchen chef grade thing with like a bunch of different ovens and skillets and whatever, yeah, a one, and somehow everything was done at the exact same time.
Speaker 1Magic.
Speaker 2Yeah, yum Good rankings. Yeah, I feel like mine are pretty regular, but the Hawaiian roll sandwich could be a cute, you know it's a fun addition.
Wizard of Oz Dark Production History
Speaker 2Yeah. So since wicked is coming out around this time, I went on a deep dive of the wizard of oz curses, yeah, that people say happened from the original movie. They're kind of dark and honestly, when I was looking at them I was like these aren't curses, this is just the production company being negligent. But I thought we could go through them and just like chat, because they're kind of interesting and kind of also sad, so, so uplifting. But the first one is that the 10 man makeup was toxic.
Speaker 2I heard that this might be known, but if you don't know, it was made out of aluminum dust or aluminum if you live in the UK Aluminum. So Buddy Ebsen was originally cast in the role of the Tin man. However, when he got his makeup put on, he was poisoned by it and started to experience body aches, muscle cramps and shortness of breath and he had to be hospitalized. He had to drop out and he claimed that mgm ignored his claims that he was ill and refused to believe him. And it wasn't until he was ordered back onto the set that then they um gave him a nurse, so he was like hospitalized and then they brought him back.
Speaker 2For some reason they didn't replace him, they just waited, I guess, until he was better. But they then gave him a nurse to check on him. So they weren't like, let's figure out a different way to make you silver. No, we're just gonna have a nurse check on you every once in a while. Um, oh, they did replace him. So then they replaced him with jack haley for the role of the tin man. The studio learned from the terrible case and, instead of using straight aluminum powder, the makeup artist mixed it into paste. So they did try, but then they were like, instead of it being powder, we're gonna make it wet, and then, like it doesn't change anything and it didn't run completely. Smoothie harley developed an infection in his right eye that needed medical attention medical attention, but he ended up being.
Speaker 2It was treatable, but it's just like you just said press on yeah we're gonna make it into a paste but with a new guy yeah, they hurt, they injured two people yeah I.
Speaker 2I wonder this isn't in this article, but I wonder if. Did they fire buddy epson or did he quit because he was ill? Interesting, because there's no way he didn't get sick again from the pace, like it was about the metal, right, I don't know. Crazy, but that was a thing. Margaret hamilton, who played the wickedicked Witch of the West, got burned Seriously During her iconic first scene which shows her having a fiery exit from Munchkinland.
Speaker 2She suffered a second-degree burn on her face and a third-degree burn on her hand due to the trapdoor used for the entrance and exit having a delayed drop to eliminate the brief glimpse of it being seen in the final edit. So she got burned pretty badly and she came back to set and then was asked to film the surrender Dorothy scene, which is like at the end of the movie, and she had to sit on her broom and there was fireworks that came out of the back of the broom on that and she was like no, I'm not doing that. She was like I refuse. So not doing that. She was like I refuse. So they had a stunt double do it and she got burned.
Speaker 1Oh, my God.
Speaker 2It says, betty Danko performed the scene and she was severely burned. During the sequence, the pipe on the broom exploded on the third take and caught fire. Jesus, so I mean, obviously this was well. I don't even know when this was filmed the 20s?
Speaker 1Hey, Siri, when was the Wizard of Oz filmed? Here's what I found about the Wizard of Oz when a tornado rips through Canada. It's a biography of Judy Garland. Siri, stop 1939. Got it.
Speaker 2So obviously, you know, there weren't as many safety precautions as there are today, Although things can still happen, as we know from the uh tragic gun situation that happened a few years ago. Things can still happen, but it seems that they didn't have ways to fix it. They were just like this happened throw someone else in and the same exact thing happens. Yeah, uh. Another thing was the toxic asbestos was, uh, in the snow and the poppy scene. So when they are in the poppy field and, uh, the wicked witch puts a spell on them and they get sleepy and tired and from the snow, it's asbestos, which is crazy and uh, that was a thing. So people just like kept getting hurt and sick and that's why people say that it's a curse. But really it's just them being negligent.
Speaker 2The two actors playing winged monkeys crashed into the ground when the wires holding them broke. This. No one should be making this movie. They did not know what they were doing. Uh, there is the wives tale of the person you can see being hung in the hanged. I don't know what the correct grammar is, but in the background when they first start on the yellow brick road to leave the production company. It's been fixed now in the remastered version.
Speaker 2They took it out yeah but their explanation was it's like a bird. They had these cranes apparently in the back that had animals that. So it looked like there was things flying in the forest in the back and they say that it's a big, like bird that's supposed to be flying in the back. It really does look like someone's hanging, but that is you know. We don't know what the truth is and so that's what the movie. Then there was a wizard of oz theme park that was created in north carolina in 1970 yeah and that did not have a good time either.
Speaker 2Oh so the premise was? It opened in, yeah, 1970 and the visitors would start off in kansas, experience a tornado and then walk down the Gallowbrook Road and then they would be met with all the characters the Scarecrow, the Lion, the Wicked Witch and then they would get to the Emerald City and there is an amphitheater where there's a show that's happening. It sounds actually kind of fun.
Speaker 1It does.
Speaker 2The owner died a few months before the opening, so that's sad he didn't get to see died a few months before the opening, so that's sad he didn't get to see but suspicious like walt disney yeah, did he die before? The park opened. Disney world, oh, disney world. Okay, I was like I thought that he saw land, disneyland, yeah.
Speaker 2So then on december in 1975 the amphitheater and the surrounding buildings caught fire, unknowingly, like like unsuspectingly. Okay. So that happened and it reopened, but then it didn't do well. And then a couple I don't forget what year they said, but a few, a decade or so ago they reopened it. And they reopened it once a year for in the fall time for people to go, and they've kind of made it like a fall wizard of oz attraction cute but it's only for a few months out of the year.
Speaker 2Oh, got it so cute if you, if anyone's ever been there, let us know I honestly, if I was in the area, I would go yeah but yeah, there's just like weird things. And also people have been talking about Cynthia and Ariana. They their appearance, which I don't want to get into their their reasoning why. But people have been comparing how they looked before they started filming into now, and they are much skinnier.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 2And so people are like it's the curse of the wizard of Oz, judy Garland. But this curse, the wizard of oz, judy garland, put this curse. The other thing is that judy garland, that's what started her drug addiction, because on set she was young and on set they made her.
Speaker 2They were like they told her she was yeah they told her she was too big, which is crazy, like even I think the guy who played the scarecrow like there's a quote of him calling her plump and it's like what. She was small, yeah, that's crazy. But they made her smoke cigarettes and like she could only eat like a certain amount of food and so that's what jump-started her like eating disorder and drug addiction and alcoholism, so it's dark dark, it is dark.
Speaker 2The Wizard of Oz is dark, even though it's a beloved movie and it's, from my childhood, one of my favorite things. But now, looking back, it's like so many bad dark things happened with this. So, but yeah, Cynthia and Ariana, I don't know what's going on, but people have noted that they look different.
Speaker 1Interesting. Well, they did shoot it over two years ago.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't know. All they're doing is crying a lot, they cry a lot Every interview. They're just crying, yeah Well.
Speaker 1I'm excited to see the movie We'll see.
Speaker 2Yeah, we are seeing it in a few days, so.
Speaker 1We'll report back in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm excited, cool. Well, we are excited to hear from everyone and your Thanksgiving traditions and plans. So leave us a comment and tell us your favorite thing about Thanksgiving or what your favorite foods are If you're in a different country, aren't you know? Probably celebrating it you're not celebrating it. So what do you do on this day when the rest of the like, when america, is talking about thanksgiving? Are you guys just like, okay, you guys are weird.
Speaker 1The canadians celebrated it last month yes, they have canadian thanksgiving in.
Speaker 2Yeah, Does anyone else? Because they're seeing us, you know, have this day? Has anyone? Do you think any other country has a tradition? They've started on their own or in any families in other countries been like, oh, this is like American Thanksgiving, so we're going to do this every year on this day for fun or like transplants, people that have moved from America that still want to celebrate it. Yeah, cause if I was in another country I would make my friends there celebrate with me.
Speaker 1It's like it's like uh, emma from our dodgeball team, she is Canadian, so she hosts a Canadian Thanksgiving here. Cute, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Well, let us know what you think and if you're in another country, eat some turkey for us.
Speaker 1Gobble, gobble, bitch.
Speaker 2Let us know how you like it and we will see you next week, and I hope you have a great week.
Speaker 1Happy Thanksgiving. Have a great week. Sorry, my voice sounds like this.
