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Thanksgiving Tales, Football Fever, and Our Upcoming Farewell
Ever thought about how swiftly time flies as Thanksgiving approaches, or how those sweet potato dumplings are always the first to disappear from the table? As we chat about visiting Gracie's new house and our favorite holiday dishes, we can't help but take a detour down memory lane with a humorous critique of Humphrey Bogart's unforgettable cinematic moments. With exaggerated fight scenes and love stories that have us chuckling, we ponder how storytelling in movies has transformed over the years. It's a lively start to our episode, filled with nostalgia and the anticipation of holiday cheer.
As the playoff season heats up, our discussion turns to the thrilling world of football, where the unexpected rise of the Detroit Lions and the fresh energy of young quarterbacks have us on the edge of our seats. Comparing college and professional leagues, we debate the merits of the expanded College Football Playoff format with a bit of skepticism. We even throw in a nod to Seinfeld's essence of overthinking before making a heartfelt announcement: this podcast will wrap up on December 8th. But don't fret! We're excited to tease our next big project, "The Melania Memoirs: A Return to Grace," ready to grace your ears soon. Plus, we reminisce about the days of transitioning from the kids' table to the adult table at family gatherings, capturing the essence of childhood and family traditions.
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Good morning, happy Monday, bonus content. The gent is here only because I have a doctor's appointment early this morning, so I'm going to go to my doctor's appointment and then go to work. So here we are.
Speaker 2:Good morning everyone and all. It's a glorious day, even though the sun's not up yet.
Speaker 1:Oh, they just showed a plate of Thanksgiving food on the television.
Speaker 2:Wow, that looked good too. It did look good, considering yesterday I had a piece of toast, some pineapple and a piece of toast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Boy, I wish I could eat like that and lose weight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you know your point when you don't want to eat, that kind of makes it so that that was easy to do, I know. Anyway, thanksgiving food looked good. Yeah, it's amazing. You know, a couple of our favorite events during the year Christmas and Thanksgiving seem to take forever to get here, but when they get here they seem like they're gone so fast.
Speaker 1:I know I can't believe that November has gone by really fast. Yeah it has, and Thanksgiving is this week. I can't believe that it's November has gone by really fast. Yeah it has, and Thanksgiving is this week. I can't believe it.
Speaker 2:You know, I think part of that whole speed of something like that is having make things go so fast as if you have something to look forward to. You know, we, you know we get out of town kind of maybe sort of kind of once a month of town, kind of maybe sort of kind of once a month. And you know, every time we go we set a date to do and do something else and seems like, okay, the anticipation of that and the waiting for that makes everything, makes time go by so fast, even though it seems like it's going so slow. Yeah, it makes it seems like it just goes.
Speaker 1:And then, of course, then, of course, once you're there, once we're there, oh, it's going to be we got all this time it's going to be forever.
Speaker 2:We got four days and you wake up and it's gone, it's gone. It's like oh my God. I think that's part of it. The anticipation makes time go faster, the looking forward to things like that.
Speaker 1:I agree.
Speaker 2:What are you looking forward to most this Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1:Going over to Gracie's house, the daughter's house. We haven't been over there yet. It's a new house for them. It's seeing everybody getting everybody together.
Speaker 2:What's your favorite side dish? Oh gosh, we're not going to make that question of the day. What's?
Speaker 1:your favorite side dish. Oh gosh, we're not going to make that question of the day. No, oh, I'm going to go with the sweet potato dumplings. Oh yeah, Even though I like the corn casserole, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Although I like mashed potatoes. Oh yeah, that's true too.
Speaker 1:I don't think we're having mashed potatoes this year.
Speaker 2:No, Gracie said she was going to make them. Yeah, I'm making the dumplings and the casserole and another casserole. So I got two casseroles and the sweet potato dumplings.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:By the way, if you don't know what sweet potato dumplings are, look it up, make it. It will become part of your family staple household.
Speaker 1:I also talked about it on my YouTube channel yesterday.
Speaker 2:I gave you kind of the gist of it, how it was made. Oh yeah, I didn't. You know, I remember, you know we had them at my sister-in-law's, my brother's house once and I thought, wow, this was a really elegant not elegant, but this is a really tough, hard dish to make. And you know, when I looked at it and found the recipe and I was like, oh, all this is is following directions, with croissant rolls and a thing of sweet potato patties Patties pre-made.
Speaker 1:Patties Pre-made.
Speaker 2:It's like this is simple, but it's so good, you got to have it, you got to have it, you got to have it. I agree Absolutely. What else is going on?
Speaker 1:I don't know Nothing, nothing.
Speaker 2:Nothing. Hmm, well, today's Monday. We don't usually do a podcast on Monday.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. We got to decide what we're going to do for dinner. Yeah, we finished watching the other Bogart movie last night. Let me tell you they made movies differently back then.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, they did, yes, they did Again. Last night there was a little more violence, I guess. Yeah, slapping around the fight scenes are so unrealistic because Bogart clearly in two ways of a hand steals the gun and floors the guy in all the fights. It's kind of like, okay, in one swift Delph move he restrains the bad guy in his overalls or his overcoat, yeah, and has both guns out of his pocket and you know the guy's not fighting back or anything, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, looking at him with, you know, gritting his teeth at him. Okay, this is All. All right, I get it. So you know there's not a whole lot of violence in them, but and it's fun too how it's funny too when they're I, I laughed at this when they're talking, talking to each other, you know, kind of throwing insults and threats back and forth, and then they just kind of it's kind of like two dogs you know, growling and barking at each other and then they walk away together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Like okay. And then the love scenes between the men and the women. They're so dramatic.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, oh yeah, they were definitely. I say love scenes they're just oh yeah, they were definitely I say love scenes, they're just talking. Yes.
Speaker 1:Or arguing or talking passionately to each other.
Speaker 2:I love the way you know the little women will turn their head away, yeah. With their hand in the air like that.
Speaker 1:I noticed in the movies that we watched there was no really outdoor scenes, unless they're driving a car. Otherwise, everything is inside a room and it's mainly dialogue. It's a lot of dialogue and talking. Yes, yeah, absolutely. Not a lot of moving around or anything like that, not a lot of action.
Speaker 2:They didn't have the extravagant technology that we have today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know this one that we watched last night, that we finished watching last night the Maltese Falcon. It made me so sleepy.
Speaker 2:It had a, I don't know it was a. It was a weird storyline. Yeah, weird story, weird plot, weird weird ending. I mean he sent the girl away.
Speaker 1:He sent the girl away to prison.
Speaker 2:He was all about himself, he wasn't going to. I guess that's part of the business, though he probably has relationships like that that you have to work with him, get close, but if you get close, then you can't do your business. But he wasn't real upset about his partner getting shot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was having an affair with his partner getting shot. Yeah, you know, he was having an affair with his partner's wife partner's wife that's the kind of those things kind of shocked me. Even the casablanca kind of shocked me about the, the uh affairs and stuff that they were having, yeah, and I was like, oh, this is like 1940 something I thought they didn't do that thing back then and they had it all over the movies.
Speaker 2:No, I think they were much more. What's the word I'm trying to think Loose, I can't think of the word but they were much more promiscuous than we're led on to believe back in the 20s, I did not know that. You don't think they were getting together back then? Well, you know, they didn't have entertainment and lights and all that stuff. The lights went off, that was it, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got you. So, yeah, we watched that. That was a good movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they had it going on back then, that's for sure.
Speaker 1:All right, well, movie yeah, they had it going on back then. That's for sure what else we got. I've not been watching any news, have you?
Speaker 2:No, I haven't really. The only thing I've seen so far in the day is they're talking about how well-rounded the Trump cabinet is and, of course, as they're talking about it, they're saying this one's gay and this one's black, and it's like come on, you guys are just as much part of the problem as you know, here we have to, you know, look at it through the race and through the gender and through the Sexual preference you know when I just look at it. Ok, there's the cabinet secretary.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:You know, that's the way I I look at it, but I hear the media telling me that this is what they are yeah you know, it was the treasury secretary that he said.
Speaker 1:Then he's openly gay I don't care why do we have know that? Why do you feel the need to tell us that I don't care?
Speaker 2:Yeah exactly?
Speaker 1:Do you tell us that so-and-so is straight heterosexual? No, uh-uh, uh-uh. So shut up with the identity politics.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and again, it's not just coming from the left, exactly.
Speaker 1:It's coming from both sides of us, it sure is I.
Speaker 2:Coming from the left, exactly, it's coming from both sides of us, it sure is. We're just supposed to say nanny, nanny, poo-poo, look what we did. And again, you know, all of that just goes to show that they want ratings. I think it's all about ratings. It's trying to get a rise in reaction from you.
Speaker 1:All right, yeah, what about football? I know you had football. Did you watch football? A lot of football yesterday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did, let's see I did, but I don't really, you know, pro football I don't really pay attention to. That's true. I'm starting to pay attention to it a little bit more now that we're getting towards and I think I've talked about this now that we're getting towards playoffs and all that stuff, because, you know, with them playing almost 20 games a year, the first three, four, five, six games are just fodder. It's like baseball, which I don't watch anymore. 160 games, come on, man, that's just way too much. Um, so I kind of put this football season into two categories number one, college, and number two, pro, and I said, well, pro and college are together? No, not really, because college games kind of mean a little bit more in the beginning of the season than the professional games do. Then, when we get toward the end, the college games mean a lot more and then the pro games start to mean a lot more. So it just becomes more interesting now, uh, to see like the detroit lions are one of the better teams. What the detroit lions? They're never good, but they're now one of the better teams. So that's going to be interesting to see. And, yeah, interesting to see how kansas city, who has kind of been retooled again and again and again. They're kind of becoming the New England Patriots of the 2020s. So that's kind of interesting to watch and, you know, it's fun to see how the new players are starting to come around. A lot of the younger, new quarterbacks are playing real well. So we're having a new renovation and a new revolution in that kind of football, that kind of play. So it's fun. It's getting fun to watch, looking forward to it and, of course, you know, really looking forward to seeing how all this stuff for the CPF CFP is going to play out with this new 12-team thing. I think it was easier when they just picked four, but now they're going to be in 12 and trying to figure out who the hell gets in and who doesn't.
Speaker 2:I said this a long time ago. This is like college basketball getting ready to start. First, we had 16 teams in the college basketball. That wasn't enough. We went to 32. That wasn't enough, we went to 32. That wasn't enough, we went to 64. Now you got 67, 68 teams because you got two play-in games to get into the playoffs. Well, you know, wait a minute. What about the 69th and 70th and the 71st team? Well, they're going to deserve to get in by gosh, and then actually we're going to have 128 teams playing in the playoffs. So then what are the seasons going to matter? Just let's just start the season with everybody in the tournament.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And we'll have it done. So now we're going to have the top 12 teams in and I'll guarantee you that 13th and 14th team will be going. By God, we should have been in. And then we're going to make it 16. Yeah, by God, we need. You know, we're making more money off of this than we've ever made. So let's go to 32 teams. Yeah, that's the ticket, you know. Next thing, you know it's going to be like I just said. Let's just not have a season of football, let's just start with the playoffs and go right into it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, some things don't need to be changed, and this is one of them. This is one of them you know.
Speaker 2:Well, very good, that was a good recap on football. Absolutely, you know, it's one of those ones that I don't know if you ever saw, or remember this episode of seinfeld where, uh, I remember this episode of Seinfeld where George and Jerry are kind of talking each other, you know, wanting to, and George, you know, mentioned something about Jerry really getting to know him and Jerry says I don't really know if I want to know you that. Well, it's like maybe I'm going way too far into the mind of the mind of the gent with this stuff. Come on, come on down this little event.
Speaker 2:We know the mind of the mind of the gent with this stuff come on, come on down this little event.
Speaker 1:We know the mind of the gent well. We don't have, we don't have many more episodes to do this, because I've made the announcement yesterday, that's right on my youtube channel that this podcast will end. Of course, we already knew that that on December 8th will be our last episode.
Speaker 2:You and I will do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2:And then, so you know what we ought to do now. We know we ought to do this real quick. Sorry to interrupt, but before this, this is the mind of the gent, before it leaves my brain. You might've asked me at the end of this Okay, now, what were you going to say? And I go uh, I don't know, but this is your opportunity to ask the gent any question you want to ask, and we'll try to answer it in the next few episodes, because we don't have too many more there you go and you can ask, of course, my lovely bride here the same thing, but you'll have more chances to ask her questions of her than you will of me.
Speaker 1:So the new podcast which I am going to do. It's going to be a weekly podcast and it's called the Melania Memoirs A Return to Grace. Return to Grace. And starting December 9th through the 31st, every day there will be a teaser put out on the new podcast.
Speaker 2:On the Return to Grace.
Speaker 1:And then January 1st we'll start the full episodes once a week and then we have the inaug up into the inauguration will be about our history. Then, after the inauguration, we'll be going to current events. Now I saw something on x the other day yesterday from an account called the flotus Report, saying that the New York Post had written an article about her not being a full-time first lady, that she's not going to be living at the residence full-time, blah, blah blah. This account said that is false.
Speaker 2:It's a return to grace. Okay, I was throwing in some side effects. Well, that's interesting that they said that's not true, that she is going to be a full time. Yeah, well, you know that'll be some of the.
Speaker 1:You know, you can have a first part that puts down all the negative and then you can go into the return to grace yeah, so after the January 20th, after the inauguration, that's where I'm going to start picking up on the current events of the first lady.
Speaker 2:There you go, I'm looking, I'm excited, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1:We'll see how long it lasts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, looking forward to it.
Speaker 1:I don't want to talk about her book too.
Speaker 2:Well, and a lot more, a lot of more, a lot more in depth to Melania on you?
Speaker 1:yeah, hopefully. I don't know about that, but you know we'll see the return to grace.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, okay, I thought I came up with it.
Speaker 1:You did great, you did I think that's a great all right thing let's move on to the question of the day all right question of the day all right.
Speaker 1:The question of the day is thanksgiving related. Now, did your family have a kid's table and did you sit at it when you were a kid? The question is, at what age do remember what age did you get to join the adult table? We definitely had kids' tables at my mama and papa's house when we went to go visit. We had, you know, kids' tables and whatnot, and of course, we had a lot of cousins, so we had our own area. We had a lot of cousins kind of the same age. We had our own area. Uh, but what about you? Did you have a kid's table and do you remember what age you joined the adult table?
Speaker 2:we did, and I don't know uh I remember having kids table and, uh, I don't really remember. You know, I don't think I was real concerned with it. It was was more like how can I get away with something more than what table I'm sitting?
Speaker 1:at yeah, I imagine most people probably don't remember.
Speaker 2:I would guess we were probably 12, 10, 11.
Speaker 1:Pre-teens.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Before we got to be teenagers we were sitting at the table.
Speaker 1:I agree Probably. Yeah, alright, gotta go. Pat Gray's coming on.
Speaker 2:Have a great day.
