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Let's talk turkey. Families are going to have an unwelcome guest at the dinner table this year. That guest. It's called inflation Thanksgiving meal for 10 will cost on average $64 and five cents. That's a 20% increase from last year when it was only $53 the consumer price index for food consumed at home.

Is up 12.4% compared to a year ago. So a 16 pound turkey is nearly $30 this year. I went and bought my turkey. I just bought a breast and get a whole turkey just the breast and it was still nearly $23.

Wow. For three people a six pound breast is $23. Yeah. Stop staring at me because I said breast. I'm talking about a turkey breast. What's not doing that at all. But I'm sitting there as I'm paying the grocery bill calculating in my head. How many hours do I have to work to pay for the Thanksgiving dinner, which I think a lot of people are doing this year and maybe removing some more of the decadent items.

Right off the table. And I am thankful I may go or two house or for Thanksgiving. So at least I guess you might call it. But yeah, I have often pondered the whole Thanksgiving because I think of the effort it goes into making the whole deal. Right. I mean, in addition to the cost. There's the effort of Tony cats was speaking some sort of foreign language with some woman this morning.

About all the effort that goes into making a turkey. I don't know what he was talking about. I don't know. I was like, dude, pizza is pretty easy. You just show up and eat, don't you? I'll do whatever is necessary. I'll bring whatever you need, you know, whatever. I'm that person. But man, I've always just thought this is just a monumental amount of effort to do Thanksgiving. When the reality is it should be about people being together. Right. Gathering around the table. So here's my question.

So here's here's my gripe. Okay. Don't post a picture of your Thanksgiving plate on social media. We're all eating the same thing. Right. That's good. So all the pictures look the same. Right. You know, there's no real big difference between your green being casserole and my green being casserole.

And you know, Casey and I we have to have this discussion. Yeah. You know, Thanksgiving as you get older, it kind of changes the way you operate around Thanksgiving. Because many people may not be aware that for the younger generation.

I'll law Mr. Kevin over here. Uno dot gold on Instagram. It is the number one drinking day of the year. Today is the day before Thanksgiving. Yeah, called blackout Wednesday. The biggest bar night of the year. Yes. That's because everybody comes home from college. They make their triumphant return to their hometown. And where do they all congregate at the bar because they don't have to go to class or work the next day.

Now I had two issues with this. Okay. When I was a younger man, I consumed a lot more of these types of beverages than I do today. I drink almost none today because I would like to live past the age of 40.

And there is a there is a and you can back me up in this because you are just slightly more seasoned than me. There is a realization at some point in your 30s where you say if I continue to do as I've always done, I will not be able to say this into my mid 40s.

And I thankfully have come to that realization. But my beef with the night before Thanksgiving drinkers is twofold. Number one, it's like New Year's Eve. It's amateur hour. Right.

You get a lot of people who go out to a lot of times like two times during the year. The night before Thanksgiving because they don't want to work the next day and New Year's Eve. And so it's all sorts of one dangerous. And two, the cops are looking.

Oh, you didn't make a right turn signal 93 yards before you were supposed to turn right better pull that person over. We're normally they just let you go on pass. So unless you are an A plus plus plus plus plus plus plus driver.

You are about to get drug down with everybody else, even if you're not doing anything wrong. Now I have to imagine in your younger days, Rob Kendall, when you were going out for blackout Wednesday.

Were there ubers available? Oh no, it was a sleep in the back of your car was usually my preferred methodology of obeying applicable laws and motorist codes.

There was no Uber back then. And so if you went out, you were you were stuck. You were out. Now you said you had two issues. Yes, that was my number one issue. Number two is these people. And I'm talking about the people who parachute back in from their various

anti-toity Ivy League college experiences were taking up spots that were mine. Like I'm keeping these people afloat seven days a week while you're out screwing around at college. And then you come back in.

And now it takes me an hour and a half to get a drink. And so then it changes my whole approach because then you got to order like three drinks at the same time because takes an hour and a half to get back up there. And now I'm screwing up my whole drinking experience.

You're a true townie. Yeah. Well, look, I'm putting in the effort, you know, in August and September and October and first part of November. I'm tipping. I'm buying the drinks. I'm keeping these people afloat. And then for one night or I just takes my spot, takes my space, changes the experience, not fair to me.

So that means when you do go to the bar and you belly up, you have to double fit. Yeah, you have to order twice as many beverages because the line is so long. And then the problem like for me, let's say, for example, a long Island pitcher. That is dangerous to try to double fist a long Island pitcher because the amount of alcohol in them. And if you wait, then the ice melts into the drink. And it ruins the flavor of the drink. Uh-huh. Okay. So are you saying that this year you will not be going out? I'm so.

I'm so seasoned as you like to call it in my advanced age here. They didn't even call it black out Wednesday. It didn't even have that nickname. That's that's a your generation thing. So you're saying you're not doing that tonight. I cannot think of the last time I went out on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I mean, I bet it has been at least six or seven ish years. And I feel like I'm a better person because of it.

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