Get Ready
If you have a frozen turkey, you probably want to let it take up residence in your fridge starting today. Let it thaw out slowly over the next number of days. Please don’t put a frozen turkey in a deep fryer unless you really want to burn down your house.
Instead of politics today, here is my recipe guide that I give out annually.
And yes, by popular demand, I’ve begun work on compiling a cookbook. More on that later.
I’ll have more in the noon-time show notes today on the news headlines. I really wanted to focus on those recipes this morning.
Lastly, I will be doing another “Not Safe For Radio Show.” Paid subscribers will get access to tickets before anyone else, including the radio audience. The event will be in January, north of Atlanta. We’re talking to the Roxy right now, which is right next to the Braves’ stadium.
So if you are a free subscriber, thank you, but the paid subscribers get first access to tickets.
Kudos to you Erick.
I’m afraid I have to interject because of something happening at the cdc. Which has changed its wording on vaccines and autism.
I completely disagree with the implication that vaccines might cause autism. Decades of rigorous research involving millions of children across the world have shown no causal connection between childhood vaccines and autism. The original study that sparked this myth was proven fraudulent, retracted, and its author was stripped of his medical license. Major medical organizations—including the American Academy of Pediatrics—state unequivocally that vaccines do not cause autism. The CDC’s updated phrasing creates unnecessary confusion by implying uncertainty where none exists, and it risks undermining public confidence in life-saving vaccines.
And let’s be honest: this sudden shift in language feels like a political ripple effect from RFK Jr., who has built an entire identity around anti-vaccine misinformation. He has pushed the false vaccine–autism narrative for years, and now we’re seeing agencies tiptoe around language that was already backed by decades of science. If this change was made to appease RFK Jr. or to soften the ground for his talking points, that’s unacceptable. And I’ll say this plainly: if I find out Donald Trump had any involvement in approving or supporting this kind of messaging, he would lose my support on the spot. I’m not joking. Public health isn’t a political toy, and I won’t back any candidate—Republican or otherwise—who entertains anti-vax rhetoric or panders to conspiracy theorists at the expense of scientific truth.
Every republican needs to come forward and say NO. NO NO and double no.
Re: "Please don’t put a frozen turkey in a deep fryer unless you really want to burn down your house"
Erick is not kidding, and it's not hyperbole!