Jeremy Odom (4:51)
I do this for the people and to stay alive. Frankly, speaking of staying alive, I would like to go on the record as saying, I, Jeremy Odom, saved a turkey. Yes, I saved a turkey, Johnny. No, I didn't eat a turkey at Thanksgiving. And that's what I'm calling saving a turkey. No, no, no. Although I could see how one would think that, because a lot of times when people are like, I, I saved a turkey's life this year. And that just means you didn't eat turkey. You had, like, ham or maybe a salad. I don't know. I don't know what you eat for Thanksgiving. I did eat turkey at Thanksgiving. This came after Thanksgiving. This was a real life, actual turkey. Because when you think about it, remember, I've got a background in the grocery industry, okay? You not eating a turkey at Thanksgiving absolutely didn't save. Okay? I just want that to go on record right now. Unless you're. Unless you're allergic. And then maybe it saved your life, but it certainly didn't save a turkey's life because all that, all the turkeys that we eat, it's all been taken care of the year prior, okay? There's not gonna be one less turkey butchered, taken out just because you decided not to eat one on Thanksgiving. No, that's all taken care of. Your prior turkeys. Turkeys go to the stores. Are going to the stores, okay? Now, this was. This was a wild turkey out there in the streets, literally. So let me paint the picture for you. So it's a six, six lane road, okay? We got three going one way, three the other. And with a big old median in the middle, right? Grass, out, doing some holiday shopping. And then you see this turkey just pacing back and forth wildly in the middle of the median. Just back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Not sure which way to go. On one side, you've got a shopping center. Okay, There's a Walmart and a Target, a Home Depot. On the other one, there's like a ditch that leads up to another Portal Road. And then a school, a neighborhood, some trees, whatnot. I would assume that's where. That's where that turkey was trying to get to. Because I wouldn't think the turkey was trying to go shopping. Although now I think about, it is that time of year. I mean, you just. You really don't know. This turkey was furious. Like, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Just a pacing, and it was busy. Traffic, flying. Middle of the day on a Saturday. I think it was just flying around, do a little bit of shop and come out the turkey. Back and forth, back and forth, get out of the car. So not just out of the car. I had to park the car across the street at the Portal Road is where I ended up. It was. The traffic was too much to just, like, pull over. You couldn't really. There is a turning lane, but it. I mean, it's. Like I said, it is very busy. It is the shopping time of year. I mean, there was just hundreds of cars flying through here every couple of minutes. So you have to go across the street, go to the Portal Road, then get through the ditch, and then fight through the traffic to get across the street onto the median on foot to try to get this turkey. Now, as I'm walking over to the road before crossing it, there's this truck that comes by, and he hops onto the median. So now we got a truck on the median. This turkey is just going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Doesn't know what's going on. I thought, all right, these good Samaritans here, I don't have to do it. These guys will do it. No, they had just come from the Home Depot, and I think they were just strapping down their wood or something. I don't know. I usually just pull my pants up for that. Am I right, Johnny? But no, they weren't gonna help those turkeys out at all or that turkey out at all. So. So I. I pushed forward, run across the street. Sure enough, I throw my gloves, the turkey back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Sees me. I start to approach the turkey, because my thought was I got these gloves on. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna swoop up the turkey, carry the turkey across the street, drop the turkey. Everybody's happy. But what I didn't anticipate was how big this was. I didn't, I, I. When you're driving by, you're like, oh, there's a turkey. That's a big, that's a big boy right there. But then when you walk up to it, I mean, turkeys are bad. It was quite the animal here. And I started to think, yeah, I'm not swooping up this turkey because what will happen is with its long ass neck, it's just gonna start pecking at me or something. But as I got closer, the turkey could obviously see I was trying to help, saw which direction I came from. I started to move toward the turkey at an angle that it would go towards the side of the road that was away from the shopping center. And immediately the turkey just took off running. Just as there was no cars, I looked both, I looked both ways for both of us, and there was no cars coming. Boom. I chased the turkey across the street. We both get over safely. That turkey couldn't have been more appreciative. I'm just gonna tell you that right now, Johnny. That turkey was very happy to be back on the right side of the road. And I just want to say I'm, I, I'm not calling myself a hero, okay? That's not me. I'm not doing that. But people are doing that. People are calling me hero. And I'd like to think once this episode comes out that that's, that's really all. People are going to be talking. There might be press releases. I don't know. I don't know, Johnny. But I do know when you were in the opport, when you have the opportunity and you're in the position to do the right thing, you should do the right thing. And, and in this instance, I feel like I did the right thing. I chased that turkey across the road. And I'll tell you what, I do it again too, okay? I do it again in a heartbeat. I would help that turkey cross the road. So for those of you that are like, oh, I did not eat turkey this Thanksgiving, I saved a turkey's life. I say, that's some bullshit. I, I don't think he saved anything. I, in fact, saved the turkey's life, okay? And I like to think that turkey is out there right now in Omaha, just telling its story to its other animal friends. I didn't see any other turkeys. Okay? So I don't know if this turkey lives amongst other. Other turkeys or if this turkey lives amongst squirrels and feral cats, some dogs, maybe some raccoon. I see raccoons everywhere these days. Skunks. When. Side note, when people say, man, I see raccoons everywhere these days. Do you. What do you. What do you. What does that mean? Like, I. I'll tell you what I meant. I've. I've. Driving around, I have seen raccoons either running across the road early, early, early in the morning, or I've seen them dead from getting hit by cars or whatever. I can imagine people would be like, I see raccoons everywhere these days. And they're like, yeah, got one in the basement. I. Saw a raccoon rob a 711 the other day. It's because he wears the mask. You know, he's got the thighs, the stripes. Yeah, that's. That's what I meant by it. And this turkey, who's he. Who's he living with? Who's this turkey, like, socializing with, eating with, having a drink of rainwater with. I don't know. But I do know that when the stories are told by this turkey, it's going to be pretty simple. When this turkey is saying, hey, here's what happened to me this week, this turkey is going to say, gobble, gobble. And as if it wasn't exciting enough that I've had to save turkey's life recently. On the flip side, I had the cops called on me at. At work the other day. And you might be thinking, well, this has gotta be a silly situation where a customer, you know, was mad about something, oh, the price is wrong. I'm gonna call the cops on you. You're ripping us off. No, that's not what happened. And no, I'm not. Now this was actually one of my employees. You. You decide if that's worse or not. The customer or one of your people calling the cops on you all. Here's what I. Here's my story. Here's what I know, okay? Here are the facts laid out in front of you. It's a Saturday, okay? I was off that particular Saturday. In fact, I wasn't even supposed to be in town. I was supposed to go out of town for a family Christmas event. But the weather, the weather changed that. There was some snow in Iowa. I didn't quite make it over. Stayed home, but I'm getting calls, I'm getting text all day. Oh, so and so sick, Blah, blah, blah. People Are calling out. Next thing you know, Jo's gotta jump in action and go work on a Saturday night when I'm supposed to be off. And that's what that happens, right? Do the right thing. Go to work, help the people. So I'm like, all right, I'll go in. I gotta go help close this kitchen down. Now, it wasn't gonna just be me. It was gonna be me working the latest, but there was gonna be somebody there for two hours working with me to help me make all these pizzas. A lot of pizza orders coming in. Now, this particular guy thought it would be funny that when I showed up, the first thing he does is come up to me and start laughing that I had to come into work on my day off. First of all, no, that's not funny. It was pretty frustrated, in fact, because I hear all these people calling out there. No one will come into work. So I gotta come in. I'm off. What would have happened had I been out? Like, still out of town for the family event? Like, then what? We shut the whole place down. So this guy, he's over there. I'm like, oh, that's funny, huh? That's hilarious. So we have some back and forth. You know, I'm the boss. I'm just like, you know, if you think you can do this, I'm just gonna go home and enjoy my day. You can finish this. So then he's coming back at me. Then maybe he'll just go home now. Because suddenly he doesn't like the way I'm talking to him. That's fine. Get out of here, dude. Get going. So now he's mad, Right? Now he's mad. And I. There's a lot going on, so I'm, like, running around trying to get things done. Orders for people, cleaning up, place a mess. Not happy, right? Not happy. Boss. Very frustrated. He decides this is the time. He's now going to go into the store, like, manager's office. He goes into my office and he is just taking down phone numbers left and right because he is not happy with how I talk to him. That's fine. I'm totally cool with it. I'm the one that had to come in on my day off. Not this fella closed the door. I opened the door and I'm like, dude, just go. Like, just go. Like, get out of the office. Just go. If you're not gonna work. If you're gonna work. We got stuff to do, dude. He's like, I called the police. What do you mean for? What did Something happen? Yeah, you. You happened. I don't like the way you're talking to me. I'm like, you realize that does not constitute an emergency. There is literally nothing here. That constitutes calling the police. And he's like, I called him. That's cool. So I'm like, you got to go outside. Then you gotta go. Like, just leave. He's like, I'm not going outside. And it was pretty cold, so I didn't really, you know, make him go outside. He's like, what are you gonna do about it? Well, I'm not gonna do anything. You already called the cops. They're. I'm gonna have them move you. Like, they're. They're gonna want to remove you, which end up being true, because just a few minutes later, a cop rolls up, and he's just like, you're the manager. Yeah. Sorry you're having to deal with this. This is not an emergency. And he goes, no, it's not. He's like, I am not your HR department. I'm like, I totally get it, dude. So I apologize to him for wasting his time. Like, why did we call the police? Why do people today think that you just call the police? I saw on Facebook the other day, somebody had walked into a. Into subway and didn't see an employee, any employees, so they called the police. Well, the employees were in the back. I mean, you could probably have yelled or made a loud noise or something, and somebody's going to come out and help you, or you could just leave and go to a different subway. Either way, the police are not your HR department. But this fella ended. He did leave a very colorful message on the HR department's mess voicemail, though. And, yeah, that person no longer works for us, which isn't funny, because he. He did. He did some good things. But this was a wild one. Why. Why would you ever think that you could just run amok, leaving all these voicemails, just yelling, and then call the police, all because you didn't agree with the way somebody was talking to you. And honestly, the person who. At the very beginning, who wouldn't. Who shouldn't have been happy with. With the way somebody was talking to him. It was him to me. But I didn't call the police, nor did I think that that was an option. Now that I know it's an option, I mean, who knows? For next time. It's wild. I was actually. I just got off of a guest appearance on the Black Guy who Tips podcast, Rod and Karen. Awesome podcast. They're like the OGs of podcasting the True Story. You got to check them out. You can find them in the iHeart network. I was just on their show, and we were just talking about how, like, things have changed since 2020, since COVID Like, the world shuts down and then people start to get out a little bit and they just lose their minds. And it's so true. It's like everybody, it's the culture out there right now. I don't know what to do, how to change it. Like, I just don't know how we can get back to being respectful people and thinking and listening. But I'll tell you what, we are not there right now in 2025. We're about to hit 26, and it just feels like we're ramping up even more. So, yeah, that's my story. Cops called on me. I saved a turkey. And I, I will say I not only got rid of that situation, like, we got rid. We got through that situation. Okay. I cleaned the kitchen. I served all those, Made all those orders, got those orders out. And excellent customer service. Excellent customer service. So I don't know, some people would say that. I, I, you know, I'm doing, I'm doing God's work this week. I'm. And I'm on record. I'm not saying that I'm not. Some people, some people are saying, no, that's not a joke, Johnny. Some people are actually saying a little worked up about it. Like I was saying, I just guessed it on the black guy who tis podcast with Rod and Karen. They were fantastic. And they are actually going to be joining us on Laugh with Me here this month still. So we've got that to look forward to. That's exciting. And I don't know if I've talked too much about wto, where's the Line? The sports betting podcast that I also closed with Andy Clausen. If you haven't gotten in on that, please take. Give a listen. It's not just Sports Bet. Very entertaining show. It's a lot of fun. Give it a go. Wtl. Where's the Line? You can find that anywhere that you listen to your favorite podcast. There you go, Johnny. I don't know if you've had a week like mine. I know you didn't save any turkeys. You sure as shit didn't have any cops called after you. And for what? I mean, the last time, Johnny, the last time you had the cops call on you was because you were threatening to beat him up. I didn't do that and threaten to beat anybody up. Fact, I don't know how many people I could beat up at this condition. I just, I just got filled up with that iron. You know that man, when I don't got that iron in me, oh, I get tired. I get damn tired. I get grouchy. I don't get, I don't get my naps. I don't know if I'm rapidly turning into a very old senior citizen or if I'm turning into a toddler. Like, I, I don't know which one I'm turning into faster. But I tell you what, I don't get a nap. I get grouchy. Once I'm filled up, man, I can go, I can go a little bit. That's the show. We'll get you next time. Thanks for listening. If a Lenovo gaming computer is on your holiday list, don't shop around. Just go directly to the source Lenovo.com it's your last chance to score exclusive deals on the gaming PCs you want. Like the Lenovo Legion Tower 5 Gen 10 gaming desktop and Lenovo Lock gaming laptop. So avoid all that shopping chaos and price comparing and just go directly to the source Lenovo.com where PCs are up to 35% off. 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