Dec. 6: Turkey’s!
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We can now add another drama to the long list…. First there was Watergate, then Monica-gate, and now “Turkey-gate.”
Ok maybe it doesn’t have quite the significance of its predecessors among the general United States population, but here at The Morning Show, it ranks right up there with the time $40.00 disappeared from our Associate Director Randi Clarke’s wallet. One second that cash was tucked away on her desk. The next — POOF!
Today, if you happened to watch the show, you might have noticed a slight, how shall I say, debacle. We were hoping to tell the story of a woman in Jakarta who recently gave birth to a 12 pound baby. Mike’s idea was to set up the story solo, and then have me walk out holding a 12 pound turkey wrapped up in a baby blanket to give you a humorous visual, of what a 12 pound baby is all about. Then we were going to show you a 17 and even a 22 pound turkey because yes, frighteningly enough, there have been kids of that size born to moms around the world. Rare, but it happens!
But something went down during the commercial break. (Just this second someone down the hall yelled “TURKEYS!”. See! This thing is haunting us already!). The turkey “props” were not ready to set out. Oh it was just a mess! A series of things went awry but we promise it won’t happen again. We actually had a meeting a few minutes ago with me, Mike, our co-executive producer Patty, our director and our supervising producer. We replayed the segment and all I have to say is, you can see how pissed off Mike is and you can see how clueless I am! I was like “What are we doing?! Wait, I’m not walking out with the turkey baby? I’m sitting?” Just a little inside info…
The show started off with the Omaha Mall Shooting. I feel bad asking some of these people what happened when they’ve hardly even been able to start processing the events but its news and people want to know the truth, so you need to hear from those who saw what happened. This poor woman Renee saw the bodies of her co-workers lying there — I can’t imagine how my life would change after seeing something like that. I hope to never have to find out.
It certainly puts things in perspective…..
On that note, I’m going to say bye. I have a meeting downtown in Chelsea at 3 p.m. and have nothing to wear. I can’t wear the clothes I wore on the show because they’re loaned and are essentially ripped off of me the second I walk off set. Right now I’m in my brown Gap sweats that I SWEAR can probably walk away by themselves soon. I’ve worn them to work three days in a row, and they have little blobs of dried up yogurt on them from the morning when I am too tired or too distracted to clean up my spills. Classy broad, huh?
