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We had Andy Fergon on Monday to talk with us about the announcement that Kelly's Roast Beef, which is probably the most recognizable chain out there these days in Massachusetts, is listening to the North Shore beef community and creating a sandwich that is more like the way that they want it. So less the thicker slices that Kelly's uses. And more of a stack of beef with the James River barbecue sauce and the cheese on the bottom and all that. So yesterday was the first day that Kelly's was offering these. And they are offering, and it doesn't have to just be yesterday, they are offering your first beef free. If you download the Kelly's app and you sign up for the rewards program, the closest one to us is Dedham. So if you want to take the trip up to Dedham and you use the app, you can get a free junior beef for free. Wait, yes, you can get a junior beef for free. It's free either way. Whether it's free at the beginning or free at the end, it's still free. And they also have a larger size if you want to buy one. My feed was filled yesterday with people who went there to go try it. People from that North Shore Beefs group who went there to go try it. And we're posting reviews of it in the group. And I saw varying reviews. And keep in mind that this group, they're notoriously hard reviewers. So to earn an eight is pretty significant. And there were a number of people that were giving this sandwich an eight. But they said there's still room for improvement. They could do better. And again, probably day one wasn't the day to go. I was reading stories of people saying that the staff didn't know how to make them, that they were reading a piece of paper instructing them how to make the sandwich. So you give them a couple of weeks of having the sandwich because yesterday was just the first day. They're going to get better at it. And they're going to realize things like, well, you can't make a bunch of these in advance because you're busy. It doesn't work that way. And you need to make sure the beef is a little warmer in the middle than you do on your normal sandwiches because that's how they want it. So I think they'll get better at it as time goes on. It is a limited time sandwich, but they could keep it on the menu if it proves to be popular enough. But the reviews were mostly positive, mostly that they were, it's a solid effort to start, that they can get better if they want to try to get better. But at the very least, at least it's a place you can go in a pinch if you can't get to one of the more preferred places. There were those who said, no, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to eat a Kelly's beef. There were those who said, I tried it and it's terrible. But I think there's always some people that just want to be negative anyway. Some people just wake up negative. We all know about that, listening to their show. But there's people who I think wanted it to succeed because they wanted Kelly's to be part of the mix and maybe they're being a little too optimistic. So that's possible as well. But one of the things that I noticed about so many of these reviews was that people were I don't really want to give money to a place that's been bought out by a corporation. This is McDonald's to me, and I prefer mom and pop shops. And while that's a nice gesture, that always drives me crazy. Because you get all these people like, I only go to mom and pop shops. I don't give my money to chains. Okay, all right. Where do you go to buy your toothpaste? Where do you go to buy your mouthwash? Where do you go to get toilet paper and paper towels? You can tell me you don't go to Walmart. You don't go to Target. You don't order them off Amazon. No, you go find the mom and pop shop that sells toilet paper. I go to the little convenience store down the street and I get it from them because I'm supporting a small business. Oh, you mean the little convenience store that went to Walmart and bought a bunch of toilet paper and then just put it on their shelf to resell? Because toilet paper distributors don't ship it to little mom and pop convenience stores? Like, I just, I think it's a false heroism, a false consumer heroism. To be the, I only shop mom and pop shops. I only go to mom and pop restaurants. Okay, but you give money to corporations in many other ways. So if you want to have some chicken McNuggets for lunch every now and then, it's okay. Whatever credentials you have bestowed upon yourself are not in jeopardy because you got a coffee at Dunkin' instead of going to the local coffee shop. There's no reason to think that you can't shop local and still visit these places. Because as I've said before, those places still employ local people. And in fact, many times they're franchised by local people, but that it just, it drives me up a wall. I don't go to those places because they're a chain. So you want the, you want your next door neighbor that works there to, to lose their job. You want people to not go. And it's one thing if, if you say I choose not to go, but these people are never, I choose not to go people. They're always, I choose not to go and you better not go either people. I'm just going to, every time you comment about it, I'm going to make sure that I point out that you're a bad person for going to a chain. I posted a thing the other day, Dinosaur Dracula, one of my favorite Facebook accounts to follow, all kinds of nostalgic stuff, put up the original Chicken Little sandwiches from KFC, which they'll never have like that again. The stuff that they offer now and call Chicken Littles is not the same. It's a chicken tender on a roll. But in the old days, it was a seasoned little chicken patty that was phenomenal. And it was a time when we were into micro stuff. We liked the fact that we could take stuff and regular size stuff and make it smaller. We had micromachines. Toy cars are great, but micromachines are cooler because they're small. Anybody can make a kid's adventure movie, but Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is cool because they made them small. Like, we were in a micro phase. We loved micro things. And so to have a Chicken Little sandwich that was just like a big chicken sandwich, only small, was a big deal. Not a chicken tender on a bun. Many people who are fans of those have dreamed of them returning. So I share it, and I immediately get to hear from somebody who says, I can't believe you go to KFC. Well, I don't. Maybe every once in a while. I like the coleslaw. Might go get a three-piece chicken meal, whatever they serve them as, but what's your point? It's a corporation. Yeah, I know it's a corporation. It's one of the biggest corporations. You can tell me that you're not hungry at one o'clock in the morning coming home from a concert, you don't stop at Taco Bell, same corporation, but just this feigned indie cred, this hipster vibe they try to create for themselves. I only shop local. Okay, let me know how that works out when you go to get some toilet paper. 508-996-0500. I'm not saying that you shouldn't support local businesses. You absolutely should. 1,000%. You don't have to only go to local places. And you don't get some sort of special award. There's no citation that the city council is going to bestow upon you at the next awards meeting because you only shop local. 508-996-0500. Good morning. You're next on WBSN. Hi, Tim. Somebody told me the other day that Kentucky Fried has brought the wedges back, the potato wedges. Is that true? So when I posted that up about the Chicken Littles, somebody commented underneath it, I just want them to bring the potato wedges back. And I was like, I'm pretty sure the last time I went there, they had them. So I looked it up, and yes, they do. Not everywhere, I guess. I guess it's select locations, but they have brought them back. Great, because those were my favorite. Sometimes I would just buy those as my meal. I don't know how long they're going to... I don't know if they're a limited time thing or if they're permanently on the menu, but I know that they've... When I opened up the app, I saw that they were on the website. However, I was looking at it. They had it listed as having it in New Bedford. All right, thank you. All right, no problem. And yes, those were a big favorite from people, those potato wedges. Also another big favorite... Uh, from KFC and they do bring it back every once in a while, but people liked it just for its ridiculousness. Remember when they had the double down, the, the, the sandwich that was no bread. It was just two, like two big chicken breasts with bacon and cheese in the middle. Yeah. There was a time when we were like heart health be damned. We're just gonna, we're just gonna have fried chicken and bacon and cheese. That was, that was Burger King's motto in the, uh, the 2010s. As McDonald's was trying to go healthier, remember after that movie Super Size Me came out and people were so critical of the food at McDonald's. McDonald's tried to come out with all these healthy things. They had like the McShaker salad and all that stuff. And so Burger King was like, screw that. You're going to go and get healthier. We're going to give people what they really want. We're going to go the opposite direction. We're going to create things that are just as disgusting. And that's where they were coming up with things like the triple Whopper. That's where they had the ultimate omelet sandwich. Where it was just an omelette with like bacon, ham, sausage, everything all shoved into it. I think it was on a croissant. Like they're just like, we're going to get us rid of it. That's when they had the bacon sundae. They made an ice cream sundae that had bacon in it. Like we're just going to go full out. We hope Morgan Spurlock makes a documentary about us. Can't now, he passed away. But we hope he makes one about us. We hope that they talk about the fat content in our food. But I do think that there's, everybody has like their nostalgic thing. They're a thing that they wish would come back. The other day, somebody shared the Burger King Kids Club that they used to have in the 90s with all the different kids. And I just posted up, because the whole thing was an essay that somebody wrote about how they tried to make them diverse, and they tried to show diversity in all of the kids that they were portraying as these cartoon characters, but that they also leaned into a lot of stereotypes. Like they had a kid in a wheelchair whose name was Wheels. They had a black kid whose name was Jaws because black people talk a lot apparently was the stereotype that they thought this was leaning into. I'm leaning into. So there was all of these connotations that they were saying and I just shared it and I said we never thought of that when we saw this. We just thought it was a bunch of kids. We didn't even think about what they were representing. I said but all we really want is bring back the chicken tenders and the sweet and sour sauce they had back then. And I got a bunch of people saying, yes, absolutely. I mean, look at when the McRib comes back. People go crazy for that. EctoCooler from Hi-C. They've come out with 45 different versions of EctoCooler. Like that same juice has existed in other forms. Unless you put it in that little cardboard box and put Slimer on the front of it, it's not EctoCooler. So it's funny how we get nostalgic for these things. When they do try to bring them back, it's not even remotely close to the same. And you need to look no further than the KFC Chicken Little to see how you can take something that was borderline perfect and completely ruin it. First of all, pickles. They took what was just a bun, chicken patty, and a little bit of mayo and replaced it with a different bun, a chicken tender, pickles, and way too much mayo. When they announced that they were returning, Gazelle and I actually, Gazelle from Fun 107 and I actually got in the car, drove to KFC, the one on County Street, drove to KFC. Ordered it at the drive-thru and immediately made a video with our reaction to this chicken little. Like, we were so excited. Like, they're back. They're the original two. And they were not. Disappointing. Most of my videos with Gazelle ended in heartbreak. Because there was that one, and then there was the one when Old Country Buffet closed, which we still bring up on a regular basis. Anyway, 508-996-0500. App chat and open line voicemails on the WBSM app. I'm going to take a break here. 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I'm talking about a crash out on social media after the owner of one local place who was apparently out door dashing because they're a seasonal business, was attacking another local business where she was picking up a door dash. And then the business that got called out said, oh, no. No, you don't. And it just turned into a total annihilation online and utter insanity. And I believe Fundamental 7 is going to be talking about it. So maybe we'll have a story up about it. I don't know. But if you've been following along with it, you know what I'm talking about. If not, I don't even know if I want to draw more attention to it. But let's just say that when people try to be influencers, when people are trying to get likes and clicks and make that meta money, it's very obvious. And I want no part of it. Obviously, people put stuff up to get the reaction. Otherwise, why would they be posting it? But it's just different. It's different when you're trying to portray yourself as something that you're not. As the kids say, cringe. I don't even know. I think kids don't say cringe anymore. I think they have a different word that they'll use if you say cringe to call you cringe for saying cringe. Thank But there's no other word for it. All right, we're going to take a break for the news. Mike Roberts is going to give us all the top stories of the day. On the other side, 508-996-0500, app chat and open line voicemails on the WBSM app. Chris McCarthy is getting ready to broadcast from the Military Museum you. coming up at 9 a.m. He's going to have you over there from 9 to noon. He will have Mayor Mitchell on at 10 a.m. for an abbreviated appearance before the mayor has to get over to the parade. So. But he will check in with the mayor and have him on and others as well. So if you are a veteran, he's inviting you to come on by and be part of the broadcast as well. So stick around for that. But right now, let's turn things over to Mike Roberts in the WBSN newsroom. President Trump to visit Arlington National Cemetery today, a new House minority leader selected and Ring launching new in-home security drones from the Cottage Street Motors WBSN newsroom. This is WBSN news. President Trump will be marking Veterans Day with a visit to Arlington National Cemetery today. The president expected to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and deliver remarks as part of the official observance ceremony. This year's Veterans Day proclamation from the White House notes that For over 250 years, the liberties and freedoms of every American have been safeguarded by the heroic men and women who have faithfully served in the United States Armed Forces. President Trump says that at his direction, the Department of Veterans Affairs is restructuring to put veterans at the forefront of every decision. Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, the new House Minority Leader. Yesterday, GOP House members elected Jordan over Louisiana's Steve Scalise as their new leader. After the vote, Jordan thanked his colleagues for their trust and promised to keep any bad policies brought by Democrats in check. In the Senate, GOP Senators elected current Majority Leader John Thune to be the new Minority Leader. Former President Joe Biden revealing the contents of a letter President Trump left him in the Oval Office after Biden was elected in 2020. The New York Times obtained an excerpt from Biden's new book, Promise Me America, where he revealed Trump's letter. In the letter, dated January 20th, 2021, Trump said that he believes Biden will be true to yourself and the American people. Trump went on, writing, That while many presidents largely did not change history, he thinks it will be different for Biden because, quote, I know how much you love the American people. Unlike Trump's public comments, the letter does not criticize Biden or challenge the results of the 2020 election. The owners of Minnesota's largest candy store facing accusations for allegedly selling liquor filled candy without a license. State investigators. State investigators received an anonymous tip alleging the store sold the candy to a minor without checking ID. According to the criminal complaint, undercover agents later bought candy containing brandy and whiskey. Owner Robert Wagner says that he believed he could legally sell the candy but stopped selling it after the undercover operation. His first court appearance is scheduled for December 18th. A new study finds people who are exposed to more light during the day could have a lower risk of developing dementia later in life. The research published in General Psychiatry does not prove that sunlight itself stops or prevents the disease from happening. Nearly 90,000 people participated in the study and all were free of diagnosed dementia when they entered because dementia currently has no cure. Researchers have continued to investigate possible protective factors and habits that could reduce the risk of developing it. Ring is offering a new tool in home security, an indoor drone. The Amazon company launched the Ring drone camera. Yesterday, for $250, Ring founder and chief inventor Jamie Siminoff said the new product is a response to customers asking for a product that gives them eyes in places a fixed camera can't reach. The drone features 148-degree peripheral vision and can rotate 360 degrees to catch potential threats. It requires a $5 per month subscription fee. Billy Joel is set to make a one-night return to the stage next month. The Piano Man says he'll sit for a question-and-answer session before playing a little music at Florida's Atlantic University on December 14th. The announcement comes less than a month after Joel shared an update more than a year after being diagnosed with a brain condition, normal pressure hydrocephalus. He told the Hollywood Reporter he doesn't drive right now, adding that it's not serious, but he still can't perform the way he used to. WBSM Sports. It was the Celtics over the Philadelphia 76ers, 123-101. The Seas are in Toronto with the Raptors tonight at 7 o'clock. Bruins host Montreal tomorrow at 7. And now, your WPRI 12 forecast. Brought to you by Family Heating and Cooling in Westport. Mainly sunny and dry conditions around the South Coast today. We're looking at highs right around 58 degrees for this Veterans Day. Increasing clouds tonight. We'll be staying dry. Late night lows down to about 40. A lot of clouds around tomorrow with a chance for some rain to develop by mid to late afternoon with high temperatures right around 55. For WBSM, I'm 12 News meteorologist T.J. DelSanto. I'm Mike Roberts, WBSM News. 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And so they have these, these, so tell us what's going on. Got any good stories we can share? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So they do all of those kind of prep work for the interview. But I could tell that I don't think that Bill Murray was expecting Jimmy Kimmel to bring this up. Because you can tell, like, the way he laughed when it was brought up. Oh. I wasn't expecting that. He talked about, so you went to New Bedford, Massachusetts, and you interrupted a screening of What About Bob? Not really interrupted it, but it came out at the end. And he talked about it. So I'm just going to play that clip because some of you might have missed it earlier. And if you want to see it for yourself, you can check it out at WBSM.com. And on the WBSM app, we have a whole story about it. Here is Bill Murray on Jimmy Kimmel Live the other night talking about this. Kind of a little bit of his side of how this all came together. Because we got the Z's side, but here's his side of how it all came together. Over the summer, there was a screening of What About Bob in New Bedford, Massachusetts at a theater. Which, you know, it's a movie that people still really love. And they went to see the movie, and then you just showed up at the end of the movie. Yeah. That's nice. Well, it is. The town's really happening. Really happening. Once it was a famous whaling town, but... You know, right now it's kind of having a great rebirth. And anyway, my friend's friend or sister or something like that was on the film committee. They're trying to save this old movie theater, you know, and they've done a nice job. You know, part of the fixing up of the town is, and what's cool is they've made this beautiful theater. So I just thought, okay, so I'm only going to be 125 miles away. I can get there, something like that. So anyway. It was just kind of fun to walk out at the end of the movie. And they had a standee. In case I didn't show up, they had, like, a cardboard me. So the lady's out there talking. And I can say this because I can get away with it. But the lady was out there, and she was about to give, like, a seven-minute speech. And I just didn't have that kind of time. So I walked out behind the thing, you know. And then I just put it down. And then I was like, hey, no more of her. So then it was just... Yeah, so he's talking about Rosemary Gill, the president and CEO of the Zyterian. When the movie ended, she took the stage. Now, there was buzz throughout the day that Bill Murray might make. I saw some things posted on social media that morning, and I reached out to them, and I said, is he really coming? Because I knew that they had invited him. They talked about how they had invited him, and they'd been going around with this cardboard cutout promoting the movie marathon, and it made sense to me. You know, he spends summers on the vineyard. They're probably thinking they can entice him to come over. And as I saw their post and I said, wait, is this for real? Or are you just trying to tease people to get him to come out? And they basically said, we can neither confirm nor deny that he's coming, which I guess turned out to be because they weren't even sure themselves until he showed up, if he was definitely coming. So at the end of the movie, Rosemary got up on stage and she got just a couple words into some prepared remarks. Then Penny Pimentel brought out the cardboard cutout. Rosemary turned around, oh, look, we have a surprise guest talking about the cardboard cutout. And then immediately Bill Murray walks out. So I was like, he must have arrived early enough that they planned out that little bit. But I don't know what time he actually got there. But it was, you know, the crowd, even though there was the chance that he might come, still went crazy when he showed up. And you can see that clip in the story as well. 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And so he actually was getting donations from people who were saying like people are asking, is there a way we can donate because we don't want you to have to foot the entire bill. And so he reluctantly accepted those donations, but he wasn't he wasn't going to at first. But then he realized, like, I've only got I think he had something like two thousand dollars saved up. To pay for this and then realize like, oh, it might cost me more than that. So he did reluctantly take those donations. And then last year he changed it to where you had to prove that you were a veteran because before he just let anybody say that they were a veteran and he took their word for it. So he just, you know, he's been trying to perfect kind of the way he does this. And this year, instead of doing it through his job, he's doing it instead at the Salvation Army in Plymouth. So today from 4 to 8 p.m., he's hosting a huge Veterans Day meal at the Plymouth Salvation Army on Long Pond Road. He's got about 65 people coming so far, but room for more. And it's being hosted by Corey. By his girlfriend, Bridget Melville, and his second mom. They're all getting together and they're going to have a service dog in attendance as well as kind of like a special guest. So it really is a heartwarming thing to see because Corey does this all out of the goodness of his own heart and out of his own pocket. I hope that he's getting some donations to help offset some of that. 65 people coming. I hope he's getting some help with that. But this is just a young man who wants to give back. And he does more than just these veterans ones. He does things on Mother's Day and on Valentine's Day when he's working to give back to the people that come in. But this is his big thing that he does every year. So if you know any veterans that could use a meal today, the Salvation Army on Long Pond Road in Plymouth from 4 to 8. Tell Corey that you heard about it on WBSM from Tim. And he's just a good dude. All right, 508-996-0500 is my number. Speaking of good dudes and great food, if you haven't been to the butcher shop yet, what are you waiting for? It would be a great reason to go today and get a meal to bring to a veteran you may know. You may know somebody who is, you know, not getting out of the house today or is too busy to be able to cook themselves a nice home-cooked meal. Bring them one from the butcher shop. They have fresh-made food every single day, hot meals that you can bring and drop off ready to eat. Or if you want to get them something that's prepared, but that they can warm up when they're ready for it, but they don't have to do any heavy cooking, grab one of the French meat pies. Or you want to have them cook up a nice juicy steak. A tomahawk steak is a nice way to say thank you to a veteran. So if you are a first-timer at the butcher shop, it's an experience. Get in there and check it out. But if you've been going there for years, you know why I say. It's a real old-school neighborhood market. Check out the butcher shop, 123 Dartmouth Street in New Bedford. And they're going to be closed this week. Oh my gosh, I gave you that whole thing and then remember they're closed this week. My fault, my bad. I thought it was starting next Monday, but it's nope, it's starting this week. They'll be reopening again next week. So thank a veteran with a nice tomahawk steak after they reopen. My bad, I should have written the date down on the paper. Well, still, everything holds true anyway. The food is fantastic. And the service is like nothing you've ever experienced. Imagine having a butcher at your disposal to cut things exactly the way you want it. All right. I've got to take my final break of this hour. We're getting ready to turn things over to Chris McCarthy and South Coast now at the Military Museum. We'll be back in a few moments. Stick around. And I didn't have my key takeaway stinger, but my key takeaway today is an obvious one. Make sure you thank a veteran today, or at least thank every veteran that you see. But if it's only one. At least you're getting one in there. But thank a veteran today for their service. And Chris McCarthy is going to have plenty of them on the air for you to be able to do so. But that is your key takeaway brought to you by All Security Co. in New Bedford. Check them out online at allsecurityusa.com. Let's take a call here to end things. Good morning. You're on WBSM. Good morning. No, excuse me. I know I heard that Tim, Bill Murray was, after he went to the vegetarian that night, he went to the Mexican restaurant at the bottom of Union Street. Yep, National. Yeah, they're nasty. I couldn't think of their name. And they were closing, but they kept it open for him, and they cooked for him, and he was there for a long time talking to them, and they had a great time. He's just a wonderful guy. I just love him. Yeah, he's really nice, and he really does love New Bedford. He's appreciative of all the people here. And I love those famous Bill Murray stories where he just shows up, and you never know what's going to happen. And then he used to say back in the day, he'd do something, and then he'd say, and no one will ever believe you. But now we live in the cell phone age. Oh, yeah. He goes to the one on the avenue, too, that Mexican restaurant out there, too. He loves the food here. Yeah, he's been to Cafe Mimo. He's been to Meantoho. He's been to Turk's, all over the place. Patty's Pierogies in Fall River. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a great guy. You have a great day. Thank you. You as well. Take care. Savor the season with delicious deals and festive flavors at Raley's and Nob Hill. From an extra seat to an extra plate, there's plenty to share this holiday season. Make hosting easy by pre-ordering one of our heat and eat feasts, bringing fresh, flavorful meals to the table in half the time. Plus, find ready-to-eat party platters and trays in our deli. 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