3: Poultry Slam 1995
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In Danielle's house, ever since she was a girl, when dinner comes, sometimes they serve a meal that might look familiar to you. Here's the main course. On a big platter, picture drumsticks, white breast meat, golden brown skin, somebody carves this, you know, perhaps on a holiday, there's stuffing and cranberry relish on the side. And in Danielle's family, they have a name for this meal. As she told me on the phone recently, the name for this meal is... Fish. Got that? Fish. Well, from W.B.E.C. Chicago, it is your radio playhouse, special program tonight on the wonders of... Fish. Well, actually, we can say the word here, and the word would be poultry. We are in the sort of interregnum of poultry. We stand at this moment, between the poultry of Thanksgiving and the poultry of Christmas. This is the peak poultry moment in our American year. Something like a fourth, a little less than a fourth of all the turkey consumed in this country consumed during these few weeks. And to honor that, we bring you this evening an odd variety of stories and things you would not hear elsewhere, as we always do, of course. Things you would not hear elsewhere, just transpose the words of that sentence yourselves at home. I'm not going to do that for you, about turkeys, chickens, ducks, fowl, of all kind. And there are mysterious holes over us. Well, I am Ira Glass. A Chicago poet actually named Jim Banks suggested a special name for this special poultry edition of this your radio playhouse. His suggestion, a poultry slam, after, of course, the poultry slams that we hold here in Chicago, in the venerable panel darkness of the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge each Sunday. Coming up this hour, David Sedaris, Luis Rodriguez, and other writers and radio heroes. And of course, of course, of course, what poultry positive radio program could be complete without? Yes, indeed, in the late 1960s, the winged warrior chicken man struck terror in the hearts of evil doers everywhere. On Chicago radio, first and then across the nation, tonight, we're going to bring you a historic first, the first new episode since 1969. Later. That will be later, later. See, because we're savvy broadcasters here, even though it's public broadcasting, we're going to make you wait till later in the show for that. We know many of you are tuning in for that and we're going to make you wait. Okay to return to our story, Danielle's family, the power of poultry is so great in their lives that when they serve chicken or turkey, they call it, that's right. And they call it this for a reason, and the reason has to do with this stuffed hand puppet called Ducky, a little background. Danielle is 28 years old, editor at Details magazine in New York City, a very fashionable magazine. Her sister Ashley, two years younger, now a graduate student at the University of Michigan. And Ducky has been in the family since they were children.
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