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Duncan Trussell Family Hour

723: Ain't No Turkey King

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Comedy Interviews, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy

4.811K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Turkey is a scam! Heed not God's sunk-cost fallacy! Man was not meant to eat avian flesh! No good can come of eating a dinosaur.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome, chat.

0:05.2

Welcome, my dear audio listeners, welcome to those, using those optic nerves to watch.

0:14.2

It's me, D. Trucelle, and this is the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast.

0:25.6

Now what?

0:26.6

I think you can keep going.

0:29.6

Oh my God, it's November.

0:32.6

And, you know, everybody knows what November is. November is the worst month and for a lot of different

0:40.8

reasons. Primarily, because Thanksgiving is right around the corner and the reason Thanksgiving

0:47.1

sucks is because of Turkey. Turkey is a scam. And when November comes around, we're all forced to confront something that I think

0:57.5

most of us don't really want to look square in the eye, which is that if Turkey is a scam,

1:04.1

and I'll go into why it's a scam in a moment, how many other things have we been tricked into doing

1:09.8

and believing? Are we just pigeons in some kind of skinnarian box being trained to peck and poke away at things?

1:21.5

Are we turkeys ourselves, eating ourselves in some kind of dark cannibalistic ritual which Thanksgiving represents.

1:31.2

I mean, aside from like the origins of Thanksgiving, which are insane, to the sort of

1:40.1

forced gorging on, like, it's like turkey was the first iteration of the chicken you know you get

1:50.7

better at things and i imagine that god didn't just like immediately make great things there

1:59.2

were sort of precursors and then the next thing came.

2:03.0

And so God was like, how do I make a delicious bird turkey? It sucks. Wasn't good.

2:11.5

Did not get the numbers God was looking for. God got ratioed by the turkey. Not a lot of faves. A lot of people tried it, though.

2:22.2

And then you get this very sad effect. Maybe somebody in the chat can help me remember what the

2:29.5

effect is where you keep doubling down on something. You in something it didn't work but you keep

2:36.5

investing in it what's that fucking called insanity thank you josh it's a form of it's an actual

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