I love Thanksgiving. I love the chance to actually, you know, prepare things a couple days in advance.

You know, it's very excited. I don't know if you've ever, you know, brined a turkey over like one or two days.

That's like, to me, that's thrilling. Yeah.

They're putting that much effort into dinner.

Yeah. Have you ever done the like deep fried turkey?

I never have. And for this reason, I'm confident that's how I would die. It's true. You can find all kinds of videos online of people like almost burning down their houses

because of their attempts to eat fried turkeys. But don't you kind of feel like that'd be a little

fun? Like a little extreme. Of course. A little free son of danger. Well, it's like, it's like,

you know, on Fourth of July when people carry their, you know, fireworks out into the street and they have the sparklers and everything, it looks very cool.

I will not touch them because all I can think about is the emergency room statistics that I read on July 5th every year.

But I'm happy to watch it, and that's how I feel about somebody frying a turkey.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I'm going to fry a turkey this year.

All right. Well, let's know how it goes. And if you need emergency medical attention.

I'm Kevin Roos, a tech columnist at the New York Times.

I'm Casey Nud from Platformer. And this is Hard Fork.

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