Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

Hiya.

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

It's free to sell on there?

Free to sell?

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

You sold my guitar?

Shall we talk about Benning?

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

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Welcome to a special two-part best-of Thanksgiving edition of the weekly Scientific American podcast Science Talk. I'm Steve

Merski. In part one, we'll hear from Turkey scientist Rich Buckholz of the University of

Mississippi in an interview that originally aired on November 22nd, 2006. I asked Rich what

he'd be eating on Thanksgiving. I am going to eat a nice butterball turkey.

I'm not going to eat a wild turkey.

They're too scrawny anyway.

And I will enjoy him.

Now, the butterball turkey is a domesticated version of the same species?

Yeah.

In fact, the turkeys we eat today are really sort of a genetically engineered construct.

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