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The History of Fun

Presidential Turkey Pardon: A Brief History

The History of Fun

Vox Media Podcast Network

Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Hobbies, Video Games, Leisure

4.8605 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to The History of Fun where we explore the hidden back stories of the things you love.

0:13.6

My name is Russ Frustick and I screamed too loud and plant was deafened by that.

0:18.4

It was really funny to see him react. Uh, welcome again to another

0:22.6

episode of The History of Fun. Uh, I am joined today by Allegra Frank. Hey, Allegra. Hey,

0:27.1

Aligra. Hey, Russ. How's it going? It's fun. B plus from Allegra. And, uh, Chris

0:34.5

Flynn, how are you doing? You know, I'm doing.

0:38.0

I'm back from the beautiful land of Toledo, Ohio.

0:41.3

I ate chicken wings every day of the trip.

0:44.7

That's my kind of town.

0:47.8

Speaking of chicken wings, we're going to talk a little bit about poultry today.

0:51.7

Not specifically chicken, but poultry.

0:54.4

And given the fact that we're talking about holiday traditions this season, it's all about holiday traditions, there is one very strange holiday tradition that has happened for many years and continues to happen every single year.

1:09.2

And that is...

1:10.0

Wait, can I guess?

1:10.9

Sure.

1:12.1

Is it stuffing, like, ripped up bread and old vegetables into a turkey's butthole?

1:21.5

You mean stuffing?

1:23.1

Yes.

1:23.7

That's a weird tradition, right?

1:25.8

Like, that's a weird tradition.

1:45.3

But it's delicious, so we're fine with it. I don't think that's weird. Wait, so that's not the topic. No. Allegra, do you have a guess? Well, now I'm just kind of fixating on the idea of stuffing, and now I kind of understand why it's called that. I mean, think about where milk comes from and then be weirded out so everything's weird about food no today we're going to be talking about the

1:49.8

presidential turkey pardon oh man lots to talk about here do you guys are you guys

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