Greetings conversationalists. Welcome. It's Eric Erickson here and an open line Friday. The full number is 877977737425.

Listener Andy, I'm seeing your email. Yes. You can dry Brian the turkey. Now, I do try to get under the skin, but if you do it on the skin, you probably need 48 hours to be able to penetrate.

But I would lift up the skin and rub under the skin.

I'm trying not to say rub the breasts of the turkey, but you don't want to be.

But yeah, you can.

And then I put butter.

One thing I will say, if you're cooking your turkey, here's a trick I learn.

Take a gallon Ziploc bag of ice.

Lay it on the breast of the turkey for 40 minutes before you roast it or smoke it.

And the reason is because it will lower the internal temperature of the breast as when you're, the turkey sitting out for a little while while you're getting the smoker or the roasting pan ready and the oven's coming up to temperature of the smoker.

It will lower the temperature of the rest because the white meat will cook quicker than the dark meat. And so if you place a gallon Ziplog bag of ice on the breast,

it lowers the temperature there enough so that everything more or less balances out. So you're

not going to have dry meat. There you have it. Now, we got to move into study.

You know, for all of the, hey, you should not talk about religion on the radio.

Maybe it's shut up about turkeys.

Okay.

Y'all, I don't know if you know this or not, but the United States Senate is illegitimate again.

I always find these stories so funny.

Rush Limbaugh used to say that homelessness or unhousedness now is never a problem until the moment Republicans get to the White House.

And I remember one of our funniest exchanges we ever had was in, I want to say it was, it was November or December of 2016.

So Donald Trump has won.

Yeah, yeah, it was December.

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