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How To Do Everything

Thanksgiving Dinner

How To Do Everything

NPR

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

How to always win the wishbone pull, dodge awkward dinner conversations, and eat as much as possible.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time to reflect think about what we're thankful for and time to not do a new podcast

0:07.6

So before we go we're pulling together some of our favorite Thanksgiving how-toes from past shows.

0:14.6

Now we know you may not love it when we play old segments.

0:18.2

It's not our favorite thing.

0:19.4

It's not.

0:20.7

Our favorite things are raindrops and roses.

0:23.0

Yeah, and brown paper packages tied up with string.

0:26.0

Keeping all that in mind, what we want to do is pump some new life into these segments

0:32.0

in the best way we know how.

0:33.4

With the theme from Monday night football.

0:37.0

Every holiday has different rituals, different traditions.

0:44.0

And one tradition is the wishbone.

0:46.0

You rather creepily, honestly, you pull a bone from inside of what was once a living thing, you dry it and then you pull it to see who gets a wish.

0:55.0

The turkey doesn't get a wish. The turkey would probably wish this whole thing had never happened.

1:01.0

That we never had access to this part of his body, this bone. But how do you make sure that you win every time?

1:08.0

Peter Moore from Men's Health magazine has this tip.

1:11.0

Well, of course we turn to experts for every important thing that we cover in the magazine and for this one we turn to a man named F Dustin Clark who is the Poultry Health veterinarian at the University of Arkansas.

1:23.0

So you pick out your pigeon,

1:26.2

you know, the person who you are going to contest the wishbone

1:29.0

with.

1:30.1

Now is that a technical term, pigeon? Yeah, I think it's a metaphor for the for the how easily this person will be duped.

1:38.0

Okay, so we're going to present the wishbone and for the snapping ceremony and what you're going to do is grasp it as

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