Okay, Sam, to get started, I just want us to look at a photo together.

And then maybe you can describe this photo to me and tell me what exactly is going on in this photo.

Okay. So we are looking at a lectern that has a rather actually buff bird on it. It's a turkey. And this is a lectern in a very

special church that has more than one tribute to the turkey. You have this lectern. There are

stained glass windows with the turkey. There are sculptures of the turkey.

And it's all because the church is the final resting place of the gentleman who claims he brought the turkey to England.

It's St. Andrew's Boynton Church, and it's in East Yorkshire, England.

Wow.

Yeah.

I mean, just to describe that when you say

buff, it's this turkey with this very, like, robust chest, I guess, and, like, resting on

his or her back is the wooden sort of stand part of the lectern. So, like, I can imagine, like,

if you're at church, looking forward, like, this turkey is pretty prominent.

Absolutely.

Your eye goes right to this lectern.

If you're sitting in one of the pews, it's very much, like, a focal point within the church.

Like, if I were attending a service there, I would not be paying attention.

I would just be looking at the turkey.

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