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Reconsider the turkey

Here's a little gift for Thanksgiving. It is at Patreon, and you can listen directly there.

Of course, I'm also going to shamelessly promote two turkey episodes from 2014 that you might have missed.

Talking turkey about how they came by that name, and A partial history of the turkey, which asks when and where were turkeys domesticated.

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