Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / Butterball Hotline's Craziest Calls
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I'm all worried for the Butterball hot Line, and I'll
- 0:03Speaker 1: tell you why in a second. It's one of six
- 0:04Speaker 1: point seven Light, a m with Cubby and Christine producer Kristen.
- 0:07Speaker 1: So you were telling me that the Butterball hotline is open,
- 0:10Speaker 1: and every year we talk about it too. It's still
- 0:12Speaker 1: a thing.
- 0:13Speaker 2: Definitely, Are you thinking what I'm thinking.
- 0:16Speaker 3: They get some strange phone calls.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Well that, but like I'm surprised they're still even opening
- 0:20Speaker 1: up in calls with chat GPT. I mean, I'm sorry,
- 0:24Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but like that's I would type something.
- 0:27Speaker 2: If I had a question about a turkey cooking, I
- 0:29Speaker 2: would text or.
- 0:31Speaker 3: Yeah, well call just for a person. Somebody wants to
- 0:35Speaker 3: talk to somebody. Yeah, pros, they're pros, are pros. They
- 0:39Speaker 3: have fifty experts standing by Covey on the Turkey talk line,
- 0:43Speaker 3: especially when it closes in on Thanksgiving Day. They've been
- 0:46Speaker 3: doing this for forty years.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Okay, I know they know what they're doing.
- 0:49Speaker 3: They know there's stuff, absolutely, and they're there from November
- 0:52Speaker 3: through December, but they.
- 0:54Speaker 2: Know they're in January.
- 0:55Speaker 3: No, you're on your own.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Got a question about a turkey? It's too bad on
- 0:59Speaker 2: January fifth.
- 1:00Speaker 3: So one of the experts gathered together like the crate,
- 1:03Speaker 3: like he's been there quite some time, or she has
- 1:06Speaker 3: the crazy stuff that people have called about. Do you
- 1:09Speaker 3: want just like a few examples of the butterball Turkey hotline?
- 1:13Speaker 2: She said.
- 1:13Speaker 3: Somebody called one time and they wanted to wash their
- 1:16Speaker 3: turkey to make sure it was defrosted. At the same time,
- 1:19Speaker 3: they wanted to put it in the dishwasher. That was
- 1:23Speaker 3: a no, of course. She advised them not to do that.
- 1:26Speaker 3: Another caller wants to know if the turkey was okay
- 1:28Speaker 3: to eat after it was left outside to thaw and
- 1:32Speaker 3: outdoor animals had gotten to it.
- 1:34Speaker 2: Oh boy, I wouldn't recommend that.
- 1:36Speaker 3: I'm not going to go with that. A guy checked
- 1:38Speaker 3: in asked if the oil from the chainsaw he cut
- 1:42Speaker 3: the turkey with made it inedible.
- 1:44Speaker 2: I mean, these are all these are real. They're no there,
- 1:47Speaker 2: They're a big fat nose.
- 1:50Speaker 3: Another caller called to ask what was the best way
- 1:53Speaker 3: to cook a turkey that been sitting in the freezer
- 1:55Speaker 3: since nineteen sixty nine.
- 1:57Speaker 2: That's actually a good question.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Yeah, if it's frozen, it's good for a long time.
- 2:02Speaker 2: Isn't it.
- 2:03Speaker 4: No, No, no, there's frostby, there's no, there's expiration days.
- 2:07Speaker 3: Yes, there's a shelf life. Talk line says they've also
- 2:09Speaker 3: gotten calls whether it was okay to slow roast the
- 2:12Speaker 3: turkey over a few days so the house could be
- 2:15Speaker 3: filled with that delicious aroma.
- 2:17Speaker 2: Okay, that's a no.
- 2:19Speaker 3: And the last one they say is one caller didn't
- 2:22Speaker 3: have a question, but they offered a tip for getting
- 2:25Speaker 3: the bird to be able to fit into any pan.
- 2:28Speaker 3: He said, wrap it in a towel and give it
- 2:30Speaker 3: a few good stomps to break the bones.
- 2:35Speaker 2: With that.
- 2:36Speaker 3: So it's one eight hundred butter Ball, by the way,
- 2:38Speaker 3: and they are open to texting.
- 2:41Speaker 2: Yeah, Kristen, call seriously, call really yeah, yeah.
- 2:45Speaker 3: Butter Ball. She's gonna spell out.
- 2:47Speaker 2: That's okay.
- 2:50Speaker 4: To this.
- 2:54Speaker 3: You t T E R B A l LL.
- 3:00Speaker 4: There we go.
- 3:01Speaker 2: Let's see if anybody answers. I didn't plan on. Oh
- 3:05Speaker 2: did you tell nine?
- 3:06Speaker 3: Yes?
- 3:06Speaker 2: One more time, one more sure.
- 3:08Speaker 4: Maybe they need to go in eight hundred, eight hundred,
- 3:13Speaker 4: but Turball T R B A l L.
- 3:23Speaker 1: Maybe they're not, you know, no, maybe it's our It
- 3:25Speaker 1: sounds like our phone system if it's doing the rapid
- 3:28Speaker 1: I thought maybe.
- 3:28Speaker 3: It's early in the morning, and they're like, no
- 3:31Speaker 2: Turkey, all right, we'll troubleshoot light of m