Butterball Hotline's Craziest Calls

It's that time of the year.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm a little worried for the Butterball hot Line, and
I'll tell you why in a second. It's one of
six point seven light a FM with Cubby and Christine
producer Kristen. So you were telling me that the Butterball
hotline is open, and every year we talk about.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
It, we do.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's still a thing.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Definitely.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Are you thinking what I'm thinking.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
They get some strange phone calls.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Well that, but like I'm surprised they're still even opening
up in calls with chat GPT. I mean, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, but like that's I would type something.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
If I had a question about a turkey cooking, I
would text or.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, well call just for a person. Somebody wants to
talk to somebody. Yeah, pros, they're pros are pros. They
have fifty experts standing by Covey on the Turkey talk line,
especially when it closes in on Thanksgiving Day. They've been
doing this for forty years.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Okay, I know they know what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
They know there's stuff, absolutely, and they're there from November
through December, but they.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Know they're in January.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
No're on your own.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Got a question about a turkey? It's too bad. On
January fifth.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
So one of the experts gathered together like the crate,
like he's been there quite some time, or she has
the crazy stuff that people have called about. Do you
want just like a few examples of the Butterball Turkey hotline?

Speaker 3 (01:13):
She said.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Somebody called one time and they wanted to wash their
turkey to make sure it was defrosted. At the same time,
they wanted to put it in the dishwasher. That was
a no, of course. She advised them not to do that.
Another caller wants to know if the turkey was okay
to eat after it was left outside to thaw and
outdoor animals had gotten to it.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Oh boy, I wouldn't recommend that.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm not going to go with that. A guy checked
in asked if the oil from the chainsaw he cut
the turkey with made it inedible.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean, these are all these are real. They're no there,
They're a big fat noo.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Another caller called to ask what was the best way
to cook a turkey that been sitting in the freezer
since nineteen sixty nine.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
That's actually a good question.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, if it's frozen, it's good for a long time.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Isn't it.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
No, No, No, there's frostby.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
There's no, there's expiration days.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yes, there's a shelf life. Talk line says they've also
gotten calls whether it was okay to slow roast the
turkey over a few days so the house could be
filled with that delicious aroma.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Okay, that's a no.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
And the last one they site is one caller didn't
have a question, but they offered a tip for getting
the bird to be able to fit into any pan.
He said, wrap it in a towel and give it
a few good stomps to break the bones.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
With that.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
So it's one eight hundred butter Ball, by the way,
and they are open to texting.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, Kristen, call seriously, call really yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Butter Ball. She's gonna spell out.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
That's okay.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
To this is.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
You t t E R B a LLL.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Let's see if anybody answers. I didn't plan on. Oh
did you tell nine?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (03:06):
One more time, one more sure.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
Maybe they need to go in eight hundred, eight hundred,
but Turball T R B A l L.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Maybe they're not, you know, no, maybe it's our It
sounds like our phone system. If it's doing the rapid
I thought maybe.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's early in the morning and they're like, no

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Turkey, all right, we'll troubleshoot light of m