BONUS - Thanksgiving Turkey Fails: The Most Unhinged Butterball Hotline Calls

From turkeys in dishwashers to chainsaw carving disasters, this episode of The Jubal Show dives into the wildest, funniest, and most outrageous calls to the Butterball Turkey Hotline. Get ready to laugh, cringe, and feel better about your own holiday cooking fails as we share the viral thread of people’s most ridiculous turkey questions. Perfect for Thanksgiving prep or just a good holiday chuckle!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
That is a nice bird.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Okay, oh my god.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
That's audio with family enjoying watching their Thanksgiving turkey cook
until it burst into flame.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
They freaked out.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
It's the Jewel Show and every year people have problems
cooking their holiday birds. That's why Butterball invented the Butterball
Turkey Hotline. They get over ten thousand calls in the
weeks before and on Thanksgiving and because of that, a
threat is going viral of Butterball Turkey Hotline employees sharing
the most unhinged calls that they've ever gotten. Yeah, and

(00:41):
we'll go over it next so you can feel a
little bit less bad about the anxiety you're feeling around
cooking your Thanksgiving turkey this year.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Right after this, it's the Jubal Show. Hate that.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
That's audio from the annual Turkey Fair in France that
they have every year where they do a turkey call competition.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
It's the show.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
And speaking of awkward turkey calls, the Butterball Turkey Hotline
gets over ten thousand calls this time of year, in
just two weeks before and during Thanksgiving from people asking
all sorts of ridiculous questions. When it comes to heating
up their holiday birds, and the threat is going viral
of employees sharing the most unhinged things that they've ever had.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Somebody ask them, what do you ask?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Don't you just pop that in the oven or pop
in the I've had to ask how to brian my turkey?
Brian is when it has like the salt on it
and stuff so it helps it stay juicy.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
You've actually called it before, Nina.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, okay, I've never called it before, but I've always
wondered what people call it about.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
I just wanted to know too, because I just was like,
forget it, let's just see what's up. I love the
Butterball hotline. They're so helpful.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
One employee at the Butterball Turkey Outline said that her
most memorable question was about defrosting the turkey. Somebody called
up and wanted to wash their turkey and make sure
it was defrosted at the same time, so they asked
if they could put it in the dishwasher.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Oh I'm sorry, how would that help?

Speaker 3 (02:18):
That's all that why I don't like going over people's
houses that I don't know. I'm like, this could be
somebody who thinks that you can defrost the bird in
the dishwasher.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, I mean you think about it. Logically, it might
not be a bad idea, but.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
It does detergent all up in there.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
If you don't put detergent in it. We make fish
in the dishwasher. If you never poached fish in the dishwasher,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Wait what? Yeah? You do what? You can make fish
in the dishwasher.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
You take your fish and you wrap it all up
and then you stick it in there, and then it's
just like it's a fun thing, like perfectly poached in
like moist.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
I didn't know. Yeah, I had no idea you could
do that. Yeah, I don't know about a turkey though.
That feels a little big.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
But it is interesting how poor people get in the kitchen.
They have a perfectly good oven right there, and they're like,
what else can we use? Did we do it a dishwasher? Else?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Try it exciting?

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Probably you're right, like you just got to spice it
up a little bit, you know, the boredom that really
gets changed.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Another person called the Butterball Turkey Hotline and wanted to
know if the turkey was okay to eat after it
was left outside the thought and animals had gotten into it.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh yeah, it.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Would be pretty funny to be a operator at the
Butterball Turkey Hotline just to hear some of the questions
that people call it and ask.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I know, I wonder if these people are even turkey
experts or if they're just like you know, your moms
and your grandma's and your dads that are experts. I
wish I was a receptionist for the hotline so I
can be like, well, what's your question?

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Man, let me figure out like where to direct you do.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I'm only directing you to one place, but I just
want to like facilitate in here.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
The question we're going over at thread that's going viral
of employees at the Butterball Turkey Hotline sharing the most
unhinged that people unhinged things that people have called about.
One man asked if the oil from the chainsaw that
he cut the turkey with was edible or not?

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Well, did you use allive oil? Served? Probably not? Hy
it with a chainsaw. Well, I guess I know why.
It would be fun.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
Get in the kitchen.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
It would be fun chase this time. His wife said
take it outside. Yeah, because they have those electric knives.
But I guess They're just not the same site on
the same chain. Saw yeah, I could see that.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Another person called up the Butterball Turkey Hotline and asked
what the best way to cook a turkey was that
had been in the freezer since nineteen sixty nine.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
That can't be guy, that's so good.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
It's frozen.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
It's frozen. Maybe, I think if it.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Doesn't have freezer burn. That's a legit question. That's all
I'm gonna see.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
This kind of a legit question.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Also, it might just be time to get a new one,
or you know what I mean, just go grab a
new turkey, I think.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Or would it be healthier because it was from nineteen
sixty nine? Did they do less to the food bag?

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I probably had less uh hormones and antibiotics and steroids
and things pumped into it.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Interesting, it's a good question. I now, I'm really curious.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Actually, I Unfortunately it doesn't say what the Butterball Turkey
Hotline advice on.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
That we should call.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Right, hunter, We're going over some of the most unhinged
things that people have asked the Butterball Turkey Hotline operators.
This says the line has also gotten questions about if
it was okay to slow roast the turkey over a
few days, so the house would be filled with the
delicious smell of.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
The turkey for days. What how like low heat? Do
you have to cook a turkey on for days? Hey?

Speaker 2 (05:28):
But honestly, they always say the slower like you cook
it the patients, it tastes way better.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
So can you imagine how good that tastes after three days?

Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's like you get to that perfect spot and then
all of a sudden, you go too far and now
it's Krispy Burton disgusting, and it was like burnt turkey.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
We're going over a thread.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
This is going viral of Butterball Turkey hotline employees sharing
the most unhinged things that people have asked them. One
caller didn't have a question, but offered a tip for
getting the bird to fit into any pants. So I
guess you're just passing along some advice, like, Hey, Butterball
hot Line, I got the tip for you. You can tell
people recommended that you can fit the burden to any
frying pan if you wrap it in a towel and
then give it a few quote unquote good a few

(06:07):
good stomps to break all the pumps, then you can
fit it into any pan that youre. Another person called
up and said if they bind their turkey in gatorade,
it said that The person called up and said they
wearr a fitness person, finish fanatic, and they asked if

(06:28):
they could bind their turkey and gatorade would have more
electrolytes in it.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
That's kind of a legit question too, is a kind
of legit.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Question when you go away if they were cooked, like,
don't the electrolytes go away?

Speaker 3 (06:38):
And no idea.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
I don't either, I'm just guessing.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Another person said that their turkey wouldn't fit in the
oven and asked if they could seat belt it to
the passenger seat and use the heated seats for a
few hours. Again, that's why I don't like to eat food,
and like over other people's houses.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
I have no idea how to a bird it