The show starts with a discussion of Ben's new podcasting space that is equipped with a bed and an actual working executive office. The guys get to actual food safety topics somewhat quicker than normal, chatting about Thanksgiving preparation, thawing a very large turkey (at room temperature, in an insulated cooler). Turkey-thawing leads to a discussion on enzyme kinetics and turkey pardoning. The conversation goes to National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day (which neither knew was a thing) and all of the advice that goes along with that holiday. The guys talk about pre-print papers, and published papers and how they are talked about differently in media (or should be, or shouldn't be). In a non-food safety detour, they talk about higher education and the impact of sports gambling on NCAA sports. The show ends on some follow-up and a quick chat about ingredient-driven recalls (that may not be risk-based).

Show notes so you can follow along at home:

Roundabout - Wikipedia
Clerks (film) - Wikipedia
Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) / Twitter
Predicting The FIFA World Cup 2022 With a Simple Model using Python | by Frank Andrade | Nov, 2022 | Towards Data Science
Why Is it Called Beef When It’s From Cows?
Thawing turkeys at ambient air temperatures - Google Scholar
86. Thawing Poultry at Room Temperature — Risky or Not?
Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: “Room temperature thawing of frozen meat is an interesting topic that comes up from time to time. If you check all of the food safety advice websites they will tell you that it is not safe to do this. (1/18)” / Twitter
How to Safely Thaw Poultry - BettyCrocker.com
Lineweaver–Burk plot - Wikipedia
Hans Lineweaver - Wikipedia
Eat or Toss? Is it OK to eat?
The effect of different thawing methods on the growth of bacteria in chicken
NC State Selected as Home for 2022 National Thanksgiving Turkeys | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Abbott & Costello Who’s On First - YouTube
Three’s Company - Wikipedia
How to safely cook a turkey? Chef Michael Symon’s foolproof tips - Chicago Sun-Times
How to cook a turkey safely, according to chef Michael Symon
Cleaning and Disinfectant Chemical Exposures and Temporal Associations with COVID-19 — National Poison Data System, United States, January 1, 2020–March 31, 2020 | MMWR
Ecolab Science Certified Program & Seal
NATIONAL CLEAN OUT YOUR REFRIGERATOR DAY - November 15 - National Day Calendar
Urban Dictionary: PIO
Tom Ulrich on Twitter: “And at long last, I’ve gotten around to making my #sciwri22 #sciwripreprints slides available on the web, under CC-BY-NC-SA: https://t.co/d06XOdOtp0” / Twitter
Working Papers - Economics - Research Guides & Library How-To at California State University Sacramento
bioRxiv.org - the preprint server for Biology
Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in the Boston area highlights the role of recurrent importation and superspreading events. - PMC
Preprint servers: a ‘rush to publish’ or ‘just in time delivery’ for science? - PMC
How Colleges and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campuses - The New York Times
Chapo Trap House
334. Snacklebox — Risky or Not?
Rolls recalled over possible microbial contamination | Food Safety News
Brioche Style Buns recalled in Ontario because of microbial contamination | Food Safety News
53 nationally distributed beverage products recalled over microbial contamination | Food Safety News
Lyons Magnus expands recall of Oatly, Stumptown and other beverages over microbial contamination | Food Safety News