EP 223: Two Turkeys Share a Thanksgiving Meal

Episode Summary

It’s Thanksgiving Eve, and Amanda & Trevin are inviting you to their table a day early—just in time to practice a few conversations you might want to avoid at your own family gathering. This week, the crew actually gives thanks for a change.

No murders, just bad decisions.

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What This Episode Covers

• It’s Thanksgiving Eve, and Amanda & Trevin are inviting you to their table a day early—just in time to practice a few
• conversations you might want to avoid
• at your own family gathering.
• This week, the crew actually gives thanks for a change.
• Trevin reflects on discovering
• Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Why Listen?

If you like true crime but think most true crime got a little too murdery, this episode brings petty crimes, dumb criminals, and dramatic storytelling without the heavy stuff.

Original Episode Description

It’s Thanksgiving Eve, and Amanda & Trevin are inviting you to their table a day early—just in time to practice a few

conversations you might want to avoid

at your own family gathering.

This week, the crew actually gives thanks for a change. Trevin reflects on discovering

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

, and how the book connects to his family’s history with masculinity. Amanda finds gratitude in her injured wrist, even writing a heartfelt (and hilarious) poem about all the good it brings into her life.

To warm things up, they dive into

Thanksgiving Trivia

. Amanda quizzes Trevin about a returning character in the

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

, leading to theories ranging from Shrek to Ronald McDonald—plus a dubious Spider-Man parade memory. Trevin’s trivia topic exposes a viral

Facebook article on the legal scams the platform feeds users daily

, and the big money behind them.

Then it’s on to the main course:

a full holiday platter of petty crimes, scams, chaos, and questionable choices.

Tempe, AZ:

LaVina Jackson is arrested after a Thanksgiving fight—then picked up from jail by her partner,

Miguel Redshirt

, in a

stolen truck

.

Burlington, Ontario:

A local man shares fake nudes of his ex-wife with a friend, leading to an unusual court decision.

Lafayette, Louisiana:

Walmart employees

Stacey Dishman, Jordan Lee Dalton, and Abigail Lane

cheat Black Friday promotions for extra cash.

Hamilton, Ontario:

A 36-year-old man steals a

Hamilton Street Railway

bus full of passengers… and heroically takes everyone to their correct stops (while denying unpaid riders).

Bucks County, Philadelphia:

Anthony Gisondi

steals hundreds of dollars worth of frozen turkeys to pay for drugs—and someone unexpected takes him down.

France:

Oscar Delaite

, 19, breaks the

Guinness World Record

for the longest continuous bicycle wheelie—just because he felt like it.

We’re serving up a Thanksgiving spread that will leave you full, subdued, and passed out on the couch.

Join us at the table. Come hungry and leave stuffed with crime.

Take a break from the heavy and get petty.