John F. Kennedy once let a turkey live on Thanksgiving, but the official presidential Turkey pardon didn't happen until the Regan administration. Nonetheless, I think letting a doomed animal survive a feast day is a pretty decent thing to do, overall. That's why at this year's annual Carney family lobster broil my sisters and I decided to let one of these crustaceans go so it could spread a word of warning to all of lobster-kind that maybe it would be a good idea to avoid the traps that humans put at the bottom of the sea.

So, yeah, this week's video is pretty different from our regularly scheduled programming. It's part heartwarming, and, if you think about it too much, a little horrifying. That said it's also your exclusive inside look into my very odd yankee family roots.

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