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e-cam and k r c s happy thanksgiving and i'm joined by mike herly yes hello mike happy

thanksgiving to you to freder, we are recording this on Thanksgiving Day.

It will not be published on Thanksgiving day because Stephen said I couldn't make our edit a gym work on Thanksgiving, which he's probably right.

I wasn't trying to argue the point, but he did remind me.

And so, yeah, we're going to be publishing it at daylight. I'm thankful for Jim for all the work that he does every week in putting this show together and publishing it and getting it all wonderful for our listener pleasure. So we should all be thankful to our wonderful editor, Jim Messendorf. But we will be up a day late. And yes, because it was also Thanksgiving. It's just two of us, you know. Just a couple of Europeans hanging out. Yeah, it's a no, no, no, no Thanksgiving for us. Do you celebrate with a special meal or anything tonight, Mike? Not tonight, but we're going to be spending Thanksgiving with the underscore family this weekend.

Nice.

They're inviting us to a meal that they're having, so I'm looking forward to that a lot.

Nice.

Should we do some follow-up for a recap?

Follow-up.

Yes.

So I was I was noodling around on my iPad as I'm want to do.

As always.

As I want to do.

And I opened the Instagram app, which I have not been using because I didn't like it, because they were loading me into this horrible Reels interface on the homepage. And it's changed for me. Instagram, like many of these large tech companies, they love to A-B-Test, you know?

So I don't know if I'm in some kind of A-B-Test.

But now the kind of homepage of Instagram for my iPad is what I would expect it to be.

It's the content from the people that I follow, photos and videos. Oh, okay.

With a distinct tab for reels.

So, like, this is what I want it to be.

It's actually emulating the new default layout for Instagram on the phone,

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