87. Rachel Maddow (Replay). Thanksgiving 2020. A Conversation to Warm Your Heart, Feed Your Brain, and Inspire Your Soul.
Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff
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4.6 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 92 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Angry Americans. |
| 0:15.9 | Welcome to episode 87. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm your host, Paul Reichoff. If you're not angry, you're not paying attention, even this Thanksgiving. |
| 0:28.3 | Corn, I hereby grant you a full pardon. Thank you, corn. |
| 0:36.9 | That's President Mayhem, pardoning the presidential turkey. |
| 0:42.2 | The turkey is named corn. |
| 0:45.5 | After he pardoned the turkey, and despite widespread speculation, he did not pardon himself, at least not yet. |
| 0:55.3 | The White House turkey tradition was started by President Truman in 1947, |
| 1:00.9 | and President John F. Kennedy was the first president to spare the honored presidential bird. |
| 1:08.2 | President George Herbert Walker Bush was the first to officially use the word |
| 1:12.2 | pardon back in 1989. But no, this Thanksgiving, with America rocked by the election and ravaged by |
| 1:21.6 | the pandemic, there is no pardoning of Donald Trump. And there's no pardoning the mayhem and the chaos of the last |
| 1:30.9 | three years and especially of 2020 so far. 2020 has been a feast of insanity, chaos, mayhem, |
| 1:42.0 | and stress. But even in times like this, maybe especially in times like this, there's still reason to be |
| 1:50.8 | thankful. |
| 1:51.8 | Even in a pandemic, there's still reason to be thankful. |
| 1:57.2 | And this Thanksgiving season, after 86 episodes of Angry Americans, we're extremely |
| 2:03.3 | thankful to you for joining us and to all the important, inspiring, iconic guests that have |
| 2:10.7 | joined us, from Willie Geist to Sarah Jessica Parker, to West Moore, to Samantha Bee, to Corporal Aaron Mankin, to Megan McCain, |
| 2:20.7 | to Ambassador Susan Rice, to Henry Rollins, to Mike Shinoda, to Montel Williams, |
| 2:27.5 | to McFoley, to Stephen Colbert, to Molly McHugh, to Chuck D. We've had an amazing, bountiful spread |
| 2:36.4 | of important, iconic, and inspiring Americans, |
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