Axios Today gives thanks for this year

1 big thing

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🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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On this holiday, we've got One Big Thing: what the Axios Today team is thankful for and why. Spend a few minutes with us for our bonus Thanksgiving episode! Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Julia Redpath, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Alex Sugiura, Sabeena Singhani, Lydia McMullen-Laird, David Toledo and Jayk Cherry. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It is Thursday, November 25th. Happy Thanksgiving.
0:09.8	I'm Nila Boudou. We hope you're enjoying the holiday with your loved ones. We're off today,
0:14.2	but wanted to leave you a little bonus episode for your holiday feed. Today's one big thing is us
0:20.0	giving thanks for this year. I'm really grateful that it is 2021 and I think about
0:29.7	last Thanksgiving and where we're at and how far we've come. And I'm grateful for that.
0:35.6	I'm also so thankful to the team that puts this podcast together every day. You all hear my voice,
0:41.9	but there are so many other people behind this show. And so I wanted to turn the mic over to them.
0:50.3	Hi, my name is David Tolino and I'm an associate producer with Axios today. This year I was very
0:55.7	thankful. I was able to return to the movie theaters and return to my favorite hobby, which
1:00.7	is divorcing myself from reality for two hours and watching a different storyline.
1:05.8	I'm Mike Allen, a co-founder of Axios. And I'm thankful for the Axios audience. That's you.
1:12.4	Thank you for trying something new. And for my Axios colleagues, including Nila and her great team
1:18.0	who are building something amazing. Off the clock, I'm Uncle Mike. My three siblings have 11 kids,
1:24.8	eight boys. So I'm off to North Carolina. My brother Scott is deep-frying to Turkey's southern style.
1:31.6	Happy Thanksgiving. I'm Margaret Taleb, Managing Editor for Politics at Axios.
1:37.9	And this year I'm grateful for life. My partner, John and I, survived a terrible case of COVID back
1:43.8	in February thanks to great doctors, medicine, family friends, and coworkers. And this past weekend,
1:50.9	I spent in Atlanta where my stepdaughter Maggie and her husband are expecting their first child
1:55.6	early next year. Maggie has spent the pandemic in nursing school, training as a midwife,
2:00.8	so that she can help other moms to be bring the next generation into this world.
2:07.2	Hi, I'm Alex Segura, the sound engineer for Axios today. And this year I'm thankful for my family,
2:12.2	my friends and for the chance to work with such intelligent and fastidious folks as those
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