Welcome to Gee Thanks Just Bought It, the podcast where I tell you what to buy and then you tell me my friend Meredith Haggerty. She is also the

deputy editor of Vox.com.

So the goods.

Hi Meredith.

Hi, Caroline.

Hi, thank you for coming.

Thanks for having me.

So I'm super excited to have you.

And as we know, the holidays are coming up. And one of the things that I was thinking about the other day was just like how bad

like dad recommendation forget like dad gift racks are so impossible and they're awful like right how many whiskey ice cubes can you buy

I didn't father why do we think America's fathers are all alcoholics all alcoholic

alcoholic golf players. Yes.

My dad has never played golf in his life I don't think.

My dad plays golf but he doesn't drink a lot of whiskey.

He gets like really drunk off one dacery and then like can't drive the golf cart.

Well, me and your dad have a lot in common.

He's terrible at drinking.

I'm much better at this than you.

Perfect.

So, you know, every year I'm like, you know,

my dad doesn't wear ties, he doesn't play golf. I don't like doesn't smoke cigars.

I don't know whose dad does all this stuff but like apparently it's enough dads that fuel the entire

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