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This is the podcast for December 6, 2013.

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Recorded live from just outside to David Brooks.

I'm back at work.

Open bar gala.

It's the professional left with drift glass and blue gal.

Why are they always out of rum?

Because Mike Barnacle drinks all the good shit in the morning and Peggy Noon comes in at noon and polishes it off.

Ay, aye, yeah, David Brooks has returned. We'll get to that in a few minutes.

Yeah, we want to start by catching up with a couple of letters that came in.

A lot of letters came to us right before Thanksgiving, and we're very grateful.

I want to thank my friend who I went to college with, Lee, for writing such a nice note.

And we got a letter from a listener. I can't remember his name, but he openly derided every liberal host of every liberal show for not doing a Thanksgiving show,

for taking the week off.

I think including John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, everybody, and said, I mean,

the professional left put out a show on Thanksgiving.

You people.

So what is wrong with you people?

Yeah.

Come on.

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