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Welcome to the show everybody. Happy Thanksgiving as we get ready for thanks. You have been the

big day tomorrow, the final exam. Hope you've studied because the media realizes that

we're all a bunch of incompetent, helpless morons. We don't know how to speak to our

own families around the dinner table without precise instructions. Fortunately, our

betters in the media are always eager to help us out in this regard and to give us those

tutorials, which is why around this time every year, we are treated to a slew of conversational

instruction manuals from the media telling us how to talk to our family, not just what

to talk about, but also how to talk about those things. This year, as it happens, our

white nights, our nights in shining armor have gone above and beyond the call of duty.

Here's just a quick sampling. I looked on Google and here's just a quick sampling of the

how to talk to your family articles, which is a burgeoning genre. A quick sampling. These

are some that have been published recently. We have how to talk about the economy with

your family on Thanksgiving. Here's how to fact check your family at the Thanksgiving

dinner table. How to deal with climate skeptics at Thanksgiving dinner. How to talk about

race at Thanksgiving. How to talk about politics at your Thanksgiving table. How to talk about

the truth and Trump at Thanksgiving. How to talk about reproductive freedom with your

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