Hello, everyone, and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television.

I'm David Chen, joining me as usual as Patrick. Patrick, hope you had a happy Thanksgiving

last week. How was your Thanksgiving? Everything go well? It was good. Got a little snowed in.

Oh, right. A massive storm hit the Midwest. Yeah. We do Thanksgiving in a small kind of rural area in southern Wisconsin. And let's say they have road priorities out there. And the priority was not the road in front of my mom's house, which is to say about halfway through the day I had to run one errand I was like half

these roads I feel like I'm going to die on so I texted my wife was like I know we said we might

go home today we're not like shut the door let's find some activities for the kids because

we're going to make this a snowy day inside, which actually ended up being

really delightful and fun. But no, Thanksgiving has gone, went really well, no drama, good

food, a lot of good people. So what else can you ask for? How about yourself? You had a unique

setup this year. Yeah, well, I'm in Portugal right now, and there is no, the country doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving in any conventional way.

But a couple doors down, we did meet our neighbors, and they are from Seattle, and they had an American Thanksgiving.

And that was wonderful.

They invited us over, and we got to have dinner together and eat foods that I'm familiar

with and,

you know,

commiserate about.

Do any of the stores do, like,

is there enough of a American Thanksgiving interested population that some

stores will advertise, even like put up sort of like, and if you need Thanksgiving

stuff, like we have some of it here if you need thanksgiving stuff like we have

some of it here does it even rise to that level where you'll see any sort of mention i have not

seen anything like not a single one it's a great in america right now it's yeah it is i mean can

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