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Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Here’s a Fun One for the Holidays (Nora McInerny)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Lemonada Media

Self-improvement, Education

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week—for some joy, levity, and laughs—I asked my very funny friend to keep us company. Nora McInerny is an author and the host of the podcast Thanks for Asking. Today, she’s sharing some holiday traditions that would be fun to try out with your family or friends, along with a minimal gift-giving method that truly impressed me. We talk TV show recommendations for the season, personality surveys, and other ways to laugh right now. For the show notes, head to my Substack. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:05.7

Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread.

0:09.2

Today I'm talking to my very funny friend, Nora McInerney.

0:15.8

Hey there, it's Julia Louis Dreyfuss.

0:18.7

I'm back with a new season of Wiser Than Me, the show where I sit down with remarkable older women

0:25.1

and soak up their stories, their humor, and their hard-earned wisdom.

0:30.8

Every conversation leaves me a little smarter and definitely more inspired.

0:35.2

And yes, I'm still calling my 91-year-old mom, Judy, to get her take on it all.

0:42.4

Wiser than me from Lemonade Media premieres November 12th, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:59.6

Hey, it's me, Steve Burns, and I'm so glad you're here because you and I go way back, right?

1:00.6

Yeah.

1:01.9

And look at us now.

1:02.9

Like, we're all grown up.

1:06.2

We've got this new podcast where we talk about all this grown up stuff. And there's special guests like Jamie Lee Curtis and Bill Nye.

1:10.5

But for the most part, it's about you.

1:13.6

I mean, it's always been about you.

1:15.6

From Lemonada Media, alive with Steve Burns is coming September 17th, wherever you get your podcasts,

1:20.8

or you can watch every episode on YouTube. Hi, it's Elise Loonan, host of Pulling the Thread.

1:38.3

On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here.

1:46.2

My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness so that we might all collectively

1:51.7

learn and grow. Here is today's guest, author, podcast host, and very funny woman, Nora McInerney, talking about what she's been up to this holiday season. Whenever people are like, millennials don't want your stuff like this millennial does, if your parents die and they left you something, you don't want to call me. I will take that. I was on Facebook Marketplace today. Someone's mom died, and they are getting rid of Christmas China. And I have to say, I sent a message,

2:20.0

Matthew's not going to be happy. But I was like, what if we had special Christmas plates?

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