How to Survive Your Conservative Family This Thanksgiving🔪

Confidently Insecure

Kelsey Darragh

Society & Culture, Education, Comedy

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Going home for Thanksgiving and already bracing for the political landmines your family is absolutely going to drop? Same.

This week’s episode is your official survival guide to dealing with conservative relatives, culture-war ambushes, and that one uncle who thinks Facebook memes count as primary sources.

I walk you through exactly what to say when someone at the table hits you with:

“Your generation ruined the family.”
“These elections are going to be rigged.”
“Drag queens shouldn’t be around kids.”

AND MORE!!!!!!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, okay.
0:06.3	Gable Gobble bitched.
0:08.1	Oh my God, my turkey is so good.
0:12.7	That was a good turkey, right?
0:13.9	Hibbo.
0:14.8	Wow.
0:15.8	Welcome to Confidently and Scare the podcast.
0:17.4	We're absolutely sure we don't know everything.
0:20.7	And it is, ah ah the week to be
0:23.0	thankful that's right it is thanksgiving week 2025 i hope you're listening to this from home because
0:31.1	you're working from home this week i hope you don't have to work too hard i hope you're getting ready
0:35.2	gearing up getting getting your body ready for that
0:38.8	delicious scrumditedly-umptious day where we all hate ourselves just a little bit, but we feel so
0:43.6	good and fooling, thankful that we can't help but not care. Take that afternoon walk with
0:49.8	our cousins, smoke a blunt, and be home to watch the football.
0:55.5	I'm on my period.
0:58.1	So I feel like my week's going to be shitty.
1:00.0	Sorry, that came out strong.
1:01.1	We started off Hot Hippo.
1:09.6	This is such a crazy week for me personally because you've heard me talking about it for weeks now.
1:11.7	Months, years, if you've been here long enough.
1:17.8	But our documentary, the limits of forgiveness, will be out on December 17th.
	...

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