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Welcome to The Damage Report everybody. It's the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.

Craig just got back from vacation. It's very strange to me. John is gone. He is currently

in St. Louis, Missouri having this kind of a tradition of his where he eats pie for a week with his

friend. I'll just let that one sit out there. But we're here. We are joined by Michael

Shore. Glad to be here. I wish I was eating pie but who goes to St. Louis on

big? I mean St. Louis is a lovely place. John does. Yeah, I know he does. He goes a lot.

What do you do for Thanksgiving? I generally go to the East Coast and with family on the East Coast.

I've traveled so much this year that I'm staying home and family is coming here.

That's great. How do you negotiate that kind of a settlement? Because those are the kinds of

terms that I typically use because it does seem like a fierce negotiation and no one's ultimately

super happy. It's you do settle on some. Right. It's the what it is. It's the notion that

it's freezing back there and so it's always easier to get people here. But that said,

I'd much rather be in New York. You wouldn't rush me because you're from Manhattan?

I'm from Manhattan. I don't like LA and I don't like it at holiday time. I like you.

I like you very much. Yeah, but I don't like it particularly at holiday time.

Although when holidays are here, the traffic's fantastic. Oh, it's so good. I breeze to work today.

It's fantastic. And that's the seldom is a Los Angeles, an Angelino.

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