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🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Do you debate political issues with a certain family member on social media? And will you have to see that family member IRL for the holidays in a month or two? How are you preparing for that? Are there ground rules in your family for discussing politics, online and/or IRL? Have online family debates over politics changed the way your family approaches the holidays or your relationship with specific family members? Will the outcome of the upcoming presidential election determine whether or not you show up to Thanksgiving, for example? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Team Endless Thread is working on an episode about the blurred lines between our online political discussions with family members and our offline relationships with those people, and how each impacts the other.
Email us a voice memo with your story: [email protected], with the subject line "Family Politics." A written message works too, if you'd prefer. Be specific about who you're feuding with online, what about, and how your online interactions may change — or perhaps, have already changed — your IRL relationship with this family member.
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0:00.0 | W-B-U-R Podcasts, Boston. |
0:09.0 | Ben-Jo! |
0:10.0 | Ben Joe! Benjo. |
0:15.0 | Happy almost holiday season to you. |
0:18.0 | Mm, yes, the priest stuffed. |
0:20.0 | It is, we are pre-stuffed. |
0:22.0 | Pristuffed. Pre-stuffed with what? |
0:25.0 | You know, |
0:28.0 | who's stuffed with. |
0:29.0 | Bonbons and turkey legs and well, your tofurky legs and you know, it's that it's that time where you're like about to get stuffed |
0:37.4 | but you're not stuffed. Right and there are many things that come with this time |
0:42.4 | so I wanted to tell you a little micro story |
0:46.0 | about this liquor store in my old neighborhood that I used to go past multiple times a |
0:52.4 | week and it has one of those I used to go past multiple times a week. |
0:53.4 | And it has one of those marquee like signs |
0:57.3 | with the letters that you can swap in and out |
1:00.2 | so you can change it every day if you want to. You know what I'm talking about? |
1:03.4 | Yes, love those. |
1:05.0 | Okay. And for some reason, there's this one message that they put on this sign, which was known |
1:11.7 | for funny messages very dry witty yes and so they |
1:18.0 | had this one sign up for a couple of months around this time of year that said holiday means family we sell alcohol. |
1:31.5 | You get it? it. |
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