We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Gisinski, culture editor here at the Federalist.

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The background noise that you're hearing is the ambient atmosphere that Christopher

Bedford, my colleague, senior editor at the Federalist, is enjoying right now.

He's in Florida because he's doing exactly what we want to talk about on this Thanksgiving

themed episode of Federalist Radio Hour.

He's enjoying time with his friends and with his family.

Chris, tell us where you are first of all.

I'm in Naples, Florida, which is a bit of a scene change for me because I'm the kind

of guy.

I grew up celebrating Thanksgiving, Onks, foliage, fall leaves, occasionally snow, 50 miles

north of Plymouth, northwest of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

And that's kind of just the classic New England feel.

And what I associate with, associated completely with Thanksgiving, more to the last eight

or nine years I've done it eight years or so.

I've done every single Thanksgiving basically in Washington, DC, maybe seven years, hosting

folks who worked at the daily collar.

And then anyone else who was left behind and then sometimes folks at the Federalist when

I joined that company, basically anyone who didn't have a home for Thanksgiving didn't

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