Thank You, Next

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4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It's Thanksgiving week, and like basically everything else about 2020, this holiday is on track to be...let's call it "different." But while the world has changed in innumerable ways this year, one thing that hasn't changed is that the country is still deeply politically divided.

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0:00.0	Alright, before we get started, a quick warning.
0:01.8	Today's episode contains some strong salty language
0:04.7	and some slurs.
0:06.0	That's alliteration.
0:09.2	I'm Shireen Madisoul Maraji.
0:11.0	I'm Jean Dumbi and this is Coatwitch.
0:13.7	From NPR.
0:15.2	Alright friends, it's the week of Thanksgiving.
0:17.6	And this year, that holiday, like basically everything else in 2020,
0:21.9	is gonna be...
0:22.8	Trash!
0:24.0	Trash is gonna be trash.
0:25.3	I was gonna say different.
0:27.1	It's gonna be different.
0:28.2	But you know, trash works too.
0:30.1	Anyway, one thing that may not have changed about this year's Thanksgiving
0:34.7	is that the country is still incredibly divided politically
0:38.4	and those divisions and tensions run right through a lot of families.
0:43.4	That's right.
0:44.2	So back in 2016, we aired this episode all about how to deal with family members
0:48.7	who have very different political beliefs from you.
0:51.2	All while sitting around the table for Thanksgiving,
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