It's Thanksgiving and that means we're out of the office and don't want to do any real work.

So we're bringing back some pieces we've done in the past, some Thanksgiving-e pieces.

If you've been listening to the show for a long time, you've heard this, maybe go listen to something else.

There's a lot out there, there's a lot of podcasts.

Our producer Jillian suggests any number of great BBC radio dramas.

Seriously?

But if you haven't been listening for a long time,

here we go.

Did you know that families fight 500% more on Thanksgiving than on any other holiday?

That's not a true fact.

The only other holiday with more fighting would be Boxing Day.

David Axelrod was an advisor to President Obama.

He's dealt a lot with people who hate each other, like your family.

Yeah, actually I've found dealing with politicians easier than dealing with Thanksgiving

dinner with the family.

Well, so, okay, as a strategy guy, as an advisor to politicians,

what do you tell them, like, how do you tell them

to deal with questions that they really don't want to answer?

Well, first of all, you want to steer the conversation, right?

In my family, you want to steer away from any reference to my wedding where they got into such a heated

dispute that my mother left and we weren't sure until five minutes before the ceremony

whether she was going to actually attend. So rule number one,

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