This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, November 25th, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown. It's Thanksgiving.

It's time to put aside our petty squabbles, our half-remembered statistics that prove we're right

and everyone else is wrong, and our less than totally baked opinions, and just enjoy the

togetherness of family. On the other hand if you must insist on having arguments

here are a couple ideas to get that Thanksgiving table quickly overturned,

inflation and the mask mandates.

I spoke with economist Michael Munger last week,

and happy Thanksgiving.

As we record this, I am planning on dropping my kids off with my mother

and going on a special baby moon with my wife for Thanksgiving.

And we are free, we feel free to discuss whatever we like for Thanksgiving. You will have a different situation at your

Thanksgiving with some reasonably new people, I suppose, and what will you be avoiding when you sit down to

talk about various things at Thanksgiving? One of the advantages of being

apparent is that there's no statute of limitations on your ability to embarrass your children.

So one of my children is 32, he's a professor at Penn State. The other one works in commercial real estate, but I'm

still capable of embarrassing both of them. And we have hostages this time because both of my sons

are going to be bringing their girlfriends to

Thanksgiving and it's embarrassing enough to meet someone's parents particularly at Thanksgiving time when you're eating and

perhaps drinking too much.

I worry that around the United States at Thanksgiving tables there's going to be a real

attempt not to talk about masks, vaccines, climate change.

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