The Matter podcast, I'm your host to John Harris for the first

podcast of Thanksgiving Week 2022. It is Monday. And for me, I don't know if I speak for many of you, but Thanksgiving starts, the season at least,

much earlier than Thanksgiving.

I think it starts for me around the time that daylight savings is overturned and we go back to, guess the way time should be but it's at that time when certain I can't even put my finger on all of them certain changes take place my wife lights more candles at night I I'm inside a little more, right? It's darker

more, right? It's darker, but everything's been pushed up, so we think it's darker earlier and that's how we

operate. And there's also different gatherings that happened. last night we went to our harvest dinner at church and it was wonderful there was a big spread of food

Man just more than enough it was a good food too and fellowship with people and when actually

when I was at Calvary O. PC church on Friday there was also a big spread and it's even the

types of things people make during this time of year. You see more pumpkin stuff and more apple stuff and so it's just I love it. I love being in the Northeast especially during this time of year. I think it would be hard for me. I realized the last few years being in

North Carolina and Virginia that transition is not as drastic at all and I think I

don't know I don't know why that is exactly there's probably a number of factors but especially being in the

Northeast though that it is a very drastic change that happens seasonally and in decor and just everything

and so I'm enjoying it even though it is cold outside and

funny story for everyone and one of the things that makes this season I think

for me at least, especially Thanksgiving season, is the fact that hunting season parallels it.

And the day before Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving day, big hunting days in New York.

Of course, opening day was this past Saturday,

so it's the week before Thanksgiving.

And for the last few years, I haven't been able to hunt at all.

So before we moved away from New York I used to hunt and I would go out on

opening day I would usually go out the day I go out black Friday so the day after

Thanksgiving and I would usually use a shotgun in the

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