Why has this show completely abandoned any discussion of America’s involvement in the Ukraine war for essentially months? The last discussion was when Ukraine hit Russian strategic nuclear assets. Now we have a shambolic “peace deal” which nobody agrees with and which nobody takes authorship of.
Trump was elected campaigning on being the ultimate “deal maker.” The only difference between Biden and Trump is Trump makes fake gestures at peace deals more often while never following through. His “peace deals” never address Russia’s stated core objectives and concerns despite the fact that Russia is winning the war, something Trump has acknowledged previously. He provides only the facade of negotiation, the circus is meant to make you believe he’s actually trying to “end the war” but in reality, his policies and acts are a continuity of agenda from the Biden admin.
As Trump continues to arm Ukraine, backs harsher sanctions against Russia than the Biden admin, goes further than Biden in the open support of Ukrainian deep strikes into Russian territory with U.S. made weapons (weapons Putin himself say cannot even be targeted without DIRECT UNITED STATES INVOLVEMENT,) will this show ever be returning to this topic?
Perhaps the show avoids the topic because it avoids criticism of Trump, and one cannot assess the current situation rationally without stating that Trump is making the exact same mistakes as Biden did and going even further in many cases. Despite this, not one criticism of Trump has been made on the same grounds as were made against Biden for the identical handling of the same issue.
You're complaining about a small, reporting outlet not covering a (apparently) pet subject of yours. Considering their small staff and limited resources, I would posit that they have brought some great insight and information forward on a variety of issues. Their choices of subject matter, I'd wager, are greatly influenced by audience response (simply because their income is directly tied to audience interaction). Substack was never meant to cater to the consumer of all encompassing massive news outlet. It, instead, tends to be an outlet for reporters and writers that have gained an amount of trust and following by publishing viewpoints that weren't allowable in traditional media. Personally, I have considered the subscription well worth the cost. I suggest, if that isn't your experience, just cancel.
It isn't a personal pet subject, it is a topic they covered with glee when they could rag on Biden, and since Trump has taken over they won't touch it. Wonder why? Maybe because king deal-maker lied to everybody and has not ended the war and isn't even actually trying? Sorry, the show is called "America this Week" and when the show refuses to address this topic when it had no issue previously, I can only come to the conclusion it is because they are unwilling to criticize Trump.
I pay a year subscription at a time and my sub renewed before I realized how much of a partisan clown show this podcast has become. I am simply pointing it out . Don't like it? Mute me.
I’ve come to realize the show’s main purpose is for Matt and Walter to settle scores with the liberal establishment that they feel betrayed them, rather than for objective reporting.
It worked in the listeners’ favor during the Biden administration because they were motivated to criticize it, which led to a lot of great reporting and analysis that was hard to come by elsewhere since being covered up by the media establishment.
Now that Trump is in office it’s a different show. All of Walter’s mental gymnastics that were used to conjure the worst interpretations of the Biden admin’s actions (usually deservedly so) are being used to make elaborate and often absurd justifications for every Trump action. And Matt is unwilling or unable to offer any contrasting takes that would at least make the show a little more interesting.
To be fair, Taibbi & Kirn have waded fearlessly into the Trump era, mainly to cheerlead Trump's scorched-earth policy of the week, witness their celebration of "the end of the censorship regime" of the previous administration, or their full-throated support of DOGE or Trump's hounding of his political enemies in court.
Come to think it, how has that been going? They've been silent on all three fronts? Might those be subjects they revisit? Perhaps Kirn will let Taibbi get a word in edgewise this week?
Here are some notes:
1) The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown
2) DOGE was a massive and expensive failure. They never saved the taxpayer the trillions they promised. They compromised the security of various government systems. They stole your data. They never sent us all a check. That’s DOGE’s legacy.
3) The prosecution of Comey, which Taibbi promised was too hard for mere mortals to understand, aparrently is too hard for Trump's prosecutors to understand. DOJ Had Its First Big Hearing in a “Trump Enemy’’ Prosecution. The Judge Was Not Pleased.
There was no hearing on the facts, you misrepresenting moron. The hack judge determined that Lindsay Halligan was not legally authorized to bring these charges against Comey. It’s like all those election cases that were dismissed on “standing” or “stare decisis” grounds before any evidence could be presented, and then people like you run around crowing that the allegations that the 2020 Election was fraught with huge, perhaps decisive, problems are “baseless” and “without evidence” because the cases were dismissed. People like Comey should not be tried in a criminal court anyway, on charges like lying to Congress. He should be tried before a military tribunal for sedition, and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor in an iron mine somewhere in The Mesabi Range in Minnesota. After a fair trial of course.
Kellogg is leaving....he is the problem with the advice that Trump was getting....Trump knows that he will end up with Istanbul + in the end. C&C as well as Don Surber do good jobs at analyzing the dance. On Urkraine, Alexander Mercouris is generally on but is shaking regarding interpreting Trump but he is correct, imho, about the problem being Kellogg....I think that it is difficult for someone who does not follow this SMO closely via altmedia to cogently discuss it. All the MSM get their info from the same source: Ukraine.
Personally, I just as soon that Matt and Walter stick to domestic issues.
BTW, post thought: The US has not been involved in the Ukraine business for a few months. Try since 2014 with the US instituted color revolution and urging Zelensky to take on Russia...that it should be over in three months....
Okay… how does that eliminate the fact of growing US involvement in the war as a valid topic of discussion? I’m sick of Ukraine too, I wanted the war to end right at the start when they had the chance. But America This Week covered our involvement in Ukraine and the lack of U.S. vision and general incompetence, the risks involved, ect.
Since Trump has entered office this show has largely avoided discussion of the topic, and since this week we have a fake peace deal being bandied about I figured it would be as good of a time as any to ask Taibbi and Kirn about their lack of coverage on the topic.
alas, they’ve been too busy with the culture wars, covering Platner’s tattoo or Canadian ostriches, or that most important of all subject, the influencer Jennifer Welch.
“Food insecurity” is a rhetorical way to expand the victim class by pretending that the fear of hunger is as bad as hunger. It's like racism fakery. The demand exceeds the supply so additional victims have to be invented.
Bit slow here just now, so I will add this link to a National Post (Canada) article today on the man who wrote and published the "Son of Hamas" book some years ago.
"'Son of Hamas' warns about Islamism's creeping hold on West:
Mosab Hassan Yousef says anti-Israel protesters are ‘taking advantage of Gaza’s tragedy ... using your freedoms to destroy your freedoms’"
His story always struck me as very similar to the story of the eldest son of Jim Jones of the 1978 Jonestown tragedy. They were both the heirs to their psychopathic fathers' totalitarian plans. They both awakened against the odds, despite having been raised in this kind of environment. They both walked away. I call it having the courage to become an individual, as opposed to remaining a member of a hive-mind being driven by a cruel disturbed leader and his herd.
-- What I’m trying to tell you is that the entire region is ruled by tribalism. This is not only unique for the Palestinians. It’s a death culture. They just find in Israel a common enemy, because they are Jews. But practically, if they don’t have the Jews to kill, they will kill each other.
-- He called Islamists “savages” that cannot be negotiated with. He said they perpetuated an “inverted narrative” that used projection to accuse Israel of genocide and colonization, but they were guilty of those very crimes.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Actually, I have been discussing the detailed concepts of tribalism on this Substack over a long while.
Tribalism was an earlier form of human development, before a newer and better development set-in about 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia under a particular enlightened ruler, Sargon of Akkad. He put tribalism aside, recognizing there was no empathy in this stage of human evolution -- just continual hatred and killing.. And that there might be a better way. Previously, anyone outside one's tribe had been considered "the other" and therefore the enemy.
This is the way that cults and totalitarian political groups still behave....they have gone backwards in evolution to the no-empathy stage.
After Sargon introduced the concept of human empathy to his people, it took hold. This eventually spread to Judaism and then to the emerging Christianity (which had similar values). In fact, there is a theory that a move to the idea of "practicing empathy" actually helped to build a new function in the human brain to reflect this.
Most of the Middle East then, and now, have stayed in the no-empathy stage. Might explain why the values throughout so much of the ME (except Israel) will never tally with classic Western values.
There is a fair point that some of the commentariat make. Ever since the “Tucker Carlson is a NAZI ” media swarms, neo conservatives and neo liberals, in the same breath, are pushing the Russia/Ukraine war. I believe those Ukraine Flags are coming back to Twitter. God help us.
Neoliberalism is an economic ideology. Neoconservatism is a foreign policy ideology. They’re actually cut from the same cloth and not remotely mutually exclusive, in fact pretty much all Neoconservatives are neoliberals.
I have it on good authority (a family social worker) that some parents sell SNAP cards for street drugs. It’s a sad world out there. Kids are always the target for scumbags.
No U.S. welfare transfers should be cash equivalent and without ID.
Ah, great to see two super-rich guys frothing at the mouth about stories about poverty on Thanksgiving! As Walt reminds us, it’s the most humane of holidays, but God forbid if that humanity should extend to stories about poverty. Of course, the avalanche of feel-bad stories is a complete concoction in Matt mind, but I guess today he’s in desperate need of fake culture wars content to distract from the fate of the Comey & James prosecutions he’s been championing.
This is fun. You’re high on your own projection supply. I saw your… what was that? A butt? Boobs? The bilabial fricative? And raised you with Cthulhu. May his tentacles embrace you and eat you last.
I’m guessing you’re not familiar with the Old Ones….
Following Freud’s lead, my best guess is you have a thing for hairy men with big mustaches, he probably would’ve said you played too much Super Mario bros as a toddler.
It’s impossible not to love Kirn, especially when he’s holding forth on literature, but would it kill him to allow Taibbi to complete a thought or a setup once in a while?
The NPR piece on hunger in this episode is a prime example.
It’s frustrating for listeners and borders on rudeness toward Taibbi albeit it likely unintended.
It’s odd too, given Kirn’s claims of growing up midwestern. I guess when the adults were trying to educate him as a small tyke, he was too busy interrupting to soak up the lesson.
I'm an Iraq veteran, my wife is a veteran, our son is active duty and I think Mr. Kirn was very wrong in his comments on the military and the issue of illegal orders. I'll be on WVLK 590 AM tomorrow morning at 9 (the Jack Partie Show) and Ill explain why I think that. Simply too long to post here
this phrase also appears in the periodic newsletter of the regional food bank that my Mom contributes to. 4 days ago she sent an email to its director, excerpted below —
“… I find the title of your publication, 'Feeding Matters,' insulting.
I ‘get it’ that the Food Bank of Northern Indiana is making a play on the word 'Matters' but ‘Feeding’ is most often used to reference animals, ie: livestock. This is insulting, implying that clients of the Food Bank of Northern Indiana are animal-like, and surely this is noticed by many of our needy, your donors, and your volunteers.
Can you not find a more kind, evocative title for the publication? ...”
Will the book this week be another mid-century british dystopian novel? Eventually, you have to run out, right?
I think the most apropos thing for this moment would be David Foster Wallace's 2005 Atlantic piece about talk radio, "Host". The media landscape has totally changed but the imperitaves and drivers of it have not. HINT: It's MONEY.
Branch out, guys. I can't have another plummy mandarin sighing into his tea about loss of innocence and empire. No more British writing about Russia, no more Russians writing about Britian. How about something NOT assigned in school? Raymond Chandler. Hell, Ernst Junger, "On the Marble Cliffs". ?
Love you guys! I don't care what you cover. It's always illuminating and always entertaining.
Word up.
Why has this show completely abandoned any discussion of America’s involvement in the Ukraine war for essentially months? The last discussion was when Ukraine hit Russian strategic nuclear assets. Now we have a shambolic “peace deal” which nobody agrees with and which nobody takes authorship of.
Trump was elected campaigning on being the ultimate “deal maker.” The only difference between Biden and Trump is Trump makes fake gestures at peace deals more often while never following through. His “peace deals” never address Russia’s stated core objectives and concerns despite the fact that Russia is winning the war, something Trump has acknowledged previously. He provides only the facade of negotiation, the circus is meant to make you believe he’s actually trying to “end the war” but in reality, his policies and acts are a continuity of agenda from the Biden admin.
As Trump continues to arm Ukraine, backs harsher sanctions against Russia than the Biden admin, goes further than Biden in the open support of Ukrainian deep strikes into Russian territory with U.S. made weapons (weapons Putin himself say cannot even be targeted without DIRECT UNITED STATES INVOLVEMENT,) will this show ever be returning to this topic?
Perhaps the show avoids the topic because it avoids criticism of Trump, and one cannot assess the current situation rationally without stating that Trump is making the exact same mistakes as Biden did and going even further in many cases. Despite this, not one criticism of Trump has been made on the same grounds as were made against Biden for the identical handling of the same issue.
Can either of you address this?
You're complaining about a small, reporting outlet not covering a (apparently) pet subject of yours. Considering their small staff and limited resources, I would posit that they have brought some great insight and information forward on a variety of issues. Their choices of subject matter, I'd wager, are greatly influenced by audience response (simply because their income is directly tied to audience interaction). Substack was never meant to cater to the consumer of all encompassing massive news outlet. It, instead, tends to be an outlet for reporters and writers that have gained an amount of trust and following by publishing viewpoints that weren't allowable in traditional media. Personally, I have considered the subscription well worth the cost. I suggest, if that isn't your experience, just cancel.
It isn't a personal pet subject, it is a topic they covered with glee when they could rag on Biden, and since Trump has taken over they won't touch it. Wonder why? Maybe because king deal-maker lied to everybody and has not ended the war and isn't even actually trying? Sorry, the show is called "America this Week" and when the show refuses to address this topic when it had no issue previously, I can only come to the conclusion it is because they are unwilling to criticize Trump.
I pay a year subscription at a time and my sub renewed before I realized how much of a partisan clown show this podcast has become. I am simply pointing it out . Don't like it? Mute me.
I’ve come to realize the show’s main purpose is for Matt and Walter to settle scores with the liberal establishment that they feel betrayed them, rather than for objective reporting.
It worked in the listeners’ favor during the Biden administration because they were motivated to criticize it, which led to a lot of great reporting and analysis that was hard to come by elsewhere since being covered up by the media establishment.
Now that Trump is in office it’s a different show. All of Walter’s mental gymnastics that were used to conjure the worst interpretations of the Biden admin’s actions (usually deservedly so) are being used to make elaborate and often absurd justifications for every Trump action. And Matt is unwilling or unable to offer any contrasting takes that would at least make the show a little more interesting.
To be fair, Taibbi & Kirn have waded fearlessly into the Trump era, mainly to cheerlead Trump's scorched-earth policy of the week, witness their celebration of "the end of the censorship regime" of the previous administration, or their full-throated support of DOGE or Trump's hounding of his political enemies in court.
Come to think it, how has that been going? They've been silent on all three fronts? Might those be subjects they revisit? Perhaps Kirn will let Taibbi get a word in edgewise this week?
Here are some notes:
1) The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/charlie-kirk-purge-how-600-americans-were-punished-pro-trump-crackdown-2025-11-19/
2) DOGE was a massive and expensive failure. They never saved the taxpayer the trillions they promised. They compromised the security of various government systems. They stole your data. They never sent us all a check. That’s DOGE’s legacy.
3) The prosecution of Comey, which Taibbi promised was too hard for mere mortals to understand, aparrently is too hard for Trump's prosecutors to understand. DOJ Had Its First Big Hearing in a “Trump Enemy’’ Prosecution. The Judge Was Not Pleased.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/doj-comey-hearing-trump-enemies-list-judge.html
There was no hearing on the facts, you misrepresenting moron. The hack judge determined that Lindsay Halligan was not legally authorized to bring these charges against Comey. It’s like all those election cases that were dismissed on “standing” or “stare decisis” grounds before any evidence could be presented, and then people like you run around crowing that the allegations that the 2020 Election was fraught with huge, perhaps decisive, problems are “baseless” and “without evidence” because the cases were dismissed. People like Comey should not be tried in a criminal court anyway, on charges like lying to Congress. He should be tried before a military tribunal for sedition, and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor in an iron mine somewhere in The Mesabi Range in Minnesota. After a fair trial of course.
Maybe if you weren't such a smug douchebag, they'd listen to you.
🤣
Doubtful and impossible anyway, next.
Kellogg is leaving....he is the problem with the advice that Trump was getting....Trump knows that he will end up with Istanbul + in the end. C&C as well as Don Surber do good jobs at analyzing the dance. On Urkraine, Alexander Mercouris is generally on but is shaking regarding interpreting Trump but he is correct, imho, about the problem being Kellogg....I think that it is difficult for someone who does not follow this SMO closely via altmedia to cogently discuss it. All the MSM get their info from the same source: Ukraine.
Personally, I just as soon that Matt and Walter stick to domestic issues.
BTW, post thought: The US has not been involved in the Ukraine business for a few months. Try since 2014 with the US instituted color revolution and urging Zelensky to take on Russia...that it should be over in three months....
You get the like becauee your complaint about lack of coverage isn't about Israel-Palestine.
Its just so refreshing at this point that I would like a post complaining about lack of NFL coverage.
I no longer care about Ukraine. Like Mister Kurtz in Heart of Darkness, "Exterminate all the brutes!!!"
Okay… how does that eliminate the fact of growing US involvement in the war as a valid topic of discussion? I’m sick of Ukraine too, I wanted the war to end right at the start when they had the chance. But America This Week covered our involvement in Ukraine and the lack of U.S. vision and general incompetence, the risks involved, ect.
Since Trump has entered office this show has largely avoided discussion of the topic, and since this week we have a fake peace deal being bandied about I figured it would be as good of a time as any to ask Taibbi and Kirn about their lack of coverage on the topic.
alas, they’ve been too busy with the culture wars, covering Platner’s tattoo or Canadian ostriches, or that most important of all subject, the influencer Jennifer Welch.
“Food insecurity” is a rhetorical way to expand the victim class by pretending that the fear of hunger is as bad as hunger. It's like racism fakery. The demand exceeds the supply so additional victims have to be invented.
Bit slow here just now, so I will add this link to a National Post (Canada) article today on the man who wrote and published the "Son of Hamas" book some years ago.
"'Son of Hamas' warns about Islamism's creeping hold on West:
Mosab Hassan Yousef says anti-Israel protesters are ‘taking advantage of Gaza’s tragedy ... using your freedoms to destroy your freedoms’"
https://nationalpost.com/news/son-of-hamas-warns-about-islamisms-creeping-hold-on-west
His story always struck me as very similar to the story of the eldest son of Jim Jones of the 1978 Jonestown tragedy. They were both the heirs to their psychopathic fathers' totalitarian plans. They both awakened against the odds, despite having been raised in this kind of environment. They both walked away. I call it having the courage to become an individual, as opposed to remaining a member of a hive-mind being driven by a cruel disturbed leader and his herd.
From the words of the "Son of Hamas" author:
-- What I’m trying to tell you is that the entire region is ruled by tribalism. This is not only unique for the Palestinians. It’s a death culture. They just find in Israel a common enemy, because they are Jews. But practically, if they don’t have the Jews to kill, they will kill each other.
-- He called Islamists “savages” that cannot be negotiated with. He said they perpetuated an “inverted narrative” that used projection to accuse Israel of genocide and colonization, but they were guilty of those very crimes.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Actually, I have been discussing the detailed concepts of tribalism on this Substack over a long while.
Tribalism was an earlier form of human development, before a newer and better development set-in about 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia under a particular enlightened ruler, Sargon of Akkad. He put tribalism aside, recognizing there was no empathy in this stage of human evolution -- just continual hatred and killing.. And that there might be a better way. Previously, anyone outside one's tribe had been considered "the other" and therefore the enemy.
This is the way that cults and totalitarian political groups still behave....they have gone backwards in evolution to the no-empathy stage.
After Sargon introduced the concept of human empathy to his people, it took hold. This eventually spread to Judaism and then to the emerging Christianity (which had similar values). In fact, there is a theory that a move to the idea of "practicing empathy" actually helped to build a new function in the human brain to reflect this.
Most of the Middle East then, and now, have stayed in the no-empathy stage. Might explain why the values throughout so much of the ME (except Israel) will never tally with classic Western values.
"But practically, if they don’t have the Jews to kill, they will kill each other."
Didn't we see that. as soon as Trump's peace agreement was signed? Hamas executions in the street..... of other Palestinians.
Spot on.
There is a fair point that some of the commentariat make. Ever since the “Tucker Carlson is a NAZI ” media swarms, neo conservatives and neo liberals, in the same breath, are pushing the Russia/Ukraine war. I believe those Ukraine Flags are coming back to Twitter. God help us.
Neoliberalism is an economic ideology. Neoconservatism is a foreign policy ideology. They’re actually cut from the same cloth and not remotely mutually exclusive, in fact pretty much all Neoconservatives are neoliberals.
Yes, I saw that on The Wright Stuff restack!
I have it on good authority (a family social worker) that some parents sell SNAP cards for street drugs. It’s a sad world out there. Kids are always the target for scumbags.
No U.S. welfare transfers should be cash equivalent and without ID.
Same as it ever was.
It’s hilarious that a large percentage of the population seem to think that being a parent magically means they’re good people…
Can you please push the 11-21 ATW to Apple podcast? It’s still not there. … the paid version is still not there
Thanks, guys! Happy Thanksgiving!
lol. These guys are angrier than anybody they denounce and ridicule. Kirn is most likely the angriest man in the United States.
Ah, great to see two super-rich guys frothing at the mouth about stories about poverty on Thanksgiving! As Walt reminds us, it’s the most humane of holidays, but God forbid if that humanity should extend to stories about poverty. Of course, the avalanche of feel-bad stories is a complete concoction in Matt mind, but I guess today he’s in desperate need of fake culture wars content to distract from the fate of the Comey & James prosecutions he’s been championing.
Great to see your daily thirst for attention. This one is free! 😘
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May he eat you last
“Nothing reveals a man’s darkest proclivities and fetiches as the insults he hurls at others.” — Sigmund Freud
This is fun. You’re high on your own projection supply. I saw your… what was that? A butt? Boobs? The bilabial fricative? And raised you with Cthulhu. May his tentacles embrace you and eat you last.
I’m guessing you’re not familiar with the Old Ones….
Following Freud’s lead, my best guess is you have a thing for hairy men with big mustaches, he probably would’ve said you played too much Super Mario bros as a toddler.
It’s impossible not to love Kirn, especially when he’s holding forth on literature, but would it kill him to allow Taibbi to complete a thought or a setup once in a while?
The NPR piece on hunger in this episode is a prime example.
It’s frustrating for listeners and borders on rudeness toward Taibbi albeit it likely unintended.
It’s odd too, given Kirn’s claims of growing up midwestern. I guess when the adults were trying to educate him as a small tyke, he was too busy interrupting to soak up the lesson.
It would, in fact, kill him.
I'm an Iraq veteran, my wife is a veteran, our son is active duty and I think Mr. Kirn was very wrong in his comments on the military and the issue of illegal orders. I'll be on WVLK 590 AM tomorrow morning at 9 (the Jack Partie Show) and Ill explain why I think that. Simply too long to post here
"Feeding"
this phrase also appears in the periodic newsletter of the regional food bank that my Mom contributes to. 4 days ago she sent an email to its director, excerpted below —
“… I find the title of your publication, 'Feeding Matters,' insulting.
I ‘get it’ that the Food Bank of Northern Indiana is making a play on the word 'Matters' but ‘Feeding’ is most often used to reference animals, ie: livestock. This is insulting, implying that clients of the Food Bank of Northern Indiana are animal-like, and surely this is noticed by many of our needy, your donors, and your volunteers.
Can you not find a more kind, evocative title for the publication? ...”
Will the book this week be another mid-century british dystopian novel? Eventually, you have to run out, right?
I think the most apropos thing for this moment would be David Foster Wallace's 2005 Atlantic piece about talk radio, "Host". The media landscape has totally changed but the imperitaves and drivers of it have not. HINT: It's MONEY.
Branch out, guys. I can't have another plummy mandarin sighing into his tea about loss of innocence and empire. No more British writing about Russia, no more Russians writing about Britian. How about something NOT assigned in school? Raymond Chandler. Hell, Ernst Junger, "On the Marble Cliffs". ?
If they were gutsy they'd take a month to venture through "Gravity's Rainbow".
It's relevant from the first line on, and Pynchon won't make it easy for them.
>>>"A screaming comes across the sky...It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now..."<<<
Two months, but what a grand two months they’d be.
Removing a day of gratitude insures the stability of the SSRI prescriptions.
Loved your discussion about Thanksgiving, and I hope everyone here has a good Thanksgiving.