#171 (special): Giving Thanks and Good Riddance

Published: Nov. 24, 2016, 10:19 a.m.

It\u2019s a very special holiday edition of LRB as Mike, Christy, Jeremy, Bobby, Ann, Phyllis and (sort of) Meredith all come together around the dining room podtable. We kick things off with a Thanksgiving Day Parade of Misery as our worst Turkey Day memories overload the Wappler Doppler in a deluge of disasters from culinary to family\u2014all, of course, punctuated with laughter, and everybody\u2019s favorite imitation turkey gobble. Then, we move on to a feast of put-ups, because we have no shortage of reasons to be thankful this year! The short list includes an LRB family wedding, a new house, pain relief, outstanding colleagues, a surplus of pie, the Affordable Care Act, the end of a presidency (not the one you\u2019re thinking), and, most of all, our thoughtful and charitable listeners. Really. We mean it! (Don\u2019t cry. Be Strong Britney