Thanksgiving Prep: An Optimist’s Guide to Dinner Table Debate

Nov 20, 2025 · 53 min · Season 1 · Episode 33 · 51.0 MBExplicit

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Your drunk uncle calls Social Security a Ponzi scheme. Your crypto-bro cousin thinks tariffs make China pay. Your grandfather blames working women for tanking wage growth. Economist Kathryn Edwards takes on a dozen hostile dinner-table challenges to help optimists everywhere prepare for dinner table debate. Robin plays every annoying relative you've ever argued with. Pass the [expletive] gravy.

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