051 - Two Dads Talk Thanksgiving, Vol. 5 This Week In Atrocity

Deadspin founder WILL LEITCH appears for the fifth installment of "Two Dads Talk Thanksgiving" and: Eponymous, not titular ... Layered flooring in apartments ... Load-bearing parlor ... Thanksgiving plans ... A sudden Thanksgiving death ... An active family Thanksgiving ... Cursed places ... Died in the guest bedroom ... Things have happened between these walls ... Goodbye to the childhood home ... Dad built our house around me ... One last project for the ultimate handyman ... BREAK ... Learning to bake bread the Martha Stewart way ... Do you say you baked the bread yourself? ... Bakin' via cheapskatery ... Olive oil utility belt ... Finding solace/escapism in opting for basic labor ... Fantastic Beasts and why that movie sucks ... Go away, JK Rowling ... Chris Jones and Buzz Bissinger shout-outs ... Twitter doesn't promote traffic at all ... Success means being able to abandon social media ... BREAK ... Are we confronting our families this Thanksgiving? ... We know America was never normal ... Covering Trump coming down the escalator ... It's OK to not engage this BS ... Hit your cousin ... Do you self-censor in anticipation of bro rage? ... B*rstool Sports ... A journalist's job is to get yelled at ... Be sad as hell, but you're still a white guy ... "It was easy for ME to vote!" ... Old white sportswriter privilege ... Born on third base, claiming a triple ... This is a fake job, a nurse is a real job ... BREAK ... What malpractice is the media committing this year? ... Endless airtime for Trump's opinion ... Inauguration Day dispelled any belief in Trump's evolution ... The Prisoner's Dilemma of covering Trump outrage ... Labor reporting vs. Cletus Safari ... "Trapped by the base" THAT YOU BUILT ... Pareene's take: Just don't go, just don't cover it ... The indestructibility of shamelessness ... Wanting to take a swing at the shameless ... Faith in GOP voters abandoning the party ... The media's fallacious default to GOP "adulthood," popularity and "normalcy" ... Parties TELL their voters what to accept/reject ... BREAK ... Write letters again ... How many words makes a letter a letter? ... Everyone loves stamps, I got stationary ... P.O. Box, Will Leitch, Georgia ... TELEGRAM SCHTICK ... Will's hero appearance on the Hallmark podcast ... Plugs ... Scaramucci ... CREDITS...