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Hey, John. How you doing? Hi, Glenn. This is Glenn Lowry. You have tuned into the Glenn Show

with John McWhorter, my conversation and partner here every other week. This is our week. John

teaches at Columbia and writes for the New York Times. I teach at

Brown University and am senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. So good to be talking with you again, John.

You too, one. What's up? Well, we are in the post- Thanksgiving reverie here, eating leftover ham and Cornish hen

and Texas smoked brisket, which my wife ordered by mail and came in a huge box packed with ice.

Mine line. And a massive piece packed with ice. Mine line.

And a massive piece of meat that's been smoked to tender perfection.

So we're kind of awash in apple pie and lemon chest pie and Texas sheet cake and all kinds of desserts

and I'm bloated

but I'm okay

I went to parties

so I took things to places

so I don't have all of this

booty that you've got but yes

lots of stuff and so you've got. But yes, lots of stuff.

So you were the guest, not the host.

Exactly.

You had three parties in a row.

I'll take it.

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