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On today’s show:

— Trumpflation impacting Thanksgiving meals.

— Terrible jobs numbers and more layoffs are on the way.

— Dr. Joe Eastman joins for an update.

— Octopus’s are smart.

— MNDOT’s no fun police.

— A mother alleges Medicaid fraud after her son, who needed daily care, was found dead.

— Michael Brodkorb has our Vikings vs. Packers preview.

It’s border battle week! Matt and Michael Brodkorb preview this weekend’s Vikings vs. Packers game at Lambeau Field.

Dr. Joe Eastman joins Matt to talk about a rising COVID-19 variant, a poorly matched seasonal flu strain, and escalating measles outbreaks that could cost the U.S. its elimination status. He stressed concern over avian influenza (bird flu) acquiring human-to-human transmission, noting that continuous disease spread and deregulation are increasing overall vulnerability.

Starting today we’re starting a new partnership with author and critic Ilana Masad. She will join us on the third Fridays of the month to share LGBTQ books you need to be reading. Today’s books:

Then, Jim and I give you our reviews of Netflix’s Boots, FX’s English Teacher, and Hulu’s Golden Girls: 40 Years of Friendship

Ilana Masad is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and criticism whose work has been widely published. She holds a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is the author of the novels All My Mother’s Lovers and Beings, as well as the coeditor of the forthcoming anthology Here for All the Reasons: Why We Watch The Bachelor. https://www.ilanamasad.com/

The Gaily Show is the only daily LGBTQ radio news and talk show in the U.S. Watch us on YouTube daily at 2pm. Catch us on the radio at 2pm CST on AM950 Radio (Minneapolis) or at 5am CST on WCPT 820 (Chicago). We cover LGBT news, LGBT politics, LGBT books, Gay Literature, and LGBT movies in Minnesota, Chicago, Washington DC, and Texas. Follow us on Bluesky: @thegailyshow.org #thegailyshow #lgbtnews #lgbtcommunity #lgbtqpodcast

Joining Robert Pilot: Kahomy Weston of Owámniyomni Okhódayapi announcing the full design for the project, some exciting new details about the project to share. Robert Lillegren C.E.O Native American Community Development Institute – NACDI

Grocery prep run for Thanksgiving; economic numbers; Jessica Lussenhop, co-author of a story about church abuse in Duluth, joins to discuss the story; Trump continues to lie that he had no connection to Epstein; Jessie Diggins announces final season of events; Trump accuses Democratic lawmakers of sedition; opioid settlement money; Addie Gorlin-Han returns to discuss A Christmas Carol at the Guthrie; home service health fraud.

Addie Gorlin-Han is the director of the Guthrie Theater’s presentation of A Christmas Carol, running now through December 28.

https://www.guthrietheater.org/shows-and-tickets/a-christmas-carol/

Addie is a director, producer, and educator invested in the regional theater movement, new musical development, and theater for all-ages. She works as Associate Producer at the Guthrie Theater.

Addie grew up in the Twin Cities acting in children’s theater. She attended Dartmouth College, the National Theater Institute, and then committed to Teach for America where she taught English and Drama in the Bay Area.

Meanwhile, Addie pursued fellowships in theater directing and artistic administration: she spent a year at Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco and two seasons with Minneapolis’ Mixed Blood Theatre where she was the National New Play Network Producer-in-Residence.

Before becoming the host of our upcoming podcast, I was a reporter with ProPublica’s Midwest team covering Minnesota, my home state. I wrote about issues affecting vulnerable populations with a special interest in child welfare, criminal justice and housing. My reporting has changed state housing laws and touched off enforcement actions by the Minnesota attorney general.

Before coming to ProPublica, I was a senior staff writer for BBC North America and a fellow at the radio program “This American Life.” I hosted a BBC podcast called “Bad Cops,” based on my reporting about a rogue plainclothes police unit in Baltimore. My early career took place at a string of alternative newsweeklies, including City Pages in Minneapolis and the Riverfront Times in St. Louis. One of my proudest accomplishments from this time was a story that ultimately freed a Missouri man from prison. Other previous work won an Asian American Journalists Association Excellence Award and a National Native Media Award.

Who knew that you could sell beer, launch a progressive podcast, found a super pac, and fight the old boys network in Northern Wisconsin. But Kirk Bangstad is doing all of that and more in Wisconsin. He joins us to unpack how each part of his business works and the fight to save democracy. Learn more here: https://www.minocquabrewingcompany.com/pages/about-us

Read Minocqua Brewing Company Times on Substack: https://minocquabrewingcompanytimes.substack.com

The Gaily Show is the only daily LGBTQ radio news and talk show in the U.S. Watch us on YouTube daily at 2pm. Catch us on the radio at 2pm CST on AM950 Radio (Minneapolis) or at 5am CST on WCPT 820 (Chicago). We cover LGBT news, LGBT politics, LGBT books, and LGBT movies in Minnesota, Chicago, Washington DC, and Texas. Follow us on Bluesky: @thegailyshow.org #thegailyshow #lgbtnews #lgbtcommunity #lgbtqpodcast