#184: It's almost officially "the holidays" with Thanksgiving coming up. Now the holidays hit everyone differently … maybe you love them. Maybe you don’t. You might be missing family, or not at all.

However you feel, it’s nice to connect with folks and now we have an excuse to do it.

There are a lot of transplants in LA, and for whatever reason, a lot of people can't be with family for this holiday. Insert: FRIENDSGIVING!

Hear from the LAist crew over their own Friendsgiving party. We'll talk about connection, friendship and give you all sorts of tips and tricks to pull off your own Friendsgiving this year.

Guests: Gab Chabran, LAist's food editor; Jason Wells, managing editor of daily news at LAist; Caitlin Hernández, LA Explained reporter for LAist; Chanelle Berlin Johnson, director of audience engagement at LAist; Nereida Moreno, digital equity reporter at LAist