This week, Busy and Caissie both had a bit of familial friction over the turkey-based holiday. Plus, they both remember the druggies and drug dealers they dated in high school. Then, Roxane Gay, best-selling author of “Bad Feminist,” “Hunger” and editor of “Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture” stops by, in the middle of having a bloody nose, to talk about her new book, “Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People’s Business” and everyone shares some of their most surprisingly controversial opinions, along with thoughts on American Individualism, menopause and whether we’re clueless about it because Oprah retired too soon, and who we could nominate to be our national mother.

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