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Thanksgiving Family Talk and the Divorce Statistics Argument
from Carney Code · #123
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4 minTim and Ray discuss Thanksgiving traditions, cheese nips, Irish family dynamics, drug and alcohol problems in families, and get sidetracked into a lengthy debate about actual divorce rate statistics.
- 0:51Tim's dad got his hips replaced and now can't travel for Thanksgiving, plus his brother's cats have fleas.
- 1:32Tim's uncle yelled at him for eating cheese nips before Thanksgiving dinner.
- 2:00Thanksgiving is just a weird dinner with people you kind of know—he doesn't understand why families pretend it matters.
- 2:42Italian and Irish families are different; Irish families start strong when kids are young with potential.
- 3:17As Irish families age, drug addiction, divorce, alcoholism, despair, and poverty take hold.
- 3:35Tim disputes the commonly cited statistic that 60% of marriages end in divorce.
- 4:34He argues the real divorce rate is much lower than the popular 50-60% figure people cite.
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