The Two Humas celebrate a good ol’ traditional Thanksgiving with platefuls of platitudes and mouthfuls of myths.
Episode 67: Giving Thanks for Thanksgiving, OR, Gratitude Is More Than a Platitude
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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