Happy Thanksgiving travel day! As you head off to be with friends, family, or strangers– or wait for them to come to you– you’re maybe also wondering when you’ll get to be quiet over the next few days. So I’m here to remind you to take time for yourself, and to give you some mental escapes for the moments you manage to carve out. Today’s issue is full of ways to spend time with yourself that will also provide things to talk about when you’re back with the group afterward.

Per usual we’ll start with music. The Wild Honey Pie is a music collective devoted to discovering new artists, and they are updating multiple playlists all the time. Holidays are a good time to actually look for your next fave (rather than, say, find them through Shazam in a car), and this is a great place to start. Check their playlists here, and sign up for *their* newsletter if you want. All tunes, all the time.

My friend Yuval just put out this interactive documentary series on universal basic income and it is just lovely. “Earn A Living” premiered on Monday at the IDFA Festival in Amsterdam, with its series of vignettes traveling from Japan to Kenya to France, Israel and The Netherlands, all exploring what happens when societies get regular infusions of cash– and when they don’t. In each quick trip, you learn about enterprising ways that communities have organized around money or its absence, and the political arguments for and against new financial systems around the globe. And you get to watch people who are part of these experiments philosophize about money and structuring societies (there’s a crypto drop in there), which might also help you imagine a future world that shares financial resources in addition to, say, rides and Airbnbs. It’s all extraordinarily human, and also fun– you get to participate in ways that I’ll let you discover. Make sure to bookmark this one as a great conversation piece, for you and yourself or for the full turkey table.

The Cut over at NYMag just launched a podcast and it is *good*. I’m not totally clear on its premise beyond being an audio braintrust formed by their editors, but that’s exactly what you want. Each voice is smart and insightful and has meaningful anecdotes to share from her own life as well as her life reporting. Episodes so far explore topics as wide-ranging as the power and shortcomings of the Ferrante books; the shitty media man who sued the creator of Shitty Media Men; the deal with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; and how one writer’s high school classmate became a far-right extremist. See? All topical, but no clear connection, and that’s just great. Tune in when you’re on a solo walk to feel like you’ve got a squad of friends behind you (if all your friends were a little bit media famous).

Oh and once you finish that, there’s a new tool from Pandora that will supposedly pair you with your podcast soulmate. (That means you match with a podcast, not a person. We’ve all seen the internet match people with people.) It’s only in beta so who knows how sophisticated it is, but might as well try it out?

It’s not even Black Friday, but 32 Degrees is offering deeply discounted outerwear, base layers, and packable jackets right now. Use the code 32LOREM for 25% off of an inventory that’s already been marked down 60%. The last time we featured the brand, Dearon wrote in, “Just scored a rain jacket, puffy jacket, and two pairs of leggings for $90. Thanks!”

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