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  • The COVID-19 pandemic

  • will have a huge effect on Thanksgiving this year.

  • A lot of families will not travel and gather together,

  • but what about the ones that will?

  • Amazon's created a brand new echo device with Alexa

  • built just for this year's family gatherings.

  • Take a look.

  • I'm gonna need a Xanax to prepare me

  • for what your mother's gonna say at the dinner table.

  • Don't worry, Alexa's on it.

  • Huh?

  • Mm, stuffing's great babe.

  • Thanks.

  • You know what's not great?

  • This damn China virus,

  • and the lockdown's worse than the disease.

  • [Alexa] Hey, who's in the mood for some celebrity trivia?

  • Yes please.

  • I am! I am!

  • I am!

  • [Narrator] Just in time

  • for what's sure to be a stressful family Thanksgiving,

  • it's the new Amazon Echo, with subject-changing Alexa.

  • [Alexa] Did you know that Ryan Gosling

  • and Sandra Bullock once dated?

  • I did not know that,

  • I'm just looking forward

  • to Trump's second inauguration on January 20th.

  • Okay.

  • [Alexa] Speaking of presidents,

  • did you know that President Theodore Roosevelt

  • had a pet hyena?

  • Oh.

  • Hey kids, who would like a pet hyena?

  • Me, I do!

  • Me, me!

  • Thanks Alexa.

  • [Mom] Mom does too.

  • [Narrator] Amazon Echo, with subject-changing Alexa,

  • your most important guest this Thanksgiving.

The COVID-19 pandemic

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