Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners.

As always, thank you so much for listening.

Thank you for your support.

You know, by the way, happy new year.

What a year it has been, you know, David, a couple of years ago,

you began this process of sort of looking back

at the 52 shows we did during the year.

It's amazing. We do 52 and not 13, not 26, but 52.

And that's a lot of work for you, but I always love it when you go back

and sort of tell us the trajectory of the year.

And 2020 will be known, of course, forever,

as the year of the pandemic.

It'll also be known as the year that a president

who lost the bid for reelection refused

to accept the results of the election.

We're living through a constitutional crisis.

We're living through an economic setback

whose depth we don't really fully know yet.

We're living through a global pandemic

and the people who understand these things say

it's the worst public health crisis.

Maybe in American history certainly since 1918

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