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You know, David, this pandemic has really opened up some new possibilities for us.

I've been doing a lot of work for governing magazine, which is headquartered in Sacramento

so people can go to governing.com.

And the reason I suggested is that on the program today, I mentioned Jack Balkan, who's written

a book called The Cycles of Constitutional Time, which I found to be stunning and really

clarifying, and they can find out more by going to governing these interviews that I'm

doing a couple of weeks now, are with extraordinary people from a wide range of perspectives, not

all on government, and they wind up appearing in governing.com.

And people can just go there and type my name in, and you'll see the backlog of the articles

that I've been writing.

I wrote one this week on the gunpowder plot in England in 1605, and how it maybe is the

only historical analogy to the chatter we've been hearing about blowing up the entire

government of the United States when President Biden delivers his state of the Union message.

But I also had the chance to interview this week, Michael Patrick Smith.

He's a musician and actor now living in Lexington, Kentucky, but he wrote a book called The Good Hand.

He came out here and spent nine months in the Balkan oil fields as a worker on one of

the rigs, and it's a fascinating memoir about the Balkan oil boom and the kinds of people

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