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Welcome to the Plodcast. This is Doug Wilson, and the plodcast number is, believe it or not, 163.

If you've been with this from the beginning, that means you've listened to this 163 times or you're about to or you're about to have.

I'm recording this a week or so after having come back from Franklin, Tennessee,

having spoken at the Fight Laugh Feast conference.

As many of you know, there's a show,

cross-politik that operates here out of Moscow and this last year they decided

that they were going to start holding an annual conference and they held their

first one and the Fight Laugh Feast Club has a subscription membership,

and they're people who support cross-politik by subscribing and they get behind the scenes content.

And then the main content is put out free for everybody and so they they decided that

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