Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to the realignment.

Good morning everyone. We hear you all really enjoyed the Q&A section of the episode

We still have some questions that people sent and didn't quite make the cut

But we'll be sure to sprinkle them throughout the rest of the month people really appreciated the debate around Ukraine

Look once again, I would have placed where we could disagree about things

But still show up the next day

So here's what we wanted to do. We talked about Ukraine. We had episode about the Civil War

All that was super depressing shit. Don't worry cursed much by it in this way to put it

So here's what we wanted to do

We wanted to have an episode as we're nearing the end of the Christmas of the year that was

Positive that spoke to what we are trying to accomplish on the realignment

Which is really building a space where we could think out loud and try to find a way to make this country and the world a little better and make these big

A little more sense. So we brought back Frank de Stefano, then favorite we've done two great episodes of Frank

He's written a book called the next realignment. It actually came out a little bit before the realignment podcast launched in 2019

I did a great episode with him in late April. It really focused on the idea of realignments

What are they? How do they really happen? If you really want to listen to an episode which explains this show

It's this one then he came on with Saga and I after Saga launch breaking points

We kind of talked about contemporary politics, but this show is focused on the future Saga. What did you like about it?

I love Frank man that guy and I are almost like mind-melded in the way that we think about politics

He's got such a good read on history

He's looking and observing the same kind of deep trends

That I am and that you are and he is going to help you if you're listening to this just think about stuff

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