The

The Running from the man, yeah, the madman's coming, yeah, the man's cutting for me tonight.

I spent the last week running from the heat, but the beat beats coming alive.

Let's get lost tonight. Running from the heat with the peat beats coming alive Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hello, welcome to another episode of Without a Country.

Here I am, Corinne Fisher.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

Thank you for your patience.

Thanks for joining me on the pre-show.

We got Mike Harrington in the booth, and I said this on the

pre-show, but just a heads up to any of our patrons who saw that there was a duplicate

bonus story on the Patreon last week. We recorded a new one. That was a technological blunder.

We have the new one uploaded now, and I'll get it to you.

You'll get two fresh stories this week.

Those ones tend to be rather evergreen anyway, so they should still be enjoyable for you.

Can you turn the song off?

Thank you.

Mike loves that song.

He just wanted to see it through to

completion. All right. So let's get into the show. We have so much to talk about right now.

And thank you also to anyone who's emailed me who has a background in politics, whether it be

political advisement, finance, fundraising, all that kind of

stuff. I got several emails from people all across the country. Obviously, New York City is the

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