happy. Well, welcome to Michael and us, I'm feeling back, I'm useless.

Well, welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.

Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone.

Just if I can give people a little behind the scenes, we spent about 20, maybe 30 minutes

with me moving to various parts of the apartment to try to get the internet connection to work.

This is the glamorous life of a transatlantic podcast. What do you think, Luke? Yeah, well, I think

I'd like to have a word with the person who runs the Gore Lieberman Studios in Amsterdam.

Luke coming out hot and heavy already.

So Luke is actually about to take a vacation, a week-long vacation.

We are recording this before the 2022 midterms.

Hopefully it will be up before the 2022 midterms as well. But if it's not,

fearless predictions. Well, yeah, so we'll talk about the midterms, the results, the midterms,

I should say, on next week's show. I am going to be away, as Will said this week. I'm planning

to disappear into the Canadian wilderness for a bit. And

provided I don't get eaten by bears, I will, uh, you know, return and be back on Mike next week.

Uh, in the meantime, we've also got a crossover episode with another podcast, uh, that's

going to be on our Patreon. That's in the tank. So, uh, look out for that at patreon.com slash michael and us. But yeah, the midterms.

I mean, they're going to be, it's going to be bad for the Democratic Party. I think that's more or less my

prediction. I mean, I think, you know, perhaps we've talked about this before, but, you know,

I think the conventional wisdom or the received wisdom on the midterms is

kind of shifted back and forth a bit I mean the midterm elections are usually not kind to

whichever party holds the White House I think that was the general assumption Biden had a very

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