Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream number 47.

46. 46. It's 46. I'm jumping the gun on 47. That explains why you have said

nothing about this episode being a prime number because 46 of course is not a

prime number. It's not. No. But 47 is, right? Yeah. That's what I was thinking.

All right. Well, now that we've gotten at an important piece of mathematical

business out of the way, it is time to get to the state of civilization which I

have to tell you folks, it's not good. We've got trouble. I think first though, we

should note that here in Portland, Oregon, we can breathe again. It was it was a

long time coming and for those of you who weren't actually here in the Pacific

Northwest, you may have thought we were being engaged in a little hyperbole. It

was bad, but you know, everyone's experienced bad era before, but it was really

unprecedented in our experience and we've been in we've been near fires before. So,

you know, we actually it maxed out the AQI scale. We were above 500 for a while

and it barely dipped out of hazardous for almost 10 days and two nights ago,

storm came through which before it started pouring involved lightning, which of

course is terrifying that more fires would be started, but it rains

sufficiently that we are now breathing easy for the first time in almost two

weeks. We can have and it feels terrific. It does. It feels spectacular and actually I

can even see the sun shining out the window, which is it's new. We got little

glimmers of it before, but there's actual sun peeking through the trees.

Actual shadows that aren't that horrifying sort of apocalyptic yellow. Yeah, the

yellow is at least for the moment gone. I will say I was thinking back and I don't

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