Hey y'all it's been some fucking month, huh? If you indulge me, I just wanted to do a little intro here to talk about kind of what I've learned and taken from the last month and about the ethos of this podcast and if that doesn't interest you, that's all right, you can just fast forward five minutes. I just want to talk a little bit about what it is that we do here,

to borrow a phrase from my favorite Bob in the office.

We have a little recrimination hour over on the next level this week

and it felt good to howl at the moon a bit

but I thought it would be a little bit more productive

to talk about like what we're actually going for

what our

objective is and this podcast in my view is a bunch of things

it's a never-Trump political opinion show

where me and the guests give our honest perspective on the news

we aren't doing both sides

and we aren't doing straight news journalism. We're trying to inform but

we're also trying to provide a point of view which is often but not always

kind of centrist avowedly never trump to a degree that borders on unhealthy.

For some listeners, this is also a community, which is awesome. A bunch of folks have found

their people here, they might disagree on some issues, but they unite

in being not the crazy ones.

I want to foster that.

I love that.

But here's what we're not, and there's kind of a fine line

between a community and a team. We're not and there's kind of a fine line between a community and a team.

We're not part of a team.

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