Hello and welcome to the Bored podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller, a couple of notes before we get to our favorite weekend guest for the newbies on Fridays. I have a playlist on Spotify and a super fan has also mirrored it on Apple that include the songs,

the sad songs I've been playing you to try to get you to cry at the end of the episodes

the last two weeks. So for the people have been asking, just go down to the show notes and you can

get that playlist. Also on yesterday, yesterday's guest, Rick Wilson said something about Matt Gates and like a dead person in his dorm room.

I did not know what he was referencing and did some Googling after.

There didn't really seem to be any evidence of that out there.

There was a Snopes item on it.

So look, there are plenty things to criticize Matt Gates on without getting into conspiracy land.

We're going to try to be reality-based here at the bulwark.

There is much, much, much to complain about limited by the confines of reality.

So I just wanted to have a clarification on that.

Speaking of somebody who has much to vent about

within the confines of reality, it is Amanda Carpenter. She's a writer and editor at Protect Democracy

and she's the co-authoritarian playbook for 2025, something we're about to live through.

Amanda, how you doing, girl? Hey, I'm good. I understand there were tears on the podcast earlier this week.

I've got to say after taking about a week, myself feeling sad, I have moved into anger, activation.

Let's do some stuff mode.

So let's go.

Really?

Yeah.

I love to hear that because that's what I was going to ask.

So you're not in the fetal position anymore.

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