Hello, everyone. It's your host, Pete Davis here with three quick updates. First, thank you for all the feedback about the audio levels on episode one. We think they are fixed now. Our apologies. Two, we want current affairs, the podcast, to be a conversation with listeners. so please leave us a message at our voicemail at 504-867-8851.

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Finally, we just released the first ever bonus episode to our patrons at Patreon.

Every time we do this, we're going to release a short excerpt of the bonus episode to the

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if you joined up as a patron. No worries. If you can't do that now, we'll have another public

episode shortly. But if you can, you could hear Orrin and Nathan discuss pie learning how to

play the washboard and, of course, mandatory arbitration clauses,

and the freedom of contract, like so.

Just in the article that you and Sparky wrote, Sparky included this wonderful...

Oh, it's beautiful.

He wrote that he's...

So people should check this out on current affairs.org, which is a letter that you can use

if...

Because one of the things that Sparky has pointed out is that even small businesses now include

arbitration clauses and business owners, he, in his experience, often don't even

realize that they're using arbitrate, because they download, like, standard form contracts,

and they don't even think about what an arbitration clause is. So if you're, you know, as he said,

local doggie daycare when you sign up, might have an arbitration clause. And what he's

suggested is people

go. And if you know the people who own the business, try and talk to them about the arbitration

...