Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream and pet extravaganza.

Yep. Number 48. Number 48. That's right. Yes, and all of them have been pet extravaganza

to this point, so it should surprise no one who is a long-term viewer. I don't think that's

true, actually. We were keeping the door closed for a while. Oh, the door right. The pets, the pet

baffle that is the door. Yes. Yes, it has prevented them from accessing certain live streams.

So anyway, if you only tuned into those live streams now, we have more pets. Yes.

All right. There is, as always, a ton going on because it remains 2020 and I will say,

I was looking at the calendar today and you know what I noticed? Let me guess. It's no longer

August. It's no, that's one of the, that was the first thing I noticed. Yeah. The other thing I noticed

is that we are exactly one month out from Election Day. Is that right? Is it November 3rd?

I believe it is November 3rd. Yeah. Okay. So that's remarkable. And of course, remarkable things

are afoot in the landscape of the election. We had the presidential debate, which was certainly

worthy of a certain amount of commentary and then it was different. It was different. It was

different. And then also we have the presidential diagnosis of COVID, which we will get to later.

We are going to talk about that. But to start off with, we are headed somewhere else. How would

you like to enter that discussion? Yeah. I think I wanted to start with an extended reading,

actually, from Joseph Heller's Catch 22. But in order to set that up, I wanted to start with

a shorter reading from an article that I wrote that just came out in the Swiss magazine Schweitzer

Monat in both German and English. So if you don't read German as I don't, you can read it.

Zach, if you would just show my screen here for a moment, I'm going to simply start by reading the

first five paragraphs of this piece, which sets up the reading from Heller that I want to go to next.

George Floyd died under the knee of a police officer in Minneapolis in the end of May, and people

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