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Welcome in to the very first episode of the Card Chronicle podcast.

This is something that the fine folks over at Vox Media have been trying to get me to do for what feels like three and a half years.

I think it's actually been like a year.

But then this week they said if you do this, you can say fuck shit, ask whatever you want.

And I was like, it's a no-brainer.

So we're going to have a whole lot of fun doing this. I hope it'll be a chance for me to talk about some stuff that I can't really talk about on the radio in a way that I can't really talk about it on the radio. So hopefully people enjoy it.

You can listen to it when you're, you know, walking the dog, doing whatever. Hopefully

it'll kill some time for you. We're going to talk today, mostly about this

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