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Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitica with John Highland, a puck and Odyssey joint,

featuring lively, in-depth conversations with the people who cruise the quarters of power in America,

sculpting and shaping the ebb and flow of our politics and culture.

As I was prepping for today's show, it suddenly occurred to me that it had been a while since the last time that I gabbed with Dan Pfeiffer on the pod.

So I fired up the way back machine, took a spin through the impolitic archives where I

discovered that, Jesus, Dan hadn't been on the show since right before Christmas, which

qualifies as an eternity when

you're living on Trump standard time, maybe Trump irregular time.

In case your brain, like mine, has been reduced to a mushy bowl of ice-cold oatmeal

by the unrelenting and vicious torrent of surreal, absurd, mortifying, horrifying, inexplicable, indescipherable,

and indefensible events since the Mad King took up occupancy once again at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The fact that Dan and I hadn't talked since December means that we haven't discussed any of the

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