It is a hito Christmas special.

Yes, sir, it is.

This episode is drop it on Christmas for the public.

It's a gift to you all.

And I know some of you celebrate, some of you don't celebrate, but for those of you that are actually listening on a holiday, hats off to you.

Hats off to you.

Maybe you have some mental health issues listening to political things on Christmas. I'll give you a pass. Well, you know, it's cool. You could like wrap up your phone for yourself the night before and then you could, you could open it up only to press plan the new episode of Hiddo. Exactly. And then you can have your morning coffee and, you know, open the rest of your lame gifts that are lamer than this. Look, it's a, it's a, it's a hit oh Christmas, and I'm glad you're here regardless of when you're listening. And I wanted to start this episode off with a Beyond Parity section. Have to. A big theme of this episode is going to be the gerontocracy. The rule of the old in this country. And what better way to start off the show about old folks than a story about old

folks. About old folks doing old folk things. And you know who who else but the oldest folk?

Yeah. And this is sort of breaking news. This came out today. And I saw the story in our discord channel,

which you also join. You should all join if you're not already there. We're almost to a thousand people.

But I saw this in our Discord channel.

This news broke at like 10 o'clock this morning.

10 o'clock.

This is breaking news.

Wow.

It's just like when Joe Biden dropped out.

Yeah.

Okay.

But this is just, it blew my mind when I saw it.

All right.

It's like no fucking way. Let's just get right into it.

So a Republican congresswoman, Kay Granger from Texas, has been missing votes in the

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