Hi, this is Josh Marshall, and this is the Josh Marshall podcast. We are, I guess we're

what, we're one day shy of two months till election day. So it's coming, right? It's coming up.

It's, you know, this is no longer like, you know, a mere six months or a mere 90 days.

We're really getting within the window right now and for many of us this is a date that we have

been anticipating for four years. You know, there's things went tragically wrong four years ago and you know there's what we thought

was it could happen

four years ago with with the country taking such a dramatic wrong turn and wow we

weren't kidding it was really a bad turn and you know as always President Trump did not create COVID but he certainly made it much much worse and all the things that have happened but and now the country is getting a chance to

revisit that decision and one of the things we're going to talk about today is there's there's

we're in the midst of one of the things we're going to talk about today is there's we're in the midst of one of these

kind of collective freakouts of everybody thinking you know Biden had it and now maybe

maybe it's all falling apart and this pole and that pole so we're going to talk about that

but before we do we have a word from Grady's Cold Brew ice coffee and you know not just

a word so here's here's the thing like

I was talking to Grady a couple days ago and this isn't just like literally like I was

actually email with Grady but you know emailing sounds funny so it's emailing with Grady and the thing is that you know Grady's

cold brew has become almost like like a part of the TPM platform right? You know kind of like it is, it is the house coffee of TPM and a kind of a core

component of TPM ideology. And so I said to great, he's like, hey man, we got to up, these are serious times, we got to up the ante.

What can you do for TPMers around the country and around the world?

And especially in the UK and in Canada and Australia where they could understand us.

So I'm talking and he said, you know, and I said, let's, you know, a contest, let's, let's,

what are we going to do for this critical period so

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