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This is the podcast for August 20th, 2021. It's not safe for work.

Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where we are recording this on our 10th wedding anniversary to guilt you into smashing that like button.

It's the professional left with drift glass and blue gal.

There's no guilt in podcasting.

No, no, not when you have a delete button.

You can just make the whole pass go away.

I mean, I'm sorry.

I was confusing us with the Beltway Media.

Belway Media just pretends that 20 years doesn't exist.

History started yesterday, and everything that happened in the last 48 hours is the only

thing that ever happened.

There's no causality.

There's no history.

There's just narrative.

There's just today's narrative.

That's right.

They live in the eternal now, which is cool if you're like a Zen monk.

But if you're the news media who is allegedly charged with talking about why things are the way they are, it's a catastrophe.

It's been a catastrophe for decades now.

I mean, this is something that we basically our podcast is a critique of culture, politics, and media.

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