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This is the podcast for the week of March 8, 2004.

It's Not Safe for Work.

Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where we took to the streets this week and offered a silver dollar to anyone who could remember a single phrase other than smoking gun mushroom cloud from any of George W. Bush's to the union speeches.

And the answer we most frequently got was, who was George W. Bush?

It's the professional life with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.

The memory hole, Drift Glass.

I know. I know.

It's deep and it's wide and the bulldozers are working 24-7.

And we've been through quite a few changes and shifts and tectonic movements since George W. Bush.

And honestly, state of the unions are just not that memorable.

Most of them aren't.

That's right.

Their events, I mean, Bill Clinton's were, as I recall, 17 hours long laundry lists

of little things, which are fine.

That's great.

That's, you know, hey, I'm a policy guy.

I love to hear that stuff.

So anyway, this, as you were going to say, I was going to say that we are recording this on Thursday afternoon

before Joe Biden's State of the Union speech.

That is correct.

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