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This is the podcast for the week of May 24th, 20204.

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Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where, what, what, I can't hear you over all the damn cicadas.

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

Music It's the professional left with drip glass and blue gal. And this has been a big news week, including the cicadas, a big news week.

The Trump defense called one witness, just one, to step on a few last-minute rakes before they all ran away.

Nikki Haley going back to Trump on bended knee surprised a lot of people on the never-Trump right

and absolutely no one on the left. And Sam the Shamolito showed the country the flag-draped remains of the Supreme Court's credibility.

So deep breath, everybody.

And we need to do some housekeeping drift glass before we dive in.

Cool.

We heard from several of you that we were surprised to hear an ad during our last episode.

True. It's true. There was one. We chose it carefully. One reason is that we put this ad in is it aligns with our values and promotes a new podcaster.

These ads come from our platform provider Buzzsprout. And that's the other reason that we are

running this ad is it has to do with how our hosting service pays us for running ads. The kind of

revenue that can be generated by podcast ads ranges from a pittance to astronomical. For example, according to Ashley Carman at the Verge,

if you want to advertise on Joe Rogan's podcast through Spotify,

the minimum spend is $1 million.

One million.

A million dollars.

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