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My name is Scott Bertram.

Find me on Twitter at Scott Bertram, my tag team partner standing by, as always,

Jeff Blair.

Jeff, how are you?

I'm doing good, Scott.

You know, I'm proud to be doing good work here. I just hope that someday, maybe several years later, people will circle back around and find it again and sort of realize how great it was at the time.

Well, you know, if no one hears it, it's a distribution problem, not a quality problem. We can hang our hats on that.

Yeah, if I also like to think that like everybody, everybody who liked our podcast will, like, go on to, like, start an influential podcast of their own about music.

Jeff's on Twitter at esoteric CD.

And our guest for today's program is our very first three-time guest on political beats.

We have thrown the door open to potential three-timers to return with this episode.

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