Greetings to your listeners. This is another exciting episode of the Remnant Podcast

I am literally not figuratively literally in the shadow of the state capital in Des Moines

in a parking lot by some really cool monument I'm going to check out in a second. Well,

when I'm done with the podcast I should say he's running and this week's episode is

brought to you by DoorDash, by Zippercrooter, and by the obscene amount of fried food I'm

going to be eating in a little while at the Iowa State Fair. We're doing this as sort of

an update from the road episode. We'll have more exciting episodes of the Remnant with

conversations with various and sundry people soon enough, but I figured I would just do

a catch-up show with Jack who's home with my beasts. Hi Jack, how's it going? It's going well.

Yeah. I'm enjoying life at your house. How are my animals? They are great. It's just so funny

because every once in a while when I'm just sitting around, I look around me and I'm just surrounded

by living beings even though I'm the only human in this building. This is so funny. They're like

cluster around me. Even Ralph. Ralph who is... Yeah, no, Ralph. Something's been going on with

Ralph and Philissier's who don't know it. Don't worry, we will get to the rank punditry and

an audio postcards from the road as Charles Carroll might say, but Ralph for the listeners who don't know is...

I always say we have two cats. We have the good cat Gracie and we have my wife's cat Ralph because

Ralph doesn't like me or really my daughter Lucy just likes Jess. But in the last six months,

something's been going on with Ralph. He's a little more willing to rub up against me. He's a little

more willing to sort of hang out near me and he's a little less eager to go out at night,

which used to be like his thing. His whole MO was... He was like a track suit wearing Yugoslav

disco clubber where he just like sleep all day and then come around nightfall. He'd head out on

the town and get up at the mischief and he's still does that but much less so. But yeah, they all

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