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So yeah, now it's cleanup on aisle 45 time.

And for a long while yet, it is going to be cleanup on aisle 45.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to episode 261 of cleanup on aisle 45. It's Wednesday, January 21st. I'm now 52 years old here in 2026. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Alison Gill.

Happy birthday, AG. It's Harry Dunn here. How are you doing? I'm good. I'm good. By the time you have heard this, I will have gone out to dinner. I haven't done

that yet, but because of the magic of podcast time travel, I will have by the time you hear this

episode. And before we get into today's episode, we have a lot to talk about. I would just want to give

a shout out to our new patrons and our Hall of Fame patrons. Our new patrons are Malachi Mansfield, Quentin Barnes, and Christy Cider.

And thanks to our Hall of Famers, skinnedwall at USA.com, wants your butt to look great.

It is the perfect stocking stuff for two.

Greg Robin Smith, aka Benjamin Franklin Live, Joey Merck, Fran Reichenbach, Karen Sherman, Scott Greggis,

Kimberly D. Stephen, Maria Tover, Corey Hill, Kelly Hagan, and of course Tiffany Trump was adopted.

Thank you so much for signing up to be patrons of cleanup on all 45. You make this show work.

Thank you for supporting independent media. Remember if you sign up at

patreon.com slash aisle 45 pod, you get to pick the name and we will read it on the air. All right. So we have a very,

very cool episode for you today. Cool in that I'm excited about who we're about to talk to. Not cool and

what we're going to talk about.

But, you know, I wanted to welcome, of course, he's the Washington Bureau Chief at Mother

Jones. He's written a ton of books. We've done book clubs on the old Muller She Wrote Book Club

podcast that this gentleman has written. And he also produces the Our Land newsletter, which you can get at Davidcorn.com.

Please welcome David Korn.

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