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Four, June 1st, 2022, your old pal Justin Robert Young,

joining you from Austin, Texas.

Oh, those summer vibes are here, my friend.

We are past Memorial Day.

Hopefully people were out there by the pool on the beach grilling out having a good time.

There is a moment this week that I'll be on a pontoon boat. You know the sun's out when that's happening.

Pride Month. Shout out to all of our prideful listeners amongst the PX3 faithful.

But I gotta tell you, friends, this is not the busiest time in politics.

We are wrapping up our primaries. There aren't any

particularly interesting races that I have my eyes on for Tuesday or that

happened on Tuesday because this comes happened on Tuesday,

because this comes out on Wednesday.

The Senate and House aren't in session right now,

so even though we've got a lot of news and momentum that was coming out of the horrifying events last week,

we don't have anything this week as all of Congress is back amongst their constituency.

And so, we are going to take time to be a little bit more contemplative. Yeah, we're going to have a good old-fashioned

conversation about sadness, existential sadness, the sadness of us, the human tribe, and more specifically, our little

subsection here in America.

Are we existentially sad?

Are we fearful? Are we angry?

And if we are, when was the last time we were happy?

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