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And welcome back to your one beacon of independent conservative thought here at the Conservative Conscious on Westwood Wands Podcast.

Network, this is Daniel Horowitz in the House, Thursday, September 20th.

When we are still five days into the saga talking about sex and rape charges

and a Supreme Court nominee that shouldn't even be that important when we should all be focused on the budget bill,

which is not just some nerdy issue dealing with dollars and cents,

but every single policy that matters to why we're even having these fights,

why we even have this acrimony between the two parties.

You know, yesterday I was out. I meant to put another podcast in the hopper before I took leave yesterday.

For Yamki Puer, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.

It's a day we fast all day, standing prayer before God, ask for a tonement for our annual sins,

understand and fallibility of a human being.

And I so badly didn't want to come back.

You know, when you try to have spirituality in your life,

and then there's one thing if you go back to your line of work,

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