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Thank you so much for listening and supporting us the Josh Marshall podcast featuring Kate Riga.

It is January 8th, and it's actually, you know, it's one week away from the first live edition of the podcast.

A bunch of you are going to see us next week down in D.C. for the first live one. If you're still interested in joining us, we have about 20 tickets left, probably be gone

by the time that the actual event rolls around.

If you're hearing this episode of the podcast,

the one we're recording right now, on Wednesday, January 8th, there might be a few left. So if

you're interested, come see us. It'll be a lot of fun. We're going to do Kate and I, going to do

a live edition of the podcast. You can kind of imagine what that's going to be like. And

afterward, there's drinks. Everybody kind of hangs out, talks and everything. We get to meet you.

You get to meet us. All sorts of good stuff. So come meet us. It's, if you're a member, it's 50 bucks

ticket. If you're not, 75 bucks ticket, a lot of good entertainment, evening, good entertainment.

And this will be right before the big switchover, right?

January 15th, I guess a little less than a week, one day less than a week, before the new

management comes in for the country and all that good stuff.

Before we get to what we're going to talk about this week, I wanted to mention,

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