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This episode is presented by eBay. Rob, everyone loves a deal and a bargain from time to time,

don't they? Absolutely, mate. And do you know where you can grab a great deal a bargain from time to time, don't they?

Absolutely, mate. And you know where you can grab a great deal? Talk to me. Where? The eBay app. Yes, you are correct. You didn't need to talk to me. I already knew it. I love eBay. When you're buying, you can discover loads of hidden gems. There's so many items where you think I would have never found that anywhere else. Then when you're selling, it's so simple and most importantly, free.

It's free, Rob. When it's this easy to sell for free

and there's great deals on things you love. You can't help but say when it's eBay. It excludes

vehicles and business sellers. Hey everyone, John Heilman here and welcome to Helen Highwater, my podcast

about politics and culture

on the edge of Armageddon. It's a determined, if dubious, committed if cuckoo for cocoa puffs,

often wrong but rarely in doubt exercise in elevated gas baggery that neither rain nor snow,

nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor the toxic rantings of the Nuthouse Right,

a president attempting to invalidate a legitimate election

and staged an auto coup,

complete with an armed insurrection at the United States Capitol,

nor more broadly and arguably even more disturbingly,

the capture of a decent-sized chunk of our political, social, and civic spheres by a cadre of

incoherent, insidious, conspiracy-addled, autocracy craving, authoritarian-worshipping lunatics,

hustlers, grifters, nihilists, and nincompoops, none of it, none of it has kept us from our

duly sworn duty and obligations, giving you, our listeners,

a fresh episode of this podcast

week after week, after week,

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