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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Grudusky.

Thank you guys for being here.

Happy Labor Day.

Hope you're all relaxing on this holiday.

Everyone is off aside from me because there's no rest for the wicked.

Well, for those who subscribe to my newsletter,

you may have noticed I didn't send one out this week on Sunday, like I usually do, because I

was sick with COVID. I contracted COVID last week when probably last Monday. I think I had contracted. I think I know exactly where I was. And

apparently COVID still exists. And it knocked me on my rear end for the better part of a week.

I'm on the men. I'm feeling much better. I sound much better. I had to quarantine for a few days,

cancel all my plans. I didn't, I really didn't work for like three days,

which is very rare for me. I just, I couldn't focus on anything. It was fever. Every,

you name it, I had it. And I just watched documentaries from like the 60s and 70s and 80s.

Like every kind of depressing documentary, the Holocaust, AIDS, homelessness, Elvis's manager, stealing all

his money. I was in a dark place, so I just jumped right in. And I also watched Daisy Jones

in The Six, by the way, on Amazon. Highly recommend it. It's about a 70s rock band very loosely

inspired by Flewood Mac, but it was really, really good. Anyway, so since I was

down and out most of last week, I wanted to be a bit easier with the podcast episode this week,

give you some important numbers, both domestically and abroad, and then do an extra long,

ask me anything. So first, the numbers domestically,

they are on special elections. You may have seen a news clipping last week that Republicans

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