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Welcome back to a numbers game podcast.

Happy Monday.

I hope you have had a great day so far.

I want to tell you all a little story.

The year was 1994.

And there was once a boy named Ryan.

And his mother made him broccoli. And he threw it out and blamed his little brother.

And it wasn't right.

And I did do it.

And my brother never forgot it, but 31 years later, I got received a screenshot on my phone from that said brother, showing a picture of my podcast with a one-star review. Now, I know I'm not a

hero in this story or a victim in any sense of the word, but if you think a 31-year

vengeance tour is a little too much, please give me a five-star review on Apple podcast or Spotify

or wherever you listen to this podcast. I think a 31 year jihad is,

needs a little support from my listeners. So please like and subscribe and give me a five

story review. I needed to get that out of the way because I thought it was one hilarious

and my brother did that. And two, um, always encouraging people to give a review to the podcast

because it does help if people

find it and listen to it. So this episode is a bit of a mashup. I have some data, I have an

interview, and I have some fascinating DC gossip that I think you all really like, and then, of course,

ask me anything. So first on the data, everyone is talking about the New York Times article

about voter registration and the

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