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Albin, it's Monday.

It is Monday.

Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize in advance for what we're going to do this week.

We've got a lot of stuff to cover. First of all, first things first.

My guest for both hours today is an old friend. I cannot believe. I don't think I have hung out with him for 30 years.

It doesn't make sense, but it's true. His name is Jim Kunstler.

Well, we've got one big announcement,

but before I get to that, I want to say, Jim Cuncelor, I don't want to brag about him when he's on the air with me because I don't want to embarrass him. But he is an amazing writer. His books are brilliantly written and hilarious, even when he's writing about serious stuff.

So he wrote a book called The Geography of Nowhere that is about kind of what happened to America and how highways and, you know, six lane highways have just kind of taken over everything.

But it's so brilliant that it changed the way I see things.

And I read it back in, gosh, this was in the 90s.

So I want to talk to him about that.

But he's somebody, too, that he came from a kind of like a liberal, secular, you know,

democratic point of view.

And I think he has migrated more to where I am.

So I'm fascinated with that.

I don't know if I'm going to get into that.

But he's just a big deal.

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