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Hey everyone, John Howman here and welcome to Hell in High Water. My podcast about politics

and culture on the edge of Armageddon. It's a determined, if dubious, committed, if kuku

for koko puffs, often wrong, but rarely endowed exercise in elevated gas baggery, then neither

rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night nor the toxic rantings of the net has to write.

A president attempting to invalidate a legitimate election and stage 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 desiccized chunk of our political social and civic spheres

by a cadre of incoherent, insidious conspiracy, adult, autocracy craving, authoritarian worshiping

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 after week. Maybe not without fail because,

you know, hashtag Epic Fail is one of our many mottoes around here, but certainly without

a pause. We've been doing that for more than two years. Haven't had a break. All of

which is to say that I am plum shagged out and desperately in need of some R&R. And with

the midterm election now comfortably in the roof you mirror in our democracy, amazingly,

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