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Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and

problem solvers. I'm your host Andrew Heaton and I'll tell you what I've been thinking about.

Remember when 9-11 happened and everything was crazy for a couple of weeks but then life went

completely back to normal? Oh you don't? Me neither, because that didn't happen.

We didn't go back to normal. We entered a new normal, one in which the geopolitical station

of the United States had changed,

its security priorities shifted, new federal agencies were created,

and flying became significantly more irritating for the likes of you and I.

And I think COVID is going to be much the same in terms of impact.

I just don't know quite what the new normal is going to look like just yet,

but my guess today, Larry Sharp, has his finger on the

pulse of some big industries, tech finance banking, not to mention some unique insights on

how large cities like New York City will be irreparably altered by COVID, as will small towns.

We're going to talk about how the pandemic will economically and demographically alter

the composition of the United States, not to mention politics when that happens.

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