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We've got a bunch of stuff to talk about today. This is the first day of the government shutdown

that everybody has been anticipating for all this time. We're going to talk about that.

We're going to talk about all the other 25 stories that have happened since we joined

you, or you joined us, I guess we joined each other a week ago. But before that, you know, we did a

live podcast, I think at the very end of last year in D.C. And then we did one in the spring in Chicago.

We've had a lot of people asking us, like, when are you going to do one

in the tri-state area, the New York area? Well, we are doing one. And tickets went on sale for that

just yesterday. We're doing it as part of larger TPM 25th anniversary celebration. But if you

would like to hear Kate and I doing a live version of the

podcast, you can join us on November 6th. It is in Manhattan, a place called the Metrograph Theater,

and we're going to have a lot of fun. It's funny because right now, I'm sitting here at my desk in front of my computer. Kate is doing the same thing. I don't know, 200 miles. I don't know exactly how far New York is from Washington, D.C. She's doing it there. Our producer, Jackie, is, you know, Jackie will either be at home or at the office. The point is we do it remotely, right? That's kind of the baseline doing it remotely. And when we did the first one in Washington, D.C., I was sort of like, okay, you know, this is going to be sort of weird. I'll be sitting right there with Kate, right? You develop a rapport or a dynamic based on a certain way of doing it,

but it was great. So anyway, if you're a fan of the podcast, if you'd like to join us, again,

it's November 6th, come out and join us. It's a lot of fun, get to meet Kate and I. It's funny,

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