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Hi, this is Josh Marshall and this is the Josh Marshall

podcast with Kate Riega. We're in that period, the sort of the

the the final days of August, which is always are usually is a slow news

period, you know, everybody's trying to get in the last part of their

summer. We know it at TPM because, you know, everybody's

on vacation, everybody's kind of checked out, but we have, it's not

totally like that. This this this political season, this trial season

because we still have the ongoing, you know, procedural moving

forward of Donald Trump's various indictments. We're going to talk

we're going to talk some about that stuff. And it's it's so various

and you know, it's funny as I was thinking about this as we were

going to talk about it. And I don't think you know, everybody there

there's still a a hot market for takes that somehow being indicted

for felonies in multiple jurisdictions around the country and

being on trial for all of them while you're running for president is

somehow a good thing for you. There's there's still the kind of it's

like the political class in this country. It's like, you know,

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