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Hey everyone, John Heilman here and welcome to Helen Highwater, my podcast about politics and culture

on the edge of Armageddon.

It's a determined, if dubious, committed if cuckoo for cocoa puffs, often wrong, but rarely in doubt

exercise in elevated gas baggery that neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night, nor the

toxic rantings of the Nuthouse Right, 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 decent-sized chunk of our political, social, and civic spheres by a cadre of

incoherent, insidious, conspiracy addled, autocracy craving, authoritarian-worshipping lunatics, hustlers, grifters, nihilists, and income poops, 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

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