Welcome to the Conversations, That Matter Podcast. I'm your host, John Harris. I hope you are having a

wonderful tax week. My oh my, I'm going to tell you what I every year think I'm going to get out

ahead of it and I won't be scrambling on April 15th. And I did start like two weeks beforehand,

but I was still scrambling on April 15th.

And then to make matters worse, I've never had to do this.

I had to file an amendment.

And I think I got it in 15 minutes before midnight.

So it was one of those.

My taxes are so complicated.

And at this point in my life, like there's all these different, like, I feel like it's nickels and dimes that are keeping me afloat, keeping me surviving, keeping my family going, and from all these various places.

But we got it done. I'm not very happy with the government. This is the week that I'm probably the least happy with the government, but the weather does make it nice.

So after we were done, the next day I was like, we just got to go get some ice cream.

So it took my little almost two-year-old and my wife out.

She loves ice cream.

So it's a wonderful thing.

But that's what's going on in my world. There's a bunch of stuff

out there and also stuff that I'm going to be putting out there. You can check out on my substack.

Today I released, well, I'll show you later, but an article on the lost cause as they

refer to it today in academic circles on southern slash confederate history

in honor of the esteemed governor abigail spamburger who has decided that that particular

history of virginia should just be erased we should forget about that part i guess and uh and and there's so

much more i'm forgetting but uh there's a lot we have to talk about

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