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Thank you. Hi, this is Josh Marshall, and this is the Josh Marshall podcast featuring Kate Riga.

We are recording for once.

You know, often we get a little, we don't start quite at 12 noon, but we're pretty close to 12 noon today, Wednesday, October the 22nd.

As I've said, I think the last few episodes, I've gotten in the habit of saying exactly when we're recording.

Because it turns out to be more important than it has been in the past.

Like, you know, for the next crazy thing that happened, you need to know when we were recording because we didn't know about that crazy thing that you know about that we don't know about yet.

And so it's important to sort of place us in the space-time continuum and times arrow with all

the news that we are having today.

Before we get started, want to remind you, you can come listen to a live recording of this podcast in New York City on November 6th.

We're getting pretty close.

It's part of our 25th anniversary celebration.

I've got a live podcast.

We're going to have a sort of a do an oral history before the podcast.

If you want to see that too, we talk about the history of the organization. We're going to

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