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Hey guys.

We are back on normal.

We sure with normal what takes for when the news gets weird.

I am Mary Catherine Ham.

And I'm Carol Markowitz.

Mary Catherine, I have to say that you and I have a lot of pluses,

but we are not the world's most organized people.

So I just have to note that we are recording this about a week and a half after our one-year

anniversary of Normally.

Dang it!

So congratulations on a year and a week and a half.

Well done to us. That's the traditional way to

celebrate. It is correct. Yeah. I mean, just as long as we're not the husbands in this equation,

the show is doing super awesome. We get over a million downloads a quarter. We love all of our

listeners. I mean, most of our listeners.

And I really do just feel like it's so much fun and it's just the conversations that you and I

would be having anyway with maybe a little bit more explanation. Yeah, we are thankful for all of

you guys for tuning in and for passing it along to friends and giving us reviews. I mean,

only the high ones, please. And continue to do so because we like making it. So here's to another year and week and a half. We should put this on the calendar. You really should. I did put it on the calendar. I'm going to tag you in it. Okay, great. We'll get it next year. Next year we'll totally get it. All righty. Shall we get to the very weird news? So much weird news. What is going on in your state? Well, welcome to Virginia, where we have spoken about the Virginia governor's race, which tends to be treated as a bellwether for what's coming for the two parties in the future.

Okay.

Abigail Spanberger, who's a Democrat, is running against Winsome Sears, the current lieutenant governor under Glenn Yonkin in the state of Virginia.

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