Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a respite from idiocy, a citadel of thinking people who don't yell at

each other at Thanksgiving. I'm your host Andrew Hee. And today we are going

to stare into a crystal ball.

Except not crystal, demographic.

A big ball of math.

But we are not going to do the math you and I.

No, no. My guest is going to do it for us. I am going to talk to a demographer.

Someone who looks at numbers to spot macro trends, future windfalls, terrifying pitfalls of our population and others, and I will ask him,

hey, what the hell happens?

Before we jump into the future, big shout out and hello to everyone who sponsors this show via Patreon.

You can join them by going to Patreon.com slash Andrew Heaton.

Hello patrons, I've got a challenge for you this week,

a competitive game you can play amongst your fellow senior workers.

Are you ready?

Here's your challenge. I challenge you this week to pet as many

dogs as you can after hearing this show. I will put up a post on Patreon that

says how many dogs and if you want to I will put up a post on Patreon that says,

How Many Dogs?

And if you want to participate sometime this weekend,

hop on and say how many dogs you manage to pet

after you heard this episode.

If you have any details you'd like to add such as breeds, interesting names,

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