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Without our members, there is no podcast, not to mention that I'm out of a job. Thank you so much for listening and supporting us. We couldn't do it without you. Oh, Hi, this is Josh Marshall, and this is the Josh Marshall podcast featuring Kate Riga. We're in a bit of a lull right now, it feels

like in the presidential cycle, lull in the sense, I don't know, maybe that's too negative a

word, we're coming off the convention, you know, we had,

everything has happened so quickly here, right? We had the, uh, we had the big switch, which

crazily is about six weeks ago.

Seems like just a lifetime ago.

It's only back on July 21st.

It is now August the 27th, so a little over a month, I guess, Sunday will be six weeks, I guess.

Anyway, we had the switch and then we had this kind of like crazy period over a couple weeks then we had the

convention now that's done now we are moving back into the debate over the

debate which kind of thought we had that, right?

We had a debate and Trump pulled out of the debate and then Harris told him,

you know, you have to debate me on my terms and he agreed.

Then he kind of half pulled out again and she did the same thing again and we're back with this.

And we're going to talk about that.

We're going to talk about a few other things.

A lot of stuff going on.

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