Hi, this is Josh Marshall and this is the Josh Marshall podcast.

You know, last week when we last met, we were kind of crouching up towards Armageddon,

basically, right?

I mean, we recorded last Wednesday, and notionally, the apocalyptic vote, you know, the sort

of the final, final, final deadline was Thursday the next day.

And as we know, that did not happen.

And then it was set for a day later, Friday, and then we know that did not happen.

And then something kind of funny happened where, you know, we sort of moved through the

legislative apocalypse and, you know, kind of sort of like, you know, when you're flying,

right?

When you're taking a trip, you're flying somewhere.

Sometimes you fly through a storm, right?

And you're kind of stormy and there's, you know, got a lot of turbulence and there's

rain and all of a sudden, suddenly, oh, the sun's back out.

The storm is behind us.

And that sort of thing can be, you know, et cetera, accentuated with jet travels since

you're obviously moving at your own, what, you know, 550 miles an hour, whatever it is.

But that seems kind of like what happened.

Because this was sort of do or die, Joe Biden's whole agenda up in the air and everything.

And then that vote never happened.

And the next day, it was kind of like, you know what?

We're linked again and we're going to take a few more weeks at this and we're going

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