Hey, everybody. No intro this week because there's no show this week. Tom is still with his

wife right now. She is still recovering from the surgery, which she had a couple weeks ago.

And Tom is unavailable this week. I had put something together, but it fell apart. And so I don't

actually, I don't actually have a show this

week. I was going to try to power through something. It's hard for me to do something on my own,

obviously, because it's a conversation show. And who wants to listen to one guy talk when there's a

conversation that should be had between two people? That's what people signed up for. They didn't

sign up for a conversation between me and myself, which is probably not nearly as interesting as a conversation with me and Tom.

So Tom's on a rail wasn't available, couldn't put anything else together specifically. So we're going to skip the week.

We're putting in this placeholder, though, just to remind people that Tom is still out. It's my great hope and Tom's

great hope that he'll be back to record. We'll be recording hopefully next Thursday and then we should

have a show out for the following Monday. So we should have a cognitive dissonance. There's been so much.

We've got a million things to talk about, obviously, since Tom took off the couple of weeks.

So hopefully there'll be a good show there.

In the meantime, when you normally would spend some time, you would listen to the show,

and you would spend the amount of time it would take for you to listen to the show.

Maybe spend that time this week.

Going to look to see to make sure you're registered to vote,

double checking to see where your polling place is, perhaps checking to see if your state is in

danger of losing its vote by mail, and if it is, finding out those things and making sure that

you could then vote in your upcoming election in person. And you might also take a tiny bit of that

time that you would normally do, because that's not going to take up the entire time it would

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