People are telling me I'm muted.

So, sorry about that, a minute into the podcast

and no one could hear me.

I'm glad I have a live chat up so I can see what you guys are saying.

So I'll repeat what I just said.

First of all, welcome to the Conversations that Matter Podcast.

We have, we'll see how much we have to talk about today. There's a lot we could talk about but I'm in a weird position right now. I'm sitting here in New York which is known to be a very

progressive state of course and originally I was born actually in California, which outside of LA, very progressive area, a lot of my family is still there.

And I'm in this weird spot right now where I'm kind of grateful to not be from Iowa. It's just it's

kind of weird. I actually do a family that goes back to Iowa, but it's just I

think Iowa as far as I know someone can correct me if I'm wrong here but I'm pretty sure that they were one of the few states in the midterms

that the Republicans really did well. It's a red state. Both of the representative bodies in the state capital are Republican

controlled. It's got a Republican governor and and somehow it also has a satanic display in the in the

state capital there so we're going to talk a little bit about that today and just navigating that.

Some of you are probably saying this should be a no-brainer.

And I agree to a point.

I think this should be a no-brainer, but we are contending with an outlook that I think we've all kind of grown used to in a way.

We haven't had to face some of these challenges not blatantly so at least who would have thought that Satanists would organize and try to get

Idles to Satan set up in public spaces in government buildings.

I mean, that's not something I ever saw happening

even when I was young and I'm not that old,

but that wasn't something that was even on the horizon and now of course this is what we have to contend with.

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