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If you're like me, and I assume everyone out there is like me, not like me in the sense that you have a really terrible flu, so bad that your doctor gave you Vicodin and sent you home in antibiotics, which is what I'm going through right now.

But if you're like me, and it is Election Day in America, you probably are looking for

something to take your mind off the election.

It's probably early in the day on Tuesday, November 6th.

You've just downloaded the podcast because you want to hear about sex and dirty problems

and skeezy things, and you just don't want to think about sex and dirty problems and skeezy things

and you just don't want to think about what might be happening in Trig Romney's voting

booths.

You know that Trig Romney owns one of those companies that collects votes electronically

with no paper trail at all?

How's that for cold comfort?

Anyway, we're not going to think about that. You came here today to get your mind off the election. So I'm going to do what I can to get your mind off the election, including getting my own mind off the election. But first, before I throw something out there that will burn the election out of your brain, it will – there won't be room in your head for the election after I tell you about this other thing.

Hurricane Sandy last week.

You know, I grew up in Chicago.

I've actually never lived in New York, but I spent a lot of time in New York and a lot

of time on the East Coast.

And, you know, New York is one of two cities in the United States where when I just walk

down the street, I feel like I'm at home.

Those two cities, of course, are Chicago and New York, not Seattle.

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