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We couldn't do it without you. Oh, Hi this is the Josh Marshall podcast featuring K Riga.

How you doing?

How's life?

Calm Zen, peaceful, laid back.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, how you holding up? We are going to talk about, you know, what is it, the sort of the most

chaotic and harrowing and bewild, maybe three weeks that I can remember in anything like

contemporary political history.

You know, I think back to 2008, you know, global financial crisis kind of hitting right as the campaign

proper got underway.

But this has been something and we are going to get into all of it. We're going to talk about the shooting

incident this weekend. We're going to talk about J.D. Vance. We're going to talk about

where things are with Joe Biden.

I'm going to dig into all of it.

Before we do, I want to quickly mention something very important.

That just today, we launched our TPM journalism fund annual drive. It's our fifth year doing it.

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