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So I have this board that I made up with some notes on it from a couple of weeks ago because whether you know it or not where the shows get released.

We're actually working on things all the time whether or not they're good enough to release is another question, especially we've been working on the history show a lot lately.

And as I was looking at story after story after story after story that have just been coming out these major things boom boom boom boom.

And you think to yourself oh my gosh look at how many stories we're missing.

And I'm looking at the board right now from a couple of weeks ago and it's shocking how much of those stories that look so huge a couple of weeks ago are just they've already like past and gone.

But people got really worked up about all of them at the time.

But here we are three weeks a month later and you can just see that they just sort of really weren't that important to begin with and you know it made me think for a second about something we really don't have much anymore but that used to be a fixture of the way people got their news and information.

The weekly news magazine sometimes the monthly news magazine.

Do you remember those things because I remember 15 years ago thinking oh boy you can see the writing on the wall for these things.

In the 24 hour news cycle and now with the internet forget it these things are dinosaurs.

But it didn't occur that there might be times when there was an advantage to not coming out with the news in a timely fashion because I'm looking at this board right now going.

You know if the only place you got your news was from a monthly news magazine you wouldn't have gotten worked up about any of this crap because most of it turned out to be meaningless but it got people really fired up but listen the way my the way my stepfather would have looked at it he would have looked at it goes it made a lot of money for a lot of people at the time.

There were news outlets that have made a fortune off news all of these stories I'm looking at right now were legitimately news we can just see a month later that a lot of them really don't mean anything.

So maybe there's an upside to me getting shows out shows out so rarely.

Now at the risk of making it sound like whining but it's really a factor of me not remembering what I've said in previous shows and how could I look how long ago those were I do want to point out I'm going through my own re-evaluation of what my political goals should be based on the reality we find ourselves in now because my apple cards been very upended.

And understand why I mean for those who maybe not listened you know I'm a guy who's been pushing a certain idea for about 20 years publicly and when I started pushing it it was crazy because that's what everybody told me you're crazy and then times just sort of went my direction the way I was suggesting maybe it might and so as recently as a year ago folks look at the way things were going at the election we had two candidates who were basically independence.

Running under the banners of the two parties though because as we pointed out for years those are the only people likely to win.

And the country was focusing on corruption in government I mean all these things that people told me quite legitimately 20 years ago I had no right to ever expect we're happening.

And now a year later less than a year later we find ourselves here and a shiny object maybe a gold object has distracted us from everything that was important you know in that realm that I cared about all those years ago and managed to discredit it at the same time.

How popular this electing an outsider sound now to a lot of people right this is going to look like we took our chance you know my wife had a great line which is true but it doesn't matter she said you never said any independent was what we needed you said and independent I mean you know you can get a bad independent too but my point was that a Democrat Republican wasn't going to fix this corruption probably had.

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