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Hey, everyone, John Heilman here and welcome to Helen Highwater, my podcast about politics and culture on the edge of Armageddon.

It's a determined, if dubious, committed if cuckoo for cocoa puffs, often wrong but rarely in doubt exercise in elevated gas baggery that neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night, nor the toxic rantings of the Nuthouse Right, a president attempting to invalidate a legitimate election and staged an auto coup,

complete with an armed insurrection at the United States Capitol,

nor more broadly and arguably even more disturbingly,

the capture of a decent-sized chunk of our political, social, and civic spheres by a cadre of incoherent, insidious, conspiracy-addled, autocracy-craving,

authoritarian-worshipping lunatics, hustlers, grifters, nihilists, and nincompoops, none of it, none of it has kept us from our duly sworn duty and obligations, giving you, our listeners, a fresh episode of this podcast week after week, after week after week, maybe not without, because, you know, hashtag epic fail is one of our many

mottoes around here, but certainly without a pause.

We've been doing that for more than two years, haven't had a break.

All of which is to say that I am plum shagged out and desperately in need of some R&R.

And with the midterm election, now comfortably in the rearview mirror in our democracy, amazingly,

if I will admit, a little unexpectedly, still intact, it seems like a suitable time for the

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