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supporting us. We couldn't do it without you. Oh, Hi this is the Josh Marshall podcast with Kate Riga. Today it's Wednesday, February the 14th. on ecosystem of relationships, let's say, kind of funny ad lib.

In any case, we're the day after this special election out in basically the New York suburbs.

New York's third district is, third congressional district is a small little chunk of

Queens and mostly in Nassau County, which is the first county you hit once you leave New York City

and go into Long Island.

And as you know, this was George Santos' district and of course he was expelled from Congress.

I believe back in, I don't know, sometime in the fall. Do you know that the...

December? Okay, I thought it was December, but it's funny that seems so recent.

I know. But yeah, but in any case, as I'm sure you know by the time you

listened to this, Tom Swazi, who actually had this seat before George

Santos. He didn't lose to George Santos. He gave up the seat to run for

governor, which was pretty dumb since there was no way he was going to win. But he gave up the

seat that way. Now he's back, so you know,

nature is healing itself, basically.

And the result was, you know, if we stepped back from everything that has happened over the last, I don't know

...