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Welcome to the QAA podcast, Premium episode 329, the prophetic professor Jang.

As always, we are your host, Liv Egar, Julian Fields, and Travis View.

Everyone has something they turn to when the complexity and uncertainty of the world becomes too overwhelming.

Yeah, it's called the QA podcast, baby!

Yes, that's my number one choice.

Yeah, but sometimes they might also turn to like a wise friend or colleague.

That's a good one.

Or a trusted news source or watch a comforting movie or they read a book that has stood the test of time.

Good thing I started working with a man called Professor Jang.

Trusted colleague, mentor.

What I like to do, I like to read about early American politics to remind myself that

bullshit and corruption are nothing new.

And like the people in those times, I'm not exempt from the tide of history.

For example, did you know that in the election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson paid a man named James Callender to publish smears about his opponent, John Adams, and after Calendar was jailed for those smears under the Sedition Act, and Jefferson was elected, Jefferson pardoned Calendar.

So, yeah, the spoil system that outrages us in the Trump administration is, you know, it's part for the course in

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