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Your podcast that usually has two episodes a week, but this week only has one episode.

And the reason it all has only one episode is because this week, of course, we celebrated the Presidents of the United States of America.

A whole day dedicated to a one-hit wonder from the 90s who will answer the question that you've all been wondering,

where do Peaches come from? And not the band Peaches, which is better than the band Presidency, the United States of America,

but the peaches themselves, which of course come from a can, and they were put there by a man.

Anyway, that's my way of saying there was no episode on Monday because of President's Day.

And this episode is slightly different.

You might have thought, this episode sounds a little different because there's no one else there.

There's just Margaret talking into my ear.

That's right.

It is me, your host, Margaret Kiljoy.

And this is an odd episode. And since I sometimes

do these odd episodes, this particular one, I am going to read an essay that I published in my

newsletter about a month ago called The Punk Rock Good Life. And before you turn away and you think

this isn't about history, well, you're right, it's actually not about history.

But you might be interested in it anyway,

because it's actually one of the pieces I've written

that seems to have resonated with people

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