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Welcome to the Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed nuance conversation of the tech world and beyond.

And today we focus on the beyond and then we move back to the tech world because Marshall and Saga are here.

We've had them a couple times, Marshall Kossloff and Sager and Jetty from the Great Realignment podcast, one of my favorite shows, also from breaking points, also from the Lincoln Network, not the Lincoln Project, not going to get that wrong.

And look, we're going to, the world right now is in a state of transition.

Politics and the economy are linked maybe more than never,

uh, before or actually more than we've had in recent years. Um, and so let's talk a little bit

about what's going on in the U.S. and the globe ahead of the 20, 22 midterms and then,

uh, break down things like Elon and Twitter, uh, and the Metaverse Web 3. It'll be fun, I promise.

Okay, so let's start with this question. First of all, welcome to the show, guys.

Good to see you, man. Thanks having us back. I almost forgot to welcome you. Welcome.

I just got excited about going right into the questions. And I just want to start here. I'm a little bit

confused and maybe you guys can help bring me up to speed about like the mood in the U.S. and what's

going on in U.S. politics. Because, you know, there's so many issues that I've been batting about,

you know, inflation, culture war, real war in Ukraine, abortion stop the steel in trump economy etc etc and

you know it's really been tough i think to take the political temperature of of the united states right now

what is the feel in the country um obviously it seems like the republicans are are heading to um

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