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Hey everyone, John Hylem and here and welcome to Hell in High Water, my podcast about politics

and culture on the edge of Armageddon. It's a determined, if dubious, committed, if

kuku for koko puffs, often wrong but rarely endowed exercise in elevated gas baggery

than neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night nor the toxic rantings of the nethouse

right. A president attempting to invalidate a legitimate election in stage 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 desiccized chunk of our political, social and civic spheres

by a cadre of incoherent, insidious conspiracy-addled, autocracy craving, authoritarian worshiping 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 fail because, you know, hashtag Epic Fail is one of our

many models 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 review mirror and our democracy,

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

for the Hellenhyde Water Home Office to give itself a fucking break. And so for the next few weeks,

that is exactly what we are going to do. And we'll see you back here on the other side of the

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