Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number 310, if I am not mistaken.

You are not mistaken.

I am not mistaken for once.

It is a gorgeous day here in the San Juan Islands.

It is one of those winter days that we are

famous for here where it's actually sunny and beautiful, cold, but...

We are not famous for this. No, we're famous for it, whether it's a common thing or not.

No, we're not. Yeah, sunny days in the San Juan Islands. Two hundred and sixty sunny

days a year is the claim, something like that.

Anyway, it's a claim.

It's based largely on wishful thinking.

It's a claim that you just made up.

No, no, no.

It's because, see, we're in the rain shadow of the Olympic mountains,

so the rain tends to fall out.

And in fact, pilots describe that there is often a hole in the clouds over the San Juan Islands. It's like you can literally see it. So we are sunnier than the mainland, but not as well. We are sunnier than the mainland. But that doesn't mean that we're in any way famous for sun in the winter because we don't tend to get much. But it has been beautiful the last few days and the rest of the country is about to get walloped. And we are sorry

for that, although we have had so much drenching rain for so many weeks that the ground is still

spongy and saturated, even though it's been sunny for days. But that's the weather report.

That's the weather report. It's a new segment here on Dark Horse. It's also the last of this new

segment on the weather. For now, anyway. So here we are, Wednesday, January 21st, one month into winter.

So winter is here, not coming. Third of the way finished. A third of the way finished, that's right.

And today we are going to talk about, we're a year into the second Trump presidency.

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