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Welcome to 2025.

Welcome to the 47th presidency of the United States.

I have the honor of saying that this podcast has been on long enough that I've been through five presidencies, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, and Trump again.

We count presidencies in history, according to the length of service, not the person.

So Grover Cleveland is the 22nd and the 24th.

That way the order is clear that you know that there's a president in between.

So this is a separate presidency.

More important than just having the honor over 19 years, it'll be 19 in July, of covering the five

presidencies is more importantly, we've looked at 46 of them. And I think we can start to apply that

to what's going on in the 47th. As wild a ride as I

expect, it will be. History does speak to current events, even when you have an actor that might be

doing a lot of things at once, might be acting in a different way from, say, norms. I still think history's useful.

And the thing we've always said, even as early as 2006 and 7 when I started this podcast, is that, you know, we're looking at history.

We're not saying that things can never be different.

Or somebody can't especially have an examined how it went in the past, say,

well, I don't want to do what those other people did.

I want to do something differently.

Guess what?

They're still in their own way using history as a guide.

And that's the same as we'll do our best job here of doing.

There's no reason to throw out the history books, folks, I guess is my main point.

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