All right listeners welcome to episode 65 of Know Your Enemy. I'm at Sydney your podcast co-host and I'm here with my great friend Sam

Heather Bell. Hey, Sam. Hi, Matt. I'm excited for this one. You know, we do this once a year. It's our annual mailbag episode. That's right. We're opening up the mailbag. We're gonna get some questions from people named John and Matt and Jack. That's right.

Yeah, so I checked Sam. The last time we did one of these was in December of 2021. So just under a year ago, we opened this up to, you know, our listeners and we're gonna answer your questions. And we should say we did favor our Patreon subscribers. That's right. We did our special most dedicated and devoted listeners. If you want to get priority in your questions being answered on future mailbag episodes, let me just say you can sign up.

Patreon.com slash Know Your Enemy. That's right. And if you're a new listener and if you've never gone back through our catalog of past episodes and listen to a mailbag episode, these are kind of wide-ranging listeners ask us about politics about the right, of course, but also this time a lot of religious questions. Yeah, always questions about literature, what we're reading, fiction, those kinds of things. We didn't get any questions about bourbon this time as far as I know, which was a disappointment. If you want to make sure your question gets answered on the air,

ask us about Brownlicker. Well, Sam preempted my housekeeping items. But as he said, for $5 about if you subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon.com slash Know Your Enemy, you get access to all of our bonus episodes. But as always, we're grateful to our partners at Descent, who sponsor the podcast. And one thing to send to us for us is that if you subscribe for $10 a month, you get access to not only all of our bonus episodes, but you also get a digital subscription to Descent. And, you know, in this holiday season, as we're reading,

we're entering it when people are thinking about donating to various causes or organizations, that kind of thing. I did want to flag something for our listeners about Descent, which is that from now until the end of the year, they're offering these limited time gifts if you donate to the magazine. And these are one-time donations. If you donate $50, you get a tote bag designed by working socialist artists type of the Arnold. For $250, you get the tote bag plus a selection of books curated by Descent's editors.

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This was the promo language I was given, but I think Sam and I, I'm not sure of the timing, but I think we might try to go on that. Yeah.

I want to eat my way through the Lower East Side. I've dragged my way through the Lower East Side. I've never eaten my way through it. So this would be a new experience.

So consider doing that if you're one of our listeners with some cash burning in your pocket. Descent is of course awesome. We love it. We write for it.

They help us out with this podcast and consider it.

Yes.

As always, we also want to thank Jesse Brennan, our intrepid producer, and Will Epstein, who does the music for the podcast.

Please rate and review us on iTunes. And should we just get to it then Matt?

I think so. Here's our mail back episode where we answer your questions.

Great.

All right, Sam. Let's get started. All of these questions were offered on Patreon or on Twitter or via email from you, our listeners.

Yeah.

They were great questions as always. I really am struck every time we do one of these, Sam, by the fact that we have such a smart and interesting listeners who ask us really interesting questions.

They're always so well written. A lot of them are recommendations for future topics for the podcast.

You probably won't read because I usually read them and go, yep, that's a good idea. We should do that. That's like the answer to every single one of those.

But the questions themselves are also just always extremely thoughtful. And it's a testament to how brilliant all of you are that these questions are always so good.

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