Three, two, one.

Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

And these are our final episodes of the year.

Actually, this is running one right before the end of the year and one as our first episode of 2025.

But here we are to kind of

reflect a little on 2024 and launch ourselves into 2025. We've done this the last few years

reflecting a little bit on some of our favorite episodes and some of the kind of history and

historical trends and also kind of like, how was your year? Although I may not lead with that

question for our guest this time. So let's keep it light man let's keep it late uh it's the holiday coming in hot

but here as always nickel hammer of vanderboat and kelly carter jackson of wesley hello there

nice to see you we are doing this is this video episode two which is a big thing we started doing

in 2024 so folks can go watch it on YouTube.

But hi there.

Happy New Year, Jody.

Hey there.

And we should say, well, I should give a little caveat right off the bat that if people hear a little pitter-patter in the background or noises in the background, my New Year's tradition is all of our group of friends get together every year.

We've done it for decades now.

I used to do it without kids, now with kids, but we rent a big house.

We hang out.

We have a great tent during New Year's.

There are 16 adults and 12 kids, I think, somewhere in this house beyond these walls. So I would not be surprised if one of those voices makes its way onto this podcast.

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