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Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show. Back again, eh? Glutton for Punishment, eh?

When will you ever learn? Now, here's the host that you hate to love, the man who was the reason

your friend sponsored your last intervention, Eric Mataxis. Hey folks, welcome to the program.

I get a little silly and giddy when I talk to the man I have as my guest today. It's been about

almost a year since we had him on, but I got to tell you I have loved him and his writing

and his opinions for many years, many years. We met in the back in the 80s when we was just kids.

And he's my guest right now, James Howard Constler, Ville Cumman, to the program.

It's a pleasure to be with you, Dr. Mataxis.

If people want to find you and they should try, they can go to Constler.com. Constler, of course,

is the German word for artist, quenstler. Constler.com. You are tough to sum up because you have written

many novels and many books on nonfiction books and varying subjects. If people go to

Constler.com, they can find your writing on current events. And that's what drew me back to you

after these many months. You wrote a piece that's I think up right now about the week.

And the problem with you, Jim, it's kind of like my friend, John's Miracch. Your writing is so good

that I just want to read what you've written, but we're not going to do that. I'm going to go ahead.

I'm just like a cigarette. I'm going to, yeah, you like a cigarette and I'll read. But I will,

I will read actually the first couple of sentences just so people can get a sense of where we're going

where we mean to go. You start out the essay. It says, I hope you agree this has been an instructive

week for our Republic, sinking to the bottom as fast as the titan submersible on its way to

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