All right, welcome to Useful Idiots, I'm Matt Tauyde.

And I'm Katie Halper.

I'm not in a good way right now.

That sounds like some old fashioned expression for being pregnant or something.

Well, I just had to drive three hours just to do this show because New Jersey's broken.

This is like...

Even more than usual.

Well, no, it's just literally New Jersey's off.

So we had some kind of storm that I guess we don't really hear about these things anywhere

because we're so in the bubble anyway.

I guess people knew this was coming, I don't know.

But suddenly, trees were flying everywhere.

And there's power outages throughout the entire state.

The company doesn't have any clue when the state's going to be back on.

And there's not even any cell service in half the state.

So I just had to hop into a car and drive to another undisclosed location in a nearby state.

Right.

Just to meet our obligations to you, the Useful Idiots listener.

On the plus side, we have a good show.

We have a really good show because we have Thomas Frank, a longtime friend to both of us.

Here's his book, The People Know, A Brief History of Antipopilism.

We've been kind of waiting to do this show for a while.

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