MoJo got me

It's another podcast, this time with Mother Jones magazine.

I just finished cleaning up something like 400 spam comments made here, so it's with grim resignation that I notice the podcast already has a spam comment on it. Is there some reason my name should be associated with sanitary ball valves?

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