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Refocus. All right, you know what we do here. Each week we go through a newspaper from a random date in history,

picked out by none other than Dave Anthony. I have never seen it, and neither has this week's guest,

Francesca Fiorentini. Hello, Francesca, returning champion. Hello, hello, hello. You put a little extra juge on my name. Well, I'm feeling spicy. Are you having fun so far? It's a spicy meatball, isn't it? Are you having a good time? I'm having a great time. Are you enjoying the show so far? Oh, yeah. Okay. You know. All right. This is probably as good as it's going to get. Okay.

All right.

This is probably as good as it's going to get.

Okay.

All right.

Francesca, you have a great show called The Bituation Room.

You pull stories.

You get thoughtful people and some idiots on and you muck it up.

Yes, and we're also, I'm also doing some deep dive kind of like long form YouTube, uh,

slop. No, it's good stuff. So if you like that kind of things like, uh, why the right is going to war on itself over Israel. That's a perfect thumbnail. Can I just say...

Are you thumbnailing?

One of the greatest things...

If the conspiracy is true that Israel killed Kirk, which I want it to be...

If that...

Say that conspiracy is true, the fact that they thought that would lead to the left getting crushed and

it's actually splitting the right and half is one of the greatest things that ever happened.

Yes. It's delicious. Because they live in worlds of conspiracy. So when one of their top guys get killed,

of course they're going to fracture into groups screaming at each other. Well, they also, they didn't cover it up great. So then you have that part too. What do you mean? It was trans girlfriend. Trans girlfriend. Who is now built rifle five times on walk home. Don't you love that they've just vanished? Like you just never hear anything about them again. Yeah. Don't hear anything about them. It's very interesting.

And weird that like the one person who really is benefited isn't Israel.

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