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Hello gang, it's Chappau back once again for you. It's me Will here. Joining me is Matt and Virgil,

but we are not alone. We have a guest this week. It is time, once again, to check back in with our

friend David Roth. David, how's it going? I'm doing all right, how are you all? Pretty fresh,

pretty fresh and fly as always, but you know, David, I wanted to have you on because you just wrote a

piece in the New Yorker that touches on Starship Troopers, Total Recall and Robocop, and I just think like,

you know, I saw what you were doing there. It was a pretty shabby attempt to get yourself invited

on the show, but I have to say it worked splendidly. So kudos to you. I do want to talk to you about

the age of Verhoeven that we're all living in in a little bit because I mean speaking for myself,

if there is really one thing that the show stands for and you know, is about ideologically speaking,

it's that Paul Verhoeven is a prophet and his text must be studied by the righteous man to achieve

enlightenment. It's a cheesy pander on my part, but I'm here. So who's to say that it was wrong really?

Well, it worked. But before we get into that, I just want to touch in on, you know, our president,

he's my president and yours. And you know, over the course of the Trump administration, I've relied on

my friends and their ability to sort of channel, sort of, embody the ether of the current moment and

sort of regurgitated in a way that makes sense to anticipate, you know, the presidency of Donald Trump.

And you know, I turn to Matt and Felix for these things, but also really more than any writer

currently working, it's got to be David Roth. It's got to be the Rothman when it comes to just sort of

really, I don't know, communicating the character of Donald Trump and like what he really represents.

And there's been some, there's been some good stories this week that we should touch on starting with

Roger Stone getting his sentence commuted by by the big man in charge. Now that Roger Stone is

free once again to Rome, our streets and recruit, you know, strong, uncut men to fuck his wife.

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