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to Ratchet and Respectable.

There is so much shit going on right now.

We have a lot to cover today, including the Texas State Representative who's been locked in the fucking statehouse for

over 24 hours at the time I'm recording. And I'm recording this episode on Tuesday, August 19th,

just after 5 p.m. in East America. Let me get some housekeeping stuff out the way. And then we'll talk

about the new Denzel movie. We'll talk about Hallie Berry.

We'll talk about the end just like that season finale, series finale. In fact, the occupation of

DC, the National Guard, is still here and doing checkpoints at major intersections. Like, it's,

it's a mess. And also, it's the 20th anniversary coming up of Hurricane Katrina. And there are a series of

documentaries that are coming out. One of them, Ryan Cougla produced, is on Hulu, five-part series.

And I watched it last night. And I just boo-hooed my way through it. I need to talk about that.

Before we talk about the federal indictment of,

this is bullshit, the federal indictment of the current sitting mayor of New Orleans.

I think old girl was dignified and just made a series of bad decisions and not just, you know,

her being married sleeping with somebody else's husband,

but like actual criminal shit, hence the federal indictment. We have the indictment all 44 pages.

I'm going to try to get that into this episode. I might have to part one and part two

it, depending on the length. Like I said, a lot to cover, but let me do some quick housekeeping.

Last week, I let you know that the

Seas and World Trips for 26 were going on sale, two for Marrakesh, two for Ghana, and two for Cape Town.

They all sold out in an hour. So people who are sending me DMs and going to the website and sending

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