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Hello, friends. It's Monday, October 16th, and Truppo is back with you.

Just on a personal note, this is my first show that I've recorded back in New York City after spending nearly all of the

about three weeks in LA. I'm back in the city now, and recording today's episode really feels like

I someone who you know talks about the news for a living and people come to come to us for I don't know analysis or

entertainment or comedy. I mean like that this is a hard one to do because I feel like over the past week I've

absolutely hit a limit on just like my ability to use words to communicate the adequate level of horror and

disgust that I feel for the country I live in and its government. And I realize I don't want to get

solve cystic to talk about the way this all makes me feel. But I bring this up because I'm sure if you're listening to

this right now, you're probably feeling the same thing. And I also want to acknowledge that while

these like unspeakable events are taking place and it really feels like grief and despair creep in, I have to note

the absence of Matt from our show right now and talk about how difficult that is for me. I mean like

and the thing is like I know Felix and I have a lot to say about what's going on in Palestine right now.

But I just want to acknowledge myself because I'm sure for you to listen or probably thinking the same thing.

Just the huge vacancy that we all feel right now in missing Matt's humor, his intelligence, his anger.

And I you know like and by way of talking about that, I just want to say that like it is frustrating for me

that we cannot tell you any any more about Matt like it's sort of no news is good news.

I guess what I can say is that he still is in the hospital. He is stable and he is with his wife and daughter.

So that is what you need to know right now about Matt. But like just I want to acknowledge at the beginning of the show like to talk about

how serious and how fucking terrifying world events have gotten like to feel that absence of Matt from this program and from

from being like an active participant in like you know in witnessing and can commenting on what is happening in the world today is

I'm feeling it acutely right now. And I suppose that's where I want to begin on today's show.

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