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This ain't your granddad's news and comment show.

This is I Doubted Podcast with Brittany Page and Jesse Dallamore.

Welcome to the show, episode 937 of I Dotted Podcast.

I'm your host, Jesse Dallamore.

Join today, as I often, always, always am.

The lovely, talented, scholarly, Brittany Page.

I am here, and there is a lot happening.

I think that during the holidays, the news was, you know, not slow, but typically what

happens is like they roll the B and C teams out and the A team is on a holiday break.

And so they're like playing the Luther Vandross documentary on CNN, which is fantastic, by the way.

Yeah, but it's a bunch of placeholders and no reporting.

It's not that news doesn't, maybe news doesn't really happen as much because, like,

everybody's on the holidays.

All the newsmakers are on holiday, as are the newsbreakers.

Right, right.

Well, you know, one thing we like to do on this show is stay humble.

And I had an experience recently that I wanted to share on the show because it's an example

of me getting humbled and reminded of why I need to check myself sometimes.

But it also, I think, is an opportunity for me to share some wisdom that I learned from this

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