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And with that, please enjoy this week's episode. What's up, up up everybody? What an awful week we have just been through. I recorded

this episode with Grant Williams and Ben Hunt the day before the protesters or whatever

you want to call them, Storm the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, January 6th,

disrupting the electoral vote counting process, and more importantly, the process of peaceful

transition between one democratically elected president to another, which led to not only

chaos in the capital, but also a scene of deadly violence

and a lot of confusion and fear in the media and in the public.

I cannot put into words the anxiety and fear. the

anxiety and fear that I feel and the heartbreak that I feel

and the heartbreak that I feel

when I look at what's currently unfolding in our country.

We're rapidly approaching some sort of precipice and I'm very

concerned that if we don't find some way to band together and reach some sort of

working consensus across party lines and among those of us who still feel a sense of responsibility

and patriotism towards our fellow citizens and towards our country, then I'm afraid the situation is only going to become more intractable

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