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Welcome to another episode of The Damage Report, I am John, I do roll it. It's another Friday

show, but don't worry, this is not one of those ones where, as has become so common, gigantic news

has dropped on us and we have to pick up the pieces. We do have big news, of course, but we're

gonna have a little bit of fun and joining me to help do that to my friends in the studio.

Hey, Oya, welcome. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you as well. Now you've been on our network, our podcast audio network,

some time with your show. Yes, tour show, the tour show, which I want to talk about a little bit

later on. Please. But I believe this is the first time you're on one of our show shows.

I believe that is true. Okay, I think that's true. Okay, well it's great to hear. Obviously,

you know, amazing reputation goes back some time. You think I have an amazing reputation. I

appreciate that, sir. Thank you. Not everyone agrees with you, so thank you for saying that.

Well, it's politics, so it's gonna be a little bit complicated, but I think that you've done a

great job of sort of crossing multiple worlds in a way that I wish was more common. Sure.

I feel like very often now, like I used to, my Twitter used to be talking about stuff I found

interesting, but now, because I'm in political commentary, anything I say that doesn't specifically

have to do with some pressing issue is considered like a waste of time or shallow or something like that.

Claire has always done good. Claire's page told me before I was fully into time at politics,

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