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So we are back with another episode of the podcast.

Let me just say at the front, I'm getting over a bad cold.

So if I sound a little different, that's why that is.

Just in case you're wondering, I don't know if I do or not.

But we're going to talk, you know, we're going to talk about a lot of things today. But we are going to talk, we're going to start talking about the pardon.

Joe Biden pardoned his son.

He was, as we know, there was a gun charge and a tax evasion charge. He was about to be sentenced

on both of those. And the president didn't just pardon him for those offenses. He basically

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