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It's the Media Buzzmeter with Howard Kurtz.

Whenever I'm on TV, invariably afterwards, I think to myself,

oh, I should have mentioned this, or I wish I had time to get this in.

It's just a fact of life in dealing with the medium,

but also it applies to a podcast as well.

So when I talked about the demolition of the East Wing of the White House,

which we'll get to in a moment,

what I should have also mentioned is the bunker underneath has to be taken into consideration.

This is where the president and, you know, top aides and family

would hide out in the face of a horrible attack.

Also, Barry Weiss, with the sort of piece mocking her

for having security around her,

it hasn't been that long since the killing here in Washington of the Jewish couple

who worked at the Israeli embassy. Mary Weiss is Jewish, and I'm sure for anybody who's Jewish,

they would want to take note of such things. So two things I meant to mention. And I hope you

have a good weekend coming up. And I'm going to start with story number one. I'm a huge basketball fan.

When I grew up in the asphalt jungle, we played basketball every day. and it was a very good incentive to win. Otherwise,

you had to sit out and wait until your turn came around again. So everybody took it seriously.

I was on a team, not the high school team, but a private league, and we would have home games and away games.

And it's just, you know, it's in my blood.

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