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This is Ed Vasey.

We're going to be unpacking the politics of the day

and the stuff that's even more important than politics.

And joining me are two people

with so much brains, it's spilling out of their ears and making a mess of the studio.

Robin Brandt, welcome to the show. Hi Ed, how you doing? Very well, Robin. How are you?

Enigised. It's a birthday week. I'm not giving you a date because I want to keep my identity,

but it's exciting times, even when you're as old as I am. So, yeah.

You mean you're not telling me how old you are? You can tell us the day of your birthday.

No, the opposite. I'll tell you how old I am. I'm not going to give him my specific date. one's Googling and you know getting credit cards arrived at my house that I didn't order. See, he's one step ahead.

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