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Dan Harman!

Hello!

Thank you!

I was watching a GI Joe cartoon over the weekend, Jeff, for the classic from the 80s.

And there's an episode of GI Joe in which the joes are transported to a terrible new dimension.

In a cosmic mix up, they are transported to a world where Cobra has is in charge.

They have taken over the government of the world. It's Cobra world.

And for instance when you buy something...

They figure this out very slowly because the differences are very subtle, which I found profound.

For instance, they go and buy a pack of gum and there's like a Cobra scanner that comes down and scans your retina to make sure you can buy the gum right.

And that you're loyal to Cobra.

And there's a lot of posters on the wall that are a picture of Cobra commander that says like loyalty to Cobra or else exclamation point.

Which is sort of like totally on the very Woody Allen approach to despotism.

Because it was hard on the sleeve kind of.

But the most interesting thing I thought about Cobra world is they're flying around.

They're going, my god, will you look at the White House? It has a little Cobra on top of it.

Oh no, look at the Washington Monument. It's got a little Cobra on top of it.

And then they co-passed Mount Rushmore. And my god Jeff, Mount Rushmore had some of its faces replaced.

Not some. Not Teddy Roosevelt. Not Teddy.

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