1. Welcome one and all to another week here at the Damage. What I am John Idarola,

she remains the one the only as far as I know Francesca Ferentini Queen of the Bituation Room.

How is it going?

The Mondays.

It's good, it's good.

Yeah, good to be on with you, John.

I'm glad to have you here.

Sorry, I have Queens on the Mind with the House of the Dragon ending this weekend and all that,

but anyway, very glad to have you here as our comedy queen.

Thank you for being here. Oh boy, well that's a tall order.

And I didn't finish the episode because I had to do some other stuff,

so I'm halfway through it, and no spoilers.

I'm not gonna say anything. I am on sort of a

crusade against spoilers recently. I was able to get through the boys and the last

two episodes of House of the Dragon have without getting spoiled. Unfortunately, every

single thing in the Olympics

has been spoiled for me up to including the stuff

I'm gonna watch later today.

It is so frustrating because I just, like,

there was one medal in women's gymnastics that was not spoiled for me.

Everything else has been and I hate the internet.

I hate Twitter, I had Instagram, I hate threads, I hate me for going on the internet and getting

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