Hello everyone and welcome back to what's left of America. I'm John Eider, roll and I'll be walking

you through an hour for what passes for news in this country and joining me as always on this

most fantastic of days. Francesca Fierantini, how's it going?

Our Lord and patron saint of the Monday.

I miss commuting. I mean, actually, I don't, I hate, I really, I gave a full-time job a while

ago, but does anyone else miss a Monday morning commute just to leave their house and feel

human, you know? I mean, there's a reason I'm in this big abandoned building. It's because I pushed

to be the first back because I want to go places, I want to do something new. I don't want

to much of a commute, but the three miles I have to bike or drive to my place. I'll do that.

That's fine. Yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it. But supposedly there's some good news on the pandemic,

not like in the here and now. That's all nightmarst. That's demon souls in real life. But soon, good

news and we'll have that for you in just a little bit. Lots of news to get to. Obviously, for those of

you who are already watching, please hit the like button because notifications just don't notify

anyone. I don't even know why they're called that. They don't work, but you liking it might.

You can share the stream or whatever, whatever that looks like. Try it out. And if you chat along with

us and it's tweets and super chats and all that, we'll be responding as we go. Before we jump in our

first story though, how was the graduation room yesterday? Your show that you do every weekend?

John is such a gentleman. Ladies first, let's talk about me and my show on a different show. Yeah,

it was great. Great podcast. NATO Green was back. We had Barbara Smith who is a kind of legendary

black feminist kind of coined the term identity politics. She was on the phone. It was hard.

Listen as a podcast is going to be better, but it was it was fun. We had a great turnout. So

interesting. I hope that someday I will be a person who coins a term that you then have to

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