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This is one of those beginnings of an episode.

We have like legitimately breaking news that we heard, I don't know, 15, 20 minutes before the episode started. We had already slated in our

outline that we would talk about the Matt Gate story. His, I don't know, improbable and

absurd nomination to be the Attorney General of the United States. And as you certainly know now, listening in the future,

and we know, he just dropped out.

So that's done.

And we are still soon enough after it happened

not to know if, like was there some new thing?

Was there some new thing that has come out that maybe has, you know,

more significance than we might have figured?

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