There is an apocryphal ancient Chinese curse.

May you live in interesting times?

Most everyone, regardless of political persuasion, would agree that we do, especially since the inauguration of the popularly elected non-consecutively serving billionaire TV star president who conquered a major American political party, refashioned

our political order, and was almost murdered twice over the summer after the sitting president

raided his home and tried to imprison him. Well, just when you think that you have reached

peak interesting times, China goes ahead and threatens war with the United States.

I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Nulls show.

The The New York. Welcome back to the show.

Dylan Mulvaney has a book.

Can you, if you, some people actually might not remember who Dylan Mulvaney is.

He's a guy.

He was an actor and then he decided he was going to pretend to be a woman.

And so anyway, guess what the book is about? We'll get, we have the first pages of the book.

There's so much more to say first, though. As we celebrate the victory of our 47th president,

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the White House. I was speaking to a very nice, sophisticated French man, and he was sipping,

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