Fuck the games!

Alright, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck, Nick's?

What the fucksters? What the fuckin' ucks?

Yeah, what the fuckin' ucks? Why not?

I'm in Canada still, so that seems appropriate.

How's it going? I'm Mark Marin, this is my podcast.

Broadcasting from a...

Hotel Room, but it's nice, it's not a bad hotel room.

It's more of a resident style hotel room. I think it's actually an apartment.

You could definitely live here. You could live anywhere, really. I mean, and I'm in Canada.

So there's reflection going on. I do want to say that, you know, I want to thank,

certainly the journalists of the world and also the entertainers of the world for being

the... Relatively, you know, one of the only sadly, truly functional checks on this presidency.

So that being said, I have Stephen Colbert on the show today.

Stephen and I go back a bit. We don't know each other that well. I've done a show several times,

but we sort of started in the same world. And, you know, he has risen to the occasion for

personal reasons, for reasons of... Whatever it is, you know, Stephen is one of the guys

who is publicly pushing back through humor, but also through anger and heart and concern

and fear on a nightly basis against this sort of, you know, wave of authoritarian thinking

and single party minority rule supporters, anti-Americans, who consider themselves to be making

America great against, even as sort of a... He's kind of a hero in the fight in a way because

he's able to present information and anger in a humorous way, you know, providing some

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