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because you want to make the world a somewhat less crappy place so it's the new year and as promised

we are getting we are moving a little bit out of the intensely wonky weeds that some of you've

known to love about the remnant and talking to actual real human beings that the people have

heard of and so today we are actually in the belly of the beast at CNN with Jake Tapper welcome

thank you it's great to be here and good luck and congratulations on everything thank you very

much appreciate it for listeners who don't know Jake is the host of the lead on CNN then the

Sunday show and which is the State of the Union State of the Union and the author of several great books

and he's very very very very old I was looking at his Wikipedia page a few minutes before we started

and it turns out you were born nine days before me because I right yeah so you're which is a

difference between Pisces and Aries I'm guessing that's right I actually kept my mom and labor for like

15 hours so I could be an Aries I was right on the cusp and she's never forgiven me I was also born

on March 21st which was for most of our lives the first day of spring yeah but if not anymore it won't

it because of the tilt of the planet or the Jews or something mess things up it's now

March 20th and won't be the 21st again until the year 2100 do you I remember I don't know if you

had this growing up but some my parents had the the poster of the front page of the New York Times

from my birthday on the day of my birth and there was a picture of Ted Kennedy involving

Chapequitic so I for a long time I associated Chapequitic with my birthday even though actually

it happened before yeah but it's funny you mentioned that for Christmas onica or whatever my wife

got me this New York Times thing which is 50 years of the book of 50 years of front pages of the

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