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Crow today, and now back to the show. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to The Lines Led by Donkey's

Podcast. I am Joe, and with me still is fellow brother of the hon Christ of the Heavenly King,

Nate. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. You know, I'm excited to learn more

about this series, and I'm excited to learn more about how weird it can get, because I set

this online. I don't really use social media that much anymore, but I did say this online,

that I'm learning a lot about Chinese history, and particularly the, I was not expecting the

Irish execution squad. My head is still kind of reeling from that one, and I made a comment,

and I just feel like we need to say this in advance, because on one hand, it's like you don't want

to be, we try to avoid, and this show is much better than many others about trying to, you know,

avoid being the podcast where you recap Twitter. We don't do that. This is a history podcast.

You do a great job. You do a ton of research. But I have to thank comedian Jacob Patton,

friend of one of my other shows, for sending me a screenshot of a tweet, which I'm not a 100%

of fan of the, the Pepe grouper fucking avatar. Yeah, I did see that. I was like, oh boy,

yeah, this is not good. However, this is an extremely funny tweet, relevant to the series,

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