Welcome to the Charles C.W. Cook podcast, on which every week I speak so slowly that you start to look into whether there are any podcast apps that play audio at four or five times the speed at which it was recorded.

I know if you could somehow combine me and Ben Shapiro,

you'd get someone who speaks at a normal pace,

but alas, never the twain shall meet.

It is what it is.

Perhaps I want to get some of that cocaine that's apparently just lying around all over the White House.

Within a few minutes, no doubt, I would sound like Alvin and the chipmunks, but it's not to be.

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forward slash free the economy and now a cue and a a question i'm visiting london for the first time

to attend one of the mB games at London Stadium.

We've really enjoyed our stay. The only things that are off-putting is the lack of AC.

I do think it's been unusually hot here, so it might not be as needed mostly.

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