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Today is Thursday, November the 14th. And Cecil, there's a lot of appointing going on these days, my friend.

A lot. It's an appointment heavy. I don't know. Do you listen to the daily?

I do, yeah. The daily that I was listening to this morning, as they were recording the daily,

like, oh, there's another one. Yeah. It was really kind of funny. It was just like in real time.

Like, ah, in real time. And the's another one. Yeah. It was really kind of funny. It was like in real time. Like, ah, in real time.

And the appointments are crazy.

The appointments are so nuts, dude.

They're so crazy.

We're going to get into them.

I want to mention before we get started,

I've seen a lot of people sort of drop off from news programs lately.

There's a lot of messages from people who are like, I can't do it

anymore. I'm just not interested in the news anymore. So bleak, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

And we hear a cognitive dissonance genuinely fucking agree. Over the last four years when Trump was

in the news, we would cover him because he was at this point someone who was

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