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Too many topic that makes the news. makes it big or makes us mad.

It's skeptical.

It's political.

And there is no welcome, Matt.

Today is Thursday, November the 18th.

And a lot has happened.

Holy cow, my friend, in the seven days. What a week.

What a week. Since we've recorded. Yeah. You know, we are obviously going to spend some time today

talking about the Charlie Kirk killing. Some people, by the way, were pushing back. I just saw

one or two pushing back on the use of the word assassination. I think

that's a bad pushback. I just want to pause there. It's a bad pushback. I think the assassination

is the right term for the way that this, for the impact that this has on our political landscape.

Yeah, I mean, we don't get to decide who's political just because we don't like them.

Right, exactly.

The government literally lowered the flags across the country to half-mast.

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