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No, welcome, Matt.

Today is Thursday, October the, let's call it about 15th, 16th, somewhere around there.

I didn't look at my calendar.

Yeah, I would say, yeah, probably, what is that, seven days from now? So 16th. Yeah. So here we go. We're halfway through it. We're halfway to Halloween, Cecil. We're 10 and a half months into the administration. And if you're hearing this, we've not all been annihilated yet. So that's the good news. I am wondering, because we're recording a show today about a story from the Atlantic,

along with a few other ancillary similar stories, right? And the story is Portland's war zone

is like Burning Man for the Terminally Online. That's the story that was written in the Atlantic.

We'll have some things to talk about with that particular story. But I wonder how much and how different things will be in seven days.

I don't know how different things will be. You know, we have seen this story itself is almost out of

date now. And it's, you know, where this story was published relatively recently.

Yeah, the story came out seven days ago, October 2nd.

And we're recording.

And the thing is that, like, the situation on the ground, I think what's interesting

about this story, and part of the reason I wanted to talk about this is that right now in Portland and, you know,

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