Fuck the game!

Alright, let's do this.

How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucksters, what's happening?

I'm Mark Marin, this is my podcast WTF.

Welcome to it.

How are you?

I don't want to be negative, I don't want to be seemingly cynical, I don't want to be

accused of being hopeless or de fetist, but on some levels, governmentally, starting

to feel like the jig is up, the screws have been put to this country by many of the worst

of us, and the rest of us are going to have to live with it somehow and push back where

we can.

I don't know really how America adjusts to living under a sort of kind of American style,

authoritarian system, but I guess we're going to learn because that's where we're at.

As I've always said, I hope the voting works.

I'm not hopeless, but in order not to get kind of leveled and fall into ourselves or give

up or just go blank, go dark, go dead.

We have to figure out what our coping mechanisms are and how those can help other people.

I talked to my buddy, Dan Pashman, who was just in town here for a minute, and we were

talking about his show, The Sportful, and I said, well, why do you do the show?

And he said, I guess it's my coping mechanism.

When I think about doing this show, I think on some level, it's also a coping mechanism

to have a voice to think things throughout loud, to talk to other people, to share those

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