Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode here at the damage report. I'm John

Iterola and very excited to be joined on what's going to be a day of just good vibes

in news. Nothing bad or corrosive to democracy or our society or views or expectations for

our fellow humans, nothing like that. And contributing to the good vibes.

Yes, but Alia Khan returns. Yes, but how's it going?

Hi, John. Hi everyone. I'm very excited to be here. I am here for all the vibes too.

Yeah, let's talk about some good old fashioned democracy and Americanism.

Right.

I mean, we're going to talk about things that are perhaps even more core to America, racism,

but even more so denying that it exists. Those are two of the legs that our country stands

on. So that's going to be fun. Yeah, obviously throughout the course of this next hour, we're

going to be giving you a little bit of updates on what happened in and around Atlanta,

including some of the new figures that have added the cast and that that have been added

to the cast in that story. We're going to check in on my prediction yesterday, which I'll

go over when we get to it. Will conservatives take the vaccine? We've got some new evidence,

that'll be fun. And then a bunch of other generally awful stuff, but we'll try to make it

both informative and entertaining. So we've got that going for us.

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