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I'm Hannah McCarthy. I'm Nick Cappadice. Nick, you know what I've been singing to myself a lot lately?

Well, it could be any number of things, Hannah. Is it Stephen Sondheim? It's not always Sondheim,

Nick. It usually is. What I have been singing a lot lately is, I have confidence from

the sound of music. And I'm not sure if I'm allowed to sing it here for copyright reasons. However,

the line that keeps coming to me is, uh, all I trust, I leave my heart to, all I trust becomes my

own. I have confidence and confidence alone.

I wish you could sing it. I really do. That Julie Andrews is a treasure. She is. But you know what I think

it is for me, Nick? We know that a lot of people say they have lost trust.

They have lost confidence.

In the whole lot of it, the whole system, all the people, be they sitting on Capitol Hill or down the street from us.

And to that, I say Fooey.

Where did you get that one from?

Experience?

Yeah, well, sure.

But Nick, what if that experience isn't what we think it is?

What if that mistrust is misplaced?

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