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I am Matt Welch joined by Peter Suderman Nick Gillespie and returning special guest star

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All right, you might think what with the escalating wars and the, I don't know,

political assassination attempts and the I don't know political assassination attempts and the looming budget standoff on Capitol Hill

that there might be too much actual news to make room for a bunch of tawdry porn gossip and lured sex crime investigations in the national conversation.

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