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grants and analysts, I was going to say par excellence, I'm going to say non-parais.

And non-paray being a French term will introduce one of the topics of today's podcast, which is the goings on in France.

Now, I can't pretend to be an authority on that great country sitting here in Lower Manhattan,

but I do have some data, which I would like to share with you. This strikes me as this

absolutely crazy.

So as you know, ladies and gentlemen, there is upcoming imminently in France an election that may just wind up pitting, possibly, if all goes well, or, as the case may be, according to

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