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Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Dasha Burns.

It is Tuesday, June 3rd.

Taco Tuesday, you might say.

I think that's a naughty word these days.

Oh, man, we're in trouble already.

We haven't even started.

This is the

Playbook podcast. Good morning. Good morning. How are you doing, Dasha? Oh, I'm hanging in. I'm in

California. If you're watching this, I have a slightly different backdrop. I'm in California for my

sister's graduation. She's graduating from high school and going to UCLA for college. We're all

very proud. She graduates tomorrow. That is so

lovely. Man, I wish I was doing that. I am moving house. And all of my worldly goods have just arrived

from the UK. We've been living in an Airbnb for the last three or four months. Oh, are we going to

get a new backdrop for you, too? We are going to get a new backdrop later this week,

excitingly, this slightly weird

Airbnb artwork. Yes, some of our viewers have been complaining. Don't worry. Change is coming soon.

Change is coming. You ask, we listen, absolutely. But at the moment, I have 167 boxes off a boat

in the house around the corner. That's how much stuff we had. Anyway, none of you care about that. What you care about is the stories driving the day this morning. Three big stories driving the day that we'll pick out for you. There's a theme here, Dasha, and the theme is we're watching and waiting for Donald Trump to do something. Edge of our seats. Literally, yeah, if you're as kiki as we are. The first one, Donald Trump is going to talk with Xi Jinping, the present China this week. We're pretty sure that could come as soon as today. When that happens, it's going to be a really big moment.

Remember he said he talked to him and then he hadn't actually talked to him? Well, now we think he's actually going to talk to him. And it's what everything is kind of hinging on at this point. It's really interesting because the tariffs on China have obviously gone backwards and forwards and backwards and forwards. China kind of feel like they're winning this tariff war, honestly. Like, that's the vibe we're getting out of there. They think it's Trump that's backing out and the whole tacco thing we've talked about before. So this is kind of a bit of important conversation for Donald Trump's reputation. It needs to go well. It is. And there were those early threats of they are the ones that need to pick up the phone. Well, tables have turned a little bit. I entirely agree. So let's wait and see if that happens. The other thing we're waiting for this week, and big headline again when it comes is a deal with Iran on Iran's nuclear program. This has been much

discussed by administration officials and indeed by us on this podcast. Important story broke yesterday

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