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All right, welcome the young Turks, Jake Hugar and a despairing with you guys.

So lots of news as usual. And Donald Trump's at war with Harvard and Russia. And

and then the Democratic Party is at war with itself and words. So that's going to be interesting

later in the program. Which words make sense to use and which words are verboten.

Okay, so lots to get to super interesting stuff in the news.

Casper, how you doing?

I'm doing okay. I feel like you might be doing better than me.

It appears you were hanging out with some European soccer stars over the break. Is that true?

Well, if I look in the mirror, I suppose that would be true.

No, I was like, where do you get that I'm doing better?

I am not.

Okay, I went to, okay, just real quick here before we get into the news.

I went on a benign Canadian podcast and got into a shouting match about

Israel this morning. So I'm like, I just can't get away from this thing.

With Canadians? I know. And it's called Canada land. You guys should check it out. I had a

perfectly good interview with them before

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