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This is Deep State Radio.

This is Deep State Radio.

Coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of

Snark in Washington, D.C. and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Deep State Radio.

I am your host David Rothkoffoff and I am joined on this episode by in London

England, Corey Shaki of double I double S in Washington, D.C. Mika O'Hie of Third Way. Michigan,

Mika O'Hieing of Third Way, and Rosa Brooks, who's wearing a sloth sweatshirt and drinking out of...

Rosa, before we get into this,

prior to the last episode,

you said your kids gave you a sloth sweatshirt

and a sloth mug.

And a sloth pillow? And what, a sloth pillow yes and this is because what and why did they do this

well apparently they think I'm slothful they think you're and they think a sloth is your spirit. It is my spirit animal I'm quite sure if that.

We were we were on a family trip to Costa Rica a year or so ago and we not only saw a grown-up sloths, we saw baby sloths.

And they, well first of all, they're adorable as everyone who's ever seen a picture of a baby sloth knows, but second of all, they spend all their time kind of lulling around, which is what I aspire to, although I am not always able to achieve that.

So I'm now surrounded by imagery of my deepest aspirations, my sloth cup, my sloth shirt, my sloth pillow.

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