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Welcome to the Cynical Podcast, weekly discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SUPChina.

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I'm Kaiser Guo, and I'm joined from Nashville, Tennessee by the illustrious Mr. Jeremy Goldcorn.

How are you, Jeremy?

Very well, Kaiser.

Fall has come to Nashville, sadly for me, but most Nashvilleians are rejoicing at the

lovely temperate climate. Ah, good, good, good. And we're also joined from The Bookworm in Beijing

by the ever delightful Ada Shen. How are you, Ada? Doing very well, thanks, gentlemen. It's

great to be here today. I want to just give a shout out to Peter Goff and the great folks at the

Bookworm Beijing for allowing us to set up our operations here. Kaiser, you and Jeremy are going to be back

in Beijing in February, right? Yeah, if all goes as planned, we're going to be doing a live taping there

at the Bookworm, where you are right now, inshallah. Details anon for all of you

Beijing-based listeners. Maybe, you know, we can even do more than one. Anyway, we are delighted to

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