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All right. Well, happy early, stop laughing.

I'm sorry. I have some issues this week. So happy early holiday Mobsters and welcome to the matter of opinion. Bonus feed.

Bonus. Carlos came up with the suggestion to talk about our favorite fictional presidents, why they appeal to us.

Blame me. What do you mean why you? You get credit for when you come up with a good idea.

I said, blame me.

He actually wanted us to pick our favorite magical realist Latin American novelists, but that was vetoed.

You're pigeonholing me.

I'm not into the magical realism.

I'm more of like a gritty, varagaciosia realism.

But they get wrapped up into the boom generation.

This is my recurring.

Anyway, sorry.

My recurring way of pushing Carlos' buttons is to imply that he likes Gabrielle Garcia-Marcos.

I mean, he's okay.

He's just like, he's not my favorite.

That's all.

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