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This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein.

We've got the boats and screw the rest of you.

And Dr. Kavita Patel.

These might be some of the smaller moments,

you know, with all the bombshells, didn't catch people's eyes. Hello and

I try to take us through what seems like a never-ending cycle of words matter.

Each week, Norm Ornstein and I try to take us through what seems like a

never-ending cycle of conversations that should be leading up to some

decisions during this election year, hopefully Norm that put our country onward in a forward progressive way for a democracy that we can all hope to live in.

But Norm, I'm telling you, it's looking like cloudy days.

I have to tell you, I've been, as some of our our listeners now I've been recovering from a

never horrible never ending illness and I keep waiting for that like flash

across my phone and like today is the day it's the

Democracy One and I'm still waiting for that alert norm but but in the meantime

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