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I was planning to open this week's show talking about a Broadway musical, but probably not the one you think.

I was going to talk about assassins, the 1990s Stephen Sondheim musical about the men and women who have assassinated,

or attempted to assassinate American presidents.

Nothing should be read into this. I have listened to and enjoyed assassins under Democratic and

Republican administrations alike because it's a great show. And like I said last week,

it's important that we make time even now for art and music and pleasure and joy. And for me, listening to

musicals as opposed to say watching the news right now is a necessary act of self-care.

Okay, so yeah, assassins. It's all about these crazy and mostly white people who feel dispossessed

and marginalized, the losers, the suckers, the ones who

might have been. And some of the crazy, mostly white people in the show are deranged racists.

And they strike back at society by killing the president. And it kind of felt bankshot relevant to

this political moment because mostly white suckers and deranged racists have struck

back by electing a president. And so I wanted to open today's show by playing a little bit of

another national anthem, one of Assassin's best songs.

There's another national anthem playing not the one you cheer at the ballpark.

Where's my prize?

It's the other national anthem saying if you want it here, it says it says never it says sorry now that clear it says

listen by the end of that song the other national anthem is playing in the ballpark and it almost

works as metaphor like I said for this political moment but you not quite. Because what Donald Trump is singing,

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