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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, welcome to DSR's Words Matter.

For those of you who are looking for Words Matter, this is the place. For those of you

looking for DSR's Thursday pod on politics, this is the place. A few times in the past, we've

merged the two, and there was a good response. So we're going to just keep doing it. That's a pleasure

for me because it means that each and

every week I can have a nice therapy session with my friend, the brilliant Norm Ernstein.

How are you doing today, Norm?

Well, I've had better days and weeks, David, but we should tell our listeners that the reason

we're doing this is that the Department of Government Efficiency Doge said it would be far more efficient to merge the two podcasts.

Yes, and we would do whatever they said.

I know you're a big fan of theirs.

You know, I have to tell you, David, I was, I started out relatively chipper in the

morning, and then I saw, I just turned on CNN just to see if there were any new developments.

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