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Next up.

Next up, thank you for joining.

I'm Mark Cowper, editor-in-chief of the live interactive platform two-way, and your guide every week, Tuesdays and Thursdays twice a week, to what is next up.

Next up now, to start here, is one of my favorite jokes.

It goes a little bit like of this.

There are only two people

on the planet who understand how the international economic system works, and unfortunately,

they disagree. It's a great joke, and you can tell it in any situation to illustrate a lack

of understanding about what's going to happen in something going on, in politics or government,

because even the best

experts in the world, often in an unpredictable situation, don't understand. So what's going to happen

between Russia and Ukraine? You say, well, there's only two military experts who know how that conflict's

going to end. And unfortunately, they disagree. I love that joke. And it's a joke I was told by

my father. My father, over the years,

has shared many jokes with me. He'll be a guest later in the program. And I love his jokes,

and I got a great source of him from him. But what I also got from my dad is a first-class

education in how government and politics in Washington worked. My dad has been in Washington for over 50 years,

working in senior levels in the government and several administrations.

And today I'm going to share with you the way you can be both a good journalist,

if you want to be a journalist, but also just be a good consumer of news.

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