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After last week's dark and gloomy edition. We really hit our comedic stride this week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm joined by Emily Peck of Huffpost.

Hello. I am joined by Gabe Roth of Slate.

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And this is the episode I've really been waiting for because this is the episode where we get joined

by Sarah Allison of the Washington Post who knows everything about everything

but specifically about media and in fact you wrote an entire book about Rupe Murdoch buying the Washington Post, I mean the

the Walter Journal. You basically wrote an entire book about about Logan Roy

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