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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 and welcome to this episode of Words Matter.

And as you may have picked up just by listening to my voice,

I'm not coming to Patel. I'm not Norm Ornstein. I'm David Roscoe.

And I used to talk to them every single week and then they ditched me for their own pod.

And every so often I have to reach out and say, please can I come back through

things to discuss. And this week they have been nice enough to extend an invitation.

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