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9.12. 9, 12, 12, 10, 28, 2, 23. 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 a special emergency edition of DSR,

where we go to some of our best wisest and closest friends to help us figure out what to make of that debate last night.

And we're going to do this sort of in pieces, but the first piece, I'm especially happy to be able to say is with our friends from the Words Matter podcast

And long ago a podcast that I was on but she and Norm ditched me to do their own

podcast. Dr. Kavita Patel, how are you today?

I'm so excited and I want to make sure everyone gets a plug here and now since I'm now a

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