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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 the podcast. I'm your host David

Rorothkov coming to you from Washington, D.C. Glad to be back last week. We were taking care of

some technical issues here, and we are back with a pretty full schedule this week. We won't be doing

the morning daily brief shows, but all the other shows will be on. Of course, we're going to kick

things off with the spy show, and that means my co-host for that Mark Polymeropolis is here with

me somewhere in the D.C. metropolitan area. Isn't that true, Mark? Somewhere. That's right. I'm in

northern Virginia, fresh off watching as you, if you saw my Twitter feed, a incredible run by

our high school baseball team that won a state championship with a potential first round pitcher

who closed out the final game, throwing a 97-mile-an-hour fastball, six-foot, 720-pound,

he's going to go first round in the draft. His name is Bryce Eldridge. So anyhow, so I've been

immersed in high school baseball. It's good to be back in the real world. I have a lot of

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