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This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein. We've got the boats and screw the rest of you.

And Dr. Kavita Patel. These might be some of the smaller moments,

you know, with all of our own shells. Didn't catch people's eyes.

Hello and welcome to Words Matter from the DSRnetwork.

Each week, Norm Ornstein and I will talk about the issues facing our country as we head into

get again another election cycle. In Norm, we've had a brief, we haven't done a pod in a while,

our incredible executive producer, Chris Katnour has been taken away on other things,

and I'll leave it at that. But you and I haven't had a chance to talk. So we've had several weeks

of accumulating news. And so as each day would go along, I would think of, all right, we'll talk

about this on the pod. We'll talk about this on the pod. And lo and behold, a gift landed in our laps

in the form of some Supreme Court rulings, as well as more, I'll say, shenanigans on behalf of

the Supreme Court. And maybe we can start there, but Norm, how have you been and have you also been

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