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I'm Beatrice Suther Bolton and I'm here today with my co-hosts, Artie Verkan.

Hello.

And Phil Rocco.

Hi.

And we are back after a week off and thank you also to everyone for the kind messages and well wishes while I was resting

last week.

This new medication is pretty fucking wild.

Today in particular has been really hard and painful, but I'm being upfront about how I'm

feeling today in case I sound kind of off, but you might be like, why the fuck are you on this recording if you feel like shit and you need to rest? And that's because,

honestly, you know, what we're about to talk about today, which is the state of the union address,

which might seem like, you know, torture to put yourself through when you don't feel well.

Truth be told, I'm actually really excited because doing this show and having

these conversations is truly the only reprieve from this shit that I have. And weeks like last

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