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This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein.

We've got the boats and screwed the rest of you.

And Dr. Covita Patel.

These might be some of the smaller moments, you know, with all the bombshells.

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 another election cycle and discuss what our leaders are saying and doing or not saying or doing about them.

Today we want to do kind of a week recap, so to speak.

Actually, maybe more than a week, but Norm, it sounds like you've been traveling doing some interesting things. How's your week been?

So we're just back from Chautauqua, which is the storybook place in upstate New York on this gorgeous lake.

It goes back to just the post-civil war period.

And they have nine weeks with themes with speakers.

The theme this past week was, will the center hold?

And so I spoke in front of pretty much 4,000 people in this wooden amphitheater that is in an incredible space.

And you know, at first I said I could make this very quick. Will the center hold? No.

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