It's for all intents and purposes, not Adam and Steve.

It's an escape goat, not Adam and Steve. Hello again. Welcome back to the Bituation Room podcast, live stream. You're here, I'm here. I haven't left. I've just been sort of reanimated every time I've got to do the show.

What's going on everyone? Thank you for being here. I hope you guys are good. I hope you're hitting that

like button if you are on YouTube and I feel like a blogger every

time I say that I hope you're like hitting that like button and what's so so so but I

really hope you do and I hope you subscribe to this show and I see you Holly

Rochford. Thank you for the telling me there's a hundred likes. Justin Vigil, the

Circus Sound Music is a great way to get this week started because Sunday is the first day of the week and I'm sticking to that.

We have such a good show for you all today.

Just two amazing guests who,

I don't know, they're sort of from like two disparate parts of my brain

which are both comedy and politics so Brent

Tearhewn is here the comedian and deep fake magga man who has been fooling

so many of us including myself. He is here. You've definitely seen

his work if you don't know him by name, but by the end of this podcast, by God you're going to know his work.

We also have historian Juan Cole, who I have been following for so many decades, yes, decades,

and he is just such a great left thinker, progressive, like anti-war thinker

when it comes to U.S. foreign policy and I have a huge soft spot I don't know I'm a policy wonk when it comes to American

foreign policy and because everything's been so bad in the US and Trump has just launched wars here at home against us,

we don't really get enough time to talk about what we're doing abroad.

And I'm happy, one of the things I'm looking forward to

is actually like thinking about that and focusing on that.

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