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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 DSR's Words Matter.

I'm David Rothkoff, joined this week as every week by the thoughtful and generally

good-tempered, Norm Ornstein. Are you in good spirits today, Norm? I'm about the same as I've been,

David, so good spirits doesn't really describe it. It's a nice day. I had my dog groomed.

He looks wonderful. Your dog. My poor dog. I was your dog. My poor dog, you know, he fell down

the stairs the other day, some people who listen here. And he, he injured, you know, human beings with the ACL, that he has a, he injured his CCL.

That's the equivalent in his back leg.

And then because he was walking around on one leg, he injured the other one.

And so he couldn't walk anymore.

And so he brought him to the doctor, and they said, oh, well, that's easy to fix.

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