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And 28, 2, 23.

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 the podcast. I'm your host, David Rothkoff, coming to you today from Fissley.

I know it doesn't sound like a big sacrifice, but we've been trapped here for four days because there was a fire at the airport.

The flights that we were supposed to be on got postponed three or four days.

Now they've changed it to a completely different airport that I will have to go to tomorrow, a four-hour drive.

So, you know, I'm happy to be here, but I have stuff to complain about.

But we're joined by two other people who are equally capable of complaining about all sorts of happy things.

And I'm delighted to have them here. Of course, the number one person in that regard on this podcast for low these many years is Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University.

What are you complaining about these days, Rosa?

Well, it's an honor, David, to be a complainer and chief here on Deep State Radio.

I'm just complaining about the fact that as some of you know, I recently moved and this week I have Wi-Fi last week.

I had catastatically bad Wi-Fi, but I have mounds of unpacked junk.

And I have realized that I have too much stuff.

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