All right. Hello, get everyone. Welcome to it. It is the 24th of April 2026. That means it's Friday.

It doesn't necessarily mean it's Friday. Like if you look that up in a dictionary, but it's close enough.

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tonight for your listening pleasure i uh i will try and make it more upbeat or angry or funny or

whatever this week.

I really, I mean, there's a lot to talk about, but I don't know how much I'm going to get to

because I want to get to as much of this one particular thing as humanly possible.

And what is that? It is this US AID story in the New York Times. It is meant to elicit sympathy. It is meant to

demonize the Trump administration. It just doesn't work. I mean, if you're a liberal, you're already outraged,

but I just, I want to almost read every moment. This is like a meal that's so good you want to lick

the plate. It's just how it is. A New York Times interviewed like 30 people who used to work for USAID

or were contractors with USAID.

The lowest person, I think the least expensive person they found was making like $175,000 a year.

Everybody was making bank off of this.

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