And we will very soon have a special guest. We'll be announcing in the very near future.

For now, it's me and it's you. Thankfully, there are a lot of you actually on wildly outnumbered.

It's a little bit intimidating when you stop to think about it. We're just going to press on.

But anyway, we've got a lot of news to talk about today, including the rare bit of good

news. And maybe even better than just raw good news as nice and as unique as that always

is, is good news that follows very directly and quickly from bad news that some of us

are probably still processing. So we're going to get to that in a far less vague form,

a little bit later on in the show. But before we get to that, I want to dive into a little bit

of the early campaign strategy being rolled out by the Democratic campaign. It will also be talking

about some of the fears about the campaign strategy on the right, which I think that's going

to be even more fun. Maybe even more fun than the good news. We'll have to see together.

But anyway, in addition to that, we've got the rare reference to the X-Men on our show today.

And I really wish this one hadn't happened. Absolutely, abhorrent takes on the trans community by

Marjorie Green. We're going to try to figure out together what trans Tifa is supposed to be,

new thing to be afraid of. If you weren't already fully terrified by your bud light,

now you've got that to be afraid of. There's some amazing reporting that's come out from

Donda Academy at Kanye West. I'm going to say school because I think I'm obligated to.

But anyway, some of the very Kanye characteristics of that school, I find to be amazing. So we're

to be diving into that in the aftermath. So if you're watching on the linear platforms or listening

on the podcast, thank you for being here. But remember as always, that there is more to the show

for the live version. And you can go to youtube.com slash the damage report to see those clips as well

as our special content for our members on YouTube and all of that. Anyway, in advance of all of that,

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