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Cancel any time, tease and sees apply. Hello and welcome to rational security. The State of the Union is Pretty Chill Edition.

I'm Shane Harris of the Daily Beast.

Feeling very chilly.

It's very cold in Washington.

Winter has finally arrived.

And with it, the annual State of the Union address and you know it's pretty chill it was

pretty chill foreign policy is fine you know and even when there are problems they're

just not a big deal to worry about it did you did you watch the State of the Union last night?

Ben I followed your lead and I read it instead. Yeah it's so much faster.

It's so much better. It's so much better. You guys are just not good citizens. I watched the thing. I watched the Republican response

I was watching episode six of making a murderer which is making me crazy. I don't even want to know that. I was going to watch it on

Twitter and just see it but I figured that was actually probably not a great way to

actually do the same thing. So no I read it and it was I take your lead on this.

It was I think it was a better experience.

You missed the snark though?

No no because I read the write-ups of it too and they pointed out where all the snark was.

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