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way things should be. I know. I was just going to just going to introduce it's

Francesca she's here. Hi do a whole thing. Hi. Sorry I messed it up. It's good. It's good back on a Monday. Yes, the way things ought to be. Yes, everything is in its right place as Radiohead would say. And I like the balance between my hair and your lighting. I think it's all working out in terms of the

terms of the palette but anyway thank you for being here like one morning I one Monday I need to be in the office that would be hilarious you need to be in my studio because it just fits better now

Yeah that would that would be a great joke. Unfortunately, you live seven hours away, so that's not going to happen.

But I do have a plan to potentially get Francesca into the studio more. We'll talk about it. I think we've talked about it already but I'm going to put it forward but anyway.

Okay so we've allowed to talk about deranged stuff at Trump rallies, absolutely absurd stuff.

We are going to be talking about some of the international good news reported over the weekend, which is good news and also the seed for horror. So we're going to be talking about that in a bit and John

Federman explains why he's no longer progressive and what that means and why it

happened and we're going gonna give you our thoughts about it and a whole lot more we got tons of good stuff talking about not only in the first hour but also in the aftermath

let's see we've got Julie Louis Dreyfus as well as Michael Richards two of the

Titans of Seinfeld weighing in on comedy and political correctness so we have

those comedic Titans and then we also have Rob Schneider.

So we're gonna get all the whole spectrum.

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