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Hello! Welcome back to the weekly show podcast which I'm Hello.

Welcome back to the weekly show podcast for John Stewart.

My name is John Stewart, and we have been gone.

God knows how long we've, we've been gone.

I can tell you how long we've been gone.

I'm back at my podcasting desk, and there are, it would appear to be, three dead insects.

You would think that I would have come up here

and clear those out. But I took a nice break. But boy, did the world not. There is so much

going on that is that is disparaging and needing of framing. I'm delighted to have ferreid zikaria is going

to be joining us on the show you know so much of this is about what what exactly is the theory

of power for this trump administration is there anything that we can figure out that kind of

gives us a coherent directional worldview as to where these guys are going, or is it just literally big,

fuck, small?

I think it's more complicated than that.

How does Iran and Venezuela fit into all that?

You know, all these different things we will try and run through and get some through line

that could maybe help us feel slightly less vertigo from what we feel from the

bouncing around between we are going to invade Greenland and also is that delicious oil? I think

I'm going to have to to take over your country and drill it. So I'm going to have to have to talk to

this fella used to come on the old daily show constantly

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