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Go to Economist.com and get your first month free. And the Hey, what do you know? It's Big News Wednesday. Welcome back one and all welcome back Sharon how is it going. Oh it's going I've been looking forward to this I miss you in between our Wednesdays I love this show.

We have fun that is what is sustaining me right now is the knowledge that we're going to have fun

we're going to discuss interesting topics we're going to we're're gonna mix it up and all that.

There's a lot going on and I feel like there's like a storm in multiple, there's a

metaphoric storm of stuff happening. I feel like there's a storm in my brain

As the right I couldn't I couldn't even tell you what we produced for the show even though we've been doing it for the last two hours

I'm gonna find out and I'm going to do I'm not an

improv person but I'm going to improv this show because I don't remember anything that's on

there but anyway I'm kidding. But yeah no very excited to have you back and with that in mind we're going to discuss a lot of interesting news some of which I do actually are members on the show

So we're going to be doing that. Hey, we get to talk about Curson, and Joe Mansion. We haven't done that in a while.

Ooh.

Mike Johnson being terrible in a topic not having to do with funding the government.

So we're to be mixing that up too, and lots more besides. to do

with funding the government so we're to be mixing that up too and lots more besides so if you're

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