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Welcome, guys. This is a co-broadcast,

excuse me, of the Homefront and the Fucking News.

I am joined this morning by Jonathan Larson.

Jonathan, welcome.

Thanks so much, Reid.

I'm really excited to have this conversation,

and I'm really sort of thrilled, to be honest,

and flattered that you saw the importance of this story.

For folks who don't know me,

I spent a long time in TV news, CNN, ABC, MSNBC for quite a while,

and then I was at the Young Turks.

Now I do original reporting at Jonathan Lawson.

dot substack.com.

And as you mentioned, I have the fucking news at the fucking news.substack.com where I do a week,

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