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Hope for the best. It's like the best.

Expect the worst.

Some drink champagne.

Some die of thirst.

The way of knowing which way it's going.

Hope for the best.

Expect the worst.

Welcome to the Comment magazine daily podcast.

This is one of our special summer episodes where we are not talking about the news.

We're going to talk about some other stuff.

And I'm going to talk about a little bit of other stuff before we start.

Namely, the commentary roast October 19th here in New York City. The roastee is Clifford

Asnes, one of the most brilliant minds in American finance and banking and hedge funding

and the like. And it is going to be a fantastic what we are putting together. I'm not going to tell you much, but what we're putting together is going to be a fantastic. What we are putting together, not going to tell you much,

but what we're putting together is going to be a fantastic, hilarious, zippy, lively, fun evening.

We do this once a year.

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