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This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein.

We've got the boats and screw the rest of you.

And Dr. Kavita Patel.

These might be some of the smaller moments, you know, with all the bombshells.

Didn't catch people's eyes. Welcome to Words Manor from the DSR Network.

Each week Norm Bernstein and I will talk about the issues facing our country as we head into what norm looks like to be not just the most volatile election cycle.

I was just driving from Camp Drop-off to come do this pod with you and listening to like the BBC radio which headlined with Trump and Biden in a dead heat in the American election, which I thought was a very appropriate starting point for our discussion where I know we have a wide range of things to talk about and in our members only pod we're going to talk about Tony

Fauchy and his latest book. But I know that we wanted to kick off this week's pod with something very

special, someone near and dear to your heart but also on the broader theme of something we promised and have been talking about which is

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