Hello everybody.

How's it going?

Hold on.

Let me get rid of that.

There we go.

I am joined by the always amazing Eleanor Goldfield.

Never going to change that intro, right?

It's just what we got.

You haven't given me some sort of catchphrase I can throw out there. Hope everyone's doing well. You could just say my name. Joined by Eleanor Goldfield. You don't want me to say here, man. I don't think I need a quantifier. Is it though? Hello everybody. You're the one who said I didn't need to show up today. Hello, everybody, welcome.

Because he's tired. I was trying to be nice. Jesus Christ on a cracker.

Forgive me for being caring.

This live streaming gig ain't all it's cracked up to be.

I hope you're doing well out there. We've got a lot of stories to cover. We're going to get to something a little, you call it a little deeper than just kind of like the day-by-day news, which is why are we all fucking working? We're going to get to that in a little bit. But let's talk about some of the days news first. I can't tell if this is a silly story or not. Maybe it is.

Maybe it's a sign of fascism, but we'll start with this one. Can we just, it's both?

Can't fascism be silly? Can it? That's my point. So this story, it, it, okay, I'm just going to

read that. Read that line. The Coast Guard disputes claim, wait, that's not, oh, that's not the headline that I was. Okay. That's the one you sent. Right. But the real headline is the U.S. Coast Guard will reportedly no longer consider swastika's nooses or the Confederate flag to be hate symbols. They changed this headline, by the way. It says it... Now they say the Coast Guard is disputing this.

Right.

But I find this funny because, of course, people in Kaffaias are considered anti-Semites,

but now you can wander around with a swastika.

And here's a thing.

What they're going off here is some sort of guidance

within the Coast Guard handbook. I don't know what they have. Pamphlet, this stuff has disappeared,

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