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We are back now, I believe this is our third episode, back to our normal schedule.

And we got kind of a crazy mix of stuff. We're going to talk about, what do you want to call it? With the rumors about President Trump's relative lack of

appearances before the public, a lot of these things, you know, it's a little hard to know whether

they are rumors and possibilities

as opposed to sort of like viral memes and games, right?

The Times ran a, you know, had a stories that said something like, you know, the internet

thought President Trump was dead.

Turns out he's not dead.

Again, this is something about the unreality of the Trump world that very weird things can happen and do happen. And there's also this sense that,

again, a lot of the Trump thing is play acting. And people around him start doing play acting.

And his opponents start doing play acting.

And his opponents start doing play acting, right?

And I don't know how closely listeners you were following this.

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