Welcome to the Reason Roundtable, your weekly podcast from the magazine of free minds and free markets and free webathons.

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Howdy. Hi, Matt. Happy Monday.

We are going to talk about the remarkable series of events unfolding over in Syria here in a moment.

But first, a word from one of our generous sponsors. I'm going to tell you about Lumen today's sponsor.

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