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I'm Greta Johnson.

Poof, pow, surprise You made it to another Friday.

Coming up, we are going to get the answers to some questions about COVID. Plus, why Aquarius season this month might be extra weird. But first, it is our panel about the week that was.

Our guests this week are both from the Cut podcast. B.A. Parker is the show's

lead producer Parker. Hey. Hi. Thanks for having me. Thank you. And Avery Truffleman is the host.

Avery, hello. Hi. Okay. So I want to start with impeachment with y'all. This is the first time in

American history that a president has been

impeached twice proceedings for the second impeachment started earlier this week are you all following the

play by place avery uh like yes and no well okay because the the main way i get my news is actually

through the radio like through my physical radio. Really? Like

terrestrial, wow. My terrestrial radio that I turn on. Like even when the insurrection

happened, I like ran to my radio and turned on the fucking radio, which doesn't make, it doesn't

make any sense that I turned on the radio because you're missing a whole other dimension of the news.

Like, I didn't know what it looked like.

Well, I get that, though.

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