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Dec 2021
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120: Happy New Year With Friends

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Al and James are joined by top experts from the fields of journalism, economics, entertainment, medicine, and law, featuring Jill Abramson, Roger Altman, George Stevens, Dr. Cornelia Griggs, and Walter Dellinger to ring in 2022 and discuss how Biden and the country are faring.  Then they share their outrages of the past year and let us know what we can expect going into the next one.

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Get More From This Week’s Guests:

Jill Abramson:
Twitter | NYT | Harvard | Author  

Walter Dellinger:
Twitter | Federalist Society | Duke Law | O’Melveny

Roger Altman:
Evercore | The Hamilton Project 

George Stevens:
Oscars.org | IMDB | George Stevens Academy 

Dr. Cornelia Griggs:
Twitter | MA General Hospital 

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