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Jan 2023
58m 27s

“First Rule Package of Fight Club.”

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Kevin McCarthy gives away the House to become speaker. Joe Biden takes his first presidential trip to the US-Mexico border. And the first Gen Z member of Congress Maxwell Alejandro Frost stops by the pod. 
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