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Back to episode — Episode 2516 CWSA 06/25/24

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you that none of this is based on any real people. The Washington Poop is not based on anything real, totally made up, and there are no employees, no writers anyway who work for the Washington Post that some people think I'm making fun of. But they don't have any writers that look like thumbs. I mean not exactly like thumbs. And by that I mean it might remind you of a thumb but in many important d…

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al view from mine. And he asked a fascinating question when he saw me post that all the news is fake. He said if all the news is fake how do you know what's true? That's actually a great question and I think he was quite serious about it. Like what are you talking about? And so I thought it would be fascinating to not debate politics. I don't want to have a debate about who's the best president and we both agree on that by the way. We want to talk about how do you know what's true. And I think potentially it would be the coolest conversation that anybody's ever had on politics. We don't know. I mean it's going to be live so anything could happen. I don't have a confirmation yet but I think we're pretty well set to do that.

Anyway there's news from Oakland that the Hilton Hotel that's been in Oakland for 56 yea

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rs decided to close. Now that causes sort of a problem for me because you know I live in the Bay Area and one of the things my friends are always asking, they're saying when I go from my vacation in Oakland what's the best place to stay? And I would always say well you want to go to the Hilton, it's the best hotel in Oakland. But now when my friends want a vacation in Oakland I don't know what to…

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