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All right, good morning and welcome to Counterpoints. Emily, it's our first show since Thanksgiving.

I hope it was a good one.

We've missed a lot since then.

Yeah, the news just doesn't stop.

Apparently not.

We thought it would get better when the election was over, but...

No.

You can never get off this ride.

No chance. So, I mean, today, obviously, we're going to start by talking about the really pitiful attempt at a coup over in South Korea,

where the prime minister himself tried to coup his own government with the military but didn't have the military behind him.

And we'll talk about how well that worked out.

Yeah.

Not well.

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