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That's kind of conversation between your soul.

That's conversation.

It's home. Thank you. You're so. Hello, Prestige heads, and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davison.

And I'm very excited to welcome to the podcast today, Matt Ellis. Matt teaches literature and film at Portland State University.

And he wrote a very compelling sub-sac I thought about how to understand the right.

And we thought we'd invite him to talk about this.

So Matt, thank you so much for joining us.

Hey, guys.

Thanks for having me.

So first question would be what,

everyone will remember the Roman salute

that Elon did in sort of this feverish moment

where he looked incredibly awkward.

But what, I mean, maybe you could give us some context for that and how you interpreted that event.

And particularly why you wrote the essay, because one of the things that leapt out to me as to why you wrote it is because you thought people were misunderstanding what was actually going on, that people were saying,

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