Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm one of your two co-hosts, Katie Halper.

And I'm the other of the two co-hosts. We need to say that, is that redundant?

Um. Matt Taiyabi. Yeah, welcome. Hi Matt, how are you?

It's, I'm alright. Lots of stuff going on in the world. I'm not watching the RNC. I can't do it.

Oh my God. Well, I'll be able to update you on the best parts of it. It's pretty intense. Yeah.

We're going to watch, we're going to, we are going to watch together the finale.

Right.

But the, uh, I just, I couldn't after the DNC last week. I kind of had my, your full fail.

When you hear this, we will have already watched the finale and it would have been great.

Right. Yes. Right. We're, we're in this word space time. Right. Right now.

Yeah. Lots of other stuff going on. Obviously, um, ask protest everywhere. Uh, Jacob Blake shooting.

Um, good of a confusing story there. I'm seeing today all sorts of conflicting reports about what

actually happened. And, um, but obviously horrible. Um, and, uh, paralyzed. He's paralyzed, which is,

you know, who would have thought getting shot seven times in the back?

Right. Yeah.

Parallel us some of them. I guess the miracle is that he's alive. But yeah.

Well, right. Seven at times in the back.

I mean, I hate to say this, but the, uh, in the annals of police misconduct shootings.

That's not a terribly high number. Seven. I mean, when you're that close,

there have been incidents where there are 50 shots, 44 shots. Right.

The road. I'm going to do Diallo. But aren't they usually far, I mean, again, I just think,

not necessarily like that close. Yeah. We've had their, their,

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