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This week, Dan and Maureen go back to where it started, to where they met: on Twitter. Dan was just a bearded child pretending to be a mayor. Maureen was a simply author trying to catch the attention of someone pretending to be a mayor because she really liked the way they pretended to be a mayor. And now here we are, three days in to Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. What will it mean? Did Stephen King just bargain blue checks down to eight dollars?

Also, from the “they were going to kill that guy” files: the strangely underreported story of the man who tried to kill Nancy Pelosi, and the attack on Paul Pelosi. It’s…really bad?

Click like on this one, SaysWhovia. We’re in for a weird ride.

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Friends, Dan is having a tough week. There is far too much going on. And the recording keeps shutting down and restarting…like the UK government! We’re back in!

Yes, SaysWhovia, it’s a special UK news report. What the hell is happening? Maureen will tell you. It involves many prime ministers, a midnight flight from a tropical island, and a child in a monocle. Oh, and a fistfight, maybe. Also, what’s going on with the January 6th hearings? And did you know there’s an election in two weeks? Yes, it’s Says Who’s sixth election! That’s way more than intended!

We’ll also get to the bottom of what Maureen is supposed to do with this two dollar bill. And then we’ll make Dan take a nap.

Call your nanny, SaysWhovia. By jove!

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It’s a glorious October day. The sun is shining. The golden leaves are falling. Dan is pulling his beard out, while Maureen is decompensating by starting a sticker album. But never mind all that—there’s news afoot! Dan is delighted to let Maureen know about some important news coming out of NYC. Maureen is equally delighted to tell Dan about the current state of the UK. There’s talk of the last January 6th Hearing, complete with a Slim Jim moment while the mob tries to kill Mike Pence.

But forget all of that. There’s news this week so big, it rocks Says Who to its core. It goes all the way to the top. Well, it goes all the way to the fridge next to the Oval Office. This is what Dan and Maureen have been training for for six years. This time, it’s all been worth it.

Hit the button, SaysWhovia. It’s time for a cold one.

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Dan and Maureen decided not to talk about the news this week. Only soup! Soup is warm and nourishing! But Dan doesn’t like soup. Maureen needs to sell him on the concept, and somehow, this becomes about the news and also the worst soup in the world.

Grab your spoon, SaysWhovia! There’s a hot bowl waiting for you!

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Content Warning: short section explaining the domestic abuse allegations against Hershel Walker, mention of animal cruelty charges against Dr. Oz. Basically just the headlines on these but wanted you to know.

 

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Dan and Maureen are further apart than normal this week.It’s a tale of two cities—London and Los Angeles. One has English/Indian full breakfasts with unlimited cups of hot chai, while the other has fire alarms going off all the time. In fact, this episode has the most fire alarms of any Says Who episode! The most hotel talk! The most reading of menus!

In fact, Dan and Maureen are so exciting talking about breakfasts and hotel fires that they almost forget there is news. ALMOST. This is a week of a falling pound and Trump legal trouble. So much trouble! And our old friend Rudy forgot to go to court. What a bunch of knuckheads!

Put the sign on the door, SaysWhovia. We don’t want to be disturbed.

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What’s that sizzling sound? Why, it’s the official Says Who griddle! Dan and Maureen have some hot, beefy patties of news to slap down this week, so they hope you are hungry! And they’re starting with good news! COVID is over! The President said so! Dan will go and tell his wife, who has COVID. Dan is grouchy. Maureen has something to cheer him—a sing along! 

Also, Dan’s son had a very interesting walk to school. Dan is really not having it this week. Even though Trump has performed an amazing self-own with his special master. But what turns it all around is the beef. Because if there is one thing we do here on Says Who—we run the hamburger beat. And there hasn’t been this big of a scoop on the burger front since Trump threw his lunch against the wall. Yes! It’s the My Pillow Hardee’s takedown story!

Get your fries on the side, SaysWhovia. But not from Hardees?

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... then things got weird. 

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Ah, the sea. So…sealike. Maureen is in Greece, looking at the sea and having high quality insights like these. Dan is in Chicago, reading the news. One seems happier than the other. But not for long! Because the UK has a new prime minister, there’s a Special Master on the horizon, and Trump is definitely getting up to announce his 2024 run. Everything is circling back around. Maureen cannot cope with this. She has a plan, and that plan involves the sea.

 

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Look, it's been a long week and it's only Wednesday. Sure, Trump's been going nuts over on Truth Social and Lindsey Graham is threatening mob violence on cable news, but who's up for a story instead? A story about a banking heiress and a Palm Beach club with lax security. Certainly nothing will go wrong.
 

Note: to read more about the Anna de Rothschild story, check out the incredible reporting by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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