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Oh, hello, SaysWhovia. We were just putting out the plates. There’s turkey and pie, and potatoes, and, why, I think we have a little impeachment left in the fridge.

Yes, it’s Thanksgiving! The holiday of feasting! Of pie! Of traffic! Of jumping over the table to wrestle another relative to the ground! Here in SaysWhovia, we celebrate communally. Everyone is invited. Dan and Maureen have been cooking all day and they want you to eat up. And Helen Rosner, food writer for The New Yorker, has stopped by for her annual visit! She talks tradition, family meals, and plays another round of “Would Trump Eat It?”

This episode also contains a Says Who first: AN EXCLUSIVE NEWS STORY. Yes. This is actually true. Telling you more would be spoiling it, but let’s just say… we’re a part of the story now. Not a bit part. Not a sane part. But a part.

Grab a fork. It’s time to get busy.

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Today's episode includes the track "News Theme 1" by Audionautix, published under the CC3 license. 

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Oh no. Oh dear. It’s finally happen. We’ve broken Dan. It’s too much. It has been a week of hearings and news, and a very long day of hearings and news, and now Dan and Maureen are recording after twelve hours of hearings and they are not okay.

What have they learned? They are not sure. But they’ll try to explain it anyway.

Please help them.

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Ding ding! It’s a special Says Who bonus episode. As we’ve entered into the impeachment hearings, Dan and Maureen are here to watch and walk you through. Because this is going to be a lot.

A lot of what? Well, a lot of bow ties, and recitation of things we’ve heard, and bullshit. And a lot of water. So much water. Giant bottles of water. Listen to the story of two nerds doing their duty, dealing with questions from increasingly insane carnival employee Jim Jordan and last-pick mental volleyball star Devin Nunes. Why doesn’t Jim Jordan where a jacket? How much water is in that bottle? Is this just how we live now?

This is just the start, SaysWhovia. Pull up a chair to your old podcast player and rock a bit. It’s time. It’s happening. It’s now.

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Great googliemooglies, SaysWhovia, are we in for a week! Impeachment time is here. This will be a week of hearings, tweeting, and a whole lot of info dumps and nonsense. It’s also going to be cold all get out for a lot of us, so we will be huddled indoors, watching democracy or something! Who knows?

Who knows? Well, Dan knows! Probably. He seems to. This is going to be a big week for impeachment.fyi. He’s going to need a whole lot of conspiracy wall to keep up! As for Maureen, well, she’s been waiting for this for a long time. She’s ready.

And you know who else is ready? Noted cybersecurity expert Rudy Giuliani. Rudy is thinking about starting his own impeachment podcast, and Maureen could not be more ready for it. Rudy has been busy recently, making friends and texting reporters. Which gives Maureen a little idea…

This week is going to be so newsy that there will be a second Says Who on Thursday. So settle in with your blankets and warm drinks, Says Who. We have some watching to do.

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Oh, hey there. How have you been? Dan and Maureen have both just gotten off planes. Dan was in Disney World with his family, where his wife ran a race. And Maureen was in Hollywood, going to a movie premiere. So, just another week.

Of course not, SaysWhovia. We kid. This was a special week, the calm before the storm. This week marked the one year mark before the 2020 election, and the week before the start of the televised impeachment hearings. It is only fitting that Dan and Maureen spent the time in La La Land and the Happiest Place on Earth. But Dan is back now and following the news again, and he’s fine with it. He really is. It’s all good. Just going through the depositions that reveal the quid pro quo action where people actually say quid pro quo out loud, in conversation. Rodger Stone is on trial. Don Jr. continues to look for, and be denied, love.

Yes, Dan and Maureen went far away to try to escape it all, just for a second. But they are linked to the news, like one of those paddle balls on an elastic string. The news pulls them back over and over, beating them mercilessly, punishing them for the distance they travel. Best to stay with the news, SaysWhovia.

So come, sit down in the SaysWho town theater and watch Let It Snow. Because next week, we watch hearings. Together.

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Jeepers creepers, SayWhovia! It’s Halloweentime again. It’s time for candy, costumes, spooky movies, butt dialing reporters, and shitposting! Yes, it’s been a weird one. How weird? Weird enough that Rudy’s butt dials to reporters aren’t even close to being the thing that caused Dan’s mind to snap like a twig.

Oh yes. Dan has been working hard on impeachment.fyi. His mind is always spinning out with news, and his eyes roll in different directions. He is deep into the soup. Maureen has been in Texas and preparing to go to LA for the premiere of Let it Snow. She also had a problem with her pen.

And there’s Brexit, of course! The ultimate spooky Halloween treat for our UK friends! That’s going well. It’s all just going really, really well. And now, as we roar into full impeachment and the holidays, things are only going to get better.

Trick or treat, SaysWhovia. Smell our feet, Give us something good to eat. It’s the witching hour, and someone needs to call Tim

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Maureen's new book The Vanishing Stair is OUT NOW. NOW!

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Howdy, partner. Dan and Maureen are just riding around on some space horses, russlin’ up some news. Lots of news going on, lots of talk around the saloon.

But first, Maureen is traveling a lot! Not right now, but soon she’s going to that there Los Angeles. Dan has a new computer, so that is also very exciting. This means he can keep up with all things impeachment without his computer catching on fire. And there is a lot of impeachment news. There’s a fake French connection, an outright confession, and lots of bullshit from up there on Bullshit Mountain. And in England, Brexit twists and turns.

But Dan has one thing on his mind: space horses.

And Maureen makes a surprise appearance with America’s favorite couple.

Come on down and sit a spell with us, and we’ll tell you all about it.
 

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We all feel pretty experienced around here in SaysWhovia. We like to think we can handle some news, and even a lot of news. It takes practice to deal with a week like the last one, in which it was all of the news. Do you think someone with a 2016 brain could handle goons disappearing in the middle of the night with one-way tickets to Vienna and a company named Fraud Guarantee? 2016 brains would have blown up. We are tough now.

At least, Dan is. Dan has to mainline this stuff all day, every day, because he started a impeachment update service and now this is his life. Maureen can skate on. She has spent this last week in Los Angeles, looking at movies and strange LA businesses that do things like cryofreeze your aura. She has stories of hotel rooms, fruit, and a nice man with a camper stove. Dan just wants to talk about impeachment, because his mind is full and the news is starting to come out of his beard.

And who knows? Maybe by the end of it all, Dan will also exchange texts with Rudy. Why not?

Get your phone out, SaysWhovia.

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Whatever will we talk about this week? Oh right. 

Literally everything. At once.

Dan and Maureen are ready to break it down--they have been training for this moment, SaysWhovians. 

But first, they have to parse how any child in the '70s or '80s survived. And Maureen needs to know how much a Whopper costs. And Dan has a story about a talking pile of clay.  And also there's a thing about chocolate cake. And the pup is sick.

But after that, everything.  Definitely we get to that.

We chew it so you can gulp it back.

Gobble, gobble, SaysWhovia. It’s time to eat!

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Oh hello there, SaysWhovia. Come sit beside us on the porch. We’ll have some lemonade and tell stories about the old days, like a week ago. It was a different world then. Back then, sometimes we only had two news cycles a day! Things were slower. Life crept along.

Now, of course, the news cycle is… well, there’s been a new one while you were reading this! We’re on a water slide! Are we going into a fun pool or a shark-infested pool or a fun, shark-infested pool? Who knows! But there’s SOMETHING at the end of this slide! Let’s all find out together.

But first, the briefest of reviews of this week. There’s Brexit and corruption and impeachment and more corruption and subpoenas and more corruption and blatant tweeted crimes stuff and hard drives and some corruption. Dan has written it all down. The whistleblower is whistling, SaysWhovia. Can you hear it on the wind?

Toot toot!

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Maureen's new book The Vanishing Stair is OUT NOW. NOW!

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