I did it! I suffered through Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, and managed to cut out a few clips. Then, every time I went to edit those clips in, something would happen and audio just became noise. After several attempts, I finally decided to nix the whole thing and just record a regular episode! I'll comment on it and in the show notes I'll link to it with the time stamps so you don't have to sit through the whole thing.
I feel like I deserve some complex carbohydrates after all that, maybe in the form of a brownie.