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Oh, yeah, yeah, Rabbi.

Hey, Joshua. How are you? Good. I'm excited for this very special episode of Blossom.

We're doing a mailback episode, a Q&A.

What we would call on my West Wing podcast, a big block of cheese episode.

The big block of divina is what we can call this.

Because apparently President Andrew Jackson had an enormous cheese, I think, in the foyer of the, or foyer, if you will,

of the White House.

And people could come in and eat cheese and ask questions.

And that led to West Wing episodes based on that story.

It is in the spirit of Andrew Jackson that I, from time to time, ask senior staff to have face-to-face meetings with those people

representing organizations who have a difficult time getting our attention. And then President

Obama actually had a big block of cheese event where I think it was virtual. People were able

to ask questions of those who are in positions of power in our government,

which I think is very cool.

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