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Well, welcome to the first edition of Counterpoints in 2023. We're happy to see you everybody

today. Ryan, how you doing? Good. Happy New Year. Happy New Year to everybody out there.

So Ryan is rocking the Andrew Ross Sorkin look today. Totally if you're watching this,

you'll see it's tropical. I think what happened is Sagar went to Tulum and we decided to set

the temperature here to Tulum levels. That's what we're doing. It's also climate change.

It's like 65 degrees or so in Washington, D.C. The buildings just don't know how to deal

with it. They have four seasons that they're prepared for. When winter comes, and the

climate wants to give you spring or fall, they just blast. They eat anyway.

The funny thing is, Ryan called ahead and said, I'm wearing a wool jacket today. Please

set the studio at preferred temperature. It's set it super high. No, I've not even

noticed. No, actually it was really hot in here. It still is really hot in here. That said,

Ryan actually has been, Ryan has reason whether or not it's hot in the studio. You have reason

to be a sort of gruff and like an ink stained wretch today because you were all over Capitol

Hill yesterday. It was a lot of fun. And so later in the show, we're going to talk to Matt

Taiibi. We got a lot to get into. But the drama, of course, was on Capitol Hill. Yes.

So I was in the House Press Gallery for that watching it unfold, which there was almost

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