Hey gang, this is Sam and actually for once this is relatively unusual for me for recording a podcast.

I went out earlier for a little happy hour with some friends and so I've been trying to drink a lot of

tea since then to make sure I was on point for this podcast so wish me luck here. All right so we are going to quickly cover the

words from yesterday so we had welter calumny flag and noisome.

Welter, if you remember, is a word that can mean a lot of things, but it's a verb to move in a turbulent fashion,

so like turbulent water or like water in a river or the sea.

It can mean a large number of items in no particular order a confused mass it can mean a state of general

disorder so a welter of people in the street.

It implies a sort of confusion, a jumble and a mess.

You're going to have a bunch of animals like hippos

weltering in a lake, so they're wallowing and

splashing around in a lake.

Calumny, that's making false and defamatory statements in order to damage someone else's reputation.

Slander.

We had flag. To flag means to become tired, to become weaker or less enthusiastic.

And our final word yesterday was noisome, meaning having an extremely bad or offensive smell, but in general

it can just mean something that's unpleasant or disagreeable.

All right, so that was our word review for yesterday,

and today I want to start with a slightly different kind of quote.

You guys may know I try to keep things relatively apolitical

just because I know that people may not like me if I get political or that kind of thing.

But I read a really good book about law recently

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