Really happy to have you here. All right. So it started out, it started out as a bill about the rules for being a dentist.

And it said so explicitly in the title, a bill to be entitled, an act making various changes to the laws of dentistry.

Before reading this bill today, I had never before even thought about there being laws of dentistry.

But there are laws of dentistry, apparently, and this new legislation was going to tighten up those laws.

Laws about, for example, letting you do your dentist exams on mannequins, spelled

M-A-N-I-K-I-N-S, mannequins instead of on real people. That seems nice for the real people,

not nice for the mannequins. Also laws about letting the powers that be take away your dentistry license on account of your drunkenness.

Lots of important ways of tightening up the laws around dentistry. So that was the bill. An act

making various changes to the laws of dentistry. And that is how that bill started. But then it changed.

It changed a lot.

North Carolina is one of the states where Republicans did not do as well as they wanted

to in this past election.

Yes, Trump did still win the state of North Carolina, which I think was the thing they

most cared about.

He won by about three points in the presidential race in North Carolina.

But even as Trump won the presidential race there, the Republican candidate in North Carolina

for governor, he lost that race in the state of North Carolina.

The Republican candidate lost the lieutenant governor's

race in North Carolina. The Republican candidate lost the attorney general's race in North

Carolina. The Republican candidate lost the Secretary of State's race in North Carolina.

Also, the Republican candidate to be state schools chief.

This is a race I was particularly keeping my eye on.

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