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would greatly appreciate that coming up later in this hour. It's our weekly break, it's

our smoke break from the world of politics, three non-political questions. And then next

hour, we're going to have some fun. An old sports media peer of mine that is, I guess, I want

to be fair and I don't want to oversell it at the same time. So I think it's fair to say he

would be more liberal than me on some issues. Yes, I think that's a fair, is that a fair

description? Yeah, I think so. I think he says that's a fair description. Okay. So one of

the things he does now, he's like an architect, so he's really smart. And then when he's not

being really smart, he is the sideline reporter for the, for the Iowa State football radio network.

And that's how we got to know each other because I used to cover him when he was a player.

And, and then we used to cover the cyclones together when he got into the media. So I thought

it would be fun because we've trust me, we have tried to do this many times. I saw, as

somebody Todd Starns over at Fox Nation was talking about this on his Twitter account that he

keeps trying to get people from the other side, you know, and they're not often interested in

having these conversations. And when we have an opportunity to do what we like to take advantage of

it. And since I've known Ben for going on 20 years, and I am so depressed that that's true.

I just set that out loud. So since I've known our guest, who will be with us next hour for

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