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Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.

I'm Michael Baranowski, Professor of Political Science at Northern Kentucky University.

I'm joined today by not one but two co-hosts. First, my conservative counterpart, Cleveland area

attorney and defender of freedom, Jay Carson, as well as political scientist Ryan Teaton. Welcome,

guys. Hey, good morning, Mike. Thanks for having me, Mike.

It's rare that we're able to do three-person shows, but every once in a while, the stars align in such a way that we can.

And so that happened this week. And I know listeners tend to enjoy those. And so we're happy to be able to do that.

And it is a week where we have an awful

lot to talk about. There's that Trump indictment that we finally got a chance to see, some really

important elections for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, as well as the mayor of Chicago, some

big stories about transgender policy and a bunch more. And we are going to get to all of that

in just one second. Okay, so before we do get to those stories, I mention, I should say that

we typically record the show either Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. We're doing this one

Saturday morning. And so when the news breaks on

Friday, especially late Friday, we usually have to hold off on discussing it until the next week

because when we feel it's important to take our time and consider what happened, the reactions to

it, as opposed to just sort of giving our off-the-cuff largely uninformed opinions, you know,

kind of like how you get everywhere else when big stories break, which I say this because

that's why we're going to be holding off on discussing at least the substance of the preliminary

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