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

I'm Michael Barronowski, a professor of political science at Northern Kentucky

University. Joining me today is political and policy analyst, Kristen Mathini. Hey, Kristen.

Hey, Mike. Happy Saturday. How are you? I'm doing okay. Hanging in there. How about you?

I'm okay, too. I'm hanging in there as well. You know, before we get started, and as always, we have a lot to talk

about. I just have a couple of quick things I wanted to mention to everyone. First off is that I'm

actually, I've actually started a new podcast called Politics Makes Me Sick. It's, the idea is sort of

just to be kind of a quick summary of what's going on and what people on the left and right are saying about it.

So kind of like a one person abbreviated politics guys, but designed for people who aren't political junkies.

Because I felt like, you know, I mean, most of the people who are

listening to us right now, if you're listening to an hour plus of politics, you're probably

pretty political junkie-ish. And I thought, what about people who want to know what's going on

and want to get kind of a sense of that, but don't have the time and don't, or don't want to

spend an hour plus? And so I thought,

well, maybe I can try to put something together for those folks because there are a lot of people

out there like that. And so this is kind of my experiment along, along those lines. And we'll see how

it goes. And maybe I think politics guys, listeners might be interested in it as well.

And right now I've recorded a couple of episodes. I'm still sort of getting kind of the

back end stuff set up and you have to get permissions and submit your podcast, all that kind of stuff,

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