Hello everybody and welcome to our annual special bonus videotaped version of

the reason roundtable podcast in honor of our annual webathons the 16th year in a row that we have asked you

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Matt Welch. I'm joined from left to right here in our Burbank studio by Nick Gillespie,

Catherine Mangue Ward, and Peter Suiterman. Hello everybody.

Howdy. Hey, Matt. Happy Wednesday. It's not a Burbank studio. I lied. We're in Washington DC. We're in Washington DC with a beautiful table here.

Yeah. Made by a donor by a webathon donor next Scott Yewain whose name I'm

mispronounce every opportunity Scott is very difficult to figure out what we're

going to do here today is basically answer your questions that you submitted to us many many questions we're not going to probably be able to get to all of them but we'll see what we can do with our usual speed and grace to

answer them all.

Were you trying to stump us and etc.

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And also what you might get when you're there,

why don't you lead us off the robot with a mostus, Catherine?

So here's the thing.

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