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Before we get to the serious stuff, guys, I have to say, watching the State of the Union last night

and the epic struggle of Mike Johnson, unlikely

speaker to not lose his stuff entirely, do you think he's going to become as famous as the fly

on Mike Pence's head? Sometimes it's the visuals, right? Yeah, he looked like a man trying out

for a community theater production of Harry Potter, demonstrating all conceivable facial expressions while wearing a child's glasses.

They remind me if there's a children's book called Encyclopedia Brown.

Oh, that's a good one. Remember big glasses like that? Deep cut there Deep cut there, Jane. That's right. That's totally gray.

By the way, the tweet that won the evening for me, Jane, last night, was the guy who watched his failed struggle to keep a straight face and said, I really want to play poker with that guy.

Did Biden basically dis him by not giving him the chance to say what they usually do say? The speaker usually says, I have, you know, the Supreme or whatever it is, high honor and privilege of introducing the president of the United States.

Good touch. That disappeared, right? Yes. And the question is, was that on purpose or was Biden just eager to get into it since he'd been clearly revved up to go and punch, punch, punch, punch, which I guess is a transition to our substantive conversation.

I think so.

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