We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Gisinski, Culture Editor here at the Federalist.

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Today I'm joined by Christopher Bedford, executive editor over at the Common Sense Society

last week.

He was traveling and drinking and this week he's sick.

You'll be shocked by this turn of events.

Chris, welcome back.

I tell you what, it's a good thing that I got sick traveling with Sarah because she

had left me to my own devices at a home when she'd come home and I was simply sick

from drinking.

I think I'd be in trouble, but now she kind of has to go back home.

Oh, the dreaded man cold.

Well, as promised all summer, we've been teething that we're going to do an episode where

we answer some of your questions and you sent them over to radio at the Federalist.com.

So stay tuned for that before we get into that though.

Chris has a new piece out for the telegraph and it's actually kind of timely.

On the one hand, just what we saw today as we were recording, Mitch McConnell, Senator

and already leader, long time leader of Republicans in the upper chamber had another very public

medical situation where he had, you know, not a senior moment, but a moment of abject

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