Thanks for listening to The Gist. If you want to check out an ad free version and bonus content go to subscribe.

MikePasca.com. It is the best way to directly support our endeavors.

Hello, it's Mike. I shouldn't have to tell you this, but it's Saturday. You know it's a show.

That means it's the Saturday show where we bring you one from the past and one from the week.

I'm going to do something that I usually don't do.

Comment on my one from the week and maybe give myself a self-criticism.

See if you agree. But first, the one from the past, based on the premise that what this Republican

primer needs is more candidates from Florida. Miami mayor Frances Suarez has entered the race.

Guess what? I interviewed that guy on April 3rd, 2020. It was early days of the pandemic.

He, I knew he was a Republican. You know, no one was hiding that. It was pretty,

I'd say pretty, very critical of the Trump administration, though he could tell.

He was trying to toe the line a little bit, but he talked about what he was doing or what Miami

was doing to try to address the concerns, the exigencies of the COVID pandemic. We talk a little

bit about plasma treatments at the end, which actually wound up not being that huge a thing,

but credit to him for being an early adapter and someone with his mind and eyes open to new

technologies. So we'll play that interview from a few years ago. And then the one from the week

will be when I talked about the, it was a letter. It was a letter of, when I talked about the

letter of warning from the office of the special council over a violation of the Hatch Act,

the Hatch Act bars of federal employee from using their official position to campaign and

Karin Jean Pierre, who is the White House spokesperson, was issued this warning because the complaint

was that she said, mega, mega. I wrote a poem about it. I have to say the poem maybe wasn't

as successful as it could have been. So after that segment, I'll join you and we'll talk about,

...