Hello and welcome to the Borg podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Happy Veterans Day,

especially to those who served and their families. I'm here. Today, it's Monday with Bill

Crystal. Bill, how did you survive the weekend?

Okay, okay.

You know, a little bit of rage, a little bit of resignation, a little bit of annoyance, a little bit of drinking.

It was fine.

Yeah, I did a lot of drinking on Saturday.

That's for another podcast, though.

Bill, you wrote this morning, stop hand-rigging, start fighting.

You're done with the recriminations.

You don't want to look back in what happened with the Hispanic vote or the Liz Cheney to town hall.

And I plan on having much more hand-rigging to come, actually,

over the next six weeks.

But I think that we take a day with your wisdom and focus instead on what's

actually happening and going forward. So I guess we'll start with what inspired your Monday

missive to dispense with the hand-rigging. Yeah, and I'm not against hand-wrigging at all,

and certainly not against recriminations. And learning lessons is actually important.

I just feel like everyone's learning premature lessons based on partial, in some cases,

actually incorrect analyses of, you know, exepos and votecast and so forth.

And others kind of second-guessing things that they didn't second-guess in real time.

And it's not clear to me were particularly mistakes in terms of some of the campaign tactics.

Other people are going fatalistic. Comets never went anymore. And it was hopeless anyway, which I'm

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