Hey Dreadheads, it's Brian and you're hearing from me a bit off schedule because we got

lucky this past week and have more stuff to share with you. So if you listen to

Fridays episode with Frank for and please do listen to it, I alluded in the

intro and then in our conversation to an article here at recently for the

Atlantic which is a profile of Attorney General Merrick Garland and really it's

an investigation of the question will Garland indict Donald Trump. We didn't

know Frank was working on that piece when we reached out to him to talk about

Elon Musk and Twitter and the whole global right-wing authoritarian alliance. So

when the Atlantic published it we realized we had a great opportunity to pick

his brain about Garland too and not just about the will he won't he question but

also about the fairly apparent tensions between Garland's sense of himself, his

actual personality, and the momentousness of the dilemma staring him in the face.

If he is going to pull the trigger was there a better time and way to go

about it and to what extent does the light touch way the Justice Department has

gone about investigating Trump until recently stemmed from Garland's own

internal contradictions. So this is that bonus conversation. It runs about an hour

and we'll be back to our regular schedule on Friday. I hope you enjoy it. Okay so

after all that let's table Elon Musk and Twitter and the whole topic of the

episode and talk about something completely different. As we were planning this

and booking you as our guests you published a piece at the Atlantic where

you're a staff writer, profiling Merrick Garland and trying to intuit through

what you learned whether he will indict Donald Trump. Would you spoil your

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