Okay, happy Friday everyone. It's time for another installment of The Surge from Slate Podcasts and what next?

Every week I sit down with Slate Political Guru Jim Newell,

and he reads the fortunes of our biggest political players.

We decide who's up, who's down, who's off the charts.

Jim.

How you doing?

Was it a surgery week?

Mary, I'm doing great and it was a modestly surgery week I would say.

Mid-surge. We don't have to kind of fill out most of this with Fluff which is what we do in bad weeks.

This week we have good discreet entries.

I'm calling this episode of The Surge New York's The Istanbul of America edition and if you don't get that reference you will soon I

promise I promise like always I've asked our producer page to give Jim and me 15 minutes on the clock to get through our

sergers Paige how are you doing?

I got it. It's rock and roll baby.

Buckle up on it. It's rock and roll baby. Buckle up.

Do you have a airhorn this week?

I don't have an air horn.

I have my vocal cords.

That's going to be your airhorn.

Weren, weren, weren't, or I'll just start singing you off the stage

when you have a minute left.

Looking forward.

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