Hey, everybody. Before we get to the guests, I want to talk a little bit about what is happening in Chicago.

I am traveling to D.C. today for our live show, which we've sold more tickets to than any

show we've ever done. So I appreciate you all. Last I heard, there are like 50 left. So by the time

you're hearing this, maybe there are a couple.

If you have a hankering here in the D.C. area, you want to make a last second trip down to the Lincoln Theater.

We'd love to see you tonight.

And so I pre-taped the podcast yesterday on Tuesday with Casey Newton.

And it's a show I've been wanting to do for a while, really focusing on this TikTok deal, which I think is really ominous.

And the latest around AI and interviews have been watching with Sam Altman and the infiltration of Silicon Valley oligarchs into the Trump administration.

As I wanted to focus entirely on

that topic for one episode. And Casey is a great person to do it with. So definitely stick

around for that. But, you know, the news gods obviously had something else in mind, and I wanted

to ensure that we addressed it. Trump and Greg Abbott sending Texas National Guard troops into Chicago is truly an emergency,

and it's truly a crisis, and it is outrageous.

And every American should be horrified by what is happening, that our entire system of the government,

our Democratic Republic, our federalist Democratic Republic is in threat right now, right now.

Because for the first time since the civil rights era, the President of the United States

is sending in troops over the objection of a local state.

And the big difference between now in the civil rights era is that the president is doing

that based upon their desire for power only.

There is no crisis.

There's nobody standing in the schoolhouse door.

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