Welcome to the Reason Round Table, your weekly Libertarian, mostly peaceful oasis of thought and sanity in a world going increasingly mad brought to you by

the magazine of free minds and free markets. I am Matt Welch joined by Nick Gillespie and

Peter Suderman and Catherine Mangue Ward. Hello everyone.

Howdy. Hey Matt, happy Monday.

Before we get started a somber note of

condolence to our great pal Suderman here who lost his big guy, Blake,

bullmastive on Friday and is written very poetically about it on his

podcasts under Substack and etc.

Peter were very very sorry for the for the loss of your

pal.

Thanks I miss him and quite a few of these podcasts were recorded at my house in my home office with

Blake sitting on the couch behind me. So I lost I lost a good friend and a podcast buddy.

I mean he wasn't making noise that's a large animal to not make noise during a podcast.

One of the great things about bull mastiffs is that they are quiet as a breed in fact were bred to be quiet because they were bred to help

The game wardens on big British estates and their job was to protect the estates from poachers and so their breed nickname is the game

warden's night dog. The whole thing was that they wanted a dog who was a little bigger than an

English bulldog so that he could knock somebody down, but smaller than an English

mastiff so that he could run real fast to knock somebody down.

And so they are non-lethal property protection dogs.

They are great libertarian dogs.

They have a great appreciation for private property.

But also, you know, their job is just to knock somebody out

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