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Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Izger. We've got a really good podcast for you today.

The vast bulk of it is an interview with Congressman Chip Roy. It's a really good discussion. He and I have a very polite disagreement during part of it. We have some violent agreement. Can you violently agree?

Yes.

We had some strong agreement and we had some polite disagreement. It was a really good interview. Just proof of the adage that Sarah knows everybody. Sarah, you've known Congressman Roy since you were 19 years old.

Yes. 19-2002 Corden campaign. He was still a law student at that point and I was but a baby undergrad.

That's amazing. Sarah tells a little bit of that story at the start of the interview and I'm going to warn you a little bit of the sound quality. It's not the normal sound quality that we like to have. We had to do the interview via Skype.

While Sarah and I sound good, Congressman Roy is going to sound a little bit different. I haven't listened to it yet. We just know it will be a little bit different. We're just warning you. It's a great conversation.

I think you'll really enjoy it. Then we're going to wrap up with a discussion of Tiger King on Netflix. Sarah has thoughts.

I want to make one more plug on the Roy interview because at one point we talk about Eleroyo, which is this awesome, famous Tex-Mex place in Austin. But he mentions Pat Green.

If you're just looking for some good real country music, not pop country music to listen to, check out some of Pat Green's old albums. That's some Austin country back when I used to go to dance halls. It only fit 100 people.

It was two stepping and Eleroyo gets mentioned in one of Pat Green's songs. It's all full circle here.

Don't mention Austin country around a Nashvillian. I know exactly what I'm doing.

We'll get snobby fast. I'm sorry. Actually, I'm the last person you ever want to talk about music with. I'm still holding a torch for hair bands from the 1980s.

Ironic given your hair situation.

This is the last podcast of the month. I thought before the Congressman Roy interview, I would share some numbers that put how much our lives have changed in perspective.

It really is stunning when you look at some of these numbers. One of them is the obvious that we had the most jobless claims ever in the history of any week, which is in the history of the entire United States.

But I was looking at some of the coronavirus numbers. Some of these are skewed because we hadn't started testing yet.

So one month ago, March 1, we had 75 coronavirus cases in the United States, Sarah, 75.

As of this very moment, as we record this, the number is now 155,969.

I feel like this is a good lesson in exponential growth curves for those who are homeschooling.

Oh, yeah. I mean, think about this March 15,3600. March 15.

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