Hey, okay, I promise I'll keep this debrief short. So I just had my date with the Bumble

guy so cute. He surprised me with tickets to see this band I love. Then he got us a spot

at the front so I could actually see. It was amazing you know like I really felt good vibes.

Oh and he sent me a let me know when you get home message. That makes him really hot.

Kindness is sexy. Find it on Bumble. We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour.

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Christopher Bedford Executive Editor over at the Common Sense Society is joining me today. Chris, I would ask how you are, but you're not great.

Yeah, I was just thinking as you introduced us that instead of talking about

what we were going to talk about today. We just talked about how not cheerful I am at this moment.

I know. I cracked an unhappy beer as opposed to a happy beer, which is usually my Thursday type.

It's a fine line between a happy and an unhappy beer.

You know, it's, we can get to it later, but I mean, it's not important.

It's just family and sickness and cancel travel plans and

people who you're very you know very much looking forward to seeing being unable to

make it is a bummer. Mm-hmm. Well especially when you so much working, but people have much worse problems than that.

That's so true and I think it is though, like the sickness is affecting so many people and all that, like, it's the post- Thanksgiving in the era of COVID

where people's immune systems are still recovering and there's new strains of COVID

going around it's just like how do you get COVID? I don't know. I don't think it's real.

I mean, my dad told me I called him this morning and I'm like, hey, how you doing? Don't forget to leave his

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