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Atheist, agnostics, long-haired winners, short-haired winners, Van Rolega. Welcome to the politics, guys. a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.

I'm Trey Warnedorf, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University, and I am joined again by Justin Holmes, a professor of political science at Northern Iowa. Justin,

how it be it. It's good to be here. It's been a week, but I look forward to doing this.

Like, this is so much more interesting than so many other things I've had to do this week.

You know, just for listeners edification, you know, we both kind of had a week. And I was thinking about

we kind of match for those of you who are watching. And we really need to coordinate these things better. Yeah, I mean, who would have thought? Yeah, this is the time of the year where students come in, the problems are happening. And some of them are like real and they're tough. And they just take, I think it's really hard for people who don't work in education to recognize how much emotional energy it can sometimes take. You know, you got students with some food insecurity or other things going on. You know, get all kind of things happening. We're doing registration right now. And so I've got, like, advising, which we just got done with that.

It's the most stressful thing that I do, because, like, if I screw up there, like, you can cost people money, and that's just no good.

Absolutely. And these are, and these are your students. You don't want to do that.

Yeah, exactly. It's hard. So, so I'm excited to be here talking to you because I always enjoy this, and it's so much better than this.

Me too. to be here talking to you because I always enjoy this and it's so much better than this is going to

say it's so much better than advising and well and here's the thing for listeners you guys are

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