Welcome to the Reason Roundtable, your Libertarian flavored coping mechanism for the political week ahead.

I am Matt Welch, joined by Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and the Southern California

Journalism Award-winning columnist Catherine Mangue Ward, please clap.

Howdy.

But Matt, I- Hello Matt.

My lifelong quest to defeat Korean Abdul-Jabhar

in the LA Press Club Awards is it's a sort of a bittersweet victory because he wasn't in my category this year.

Yeah well he will happy Monday to you. He abdicated the field.

Kreme is just a superior competitor, Catherine, as we know.

And he's writing another Sherlock Holmes mystery.

Those were good. But congrats to also... another Sherlock Holmes mystery.

Those were good.

But congrats to also the other six reason winners

in their various categories, including

renowned sports writer Jason Russell,

our managing editor, who wrote about pickleball.

It's a good piece.

Wrote about pickleball.

So does this mean you have to move to Southern California now? Oh, if I must, I must.

The tan era of Catherine is really something that we can all look forward to.

We're going to talk about other important stories of the week here in a moment, but first a word

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