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This is the podcast for September 5th, 2014. It's not safe for work.

Recorded live from the very slippery poop deck of the National Review Cruise, featuring

John Bolton on Fantasy Island.

It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gow.

Oh my God.

Is it National Review Cruise time again?

It's time to book your birth on the National Review Cruise with Catherine Jean Lopez,

Jonah Goldberg, John Kyle, Fred Reverse Thompson, and also Marco, Rubio is going to be there, and Ted Cruz, yes.

Really? A cruise cruise cruise? Ted Cruz on the cruise.

It's the Ted Cruz crew. It's the Ted Cruz Cruz. And yeah, both Marco Ruby and Ted Cruz are going to be on there right after Election Day 2014.

It is really interesting to watch the National Review cruise because they have to book, people have to book them now in early September if they're going to go after the election, sometimes earlier.

I understand the 2012 cruise.

There was a mass extinction event after Barack Obama was reelected.

What I found interesting, I think, was back in the 2008 cruise.

Uh-huh.

All these people who should have been standing by to be in the McCain cabinet were already planning to be on a cruise. I'm going to be in the McCain cabinet, we're already planning to be on a cruise.

I'm going to be drunk with Catherine Jean Lopez throwing up in my lap.

I can't imagine standing in line for the midnight buffet between Catherine Jean Lopez and Jonah Goldberg.

That would, and I do call it the Dante's Fifth Circle of Hell cruise.

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