Welcome to the show, friends, neighbors, Kinsman.

I hope you've had a satisfying Friday so far. We had a little scare this morning,

tornado warning in our neck of the woods. Another consequence of climate change, no doubt. So

went into the basement and I was with my wife and kids. And if you think that I had to comfort my

terrified children about the tornado, you don't know my children. They were absolutely ecstatic

about the entire thing. They apparently seem to think that the tornado would suck us up and

bring us to Oz to meet the munchkins. And I didn't have the heart to tell them that

if it hits our house, we ain't going to Oz to put it mildly. But I was brought back in my mind

to the time when I was about their age and we had flooding on our street where we lived.

And I couldn't understand why my parents were so distressed about it because I kept thinking

well, a flood, you know, it's going to the flood will come into our house. It'll turn our whole

house into a pool. There will be like a water slide down the steps. It's going to be so exciting.

And I just couldn't, I didn't understand their lack of enthusiasm. But now I think I get it.

All right. Well, Pete Buttigieg may or may not have one Iowa. The AP announced yesterday that

they can't announce a winner because they don't know. The whole process is so messed up. It's too

close to call and screw it basically. It's a paraphrase. That was the what they said. Either way,

the significance of Iowa is less about the delegates and more about the momentum and the media

coverage heading into the rest of the primaries, New Hampshire, and so on. So whether Buttigieg won or

not, he's been robbed of that benefit, which I think is great. It could not have happened to a

more deserving person. Buttigieg is, I think perhaps the most formidable politician left in the

field simply because he's not a communist or he's not an out and out communist. He's not known

as a communist. And he's also not nine hundred and eighty seven years old. And so

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