This is Hammond and Jessica and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist podcast. Please go to patreon.com slash Friendly Atheist podcast to support this show. Hello, Jess. Hey, Hammond. You don't look the happiest.

Yeah, thank you to everybody who reached out last week. This week you'll be happy to know I'm substantially worse.

I got my friend's little sister passed away and her butyls yesterday and it's a friend from high school. So I've known this.

It's miserable and fucking terrible. So anyway, and oh, don't worry immediately before I left for the funeral of a twenty of a 32 year old young woman.

My husband got an email that he did not get a job that we both thought he was a shoe in for. So things are poorly in the grief household right now.

So I'm sorry if I overreact to something or if I accidentally get drunkeny drunk, then it's a regular episode.

Yeah, I'm fucking miserable gang. It's bad all over. Here's your toy, daddy. Leave us alone now.

I'm here to brighten up your day. Yeah, this that's the other thing you guys. I'm this podcast. I'm so proud of it. It's one of my favorite things.

I love to brag about it. It is the worst to record. It is so miserable sometimes. So yeah, no, it's fine. Let's do it. Let's hit it. Sure. Why not?

And Hammond told me all of the stars of the show today are men. So so you know it's going to end well.

Let's hear them. Did you follow anything about the speaker of the house? Do you know who the new one is?

I do know somebody post. I genuinely have not been following any news period. I didn't find out about the shooting until later than I should have just because mental health.

So no, I do know the guy is like a loon, right? He is a loon. And the question is how specifically that doesn't gay or anti choice, which one is he?

Correct. Oh, like he is a loon, but that doesn't arrow it down in the GOP. Obviously. So the question is how bad is this guy? Why is he bad? And the thing is.

And how did he get the votes? And how did he get the votes? I mean, this isn't the political podcast, but needless to say the reason this guy,

who if the argument was we need someone who's not going to turn off every independent voter.

This is not the guy you would have chosen. His name is Mike Johnson. He's from Louisiana.

He's not the guy would have chosen. That's correct. He is as hardcore of a Trumpi sort of Republican is you could find social conservative, religious conservative.

Every Republican position you can imagine is this guy. That's why the hard right likes the guy, but the question is, well, aren't there like 10, 20 people who probably wouldn't want to go along with that?

Because they live in Biden districts. And maybe they were like, I don't want Jim Jordan to be the speaker of the house, because that's going to hurt me in my reelection gaming.

So why did they vote for this guy? And basically, as far as I can tell, the only reason they all voted for him.

And it was unanimous among Republicans. They got bored. They were like, we just need an answer.

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