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What is going on with that microphone? Sarah, what is the deal? What is happening? Why do you make cylindrical objects go limp when they're in front of you? Wow!

Well, I mean, can you even hear it though if you speak? I feel like I either have to yell or every time I speak, I'm going to move the microphone back.

It just will not go down there and stay. It won't go up and stay, right? That's such a problem. Yeah, yeah, that's what I do.

All right, Thursday off the rails. You intimidated it. Yeah. That happens a lot.

I have so many jokes there. I really do. It's like a scared turtle. The first time I heard that in my life. No, it's not. Or today.

Mark and Brandon are over at the helm, driving us into the Netherlands of all things in sanity, but I think the insanity is on the couch today with Barbellans back as well as Sarah Gizallis.

Host of the news, why matters? Make sure if you missed yesterday's show. Go get Barb's books front toward enemy and also what not to wear to a murder trial.

You need to go back. We're not going to rehash the story. It's a powerful story. Barb's husband Lou, Lieutenant Lou Allen was murdered in Iraq by another American soldier.

The book tells the story, but you need to watch yesterday's episode if you missed it. Go where podcasts are offered. Leave a rating and review. Maybe we'll read it. I don't know. We got to get back into that.

Yeah, we do need to get back into reading some things. Let me tell you the kind of stuff that I get. This is why I don't really want to read certain things.

Here's one. Here's one that says, dude, I find it just insane that folks like you with potential to accomplish real things choose to live their one life as a far right Twitter troll and truth denier.

Oh my gosh. I am a Republican by the way. Get your shit together. I went to his page. Oh, Colin. Apply named Colin.

His very first tweet is a retweet of none other than Eric Swalwell. Oh, big Republican. Yeah, really big Republican. Get your shit together. Colin.

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. Sometimes. And I love the Twitter trolls who well on Facebook too, but the people who like to post the election results, you know, of like they're like getting me on that.

I'm a dude that had no political backing, no political background, no donations. I did it myself and still got 4% of the vote in the primary. I'm okay with that. I did exactly what I thought I was going to do. I think that's an insult.

Right. I was like, you guys have no idea what we accomplished. Yeah, they're absolutely obsessed. Yeah. Absolutely obsessed. And you were the first person to actually announce that you were going to primary, which I think did a lot.

And guess what? The media still calls me every day for a quote on what's going on in Texas. So fuck you. You can all the way off. Okay. I bleeped myself, Brandon. I love that they.

What's funny is I think that's triggering me and I'm like, I'm having a blast with it. I also love that they think that like you troll people on the internet for a living.

Like, no, I do a lot of other things for a living and I make a lot of money doing it. Trolling you is just something that I find personally amusing.

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