Hello ladies and gentlemen this is an informal podcast full disclosure we were supposed

it is a long pre-scheduled thing where our triad of political misfits myself Andrew, Andrew Heaton, who you hear right now, and of course

congressional dishes Jen Briny, how are you?

Hello, doing, you know, strange.

We were here to talk about uh the Georgia runoffs what what those results would

mean for the next two years at the very least we were going to get very nerdy and then America?

Yeah Justin and you and I were going to do a bonus episode on the procedural

mechanics of the Electoral College count.

I literally spent my morning walking around the neighborhood,

listening to constitutional norms and podcast form,

coming up with like various analogies of like, you know,

it's like when they get a Pope elected, the guy that turns on the white smoke as a public,

I was planning all of that stuff and man, did it go in a different direction than I thought

you know I guess we can start there of the as long as I get to do the procedural

mechanics that's what I really wanted to talk about.

Eventually, we're going to have to star review of such anannities for at least the next half hour at the very least.

Yeah, both houses of Congress. the next half hour at the very least.

Yeah, both houses of Congress are going,

and they're doing a performative version of

we're not certifying the elections,

but as if there was like a heavy... of we're not certifying the elections.

But as if there was like a heavy metal band

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