Hey everybody it's Brendan this is sort of a momentous occasion both for me as a producer and you as a listener as you may know our co-host Matt

Chrisman Cushbaum is now officially a resident of New York City and that means it is goodbye to the days of a

choppy thin tinny sounding track from Matt which I know everyone's been

abusing him

and harassing him about since he started the show.

So Matt's right here next to me.

Yeah, that's right, you chumps.

You have to shut the hell up.

I'm coming in crystal clear, sound no more hey are you in a bathroom

Nice tin can and string fuck off I'm right here in the studio with Brendan although we're the only ones here and we started recording.

I don't know where everyone else is.

Oh, hi, I'm sorry, this is Will here.

I'm calling in for this show.

I had to, uh, I had to leave the city I'm up at the Menaker estate

and my family's compound I'll be there for the next several months to administer the

the estate sale of my father's collection of snow globes and it was winter sleds as well as all of his father my grandfather's all the transcripts of his recorded conversations with Soviet diplomats and

CP USA members that he shared with certain federal agencies.

Oh, well that's a bummer but that's, I guess. But where the hell's Felix?

Oh, hey, hey, hey, Matt, I, you know, you just had a big move. You just changed your whole life. Another one of us did too. I'm calling you

live for South Lebanon, dude. I finally fucking do. I joined Henshaw. I'm here. I was right all along I knew I would be a perfect thing have you ever

seen the movie the person being a wallflower you know at the point

where he's like the moment of pure energy I felt like it was pure energy because I

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