Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 151 of the National Security Law podcast, brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.

It's Wednesday afternoon, January 22nd, 2020.

I'm Bobby Chesney.

I'm Steve Vladek.

Bobby, we've been threatening it for years.

We're going to do it.

The day we've been warning our listeners about has finally come.

It's a deep dive into frivolity.

That's right.

Hot on the heels of world events that have left us all

exhausted and in a little worn out and also it's the first week of class here at the

University of Texas School of Law we're both in it up to our eyeballs and which is

which is pretty high for both of us it's pretty high it's higher for you

than for me but it's relatively high um we've decided that uh this is non-substantive episode

you know delete now i mean bobby and i we basically were like you know do we want to talk

about substance or we just want to break we wanted to break we want to break so friends

you know the you know getting lectured by the chief justice at two in the morning about decorum just seemed like not something i wanted to break. We wanted to break. So friends, if you... Getting lectured by the Chief Justice at two in the morning about decorum just seemed like

not something I wanted to talk about.

Better late than never.

I think that there could be a number of people who maybe are new to the show who are wondering

when we're going to actually say something about national security and law.

Next week.

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