Surprise from Austin.

Welcome to episode 189 of the National Security Law podcast, brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.

It is New Year's Eve.

And in central time, we're only two and a half hours away to the end of 2020.

I'm Bobby Chesney.

I'm Steve Vladik.

As my grandmother said in her 75-year-old cigarette-scarred voice, when I called her to tell her I passed the bar,

oh, thank God.

I, I, you know, we weren't planned to record tonight. Bobby literally texted me 10 minutes ago and was like,

hey, let's record. I was like, uh, but you know, it seems like, I knew. I knew your, uh, New York Z plans

were as exciting as mine. I mean, Karen and I were literally

sitting on our couch doing the New York Times spelling bee. And so, you know, it was, it was, it was just,

I mean, it was, it was, it was excitement. It was, it was, when I think of, you know, bringing in

the new year, I think of sitting on the couch, you know, solving a word puzzle.

Well, we just finished building with our youngest, a Lego set.

We built the Weasley's Burrow, which was pretty awesome, I must say.

And then eating our little kind of homebrew pizzas.

And now it's like, all right, well, what are we going to do?

Hey, I know.

How about we have one last shot at 2020 and really just a chance to put out something

that maybe some of y'all will notice tonight and get a kick out of hearing.

Or tomorrow morning when you're hungover.

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