Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 228 of the National Security Law podcast.

Brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas. Monday night, December 12th.

I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve Vladik. Bobby, if we get this up

in the next oh, three hours and 44 minutes, we will have made it inside of a month.

I was just looking that up. November 13th being our last episode. Way to go, guys. Way to go.

That's a real just in time delivery of podcast. I mean, you know, one of us

keeps over promising and one of us keeps not. And actually, the better version of that would have

been, one of us keeps over promising and one of us is me. I have no recollection. I'm like a

closer. I have short memory. I don't remember what might have been said.

You're the closer in this scenario and I'm the starting pitcher. I think that's a good division of labor.

I like it. It's possible. I may have said something about maybe one or two weeks.

Yeah. Well, we know what our New Year's resolution is going to be.

We've got a holiday episode here on December 12th.

Okay, Steve, just to start with it, are we going to get another episode in before it becomes

2023?

I mean, if I say, no.

It matters not what we say.

It matters what we do. I don't know. Are you here the week after Christmas?

No. So then no. But I'll be available. So it's our year-end episode. That's kind of weird. I hadn't planned for this at all. Our holidays. We won't do a regular episode, but maybe, maybe we'll do a holiday special.

What's the, what's the Chewbacca one from back in the day of the year?

Oh, gosh. I'm just saying, man, this is the moral of the story. One of us over promises and one of us is me.

You know, in some areas, I deliver on the promises.

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