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And now, without further ado, I welcome to this very podcast through the miracle of Riverside, none other than

Andy McCarthy.

Hey, Rich. How are you?

Good, Andy. How are you?

I'm good. I thought I'd be travel weary by the time we got back on because we've both

been gallivanting. But actually, I'm not weary at all. I had a nice five-day trip to Pasadena.

They say it never rains in sunny California, but it was apocalyptic when we got there.

It actually, it rained really, really hard for a couple of days to the point where and i heard this from a number of uh people that

some of the poor people who had to evacuate their homes the next thing they were getting alerts for

mudslides so they've had they've had just the worst uh month or so there but i have to to say, you know, such nice people.

I mean, you know, we, we talk about how screwed up California is, as if we don't have

plenty of screwed up on our side of the country.

But, you know, delightful people that we met all weekend long and, you know, just good folk.

Yeah. So the last time we recorded was prior to the constitutional crisis. Now, I won't say

the constitutional crisis has abated, but the talk of it has abated a little bit, although

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