The Welcome to the Charles C. W. Cook podcast. I am not Charles C. W. Cook. This is Kevin Williamson.

Been a while since Charlie and I have had an unscripted conversation but

Charles I believe this is your is this your 30th episode? The 30th episode?

The Big Three O.

I kind of remember the Big Three O.

I enjoyed that one a lot more than the Big Five O this year.

Yeah, I'm somewhere in between.

Well, I'm closer to the Big Three O than the Big Five O. I'm somewhere in between. Well, I'm closer to the big 3-0 than the big 5-0.

Yeah, no, no, I'm not. But I'm feeling elderly. Well, should we just pick up where we left off or?

Yeah, absolutely. You know, speaking of which, you know, every time we do something

or there's a change, it's, there's always just weird kind of, you know, right-wing wing criminology especially where National

Review stuff is is involved so when I decided to leave in our and go work for

the dispatch I put in my notice and was taking some vacation time and

during that time my father passed away.

So the last kind of things I had planned to do it in are like the last addition to the

Tuesday and a farewell episode of Mad Dogs and Englishman never actually happened.

So this apparently led some people to believe there was some sort of, you know, tantrum or rift or something like that.

Not the case. Anyway, glad to be talking again.

How did you guys screw up Jacksonville so bad? You had the biggest city in America with

the Republican mayor and as I understand it he just lost re-election.

Yeah, so... Now Fort Worth's number one. Uh, well, Jacksonville's a strange city in one sense,

and perhaps this is worth a quick exposition.

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