Welcome to The McCarthy Report, the podcast where I, Rich Lowry, discuss with Andy McCarthy, the latest legal and national security issues this week.

What else?

The chaos in Los Angeles.

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And now, without further ado, I welcome to this very podcast through the miracle of Riverside,

none other than anymore.

Hey, Rich.

How are you?

Good, Andy. You?

I don't know.

I leave you alone for a week, a week.

And I come back and the friggin world is on fire, the country's on fire.

You didn't say, oh, I think it's going to be a quiet week.

So, you know, you never, you never have statements anymore.

I've sworn off that.

This was a joyous but necessary week off because my younger son graduated.

So we had lots of fun and frolic in connection with that.

But I've learned, I hope that I should never say that.

Because it's not just us I'm putting the whammy on.

It's like every time I say that, something awful.

Yeah.

You shouldn't say that.

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