The Welcome to episode 43 of the Charles CW Cook podcast.

Before we start, I have to register a complaint.

Last week I made it clear that if you live in Nebraska, you were to listen to this podcast a day later than everyone else.

And some of you did not follow the rules, did you?

I happen to know a few people in Nebraska, and some of them sent me messages about the episode on the day it was released.

Which...

Look, do you want me to go to prison?

Since Ben Sass left the Senate, Nebraska's been cracking down on podcast something fierce.

And with this accent, I don't think I would do especially well in a penitentiary.

What are you in for? The murderers would ask me,

supplying podcasts, I'd say, and that would be it. I'd be shived before I could say

Matt Rule isn't a particularly good coach all things considered.

Guys these regulations they're here for protection. We can't have some free-for-all arrangement

under which people in Nebraska are free to listen to podcasts at the same time as the rest of the country.

This thing, what that would be like.

It would be chaos, at the Wild West, a cornhusker catastrophe.

I'm not angry, I'm not, I'm not I'm just disappointed your mother and I still love you very much

but next time please think and if you don't I will have to tell Luther.

Question. I know that you revere the US Constitution and its assertion that we are endowed

with certain inalienable rights by our Creator which governments exist to secure rather than grant or create.

But how does this square with your professed atheism, which I share.

It seems to me that the concept of rights

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