It's good. It's good. Happen New Year, Katie. It is indeed a new year. They just keep coming, don't they? Better and better every year.

They really do. It's like every year there's a new one. It's crazy.

I think 2022 is going to be even better than 2021, which I haven't followed the news closely, but there were no major problems to speak of. I think everything was going well. So I'm looking forward to it.

I have a question for you. Sure. You're recording from Asheville, North Carolina. I am the Paris of the South. Yes, the Paris. I think it's the Lebanon of the South.

They're like, but like, but like, yeah, the favorite, the favorite of the South, but like in the good years. Yeah, they will be read had some good news. Yeah.

You just drove across this great nation of ours. I'd like you to offer like, imagine you're reviewing America on Amazon. Like you're a consumer of America. You got America. You consumed it. You're moving on. You want to leave review. How would you review read?

Okay. My review of America. First off, extremely large. I don't know whose idea it was to make this country so big, but it is a very large country, especially when you have to drive in January across the country. So you have to avoid the whole northern half of it. So like down an entire coast and then across across the nation.

So first off, very large, very scenic, also terrible food. That's my terrible food. Well, because I only ate on the freeway. So the freeway foods all.

I only ate stuff I could find on the side of the freeway. Exactly. I did. I did pass the infamous roadkill cafe on on I 40 did not stop there, but lots of lots of fast food.

I like how you're like, whose idea was it for the country to be so big? I think like the settler columnists, I guess. If I were, if I were making a country, I would make it very small.

You're saying the original and happens should have should have fought harder to have it not be so big? What is the original happenance? You know, I think who can we blame for this?

Pangaea, who salt is it that we have this giant phone country? Fucking Pangaea. No, okay. Well anyway, we don't need to get into ancient geology. The point is you're in a ashril, which is going to reinvigorate the podcast. I can't talk. Add some southern charm to it. I think this is going to be a really good error for us.

Should we add some bluegrass music to our theme song? Some twang? Yeah, we need more twang.

I'm going to, I'm going to, I have a lot of, I'm going to be here for two months and I really don't have that much to do. So I was thinking I would pick up the banjo. My dad, my dad has a bunch of banjos laying around. So you're learning piano. I could learn banjo and we could put it together a little band.

We could write some very offensive songs together. Well, you're already a rapper. That's true. I am a rapper. When it comes to you, I prefer the term rapist.

All right, Katie. Well, welcome to the Eastern seaboard. Is is Ashville part of the Eastern seaboard? It's pretty far from the ocean. It is. I don't know. What is what is the seaboard count as anymore?

I've used that word a lot without knowing what it is. Yeah. The Eastern time zone. Katie, what is the name of this temporarily partially relocated podcast?

This is Black and Reported and I'm Katie Hersung and I'm Jesse single and in 2021, we talked a lot about how we were going to do episodes that are good.

But this time we didn't accomplish that goal. But I think this time around we have a good shot at this. This is our new resolution for 2022. Make good shit. Not bad shit. Good shit.

Yeah, no one really had suggested that before. Just popped in our heads around midnight December 31st. So this is going to be a little bit different from our usual format. I'm basically just telling this story of a guy named Alberto.

Yep. No reason for that. Just a guy named Alberto. Just a random guy named Alberto. Let's do that in a moment.

First, I want to tell you a little story about a computer science professor at the University of Washington named Stuart Regis. Does that name ring any bells to you? Isn't he he's like.

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