We are now part of the endless friendly fire broadcast live coverage of the state of the union.

That's right. By the time, this is over, Andrew Claven, will be dead.

And Matt Walsh, his beard will be gray and he will have no hair. So, you know, a lot's going to happen in the next few years. Because that's how long we are slated to be together. Basically, we are now doing the extended director's cut of all three versions of all three

movies of Lord of the Rings because that's what tonight is going to be.

So we have with me, of course, Matt Walsh, who is suffering and Andrew Claven, who is likely to suffer with me even more. Somehow Matt begged out of part of the show, which I gotta say that's smooth, move. Yeah, I know. I'm also confused as to how Matt is able to pull rank, and I'm stuck here all night with you, Clayton, as we go wall to wall on this coverage. It's a full-scale disaster.

Folks, this is why you should subscribe for this kind of sparkling commentary. So I'll begin with Walsh because I'm going to get my money's worth out of Walsh. He usually speaks in these friendly fire episodes. I should get like, I don't know, 15 words out of Walsh in a typical friendly fire episode. so we have to get all 15 of them in

before the actual state of the union address,

which is to begin at 9 p.m.

So Matt Walsh, how pumped are you? episode, so we have to get all 15 of them in before the actual state of the union address,

which is to begin at 9 p.m. So Matt Walsh, how pumped are you to be here for yet another

state of the union address? And can we expect your excitement levels to achieve the highest

form of excitement, or will your soul leave your body and excited? How excited are you here?

Well, I don't have a soul to begin with, so it can't leave my body. I would, what I'm excited

about is that when you guys come back to talk about and analyze the state union, I'm going to be

fast asleep in bed. That's, I don't know what story I gave them, but like, I'm just going to actually be asleep.

That's the truth of it. Let's just be honest about it. Look, I mean, you know, I feel the same way

you do, Ben, about the State of the Union addresses, that obviously they're mostly pointless,

and if there's any kind of movement in the polls, it will last for five seconds, and it won't matter

anymore.

So that's generally the case. I do think that if there's any, you know, if I were to predict that anything out of this or if anything, you know, makes an impact out of this, out of this speech,

I would guess it's likely to be less what Trump says in the speech and more the antics of the Democrats.

And I guess there's going to be fewer of them in the room now because a lot of them are boycotting.

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