You know, Simone and I were in the trenches in different capacities in the 2016 election. We were. He was an NPR reporter when I worked for Bernie Sanders. Yes. That's how I originally met Sam Sanders. That's how she met everybody. Literally, that's how I made Eugene. Yeah, exactly. You know, shout to Bernie. Yeah. Good for something. Bringing the black people together. Bringing the blacks together. Bringing people together. We love that. Not at the ballot box.

That was the issue.

Okay.

Next.

Yeah. Yeah.

Good readings, everyone.

Welcome back to Klaika.

What a long year this week has been today.

Okay. Today we'll be talking about the fallout of the Iran War from the World Cup to F1 to y'all's gas prices everywhere.

Literally.

And later, podcast star Sam Sanders, my play cousin, is joining the group chat.

We'll be talking about the state of play in Hollywood.

But I don't want to wait that long before giving a shout out to Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Cougler.

Oscar Award winners. Hello. Come on now. I cried. We were texting the whole time. We both were crying. I was. I was. I was. To be clear, I didn't cry. I didn't cry. Oh. But I was, I was writing. She's not a real fan. I am a fan, but I was writing and I was pausing and I had just, you know, my, it was bedtime because kids had to go to school on Monday. Little one had just gone to sleep, so I'm in the office next to his bedroom and the door shut, but I'm like, so in the video, I posted it's like, it's so good, so good so good well well deserved well well well deserved come

on baby down in the Caribbean the power is out in Cuba all right the power outage started around 2 p.m. on

Monday March 16th and it's still going on as of this recording it is the third major outage

Eugene in the country of 11 million people in the past four months.

That's a lot.

It's a whole lot.

And the Cuban government, they have blamed the crisis on the United States and it's energy blockade.

As our girl, Rachel Meddow's like to say, watch this space, honey.

We're also watching crazy lines at airports all over the country.

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