Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.

I'm your host, Andrew Heaton. And today, I want to tackle politics from a different angle. A lot of the time when we discuss

politics, we focus on what should the government do and what should the private sector do or what

level of government. I generally think that way, but I want to try a different lens for today.

Irritation. Today, we are going to look at government through the mindset of what is irritating.

Specifically, what is the government doing which is irritating that it should not do because it's irritating?

And what is presently irritating us that the government could proactively assist with?

What could the government stop that's irritating us right now?

So this is a yellow alert kind of episode.

We're not going to discuss big things, criminal

justice reform, war, national debt, the Jim Hadar. That's red alert stuff. We're going to

discuss yellow alert. Actually, technically, if we're going with Star Trek lingo, we're going

blue alert. We're growing really low levellevel, low-stakes, irritation.

Foremost of which is low-flow toilets.

For this purpose, I am bringing on my good friend,

the very funny Jeff Maurer,

who is a comedian himself and a former EPA employee.

It is a fun chat right here on the political orphanage.

My guest today is Mr. Jeff Maurer, a very funny man, long-time comedian friend of mine,

and the author behind I Might Be Wrong on Substack, which is one of the funniest things on Substack, if not the planet. You should check it out. And want to talk to Jeff today about government in terms of irritation, which I think will be a fun chat. Hello, Jeff. Hey, how's it going? Thanks for having me on. You're very welcome. This was inspired by one of your

recent newsletters, Jeff. You talked a lot about paper straws, and by the end of it, I went,

I 100% agree with this perspective that paper straws are not only really irritating, but also

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