Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. We're really happy to have you here. So who's going to be

the designated survivor? Right. It is the most morbid thing, but it's a real thing. They do it every

year. Every state of the union, they picked somebody, some lucky stiff from the administration,

from the cabinet, to be a designated survivor, to not go to the State of the Union address.

It feels like it's left over like from the mutually assured destruction days of the Cold War or

something. But the logic of it really is apocalyptic. The logic of it is that if some catastrophe

physically happens at that event, at the

State of the Union, while all of Congress and the president and the vice president and the

joint chiefs and the Supreme Court and everybody are all in that same physical place, if something,

God forbid, terrible happened there during that event. The designated survivor,

by virtue of the fact that that person didn't attend the event, that designated survivor would be

the one, would be the person who would reconstitute the government of the United States and keep the government going after the president

and the vice president and the whole rest of the cabinet and the whole Congress were all

swallowed up in a hellmouth or something. It's very weird. The whole idea of it is very

dystopian and weird. But they do it every year. And, you know, you'd think,

given the responsibility associated with being the designated survivor, you'd think they'd pick

like the most widely respected person. They'd pick the person who everybody agrees would be

the best choice to take over the country in the wake of

an unimaginable disaster. You'd think it would be like a really high profile person they picked

every year. They don't do that. Actually, kind of the opposite. The person does get some attention

for being picked as the designated survivor every year, but usually the person is kind of not well

known. And so like in this cabinet, you might expect that they'd pick maybe the Labor Secretary,

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