I'm feeling pretty fragile. I gotta say, I limped my way over here, limped my way across

town today, you know, back from my sojourn in the Algonquin wilderness, which I somehow

got through, you know, five days and six nights of brutal canoeing and portaging. I mean,

this is the, I guess, the third expedition I've ever done like this by far the most ambitious,

it's always me and my buddy Dan that do these and this was the most ambitious one we tried,

got through all of that, complete with, you know, some of the kind of harrowing experiences

that come with the territory. I'll come back to that in a second and, um, wouldn't you know it,

when I was getting back on the subway in Toronto, like literally getting, getting on the subway

car, I felt like a, I don't know, a creek in one of my toes and I've been limping ever since.

Well, fitting in a way just goes to show you, you know, never leave the podcast, karma will catch

up with you. Thanks by the way to Jesse Brennan for filling in while I was away, enjoyed that

episode very much, particularly the jokes at my expense off the top, but I gotta say it was,

it was nice to be away from everything, you know, including a podcast honestly, just everything.

You didn't see the Ted Cruz clip, did you? That clip of him drinking the drinking beer.

I hurt, yeah, I heard part of it and with the what, this is some new right wing bullshit

culture or controversy where it's like the lips want to make us drink only two beers,

they want to make it illegal to drink three beers. Is that about the crux of it?

Yeah, I think there was some recommendation from some body somewhere. That was the crux of it.

This is old news by now, but there was, it was the rather lynchian video of him standing in front

of like a bunch of, you know, old beer gutted men and them all in unison, in, in synchronicity,

lifting up a beer and drinking it. Right, so it's like that genre of sort of

performative right wing culture where we're like, you know, on the 4th of July, Alex Jones

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