Welcome, everyone, to our politics guys midweek show.

Now, you might have been expecting to hear Trey and Alexander since they're the ones who did the Saturday show.

And typically that's how we do the midweek show as well.

But in the whole Thanksgiving rush thing, I totally forgot to ask Trey and Alexander to do a midweek show. And so then Jay and I were recording

our first ever policy analysis in-depth kind of thing on health care, which was a lot of fun.

And I asked him if he'd be willing to do the midweek show with me. And Jay being Jay said,

Of course. Of course. Of course. So thanks very much. And what we're going to do the midweek show with me. And Jay being Jay said, of course. Of course.

Of course. So, so thanks very much. And what we're going to do this week, before we get to

some of your questions and comments, and Jay, I should preface this by saying, both of us come in

for some criticism this week. So it's kind of, that's kind of nice. It's usually just you.

All right. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say, you need me for these shows, because So it's kind of, that's kind of nice. It's usually just you. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was going to say,

you need me for these shows because usually it's mostly directed at me. Yeah, but no, we both get nailed

at this time, which is kind of fun. But anyway, before we get to that, I wanted to thank all of our new

Patreon supporters. You might recall last week, or a show after the midterms, I said that we were doing our new goal and

goals and tiers thing on the Patreon site.

And because I was trying to upgrade and make us, you know, try to be a halfway decent

marketer, I guess.

And at that time, we had 77 Patreon patrons.

And I said, well, if we get to 100, I'm going to release all of my introduction,

kind of how American government works, audio lectures, and also the accompanying PowerPoint

slides. And since that time, right now I'm pulling up the page. We have 91 patrons. That's

been our biggest. These marketing people know what they're doing. I guess so, you know, that's our biggest, I think, single week growth we've ever seen. So, thank you all so

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