Hello everyone and happy Friday unto you we will get to Friday release valve here momentarily if you're new to the program

Friday release valve is where we take off that heavy mantle of thought and introspection and reading that we wear

for the common good six days of the week and we simply investigate funny headlines as a big old cathartic burst we can get

into before we get into our weekend. I invite a couple of comedian friends

to kick those headlines around with me. Welcome back, Turner Sparks and Mike Kaplan

of the Lost in America podcast and the, I always get this wrong, comedy from a bunker,

what's your, you've got multiple shows now? Well first of all you got it's Sir Michael Ira Cap. Yeah,

I'm sorry Sir Mike got Ira Caplet. Okay, side note, okay, but one of my favorite countries, Hut River, just shut down.

Like I got an email two weeks ago.

Yeah, okay, so I was a diplomat from the small 70 kilometer area

at the place in Western Australia that broke off from Australia the 70s and

refused to pay taxes which is part of the reason it shut down but it was basically there was a

autonomous country Western Australia run by a guy named Prince Leonard that I went out and met and he liked me.

He's like, I like the cut of you gym.

You're gonna be my envoy in New York.

And so for a few years I was his diplomat in New York,

and then he died and his son Prince Graham took over

and here a fortnight ago I got this email saying the

Principality shut down so and I was really hoping they ignite me at some point and it's not going to happen because they didn't exist anymore.

You call you ambassador though, right, forever, you're an Ambassador.

But I wasn't an Ambassador, I actually talked to them about this.

To be an Ambassador, you have to have mutual diplomatic relationship between the two countries,

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