Robert Evans here and I just finished committing a light form of tree genocide on some

invasive trees that live in my side yard called the trees of paradise.

If you've ever encountered one of these trees, go murder it right now.

Stop your podcast, kill that tree. If it's on your

neighbor's property, knock down their fence, do whatever you have to do to get to that tree. Kill it.

Kill them all. Garrison Davis, welcome to the show. Hello, thank you. So violent. Do you hate the tree of

paradise, Garrison? I remember some struggles years ago, but my problems have escalated.

Yeah, it's the tree that smells like yeast when you cut it down and grows forever and very

quickly.

It's the devil.

It's the evil tree.

No, luckily there's no trees on the East Coast, so not my problem.

They got rid of all the trees.

Not as much of a joke as we'd like it to be.

They've been growing back over the last 200 years, but yeah, they did kill all the old

growth a while ago.

Garrison, speaking of killing the planet, you know who loves to kill the planet?

Billionaires, I guess. I don't know. Fascists,

billionaires, billionaires, that whole area. Yeah, I mean, billionaires, fascists, and the political party that they largely use for a lot of their dirty work, the Republican Party. This week,

we're talking about a guy who is responsible for kind of breaking politics

in a major way in the United States. He played a huge role in getting Ronald Reagan and George

H.W. Bush elected. And he pioneered a kind of polling called push polling that's like one of the

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