Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist, Jay Carson.

Our top story this week is a sad one, the unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,

announced on Saturday by the court's chief justice,

John Roberts.

Scalia made a huge impression on me in my days as a young, fire-breathing conservative.

He and Ronald Reagan were really my two sort of poll stars.

And while my ideology has shifted over the years, I never lost my deep respect for Justice Scalia's

intelligence or my love for his witty, sarcastic dissent, some of which actually made me

laugh out loud. I'm really going to miss him. And I'm sure you feel very much the same way, Jay.

Yeah, very much the same. There aren't that many real public intellectuals that we have in our society.

And how many people disagree with them and didn't like them, Scalia, I think, fit that bill of being sort of an intellectual leader that, that, you know,

he's, he expressed his things. And these are things we talked about on one show, I think, you know,

a year or so ago, the witty, the sarcastic.

But he was able to make his dissents, make his majority opinions, very understandable to everybody.

It wasn't, it wasn't cloaked in legalese.

It was, he was able to boil that, that philosophy of judicial conservatism, judicial restraint,

and make it very appealing and resonant with the public.

You know, and while many people who didn't know him, people on the left thoroughly

disliked, hate wouldn't be too strong of a word, the people on the left who did know him,

his colleagues on the court didn't feel that way at all.

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