Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the Friday edition of the Dark Toy Podcast with

Frankie Bell on the drums and

Beans. Frank you had a show last night you did.

Did I?

Yes.

And on the show you talked about the Texas situation.

Yeah.

We're gonna talk about that today because I actually I know this is going to sound it's not what we usually do when me and you were together

But real America's voice came out yesterday with a six minute long explainer on this that if people aren't paying attention

and like only listen to the podcast which happens a lot I get emails all the time

this is just a great succinct explainer about what's going on with the whole situation.

So I figured if you were amenable to it, I would play this.

Yeah, go for it.

And then we'll talk about it in detail because I never thought I'd say this but I really feel like I feel like a lot of these states are using this as a PR

Opportunity at least some of them because it's popular right? I mean I mean

nothing would lend itself to that thinking then then what's his name from Georgia?

You see people, what's his name, uh, Kemp from Georgia?

You know, can you find a bigger weasel than that? It's so I'm thinking all right it's cool to see a

coalition or some kind of solidarity among among Republican governors you would love it to just be American governors.

Yeah, well, that would be nice.

Give it the topic.

To see one state with a shade, a little bit off color from the red a little bit darker it's it's just

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