Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.

I'm your host Andrew Heaton, who recently got to meet RFK Jr.

Although I didn't get to know him as well as I'd like. Now hold on. I didn't mean it that way. Hold on. Here's what I mean.

Recently, I performed stand-up comedy for the University of Austin. I'm very funny. Afterwards they asked me, hey, we

enjoyed you, Heaton. We think you're very funny. We know that you're an independently

minded person with an audience of independently minded people.

We're thinking of doing a panel at South by Southwest on independent voters, and we were thinking

maybe you could moderate a discussion with Andrew Yang,

RFK Jr, and some other person I forget as independence.

Is that something that you would be interested in doing? Well, short answer to that question,

Almighty God put me on this earth

to moderate a panel discussion featuring

Andrew Yang and Robert Kennedy Jr.

Were I to moderate a panel like that at the end of it I could say,

okay, Al, we fixed it, time to leap and then dissolve into the blinding white light of late 1980s quantum

leap special effects. But was not to be one of the would-be guests refused to go on the panel if RFK was on it,

so they swapped out that person, but then Andrew Yang wouldn't go on if the new person was there,

or something like that.

I don't remember exactly, but the whole thing was like that old riddle

where you're trying to get a fox, a cabbage, and a hen across a river,

but you can only row one of them at a time in what is apparently a very, very tiny boat.

But if you leave the fox behind with a hen, it'll eat the fox.

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