Hello everyone. It's Nick Howellman here and Jared Yates-Sexon is out of pocket today. So I decided to have one of my dear friends Brian Kaplan on the show to discuss what's going on in politics this week. This is a weekender, so it's a little bit more of a relaxed atmosphere. So as a result, we were actually eating lunch together. And I thought it, it lended itself to a fascinating conversation in a very comfortable setting. So don't

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Thank you, Brian, for coming.

I'm glad we could eat lunch and talk about politics over to send lunch.

I'm very excited to do this with you.

And I apologize because I'm told, I'm a noisy salad eater and I fork my salad too loudly. So I will do my best to keep the levels down for your listeners. The listeners will probably get a kick out of, you know, two guys in L.A. Eating a salad. It's in a lunch, but going like that the whole time, yeah. Absolutely. But, you know, there is a little bacon in the salad, so it's not like it's completely, uh, all.

Which. a salad. It's going like that the whole thing, yeah. Absolutely. But, you know, there is a little bacon in the salad, so it's not like it's completely... Oh. Well, it's good, too. I like that this is a... I guess I'd say an audio medium, so people can see all the bruises we have on our hands, just covered it and bruising everywhere. Well, you shake a lot of hands. That's right. Not alone. There is certainly no

underlying disease or illness. And I also take 10 times the normal dose of aspirin that you should be

taken. But it is worth noting. You saw the pictures today of him. His left hand now has

some terrible bruising versus the right hand, which is what he'd be shaking with, right? Well, if he shakes with his left hand, does it count, or does that mean he gets to go back on his word when he does that? Isn't that how it works? If it's fake with the left hand or... Maybe he'll start a whole new... You know how we know how we, like we fist month now after COVID?

So maybe we'll just start left hand shaking instead.

But, you know, what did you make?

I mean, he was talking, he's had a few different kind of moments in front of the mic, this week that's been profoundly concerning, I suppose.

What do you think? It's pretty exciting what yeah so i think it's

time to take the car keys away from grandpa yeah maybe like i don't know i've always thought

i've thought for a while it would be a fun experiment just to file for legal guardianship of him and see what

happens. Like go down to a Florida court and make the case that, which apparently you can do

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