You're listening to serious inquiries only. I'm Thomas that's

Jamie how you doing Jamie I'm doing well I'm excited for the 2018th debate

coverage you pick 2018th even though it's 2019. What is it? Because it was the

218th episode. Oh yeah gotcha. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah. How much more of this are we going to do a lot? We need to we really need

Some way of pairing this field down

Let's start by not having more people declare candidacy and get into the race.

That's step one for me.

And then also let's stop allowing so many people in these debates.

Because nothing's budging and it's starting to feel a

little a little pointless it was a nice debate I think don't you think it was it was

pleasant mostly?

Yeah so I'm on board with all of the kudos that have been

thrown the moderator's way.

I definitely think they did the best job out of any of the moderators.

If this wasn't, if this weren't the 8 millionth debate that I had watched, I might have almost even enjoyed it.

They did a good job. Yeah I'm of two minds on this on one hand I think they did a good job but on the other hand I don't feel like this debate was that substantive, and so I don't

know if that ultimately reflects on the moderators, because I'm thinking back, and like, how much policy even was there like almost none it was an

awful lot about rhetoric and about whose position to beat Trump and what coalitions everybody has, but not no, almost no policy.

Yeah, I agree with you. I don't know how much of that we can lay at the feet of the moderators and the fact that we have you know

1412 candidates and so to your earlier point like I'm really looking forward to the December

debate which will have many fewer candidates.

And I'm, you know, speaking of being of two minds, Corey Booker last night really pulled on my heart strings

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