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Hello, one and all, and welcome back to the Damage Report with our new look for this week of tests that we're going to be doing.

I hope that it's not too terrifying for you.

It is definitely terrifying.

Edwin, are you terrified? He's in the corner. I'm already, it's everything's different. It's a different setup, a different tech thing. But same co-hosts, we have that goal. We have our Rock, our Monday Rock, J.R. Jackson. How's it going? If you smell, hey, what's going on? I Didn't realize what I set you up for there.

It's the very first thing, if I could actually pull it off as well as the rock could, I would have finished it. I stopped because I was like, this is going to be garbage. Happy, happy Monday, John, it's the best damn day of the week. I immediately saw that set. I was like, this is glorious. Where is Edwin when this falls apart? No, Edwin will be here so that when it falls apart, which it will, Edwin can rush to save it.

But yeah, we could you come back to just my shot for just a sec?

We thought that we have been unfair to the president because he has revealed the truth of the state of Washington, D.C., that it is effectively Mad Max Fury Road.

So this is a live shot of DC. It is on fire. Some of the White House has been demolished.

I'm not gonna blame that on the people of DC. I think Trump did that one, but the rest of it is on fire.

And so finally our set reflects the reality of our nation's capital. And what I like about this setup is not only does it sort of call to mind the initial key art we did to like promo the show back in the day and everything,

but like theoretically, if things ever get better, then we can put like nice happy shots in the background.

But don't worry, Carlos, I don't think you're going to have to do any graphics work anytime soon. This is probably going to be a

representative for a while. And look, this is the type of thing. The set is glorious. I got to be honest. I'm a little jealous. It's very nice. That's a nice jump to the beginning. I did a great shot. I'm responsible for absolutely none of it. I complained for a while. I guess I did that, but I'm not one of the talented people that actually made it work, tech wise or graphics wise. But anyway, I'm also realizing now, so this first week, by the way, I'm not going to be here next week. So we're going to do a fun test week and then awesome people are going to fill in. This is your early heads up for that. You're going to have one day of Sharon, two days of Yaz, two days of Jordan, which is pretty much what I think everybody agrees would be the perfect distribution of hosting resources on the damage report. But anyway, we're going to be doing this test for this week, mainly because we need to work out the kinks, like figure out stuff that we need that we might not have. And I realized I didn't set up any of the chat windows. So like I'm blind to what the audience is saying until we get to the social break.

So already I'm figuring out some of the things I need to work on. But anyway, with that said, we'll be getting people's thoughts. Only positive. If it's negative, not only will I not read it, but I will ban you for life from the chat. So now is the part of the show we're going to try to do the full rundown.

I'm assuming we can. I don't know. Let's find out together by jumping into this. The SNAP benefits is a unique situation. I got a summary of the

whole legal analysis and it certainly looks legitimate to me. The contingency funds are not legally available to cover the benefits right now.

The reason is because it's a finite source of funds.

It was appropriated by Congress.

And if they transfer funds from these other sources, it pulls it away immediately from school

mills and infant formula.

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