Hello and welcome to the political orphanage a home for plucky misfits and, and Problem Solvers.

And Vagabonders, as your intrepid host

Andrew Heaton is coming to you on location

from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the site of the 2024 National

Republican Convention that I am at this time. of the helicopter might well pass by the sounds of Republicans chattering within

elbow distance of yours truly if not some gentle Toby Keith we will no

doubt here at some point wafting across the background I also ask that you forgive a slightly rambling monologue

today as I did not have time to both be on location and script a proper episode as I would like to do so it's going to be a little bit more off the top of my head but I have at least outlined this and let us hope that what we are sacrificing for quality we make up for in speed and the joy of being on location.

Where, among other things, I hope to eat my body weight and cheese.

Very excited to be in Wisconsin for the first time.

Very excited and want to convert maybe 10% of my biomass to this

great state via cheese by the end of the five days that I'm here. It is my goal to eat nothing

but cheese. Between now and Saturday morning when I fly out.

I believe I can do this.

I believe I've been training my entire life to do this, to eat nothing but cheese, all of which is tax deductible, because I'm in fact covering the

Republican National Convention.

And I'm lucky to do so, incidentally. The press pass that I applied for, or rather failed to apply for, required a doing so six months ahead of time. I didn't know that. I kind of figured it'd be like a couple of months. I didn't know you had to apply for six months ahead of time I didn't know that I kind of figured it'd be like a couple of months I didn't know you had to apply for six months ahead of this so as a result my dear friend Justin Robert Young the host of politics politics politics has temporarily deputized me as his producer. I am for legal purposes a

contract employee of p. x3 this week while I'm here. I wanted to do it with

Jen briny, host of congressional dishes also here. I wanted to do it with Jen Briny, host of congressional dish who's also here. I wanted her to bring me on as a temporary employee because I would immediately unionize. I would immediately unionize and demand profit sharing on congressional dish.

That would have been really funny, but as it is, I think I'm just going to have to

contend with one can assume voracious sexual harassment from Justin Robert Young.

He's been very, very gracious and respectful as colleagues,

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