Coming to you from Austin, Texas, one of the few cities in the United States with a whimsy-based economy.

It's the political orphanage, a big cardboard box for fun, attractive, and thoughtful people

who champion humor and discourse over shouting and chainsaws.

Get ready to get sopping wet with nuance.

I'm your host Andrew Heaton.

And in T-minus 19 minutes, I'm going to talk to a gun-toting Englishman about guns.

Charlie Cook is a writer for national review and a public intellectual who, despite this, voluntarily lives in Florida.

And he's going to jump on the horn with me for a solid, thoughtful, and surprisingly cheerful

dialogue about how best to keep America safe, from criminals or violent lunatics and of course

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We have fun at the top of the show and then afterwards in this case about 18 minutes from now.

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