You ready?

I was born ready. Welcome back to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Escher. That's David French and boy do we have a treat of a

podcast for you today. We're going to eat some vegetables first as always, but

dessert is waiting. Before we start, first of all if you're listening to this podcast and you're in the Greater Tuscaloosa area,

we're having a live podcast Thursday, February 22nd at the University of Alabama Law School, so come on over. a second, I had

David, I had meant to do this in the last episode,

but forgot, there was a story that came out in Axios that said I was in discussions with Rob Her to help him with his

congressional testimony and several AO listeners felt that I had misled them and I hadn't I hadn't disclosed that when we talked about her before.

So I want to tell you the whole story after we taped our episode about the her stuff and I think it was

even after the next episode from that.

Rob Herr called me and asked whether I would consider helping him with his

congressional testimony. It was sort of a hypothetical convo at that point.

Congress hadn't asked for him to testify.

We just sort of can all assume that they were going to.

He didn't offer me a job.

I didn't accept a job.

And that's kind of how things have been left. And then like three hours later later a reporter had the story and it came out.

That's amazing.

It was very this town, David, that's like a, you know, what DC calls itself in the political stuff

hashtag this town it was a very this town moment but I felt like

of course I would have wanted to mention it on ao before the story came out

but we didn't have an episode. I haven't made a decision yet to be honest.

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