Welcome to the Reason Roundtable, your weekly Libertarian podcast, where grooming is something

that only happens to extremely large dogs.

I am Matt Welch, joined by Nick Gillespie, Peter Souderman, and subbing in for Catherine

Mangue Ward, none other than our new-ish assistant editor, Fiona, Herrigan, please clap,

hello everybody, and especially Fiona.

Hey, Matt.

Hello.

Happy Monday.

There's, well, even before any of this, I just want to say, for you 160 or so listeners

who we saw at the Reason Weekend conference in Nashville, I was just tremendous.

We did a live show there that was done, posted on Friday, but like so many people listened

to this thing very, very closely and were giving feedback on possible future cultural recommendations

at the end of the show.

It was just very lovely to hear how closely everyone's listening.

I don't know if Nick and Peter want to add to my sense of gratitude towards those lovely

people.

It was a great event.

It was a great event, and it was great to meet listeners and get to hear, I get to know

them a little bit, right, because it wasn't just sort of one hour and then a little bit

of meet and greet afterwards.

It was that we spent the whole weekend there and getting to know some of the listeners

and understand their relationship with the show, just really gratifying, and so thank

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