Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination.

Not a car in the world, as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there.

This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does.

Avanti West Coast. Feel good travel.

So sadly, podcasting is not the most visual medium. So for those of you who are listening, which was all of you, I will just describe the kind of amazing profusion of microphones around Quinta.

It's like it's like one of those, you know, old-timey recordings or videos of someone testifying before Congress and their 17 microphones in front of them.

Quinta, why the embarrassment of microphones? Can you not be contained?

I was actually thinking of the of the meme where there's one guy standing there and he has like a ton of microphones on his face and another person standing next to him looking sad with no microphones.

Yeah, so we are attempting an experiment. We are attempting to improve our sound quality here at Lauper HQ at the Brookings Institution.

So I have a hard-word mic in front of me, and I also have a USB mic because I don't trust technology, and I wanted to make sure that I had a backup in case anything terrible happened.

That's the two microphones. It looks very hardcore. Sadly, sadly, sadly on the recording will not be twice as much Quinta as the rest of us, which is what I know the audience.

It's really sought after exactly, and we're still going to sound like complete garbage challenge. We're lazy to go to the office.

Yeah, no, I'm actually I'm recording just like trading to like a moose's head. I don't even have a microphone. It's how we do it in Minnesota.

But that the moose is engineered using Linux.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to rational security. I am your co-host Scott R. Anderson, and I'm here with my two other regular co-hosts reunited once again.

Hello, and Alan Rosenstein. Hello, hello. It is so great to be back in this virtual chamber with you all.

Although I am missing the opportunity to be in person with you, Quinta, sadly, in our new Institute recording studio, which we may yet try out next week, in which case we will slowly exclude Alan in his virtual Minnesota chapter.

We're going to put you on one of those robots where there's like a computer screen and the robot has little wheels and it goes around and it'll just be your face.

We'll have an intern be a arrested development style surrogate for Alan, where he just wears out. Where's an iPad hanging around his neck? I think that may be the plan. If we get enough interns apply today, guys.

Applications are open for law fair and turn. This suddenly became a black mirror episode.

Enough of the first time. Let's be honest.

Well, I am excited to be back here with both of you for what I at least am culling the sign Pol Pot Ricky card edition this week, because we have a lot of cool interesting events happening in the news by which I mean depressing and a little disturbing.

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