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Slack.com slash DHQ. How are you doing? Good, a little bit tired. She got it this morning.

You got here this morning? Yeah. Where you want to rad-eye? Yeah.

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast. I'm Gaelin Drouk. I'm Nathaniel Reed-Silver.

And this is Monital Talk. As listeners, I'm sure can tell, we are back in studio together.

We were synchronized again on that. What's your full name, Gaelin? My full name is Weird.

It's Galen Burn Drouk. B-U-R-N-E? No, B-E-R-N. Oh, like feel the burn? Feel the burn. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Or like short for Bernard or Bernice. One of my parents had a family name Bernat and the other had a family name Bernice.

And they couldn't like settle on which one to name me. And so they just chose Bern. That's honestly actually why my middle name is Bern.

I like that. Yeah. It's all about compromise. Yeah. And it's resulted in me having three names that are all like not real names.

Galen's normal ish. Is it? I mean Drouk's kind of made up. Drouk definitely feels made up. Yeah.

Gaelin's burn is literally made up. Yeah. And Galen is rare. Yeah. But my parents knew. My parents knew the kind of person they were naming when they named me Galen.

Okay. By which I mean a Greek physician. Is that what a Galen is? No, I know. Yeah.

I was making a gay joke. Nate. Come on. Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh. Okay. But if you have to explain it, it's not.

Is this the part where we tell the audience that you slept on a red eye last night? And that's why my humor isn't landing. Not because I'm not funny.

You know, I got some I got some nothing in here in there. Okay. I don't feel too bad. More importantly, I can guess the reason that you were on a red eye last night because I saw you on TV. Yeah.

And I purposefully decided not to do any more research. I just only wanted to have the information that was presented to me in this one clip that I saw on Twitter.

And apparently you were doing a dirty diaper. You were on poker TV. It was it looked very dramatic. Yeah. You achieved whatever the thing was that you wanted to achieve. And the headline or caption or whatever, which I retweeted.

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