Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.

I'm Michael Bernalski, a political scientist at North Kentucky University.

With me today is my regular co-host, Cleveland Area Attorney and Republican fact totem Jay Carson.

Happy New Year, Mike.

Yeah, happy New Year to you, too. How are you doing?

I'm pretty, well, it's a little weird because it weird because it's, it's not exactly the new year yet.

That's true. Nope. Almost, but.

We don't, we don't know how a lot of bowl games have turned out and that sort of stuff.

So it's, but it will be.

I might actually, by the time people hear this, I might feel differently than I feel now. Yes, and hopefully by the time people hear this, I will feel differently because I am still

struggling under this sort of upper respiratory tract thing.

So with any luck, I will keep the hacking and what coughing to a minimum.

So we'll see how it goes, but I have high hopes.

Anyway, so if you're ready, Jay, we can just kind of plunge right in.

Yeah.

Okay, great.

So, you know, I wanted to start from a comment from our last listener mail show, and this is

from Eric, who sent us a link to a Miami Herald article that he thought that UJ might have been referencing

when you were discussing vote fraud, specifically ballots that have been found, that allegedly

had been found in an airport rental car. And Eric wrote, you will note that the article is titled,

no, those ballot boxes found in Broward don't contain votes,

officials say, and was published a full seven days before Jay went on to cite it or another

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