We are, I've heard this is called the bar at Conde Nasse.

So best, best doesn't actually really order coffee.

Best orders milk that has coffee in it.

You know, we love just getting a coffee and talking about terrible, terrible people.

Can I just have a small coffee with a splash of regular milk?

I'll do the same.

So I am based in DC and when I'm on the hill, it's very bizarre to actually see these individuals,

to see Lauren Bobert, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Like it seems as though there's real people you just think of them as awful collection of traits.

But they're real people who have awful collections of traits.

And they like walk and talk and interact.

Seeing, yeah, no, I was gonna say it's like seeing your like teacher, like at the grocery store, but it's not.

That's just like out of context.

This is just like seeing them in human form.

3D.

Yeah, I think they are so outlandish and ridiculous that you just assume that they don't truly exist.

What they do.

Shocking me, so.

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