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on the second half about the election, the midterms, and how wonderfully surprised and delighted I am. And I know just a couple of weeks ago, Dan and I were sort of bracing ourselves.

Me, maybe more so than even Dan, for something awful. I don't think awful happened. No.

So we're just gonna run through a couple different aspects of the election. And yeah, like I said, that'll be coming up on the second half.

But first, I have a little story here, Rachel, about a group of 30 people who got together in Chattanooga, Tennessee to protest a drag queen brunch.

Okay. A little theater there. Okay. It doesn't sound like it's a huge event. This was their first time attending a theater, a live theater, I imagine.

Well, I mean, I'll let you be the judge. It's like a biker crowd. I have a feeling they're not avid supporters of the arts.

But they definitely, I don't know what they support or don't support, but they definitely are not fans of drag.

And they definitely don't like the idea of the fact that this drag show was sort of an all ages event.

And this is kind of a thing right now. We're like, and it's a funny like, I don't know and tie it like I said, whatever you want to do, that's great.

And if you want to take your kid to a drag queen brunch or drag queen story hour at the local library. That's great.

That's your thing. You're exposing your kid to sort of different people and fun things like when it's these all age events, like the drag queens make it fun and appropriate.

They know their audience. Exactly. Right. But it's also such a strange line in the sand to be drawing in the culture wars.

The stakes don't feel very high for me. What do you mean?

Well, people who are doing the drag queen brunches and story hours, all ages, they know that they're going to be drawing a negative reaction from a lot of people.

Okay. Right. And like, like I just said, you have every right to do whatever you want to. But like the people on the right who are opposing it, it feels like why the fuck do you want to like control what people are doing?

Yeah, like they have the right to do like we live in a free country. You would be outraged if we told you what you could do with your kids.

Absolutely. So on their on their side, that's a strange line to like be going after because I thought the right was about personal freedom. Yeah, it turns out it's they're not.

No, but but then on the left, it's like, really, this is the hill we're going to die on. Right.

Like they've clearly never met a drag queen because there's nothing more like grandmotherly and fun than drag queens. Yeah, exactly.

Anyway, here's some reaction from one of the protesters. He says my objection is certainly very strong. They want to influence children to follow their lifestyle, their sins.

My first solution would be that no one under 18 years old would be allowed at a drag queen event.

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