Um, how long, how long do you think you could do it if you had to do it? Well, if I were super, super dehydrated and had like a million blow pops, maybe 10 hours, because I've gone three hours straight talking at conferences and stuff, right?

Yeah.

So what would you talk about if you had to just fill those hours?

Oh, I have so many monologues and poems memorized.

I would just go through them all.

And then I would do that pilot trick where like I would say uh in between I think that

after I got through Kubla Khan and the cremation of Sam McGee I think it'd be kind of fun just sort

of speak on any subject whatsoever just talking and talking in one long, credibly unbroken sentence.

Moving from topic to topic so that no one had the chance to be into proud.

It was really quite igniting.

Nodding.

Would you like them in a house?

Would you like them with a mouse?

I am a knot on China.

Gee.

I do not like them in a house. I do not like them with a mouse. I am a nut on China. Gee. I do not like them in a house. I do not like

them with a mouse. China, China, China, China, China, China. Five Chinese. I would go for another 12

hours to try to break Strom Thurman's record, but I've discovered that there are some limits

to filibustering, and I'm going to have to go take care of one of those in a few minutes here.

You're listening to Civics 101. I'm to Capadice. I'm Hannah McCarthy. And today we are talking

about a uniquely American institution, the filibuster. What it is, it's history, how it has changed over

the last 200 years, and finally, arguments for

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