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avante west coast feel good travel Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on the Times I'm Matt Chorley.

Whisper it but Politics in Westminster is a tiny bit boring at the moment as Jeremy Hunt

tours the TV studios demanding to know why Boris Johnson isn't touring the TV studios and

we await the coronation next month.

So to mark July the 4th, Independence Day later this week,

we're going to attempt a Transatlantic episode,

linking up with David Charter the Times U.S. editor

and our Washington correspondent Boer Deng in Washington,

and if the string between the yogurt pots will stretch, we've also got on the line Ben Hoyle,

the US West Coast Bureau Chief, live from LA. Are you all there? We are here.

Hi man.

I'm here too man. Perfect. This is this is working. This is very exciting.

Now before we get down to the importance to actually talk about politics and all of that.

Just because I know I spoke to David when he first moved over to Washington last year, we did a

podcast about what it's like to be a Times foreign correspondent.

Just quickly, just talk me through what time do you have to get I think we basically we all get up very early just for different reasons in different parts of the world. So Ben just talk us through briefly your your sort of typical day of being a

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