Welcome to the Reason Roundtable, your dependably weekly libertarian podcast from the

venerable magazine of Free Minds and Free Markets.

I'm Matt Welch, joined for the first time in a while, the Roundtable A team of Nick

Gillespie, Peter Suterman and a triumphantly returning Catherine Mangu, editor and

chiefist ward. Happy reunion everyone.

Howdy.

Happy Monday. Hey, Matt.

Catherine, before we get this party started, can you tell the class what you have learned

about Real America during your summer vacation?

I did not go to Real America. I went to Rehobith, Delaware, where the president of the United States

was also. So basically, I brought Washington with me on vacation and, um, you know, Washington

is still better at the beach.

Did you go to the beach with Dr. Jill Biden?

I wish. I mean, they were lurking, but I had to eat my thrashers fries all alone and without

ketchup as is traditional. That is disgusting. All right, let's get into the news of last week

and this week and every week, apparently. So on Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland

appointed a special counsel to oversee a dog's breakfast worth of investigations into the

maloderous activities of Hunter Biden, I think we need to put a C in front of that H.

They're Hunter Biden, the president's occasionally crackheaded criminal of a son who has made

many millions of dollars over the years, despite having no evident talents aside from a willingness

to trade on his politically famous last name. The appointment was prompted in part by a highly

irregular collapse of a highly irregular plea bargain slash diversion agreement deal in a

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