Welcome to the Pull Work Podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. It is Tuesday and it may be a day late,

but we are certainly not a dollar short, so we'll sell it and back on the podcast. Will, how you doing?

I'm okay, Charlie. I usually have me in stitches on this show and I decided to get a head start.

I already have the stitches. I was in a basketball game on Sunday and I got elbowed, so I'm going to be

working on a go-t to cover up the stitches on my face. Was it a flagrant foul? Was it, I mean, what?

What happened? You know to add in? I'm supposed to do a non-context sport, just mentioning it.

Yeah, supposedly. Well, what happened was I was defending this guy and I decided he wasn't going

to the basket and he decided he was. So I believe to add insult to injury, I would have been called

for backing up during the confrontation. So how many, you actually literally have stitches?

You went to the hospital? Yeah, I mean, you went to the urgent care center? Yeah, just went in and

then they said, oh yeah, you need stitches for that. So, but I know I'm fine. It's I'm all

soed up and I'm going to be back on the court next Sunday. Okay, so where do you want to start today?

This is one of those those target rich environment stories. I actually was working on a piece which I

I didn't write for today. The just the casual acceptance of anti-Semitism by American conservatives

which on earth 2.0 would be kind of an historic new chapter in a very, very old book. But there's

so much else that's that's going on here. We have this new New York Times, Sienna Poll that basically

says that voters really are concerned about the death of democracy, but they don't appear inclined

to do anything about it. We had senatorial debates in Ohio and Utah and I know you were watching

the Utah debate in which I think barbs were traded, right? Yes, yes, yes, I think. Is that the cliche?

As an as an old hotliner from the early days of of internet, sure political journalism, we

always said every headline barbs traded in debate. Yes, so and so did what they had to do. The bar

was low, but they they cleared it. And I'm also wrestling with the fact that one of the reasons why

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