We're back, we're back, it's this traction, I'm true, that's raw, are you doing raw?

I'm good man, it's an improvement.

Yeah, last time we did this last week, we were in a strange grey zone between election

night and the announcement of the winner who's Joe Biden on Saturday, so it was this sort

of terrifying limbo.

Now we get to live through a different limbo.

Yeah.

Where the Republicans and Trump are having a staged, like a pretend coup, so that they

don't offend Trump voters too much that they decide to, I don't know, vote for like...

They're trying to raise money for the Senate.

Yeah, they're trying to raise money for the Senate races in Georgia, and the way they're

doing it is by, I guess like casting doubt on the democratic process as an idea.

Yeah.

I know, it's cool, it's a bold gambit, and as somebody who respects gamblers and people

who are out there just having fun slinging it around, it's farvian, and I like that.

I don't mean to make you more uneasy, but we have a guest this week, and our guest, what

is one of the most hardcore interviewers on the planet, it's the New Yorker's own,

Isaac Chotner, how you doing, Isaac?

Good, thanks for having me.

Thank you.

Now, are you going to put the screws to us this week, or do we get to put the screws

to you?

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