if there's one thing I know how to do to make things gay.

Even my name, you just take a limb, you make a little gay.

Oh, that's funny. I never thought about that.

You never thought about that, Nathaniel?

The gay is in your name? No.

I assume that's the first thing that comes to people's mind the first time they hear my name.

No, because gay is just like one syllable, and it's like only like 40% of your name.

Well, tell that to my fourth grade bullies, Nathaniel.

Yeah, they weren't thinking about the data.

This is not database bullying.

Hello. Hello and welcome to the 538 politics podcast.

I'm Gailen Drew.

I was off last week, so thank you, Nathaniel, for filling in for me.

It seems like a lot happened while I was gone. Not necessarily the kinds of things that we cover on this

podcast, but nonetheless, I'm going to ask my colleagues to catch me up and fill me in on what

Americans think about some of what's happened, whether it is American politics and Trump's

nominees and the likes, or some of the wilder things that have happened abroad over

these past week and a half. I had my news notifications turned off until this morning, and I also

was not seeking out news in pavers. So bear with me. Here to fill me in. First off, we have

senior researcher Mary Radcliffe. Welcome to the podcast, Mary. Good morning, Galen. How are you? I'm doing pretty well. It's good to see you after a week off. I missed you, Mary.

We missed you too. Although Nathaniel did an excellent job.

So I hear. I'll, I have not heard yet, but I am. I'm not going to listen.

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