beloved co-workers or anybody nels that space. so again, i m fine. there is absolutely nothing to worry about whatsoever. i m trying to do my part to mike sure i don t put anybody else at risk. so please forgive this. actually, i had makeup dropped off for me today, like on my front porch so i could do it myself but i don t know how to do that, so i just didn t. hope you don t mind. forgive this. forgive any lighting or backdrop complaints, i m just trying to be safe. welcome to 2022. this is the way it works. also because everything else happens at once, i have one other announcement before we get under way tonight. a couple of years ago ago you may remember i did a podcast, a relatively short seven episode single arc podcast called bagman and nixon s vice president spiro
agnew and an extortion ring out of the white house and strumabled on the evidence of him being corrupt and taking envelopes of cash across his desk while being a public official and put together a criminal case against him even though he was the sitting vice president and all in the middle of watergate, only thanks to those prosecutors that we didn t end up with president agnew when nixon resigned in disgrace, it would have been after the national trauma and disgrace of water-gate, it would next have been president agnew, the felon, presumably taking envelopes full of cash in the oval office instead of in his vice presidential office. had these prosecutors not followed their case to the end and forced agnew to resign, this is what would have happened. i think it is an absolutely amazing story. it turns out to be the very surprising origin story of why the justice department thinks a