debunktion junction, what's my function? all right. we begin with a story that starts with a weird thing that happened on this show way back when we were little a tiny little show and i interviewed lincoln chafee from rhode island. he came on the show to talk about the rift in the republican party and while i was talking about that, he made an announcement. >> i'm running as an independent here in rhode island. rhode island has a strong streak of independence, and it's the largest voting bloc of unaffiliated voters in rhode island. so i decided to run as an independent. >> lincoln chafee was running for governor of rhode island. [ buzzer ] not quite. the morning after he made that announcement on this show, i'm running as an independent, he took it back the next day. it's not that he didn't mean he was running, it's just that he still had this job at brown. he didn't actually mean to make the formal announcement that he