his new book, "out on a limb: selected writing 1889 to 2021" is out tomorrow. readers can expect a tour of our times, a tour of andrew's mind, his life, his health, his unique view of what ails us all. he also writes a column "the weekly dish" available on substack, and hosts his own podcast called the dishcast. it is always a great pleasure to have you on the broadcast. in reading this, i'm reminded you were writing about the republican taliban back in '09. you were writing about mcconnell and the filibuster before it was a thing. and you write this on plagues, quote, this is a curious fact about some plagues but not others. some seem to shift society profoundly while others, however intense, are almost instantly forgotten. let's name two plagues. of the two for this purposes of this discussion, trumpism and