 bullseye you are not going to believe what joe biden offers up as a defense of that nonsense but first welcome back to the program glad to get to your phone calls and emails in just a moment and if you want to join what we call the best conversation in talk journalism it's right here every day at 866 hey lars that's 866-439-5277 send your emails to talk at lars larson.com and if my voice sounds a little bit on the rough side