Jessica Tarlov

Oh, great.

I love when that happens.

Because I was thinking before you got on, I was like, all right, what does my banter section with Heather Cox Richardson look like?

I was like, the weather, and then we're both 21 degrees.

So that's not really that interesting.

I was watching a stream from a couple days ago that you ran over your mailbox.

So I was like, maybe we talk mailbox.

I wish 15 years ago I could still remember those stats.

I do a lot of prep, so—

I get the rundown of the topics that we're going to discuss at 11 a.m.

and then I prep until 5 p.m.

So I kind of like hone in on the core points that I want to make.

And I'm a bit of, you know, what is it, like a dog with a bone that I know that I want to get to certain things.

But you know how it is, like when you talk about these things all the time and

You're just building on the information that's already in the reservoir.

And I have pretty good recall for past stats, I guess, that I've used.

But that's such a wonderful question.

And actually, I'm writing a book about that very question and that point and why it's so important to talk to people that you disagree with and to be armed with database information.

set of points to make sure that you can make it as strongly as possible and as unemotionally as possible, which is, you know, dangerous places for women to be, I think, when you get into the kind of the feelings arguments.

Yeah, I don't think you're going to get the apology.