News consumers are often unaware of just how friendly the power players in Washington are, and those relationships are often undisclosed. You can tell that Trump haters have a common cause, but it can go much deeper than that.

On CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper on September 3, the host brought on Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to promote his new book (of old essays) titled On Heroism: McCain, Milley, Mattis, and the Cowardice of Donald Trump. These two men are obviously allies. But they’re also good friends.

This made me recall the newest season of the Netflix food show Somebody Feed Phil, starring Phil Rosenthal, the creator of the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. In an episode touting food spots in Washington, D.C., he had dinner with Goldberg and Tapper at the Indian restaurant Rasika.

The first clue of the friendship is Tapper walking in and tickling the back of Goldberg’s head. Tapper announced, “His kids babysat for my kids.” This doesn’t appear in an on-screen graphic when Goldberg appears on Tapper’s show. Later, he mocked Goldberg when he started talking about his visit to a nuclear bunker. That’s a Washington flex, Tapper said, like saying “once I was talking to Fidel Castro over mojitos…”