I think that the Republicans taking both the House and the Senate will have massive repercussions.

So I feel the same way, although I do feel like at 22, I probably don't have enough life experience

to be the most credible person aside from the fact that I'm coming up through the context of

somebody who's totally disillusioned with bipartisanship because it's all I've really known.

And you're speaking of a lot of people on that, so...

Yeah, I mean, I'm shocked actually, like since I've been speaking out and being more vocal about

my own beliefs, the amount of people in my life that I would never know, think similarly or have

similar suspicions about the system. Newarkers who pretend that they're like, yeah, no, I'm totally

bloomed, totally down the line. Like, no, everyone's... everyone secretly has their doubts and has

a lot more kind of forward-party energy than I think people realize.

It is my pleasure to welcome to Ford Columnus for the New York Post co-host of the podcast

The Lost Debate and Fellow Political Independent to Size Up Election Day. Ricky Schlott, welcome,

Ricky. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here.

Excited to have you. So, Ricky, you have a fascinating origin story where you and I were bonding

over our love for a book, The Cuddling of the American Mind, by my friend Jonathan Height and Greg

Luke Keanuff. Yes. And you read this book and had a profound impact on you.

I did. I read it my freshman year of college and I'm 22, so I'm very much in my brief Gen Z.

And all of their analysis was, in part, I looked at myself and I said, oh, they're really right.

And this is why I feel this way and think this way. And I looked around me at the environment and

thought I felt a little like an ideological outsider at NYU at my time there. And a lot of that

kind of liberalism that I was seeing, they diagnosed in such a concise way without making it

a partisan argument at all. I think that they really nailed it and just making it palatable to

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