Welcome to the Al Franken podcast.

We got a great one today for a change.

Harry Reid, a former majority leader, also former minority leader in the Senate.

I loved Harry.

Went to his home in Henderson, Nevada.

This is about a half hour from Las Vegas Airport.

And I hadn't seen Harry in a while.

Harry is the strongest guy.

He grew up in Searchlight, Nevada.

It was a mining town until they ran out of gold. And they ran out of

gold around the turn of the century, of the 20th century. And then it got very rough. His house

had running water, but no hot running water. Now, what happened in Searchlight is that when the mining went away, the economy of Searchlight ran on prostitution.

They had, at the height, 11 brothels.

And Harry learned to swim in the swimming pool of brothel. He talks about that in this.

And so I'm, yeah, I just think it's an interesting story. If you hear it repeated by Harry, you'll,

you'll appreciate that. He was a boxer. He was a capital cop. And Harry had, he appreciated my, my sense of humor, maybe more than any of my

colleagues, a certain kind of thing. Like once, I remember Bernie Sanders, people forget that as a

senator, he also does a job in the Senate. So he was like, I think at this time, the ranking

member of a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, and he came to in the caucus lunch with what

the Republicans were proposing. And he comes, he says, okay, they want to cut food stamps, but they also want to cut taxes for the rich.

What kind of religion does that?

What kind of religion is for that?

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