#236 Catching Up w/ Doug Heye
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Long-time friend of RTN Doug Heye returns to share his take on the state of politics in the US. Doug has served as communications director for the Republican National Committee, chief-of-staff to House majority leader Eric Cantor and has been active in national politics since the 1990s. Our conversation covers the recent primary elections, the prospects for the midterm elections this fall and, in a transition that's increasingly easy to make, professional wrestling.
You can follow Doug on twitter at @DougHeye. This is Doug's fifth appearance on RTN, and if you haven't heard our episode w/ Doug, Rufus Edmiston & Molly Worthen recorded live at Cat's Cradle in January 2022 (RTN #158), we highly recommend you check that one out!
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I enjoy a good round of golf. |
| 0:07.0 | My grandfather was a great golfer, but it never caught on with me when I was a child. |
| 0:11.0 | So I picked up the sport a few years ago. |
| 0:13.0 | I threw my clubs in the bus, and I play as often as I can when I'm out on tour. |
| 0:18.0 | One thing I've come to appreciate is a great fitting, great looking polo shirt at the |
| 0:22.6 | right price. After trying a few different brands, I came across cricket that spelled C-R-I-Q-U-E-T. |
| 0:29.1 | I immediately fell in love with their timeless designs. All cricket shirts are made from super soft, |
| 0:35.1 | top-of-the-line fabrics. My personal favorite is the top shelf player's shirt. |
| 0:39.8 | It's got a four-button placket hard collar with removable collar stays. It reminds me of the |
| 0:44.9 | shirts my grandfather used to wear. I feel as good wearing a cricket shirt on stage or a night |
| 0:50.3 | out with my family as I do on the golf course. Go to cricket shirts.com. That's spelled |
| 0:56.3 | C-R-I-Q-U-E-T-Sirts.com. Put in the discount code Road to Now for 20% off your first order. |
| 1:04.3 | You're going to dig these shirts. I'm Bob Crawford. I'm Ben Sawyer. And this is the road to now. |
| 1:11.9 | Here we are. |
| 1:12.8 | Here we are. |
| 1:13.5 | And here we are with our, the first guest, the first guest Bob and I ever had on the road to now. |
| 1:19.2 | We're still in the, close to the six year anniversary mark for the podcast. |
| 1:24.7 | It's great to have back on the show, high i'm i'm so sorry that it's a |
| 1:29.6 | rerun already right um but it's good to be with you hey if we're doing redos after six years |
| 1:35.3 | we're doing pretty good i would like to take a redo in the last six years honestly with politics |
| 1:40.6 | jimmy do you think a mulligan yeah i think a lot of us would, yeah. Well, Doug, you were so kind, you know, to be, and I know we've said this before, because you were there for our fifth anniversary. Yeah. But, you know, you were kind to, you know, give us a start. Give us, you gave us our start at doing this. You were very patient. |
| 2:01.1 | And you spoke for, I believe, it was like close to two hours when we, when we talk. |
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