Nate Hockman is here.

He is an ISI fellow at National Review.

I'm also joined by our own Rachel Altman,

Tech Freedom's Director of Digital Media.

Nate is going to be talking with Rachel and me about free speech and social media.

More specifically, perhaps, we'll be talking about the American right and social media.

And we're definitely going to discuss Elon Musk's deal to purchase Twitter, because how could we not?

Maybe we'll also dip into the state of right-wing thought more

generally. I'm very pleased to have Nate here. You might say that he is stepping into hostile

territory a bit. He and some of my tech freedom colleagues have been known to mix it up on Twitter.

But I hope he'll feel at home and that we can learn something from each other, suss out some of the places where we agree and disagree.

Here's a subplot for the show.

Is our politics a fluid mess?

Or am I just a politically homeless squish?

So stick with us to find out. I think this will be a fun one. This, of course, is the tech policy podcast. I am Corbyn Barthold. Nate, welcome.

Corbin, it's good to be here and it's, you know, I'm happy to be behind enemy lines for once.

Nice, nice. Well, I've heard it said that there aren't enough podcast where people kind of mix it up and disagree.

So we'll hopefully fix that. And then I've heard people say that Twitter just makes people into

yelling kind of like the way people act in traffic. And so maybe we can have some peace and love.

Rachel, welcome to you too. How are you? How is it going?

Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here again. And I'm really excited that we have

Nate on because Nate and I have talked about politics a lot, but we've never actually gotten

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