Well, let me begin first by thanking all of you for taking the time out of your evening

to join me and my guest, Congressman Tim Ryan, this evening.

It's very much appreciated.

We'll be on for an hour having a conversation. Tim and I will talk for a while.

If you have questions, please submit them into the comments section.

We'll try to get to as many of them as we can.

About halfway through, we'll start.

But to begin with, it's a real pleasure to introduce my friend

congressman tim ryan recently retired from congress after 10 terms from the 13th district of

ohio unindicted no convictions at the end of his 20 years of service. Welcome, Tim Ryan, to the warning. Thanks for being

here. Great to be on, Steve. Thanks so much. So talk to us a little bit about retirement after 20

years in Congress. What are you doing? It's glorious? It's, it's glorious. I mean, it's just,

you know, to be out of the, out of the insanity, you know, it didn't take long to really kind of

catch my breath. And I started coaching Brady, who you know, my eight-year-old.

I was assistant to the assistant to the assistant of his basketball team,

eight-year-old, and having a ball with that. I was about three weeks after I lost the election for Senate.

Steve, I'm in the middle of an eight-year-old basketball game,

and I'm sitting next to the head coach,

and the referee made a bunch of really bad calls because the kids are just banging in each other,

and the coach gets up, and he's screaming at the referee, and he's on the court.

The athletic director comes over and yells at him, and I'm just sitting there thinking three weeks before this,

I was having a debate about

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