I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

Welcome to another episode of the Macarius Health's podcast. Today I have somebody who you guys see me on TV with all the time.

He's a really good friend of mine and we actually have really good chemistry which is it shows on television

but he's none other than the king of Louisville himself

Rick but no I'm sorry Scott Jennings how, how are you, my right?

Everything going good?

Yeah, man, good to be with you.

Thanks for the invite.

Good, good, good.

You know, a lot of times when people see us on TV,

they just think that we're characters that appear out of thin air,

but we actually have lives and we've actually done this work before. So I start each one of my episodes by having our guest walk us through the arc of their career and you straddled defense between politics and journalism for some time.

Talk about your various career stops since Louisville.

Yeah, thanks for letting me talk through my past here.

It's been a long journey, but a fun journey. I started at the University of

Louisville back in the 90s and wanted to be a journalist. I was a radio news anchor and a reporter and really

thought that was going to be my path. In 2000 though, I got a call from US Senator

Mitch McConnell who was recruiting me to go work for then Texas Governor George W Bush and decided to leave it behind and join the Bush campaign and really the rest is history as far as my political career goes. We won that race. I went to on to work on a couple other campaigns here in Kentucky. I worked on the Bush

Cheney-04 campaign. I went to the White House and worked for Carl Rove after that.

I did come home at the end of the Bush administration and got into the public affairs business and still do some political consulting along the way but mostly now my company runs which public relations it's over 10 years old we havesomething employees. We do work all over the country and have a really nice client mix and a really good team here. I do dabble in politics some. I've got a few, you know, clients out there but but mostly we're corporate

corporate public affairs firm most of my political work these days Bakari has

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