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Welcome to the Bullwork Podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. We are only about one week into the

new Congress, not even really one week into the new Congress. So this seems like a good

time to talk with a guy who is now able to look at this snow globe of shit from the outside.

Adam Kinzinger joins us again on the podcast. Adam, how the hell are you? I'm good. I kind

of feel like I can float now a little bit. You know, once you've been weighed down for

12 years with increasingly heavy pressure as you get to the end. It's like, now I feel

like I weigh about a tenth of the foot. You know, it takes a while to detox out of this.

It's not something that happens overnight. I'm probably halfway detoxed and I don't

know how long the other half takes, but every day that goes by and every percent more

closer to detox is like more of a permanent smile on my face. It feels good. I love that.

But what do you mean by detox? What is the process like? Man, it's hard to explain. It's

like everybody has had a job or like a situation that just kind of weighs on you that like,

no matter if you go home at five o'clock at night or it's a Saturday, it's always there.

And that's like politics all the time, particularly in the last couple. Yeah, it just grinds.

And so the detox to me is just kind of like, okay, I can start putting it away more. I

don't actually have to watch the news all the time. You know, and just I feel less responsible

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