Hey, everybody. I am going to be live streaming again tonight. So come hang out with me on

YouTube or Substack. We'll be taking your questions. We'll be doing some politics talk.

It's also my excuse to talk about other stuff. I'm very mad about a wired article about geese.

I can tell you my faves from Coachella. Whatever. We'll just hang out. I'll tell you my favorite British curses that I learned from this podcast coming up. And it'll be a good time. So we'll be live at 7 in the East. So if you want to hang out, ask me some questions, pop on to our feeds. Also, once again, a reminder about the live shows coming up in California.

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See you all there.

Up next, we've got Alistair Campbell from The Rest is Politics.

Very excited.

Stick around for it.

Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

I'm your host Tim Miller. Delighted to welcome to the show for the first time somebody from across the pond. He's a British writer, political strategist, and co-host of the rest is politics. It's Alistair Campbell. How you doing, sir? I'm very well. Love is to be here. Let's just do a little first date stuff first before you get to the news. You know, tell us your backstory before you

came a podcaster, favorite oasis song, how you take your tea. Oh, okay. Tea, milk no sugar,

favorite oasis song, probably all around the world, actually, all around the world. Love that.

And backstory, born in Yorkshire in the north of England, but very Scottish family, play the bagpipes, wore a kilt when I was a kid because my dad made me.

Wow.

And went to university, did languages, went into journalism, through journalism, political journalism, and then got into politics.

And that's when I ended up working for Tony Blair, did that for about a decade.

And since then, I've been doing lots of different things. There you go. For Tony Blair, you achieved

the job that I never did, right? You're his communications man, his flack. Yeah.

Basically. Yeah. Yeah. All my candidates lost. So I never got that job well we we did a lot we

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