Welcome to South Beach sessions. We've got Beto O'Rourke. I did not know that I would be doing this a politician selling a book. We've got to try. I am very disappointed with politics now and leadership in general, but I have been an admirer of your work from afar because even though I don't know very much about your policies, you do give off a fundamental decency with some of the things that you are saying. So I am happy to be talking to you.

I also think you can be helpful to me at this particular time in my life because my brother died a few days ago. My little brother, I don't particularly want to be talking to a politician who is selling a book right now or working in general. I am making some questions about the life choices I have made right now because of how much pain I am in. So I am grateful for your presence here even though that introduction didn't sound like it.

Well, I am grateful to be here and I got to tell you I am so sorry about David and I had a chance to listen to you the day after he died and first of all I was just impressed, amazed, confused by the fact that you were actually working so soon after he died. But it made sense to me in what you said about this last year with him and having this almost as timer.

You have this set amount of time within which you have this opportunity to connect with him, to talk to him, to receive whatever he wants to give back to you.

And I could tell that that meant a lot to you and it meant a lot to me. I was sharing with Matthew earlier, my mom is sick with cancer and a very tough cancer that's in many parts of her body right now.

And we're in that, we're in this time where we don't know how much time we have but we know that it's not going to be forever.

And I find myself and my sister Charlotte as well spending so much more time with my mom and so much more meaningful and powerful.

And what you said yesterday, man, if it connected with me, it connected with millions of people across this country who are living through or have lived through or will live through very similar situations.

And then I just got to say this, at first I was kind of shocked by the way that those around you responded, bringing laughter into this, giving you a hard time.

But that was also very beautiful. It was clearly what you needed. You lit up in a way with these people who are so close to you, giving you love in this way that only a really good friend or a family member can do.

So really sorry about your loss.

Thank you for all of that and thank you for paying attention to what it is that was happening around me because my wife didn't want me to come into work.

And one of my rationalizations beyond me and my brother always work. That's sort of the exile way. I appreciate how you're fighting for migrants because work was the way to freedom.

And this America was going to give us a freedom that nowhere else in the world could give us because I believed in that growing up.

And the work probably killed him. And I hope it can rescue me because I felt like I had to come say something because I didn't know who I would reach with whatever it is that I had to say.

But it meant me being broken, vulnerable in front of a public that historically can't be trusted with that vulnerability. And so I feared it. I've been sobbing all week.

But I'm pretty sure Matthew, the aforementioned Matthew, South Beach sessions producer, he is pushing me to be more publicly vulnerable.

And this one is as broken as I can be in front of people.

But you experienced similar loss recently, right? I mean, you are very close to your sister who was eight years younger than you, Aaron.

Aaron, eight years younger, our little sister, Charlotte is four years younger than I am. So we're spaced by it by four years. Aaron, who just extraordinary human being talked to her every single day, multiple times a day, born with significant intellectual and learning disabilities.

You know, it was in the special ed classes at our public schools, you know, lived with me for a while, lived with my mom for a long time, lived in an assisted living community towards the end of her life in Carlsbad, New Mexico, an amazing place.

And you know, had progressively gotten less healthy over the course of her life, had diabetes, had had some other issues, and towards the end of last year fell and fractured her hip.

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