Welcome to the Lost Debata Show for Politically Ecclectics.

I'm Ravi Gupta.

And today we welcome back Bradley Tusk.

He's been on this podcast a few times.

But for those of you who are new to Bradley, he is the CEO and founder of Tusk Ventures.

And really his specialty is helping companies scale and survive in highly regulated industries, which means he's a glutton

for punishment. He also was the campaign manager for Bloomberg 2009 and is a veteran of politics,

which he wrote about in a wonderful book called The Fixer. He also recently wrote a book

called Obvious in Hindsight, which we talked about on this podcast not long ago,

which is a wonderful fictional depiction of a CEO of a flying car company and draws a lot on

Bradley's experience in all the industries that I alluded to. Bradley also has done a lot of work on

hunger issues through Tusk philanthropies. But I could talk about this forever. Bradley, welcome to the podcast. We've got a lot to talk about today. Hey, thanks for having me back. And you're coming at us from your bookstore slash studio on the Lowery side? Yeah, I have to say, I'm like a little dismayed. So Ravi lived in the neighborhood of the store for years and years.

And when I saw him pop up on the screen, I started giving a little shit and saying, hey, man, couldn't you walk like three blocks? Like, we have a studio here. He sold out and moved to Brooklyn like everybody else. I'll be back, you know. I am a little bored out here. I was born in Brooklyn, so it's a bit of a homecoming. Which hospital you were born at? Lutheran Medical Center, which actually where my parents met each other.

My dad's a doctor and my mom's a nurse.

So yeah. born in Brooklyn, so it's a bit of a homecoming. Which hospital would be born at? Lutheran Medical Center, which actually where my parents met each other.

My dad's a doctor and my mom's a nurse. So, yeah. Mine was Brookdale, which I'm not even sure. They might have to shut it down because it was so bad. I don't even know that hospital, yeah. Now everything is the same. Now it's like Langone, Sinai, everybody owns. worthwhile or whatever. Yeah. Okay. So let's talk about a couple of quick things. Well,

I mean, we'll get to health actually because you wrote a really fascinating piece on your Langone, Sinai, everybody owns... Northwell or whatever. Yeah. Okay, so let's talk about a couple of quick things.

Well, I mean, we'll get to health actually because you wrote a really fascinating piece on your blog all about your wellness journey, which gave me anxiety, but we'll get to it.

First big piece of news here this week, I wanted to start on that timely issue, which is Trump, it was a sort of head-turning scene happening in, you know,

these very active New York City courts. And basically he has six days to secure an appeal bond

for this half a billion dollar judgment in the civil fraud case happening here in New York.

And on Monday, in court filings, his lawyers revealed that he'd been unable to secure an appeal bond

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