Hello everybody and welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.

As I have mentioned in the past, one of the coolest things about my job is that I get to meet and talk to people who I really admire, who I've learned a lot from over the years. And this episode is about as good an example of that as we could get. We're joined once again by Colonel Douglas McGregor. How are you, sir? Thank you for taking the time and joining us. I'm tempted to say I'm happy to be part of the problem, but it sounds like that. Well, there you go. Well, you have, I mean, technically, I suppose you've had a long career. I'm sure you've been part of the problem and the solution at different points. I don't know. We haven't found a solution yet. We've recommended many, but they don't seem to have adopted any. Well, that is true. That is true. A good solution to an American war is something that has alluded us for as, you know, going on a century.

But that's, we'll get into a lot of that. And you have a, you have an event this weekend in, in Dallas, Texas, if I'm correct.

Yeah, I didn't realize we were competing with Dave Smith. That's it's too bad.

But I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun.

I think ours will be fun, but it's going to be serious.

We've sold out, which is nice.

And it's a VIP reception and dinner.

These are people that really wanted to talk with us.

We have three of us there that are going to be talking to the people

that are coming. It's called the National Conversation. And we basically got together. I had been,

at the time I was still with the Our Country, Our Choice. And we decided we were frustrated

because we just could not justify supporting

Democrats or Republicans because it struck us that, you know, not to make it simplistic,

but it struck us that, yeah, you go out, you vote, and inevitably you get John McCain.

And the budget continues to explode and more money is spent and nothing is solved.

So we said, why don't we found this thing called the National Conversation and start holding events all over the country, one every 90 days or so, and get a panel of people together each time.

This time it's Natalie Brunel. I know if you know her. She's a really, a panel of people together each time. This time it's Natalie Brunel.

I know if you know her.

She's really known as the Bitcoin person, but she's much more than that.

She's a very fine financial analyst.

Judge Napolitano, we have to drag him in because we need somebody to tell us what the law says,

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