We are live. Hi guys, welcome to the Liz Wheeler show. I'm Liz Wheeler. I am still here in New York City.

A huge thanks to the first TV for being such gracious hosts allowing me to shoot the show from their studios here in NYC.

Really appreciate all the hard work that's gone into this. It's been a wonderful experience.

We've had a busy trip here in New York. I usually just come in little bunches of a couple days at a time.

So we packed the trips full so that I don't have to spend more time in New York than is necessary.

We did the rounds for the media. I was on I was on serious XM radio. I sat down and had a long conversation over at Fox News with Will Cain on his podcast.

I think you guys are going to be really interested in that because it started out as almost a generic conversation about the 2022 midterms and what conservatism looks like moving forward.

But intentionally or otherwise we got really philosophical really quickly about what needs to happen at the zoomed out level, both the cultural level and the Republican apparatus level when it comes to the what it is of conservatism, what our platform is, what our branding is, how we view liberty, the philosophy of governance.

And you guys know me, I whipped out the whole anti-liberitarian pro Edmund Burke philosophy on ordered liberty and will came push back a little bit on me at first.

But I think I got him. I think I got him. You'll have to be the judge of that yourself. I don't want to put words in his mouth here. But that episode came out yesterday on Wednesday.

So if you haven't already seen that go ahead and go to Wilkins podcast, his Fox News podcast and check that out. I also reported an episode with Ben Dominic over at Fox News podcast as well. That's going to come out on Monday.

We talked a little bit about the nuance of fraud in an election versus fraudulent behavior.

Also a very interesting discussion. I think you will enjoy. So keep an eye out for that. I'll share the links when those drop after the the past work days last night. This was funny.

Last night, my business partner made a reservation for dinner for he and his fiance and my husband and my daughter and I. We went out kind of aside from business just for social social purposes and he made a reservation at one of the most famous vegan restaurants because I don't eat meat as you know.

It's a place called double zero and it's famous for its vegan pizza. It was really good. I was very impressed. I'm not always impressed with vegan food because I'm not like ideological about being a vegan. I just do it for health purposes.

So I've kind of embraced the idea that sure what I'm going to eat is maybe not as good as what you're going to eat not as tasty. But I do it because it's necessary for my health.

Well, this place double zero had really good vegan pizza, but what was more fun is the game that we were playing. So it's a classic New York City restaurant, right?

It's in this very small, very kind of hipster environment. Pat, you share a table with other people. They're long tables kind of actually like this desk here.

Long slab tables, slab wooden tables, high tops and you sit, you know, you sit at a table maybe with more people than are with your group, which we did, although the conversations are separate, but you're still like right together.

But the game that we were playing was looking around this restaurant and of all the people there trying to guess who is the actual vegan and who was just, you know, the boyfriend girlfriend spouse friends who were dragged along to the vegan restaurant.

Highly recommend this game if you ever go to a crunchy restaurant or a natural food restaurant, we were we were laughing quite a bit about this.

So then we got back to the hotel after dinner. It wasn't terribly late, by the way. I mean, I have an almost two year old. So she was out past her bedtime, but it was still only what nine o'clock, maybe we got that to the hotel or almost to the hotel.

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