Sogar and Marshall here, welcome back to the realignment.

Now as we mentioned on Tuesday, we're not going to be airing interviews today or next

Thursday due to August vacation work trips, which I hope you all indulge us a little bit

with.

So instead, we have decided to record a special Ask Me Anything episodes because we've

literally got too many questions from you guys to answer in only one show.

And then we want to kick around this new David Brooks piece on the future of the right

in the New York Times that actually mentioned me, but it's not just a narcissistic exercise.

It's actually something that will be of great interest to everybody who listens to this

podcast.

So a quick reminder, as always, be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the realignment's

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Before we dive into the questions and the David Brooks discussion, we want to offer a huge

shout out to Lincoln Network, the organization that we've partnered with the realignment

sponsor this season.

Linking networks focused on exploring the space between Silicon Valley and DC.

And as anyone who's listened to our episodes of apologies to innovation or Jalansdale knows

an enormous number of our problems are really rooted in this East Coast for West Coast

debate.

Anything that deals with gatekeeping, power, the role of technology, that's really going

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