Hi, everybody. Welcome to the show. My name is Dean. It is a Dean Blundell show exclusive here on Substack and gives me great pleasure to welcome a man who was gracious enough to put me on his podcast. His substack called The Warning. He is a legendary Politico from the United States of America, saved Donald Schwarzenegger's second term,

almost put John McCain in office, managed George W. Bush's campaign.

So it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you a man who has since left the Republican fold

because he has fucking values.

Please welcome to the show, Mr. Steve Schmidt, ladies and gentlemen.

Hey, Steve, how are you, buddy?

Great evening, team. Thank you. Thank you to everyone getting on. show, Mr. Steve Schmidt, ladies and gentlemen. Hey, Steve, how are you, buddy? Great, good, thank you. Thank you to everyone getting on.

Yeah, yeah, it's awesome to have you.

You and I connected over your podcast about it.

It's got to be about three, four weeks ago.

And the really funny part of that podcast was that, unbeknownst to me, my mom, is a major Steve Schmidt booster, huge Steve Schmidt fan.

So she calls me and she's like, she's British.

She's like, son, did you have Steve Schmidt on your show?

And I said, no, ma, I didn't.

He had me on his show.

And she goes, that's even more impressive.

I love him.

Tell Mr. Schmidt all the best, that's even more impressive. I love him. Tell Mr. Schmidt, all the best,

continue to beat up Mr. Trump and never stop. Tell Mr. Schmidt, we love him. And my dad's in the background, go, we love him. And I'm like, so there you go. The Blundells are in love with you, Steve.

Very nice. Tell your mom, hello.

Anytime someone comes up and recognizes me who's under 75, my kids, my kids point out and say, that's a young one.

That's a young fan.

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