Welcome to IHIP News. Today we have a guest who is a podcaster turned political candidate, which is exactly what we need.

Let's welcome to IHIP News. Midas touches Fred Wilman. Fred, how are you?

Oh man, so good to see you guys. Good morning.

Good to see you, ladies again.

It's so good to see you.

And you have decided to throw your hat in the ring in Missouri, which I believe is Josh

Holly's state.

That's correct.

Josh Holland, Eric Schmidt, two of the greatest senators. We've got quite a career. Yeah, I'm running against

incumbent and Wagner, Republican. She's been in office 13 years. It's held exactly zero town halls.

But she has successfully, yep, she's successfully tripled her net worth. So she has that. It's $26 million. So, yeah, it's

interesting. We, you know, we just haven't had representation.

She just doesn't talk to us at all. So we are, we jumped in the race.

What is the response you're getting from people, let's say both Democrats and Republican to your candidacy?

You know, it's been interesting. The energy on the Democratic side is everything. I mean, one of the things I say a lot is we have to take the energy of these No King protests. I'll give you an example. Our second No Kings protest here in my county, in my district, we had a thunderstorm. We had huge lightning storms, right? And 7,000 people went out in the rain to protest Donald Trump

and what's happening. So again, right outside my opponent's office, ironically. So if we could take

that energy, so there's this vast energy at the grassroots level for people who want to be led,

people want to have voices, people want to be represented. So taking that and funneling it into

a campaign is my big goal.

And just like enough, I had conversations with Republicans. I was at a veterans barbecue last weekend.

And a guy said to me, he goes, oh, what do you do? I said, I'm running for Congress. He goes, oh, Aunt Wagner's got to go. She's terrible. She doesn't do any forces. I'd agree. He goes, I hope you're a Republican. I said, I am not. And he goes, well, you know, I can't vote for Democrat. So, look, tell me, let me tell you put this way, but when it comes down to me

versus Ann Wagner. Republican, I said, I am not. And he goes, well, you know, I can't vote for a Democrat.

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