Well, here we are. We still don't have a speaker of the United States House of Representatives,

and everybody is providing insight and analysis into why they think that is. The general

consensus among the media and even some people I really respect, like Ben Shapiro, is that the

20 conservatives, 20 or so conservatives that are holding this up are kind of having a tantrum or don't

have a plan. But what we're going to talk about today, and I'm going to provide some insight from being on the inside of some of these battles, obviously not in Congress,

but in the State House. I'm providing some insight that I don't see a lot of people talking about

on why I think these 20 conservatives are actually doing this. All of that coming up on this episode

of making the argument. Thanks so much for joining us this morning, guys.

I guess that would be later this afternoon.

We're just recording it in the morning.

I'm super excited to talk about this because I haven't really delved into the whole

conversation about the speaker.

There's a lot of contention, a lot of drama, and I'm excited to talk about it.

So let's get rolling.

All right. As always, I'm your host, Nick Freitas, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, but other than that, a good guy.

And thankfully, look who came back with the milk.

That's right, Queen of the Bees, Tina.

She was gone for a little bit, but she's back again.

Hello, everyone. prognosticator and resident historian Christian Heinz. Hello. And Nicholas Hamilton, the good Hamilton, the one that doesn't like central banking.

I'm really interested in some of the points Christian has historically here, so I'm excited.

Yeah, we'll see.

And then we have Lydia, our producer, Sarah Patch Lids herself.

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