my friend Andrew who was sitting at the table when we first started the recovery center said well then run for office and i think thought to myself no way

let me ask you at the moment that he said you should run for office how long have you been sober at that time

um gosh i was probably just a year sober at that time maybe a little less

i'm Jason candor and this is majority 54 been a big week for me for a few reasons we launched the pre-order campaign for my book outside the

wire including the gifts that you get for pre-ordering the book and one of those gifts is that you get to tell me what message all right you get to customize it the

inscription that's going to go in your book and some of the stuff that people want me to write is pretty funny some folks are just

blasphemy past and then others have creative and and hilarious stuff pretty sure i have to learn how to draw animals

and in other news i'm always telling you to grab an ore to do everything that you can for your community

in that vein this week i announced that i'm running for mayor of my hometown of kansas city

but that's not the subject of today's podcast today we're talking to someone who hit rock bottom

climbed out and dedicated his life to reaching back down and pull another people up

one of the running themes that you might have noticed about this show is that we think that people who

have firsthand experience in working with a social issue tend to be better at making laws about that issue

today's episode is no different

filse bag newlo is a state representative in new hamster last year he flipped the seat from red to

blue for the very first time in the history of that state during the 2016 campaign president trump

came to new hamster and he made a lot of claims about the opioid epidemic and his plans to solve it

as you might have guessed there's been no progress on this issue from the trump administration

but there has been progress from filse bag newlo he's a certified substance misuse recovery coach who

basically founded his own clinic filse says he's here today alive on this earth because of

Medicaid and now he's in a position to defend Medicaid from the inside so that it can help other

people stay alive here is my conversation with state representative filse bag newlo that is

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