How Politicians Get Rich

Getting Hammered

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🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This episode is all about money and how it finds itself in the pockets of politicians. Our friend, Matt Lewis, joins us to talk about his new book, Filthy Rich Politicians: The Swamp Creatures, Latte Liberals, and Ruling-Class Elites Cashing in on America. Listen in and educate yourself about the business of politics. Buy Matt's book here or a major bookstore near you. Time Stamps: 20:36 - Hunter Biden's Paintings 31:36 - Mama Bears are coming back? 38:26 - Carlee Russell update Want more Getting Hammered? Follow us on Instagram @gettinghammeredpodcast Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected]

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered.
0:14.3	I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham.
0:16.0	Vic Mattis is not with me today.
0:17.5	We let him go on vacation.
0:19.2	I know.
0:19.7	Crazy.
0:20.7	But I have joining me an illustrious
0:23.9	guest, Matt Lewis. You can find him at Matt K. Lewis on Twitter. He is the author of a brand new book
0:31.6	called Filthy Rich Politicians. And he writes for The Daily Beast as well. You got any of their
0:36.7	affiliations everyone needs to know about Matt? I do a blogging head show still with the Bill Cher.
0:42.8	Yes, actually when I was reading the intro to your book, I wondered as I was reading it,
0:46.9	is this Bill Share or someone else? And it actually was one of my friends, Baja Unger Sargon,
0:52.0	who is a great writer and a great thinker who I enjoy very much.
0:55.4	So it spoke well of you as soon as I started.
0:58.0	She is terrific.
0:59.0	Yes, she wrote the forward to the book.
1:00.6	And I really wanted to have just diversity of people involved.
1:06.1	If you look at the blurbs on the back, it's like Glenn Greenwald and Ramesh Pannuru and Andy Ferguson and then I
1:13.0	had Batya who was kind enough to write the forward. And I think that says it all about the
1:18.0	spectrum of people who thought this is an important topic. Yeah. So let's talk a bit about the book
1:26.2	because it dovetails nicely with some of the news of the day.
1:29.1	I think, you know, we're all sort of, there's been a populist streak in the left and then increasingly on the right for many years.
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