Hello, everyone and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered.

I am your host, Mary Catherine Ham.

Vic Mattis is not with me today.

We let him go on vacation.

I know.

Crazy.

But I have joining me an illustrious

guest, Matt Lewis. You can find him at Matt K. Lewis on Twitter. He is the author of a brand new book

called Filthy Rich Politicians. And he writes for The Daily Beast as well. You got any of their

affiliations everyone needs to know about Matt? I do a blogging head show still with the Bill Cher.

Yes, actually when I was reading the intro to your book, I wondered as I was reading it,

is this Bill Share or someone else? And it actually was one of my friends, Baja Unger Sargon,

who is a great writer and a great thinker who I enjoy very much.

So it spoke well of you as soon as I started.

She is terrific.

Yes, she wrote the forward to the book.

And I really wanted to have just diversity of people involved.

If you look at the blurbs on the back, it's like Glenn Greenwald and Ramesh Pannuru and Andy Ferguson and then I

had Batya who was kind enough to write the forward. And I think that says it all about the

spectrum of people who thought this is an important topic. Yeah. So let's talk a bit about the book

because it dovetails nicely with some of the news of the day.

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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