Fuck it will do it live. Welcome to another episode of Welcome to the Party, pal. I am your host,

Mike Nellis, joined always by the amazing former Tea Party Congressman Joe Walsh. Today we're going to

dive into two big topics today, which is the continued violence and chaos in Minnesota, particularly

ICE kidnapping or detaining, however you want to describe it, a five-year-old boy yesterday. And then we're going to talk about the awful, horrendous speech that J.D. Vance gave yesterday trying to dig himself out of a hole on ice and dig the administration out of a hole on the economy. While we're getting started, do us a favor. Hit the like button. Tell us where you're watching this from in the comments let us know

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subscribe to both joe and i everywhere that you can joe walsh you're in your car what's going on

today no studio no office michael it's so good to be with you brother um uh i am in

columbus ohio it's very good to be with you, brother. I am in Columbus, Ohio.

It's very cold here, about 10 below.

On Saturday, Michael, in Columbus, I'm putting 80 people in a room from Maga right to far left and everywhere in between.

And we're going to fucking have a conversation, not a debate, not a fight, a conversation. We're going to fucking have a conversation not a debate i love that fight a

conversation we're going to film it and we're going to put it out there uh what american needs to do

is have fucking face-to-face conversations with people that we disagree with we don't need to find

common ground we just need to understand each other. So that's what I'm doing

in Columbus. That's awesome. How did you start setting that up? Are you doing that all across the

country or just in Columbus? Oh, we're going to launch it in Columbus. It's the beginning of what I'm

calling, we're going to call the Hope Not Fear Tour. Mike, you know, I was out campaign for Kamala Harris every fucking day of that campaign,

and I learned a lot. One thing I learned was the American people are hungry to have face-to-face

conversations. I heard that everywhere I went. I was hoping Kamala would win, so I was hoping then I could, coming from

Maga, I could grab my Maga brothers and sisters and have face-to-face conversations with them.

She didn't win, he won, so now I'm going to pull all sides together. Because if we don't get

off this road where we hate the people we disagree with, Mike, I think we're done as a country. And that's got to start with understanding each other. And that can only be done face to face. Yeah. Well, and we're so disconnected right now. I mean, social media just pulls us apart. And I mean, how many people are working remote now? And I'm not shitting on remote work. If that's how you prefer it, that's fine. But like, I need real in person connection. Like, I find I was the most depressed when I was the most isolated as a human. So like, I love that, man. I hope it pays off. Let me know how it goes this weekend. You got it, brother. It's great to be with you. I'm a democrat now officially like eight and a half months yeah almost

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