The Michael Berry show Adam and Geefsky not an easy name to spell not an easy name to say even harder to spell

It's a Polish name. He is the CEO and founder of open the Books.com.

By the way, if you're listening to the podcast and we've just dropped, happy Saturday to you.

Open the Books.com is the largest private repository of US public sector spending.

Their mission is quote, post every dime online in real time.

This is a sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Earlier this week I was talking about Bill Withers

and I was actually going to play a little bit of this interview when I was doing that.

I think that was Thursday morning, it would have been Thursday evening, I think.

And we started with the Bill Wither song, Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone, because we were talking about

sunlight is the best disinfectant, the great Louis Brandeis quote.

Well anyway, in 2022, Open the Books.com captured nearly all public expenditures in the country, including nearly

all disclosed federal government spending. 50 out of 50 state checkbooks, and 25 million public employee salary and

pension records from 50,000 public bodies across America.

This is incredible that they took the time and effort.

They had the tenacity to track it down and put it there so that you could see it for yourself, so that

researchers could research it, so that we could draw conclusions.

Donald Trump ran in 2016 on draining the swamp. Well how deep is the swamp? Adam Angievsky gave a

public lecture at the esteemed beloved wonderful Hillsdale College in 2020 on the depth of the swamp.

This is that lecture.

If you want to contribute to a good cause, our archive this week is John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute, and our Saturday podcast this week is Adam Angiefsky at

Hillsdale College. These are both worthwhile entities who are doing great work.

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