So James Briggs has been within the star for over seven years now, but on Sunday, he

announced he's retiring from the newspaper.

And no one knows where he's going or what he's doing.

And I will say this before we get into the segment, I disagree on probably about 95%

of the stuff Briggs says his political views, whatever.

But he did write something in his final column that I thought was super interesting.

So I guess it was Sunday was his final column.

And I thought this was excellent because it really hits on what's going on with in this

country with our leaders.

And I think in particular our most recent election.

So can I just read a little bit of this to you?

All right.

Because as Annie Duke writes in her recent book, quit.

The hardest thing to let go of is your identity.

I see that all the time from my vantage point.

That's why politicians sacrifice principles to win elections.

Why partisans suppress their sense of right and wrong to support the team?

Why business leaders persist down doom paths even as the universe shouts that it's over?

Our identities, our tribes guide us to irrational places.

Well, that and also our egos.

And I thought that was so spot on because how many times on this show have we said these

people cling to grim to politics, political office like grim death to still a side-filled

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