Welcome to The Lost Debate Show and happy Sunday, everybody.

This is a special episode.

Last week I did this interview for this podcast called Tell Me About Your Father, which is a podcast all about dads and father figures.

And I basically sat on the couch and talked about my relationship with my father and how it shaped

my politics and how it's, you know, colored some of the work we do at the branch.

And I wasn't planning on putting that interview on this feed, but as I listened back to it,

I thought to myself, well, a lot of you have been on this journey with me

for the past few years, and often I get didactic and I share my opinions about various

political issues and every now and then I get personal, but if you've been listening long enough,

maybe I owe it to you to share a little bit more

about why I am the way I am. And if that's of any interest to you, you should listen to this

interview. It's worth saying that I spoke to the host here, but basically we're both speaking

as Democrats. And at times we kind of talk in a way that I wouldn't normally

talk on this podcast, because I view it as my job to stay as neutral as possible, as

objective as possible, and to be as clear as possible when I'm talking, when I'm giving my

opinion versus giving an analysis of a policy. And I don't, I'm not always as clear in that interview than I would be.

So if like those of you who are conservatives and in our audience, and, you know, I value so

much the fact that you stay in our audience, I want you to like, I want to warn you at a time

that I kind of delve.

And I just sound a little bit more partisan in this

interview than I usually intend to on this podcast. So bear with me on that. But otherwise, I think

you'll learn a lot to the extent you care at all about why I believe the things I do and who I am and

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