Chris Rufel, thanks for being here.

I'm going to hand it off to you to intro the show here and play AMC. I think you can use that one. I'll leave this one up here. So go ahead, man. Well, how is everyone? Oops. This one working? No. Got to turn it on. Got to turn it on. There you go. All right, there we go. Good. How is everyone? Fantastic. It's good to see everybody.

Beautiful day here in the Northwest.

As someone said before, I live here, so I actually really do care.

You know, a lot of the events that you do, you kind of fly in, you fly out.

You care about Cleveland for like maybe 12 hours, and then you leave and you forget about it.

But it really does matter because this, I think,

is the most beautiful state of all of our 50 states,

is it not?

Yeah.

And unfortunately, the natural beauty maintains itself,

but the politics is not as beautiful as it should be in the great state of Washington.

And I think that today's program and tomorrow's program are going to go a long way to giving you all of the information and the inspiration to actually punch back against some of the really deranged and destructive people who have

tightened their grip over the politics of this state.

They're not sending their best to Olympia, and I think it's time to enact some serious changes.

And it's going to happen because of groups like this. You know,

Brian and Steve have done an incredible job setting up a permanent infrastructure. And these are two

gentlemen that could at any moment have checked out for a life of leisure at the beach somewhere,

but they've made this their home. It's been their home, and they're going

to fight for what is right. And so the infrastructure is really important. The people, the actual

flesh and blood of a political movement is very important. And the ideas are important. And that is my

specialty. I fight with ideas, with language, try to turn it

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