Hey, it's Glenn Thrush here with Politico's weekly podcast, off message, and a special treat this week, got to sit down with Paul Ryan, probably the first head-banging House Ways and Means chairman in

United States history. We discovered pretty shortly into this interview, which lasted a good

45 minutes, which took place in the Ways and Means conference room right off the floor

of the House of Representatives. It was right in the middle of a vote, so there was a big crowd outside. But we started talking within four or five minutes, we both

realized how much we loved Metallica, which I didn't really anticipate when you're talking

with a guy who sort of prized himself on being an economics geek. He also loves Zeppelin,

but was the Metallica thing that

really knocked me off my, knock me off my pegs. Well, anyway, Ryan is one of the few Republicans,

it seems, that had the discipline to sit out the 2016 race, and he talks a lot about why he

chose to do that. And in the middle of the conversation, he offered some pretty interesting and completely unsolicited advice to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

So here's Paul Ryan.

So why don't we just sort of start off with where you're from?

So I live in Janesville, Wisconsin. It's a town in South Central Wisconsin, about 60,000 people.

It's where I grew up. I live on the block I grew up on. In my neighborhood, within, I think

I did this number some time ago, within about 10 blocks of my house

are eight other Ryan family households. No kidding. And my brother lives a block away. My aunt and uncle

are across the street. My cousin's next door. I come from a big Irish Catholic extended family.

We've been in this base, this town since 1850s. So we're famine Irish. So potato famine, James Ryan. Have you traced it all the way back?

Yeah, we traced all that. We just did this recently. A couple of years ago, we figured it out. So James and Catherine Ryan came over from County Kilkenny in 1851 out of cork, you know, in one of those famine ships. They

call them coffin ships in the days. That's the west, right? What's that? Cork is in the west,

right? It's in the south. It's south central. And so, and they went to Canada and then made it to

Wisconsin and got a farm outside of Janesville, Wisconsin.

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