Senator, nice to be back with you.

We've been, I've seen you a lot this week, some in D.C.

Some back here in Houston.

And I do think we should explain to people what happened at CPAC.

It was supposed to be, and we had dinner the night before, we planned out a big show.

Some of that we're going to actually do in today's show.

But right before we were to go on stage, there was a vote called in the Senate that was

pushed up.

You guys, I learned very clearly that they have no clue what your schedule is.

And then we said, basically, all right, here's our audible.

All the senators have to leave Seapak, go back and vote.

We'll have J.D. Vance on the show.

And that's kind of how it went down, which was really fun.

Yeah, it was entirely inaudible, so we were planning to do the pod from the stage of CPAC.

It was going to be you and me, and then we had a vote at 145 that we had to get back for.

And so Matt Schlapp came to me and to you and said,

look, I got 30 minutes till you guys are telling me you got to leave.

And he said, I've got you and I got J.D. Vance.

And he said, if you want, I can just cut the time in half,

give you 15 minutes each, which is less time than we're supposed to have.

Yeah.

Or you can somehow combine it.

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