Does politics ever get you down? Or winds you up? You care about the state of democracy

but can hardly bear to listen to the news. I'm Raphael Bear. I've been a political journalist

for 30 years and I've had more than my share of toxic debates and polarisation.

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Now that hits the spot.

So some of that is going to be fun. Some of it not necessarily so much. It is going to be fun.

In the last half hour of the show, we are going to be joined by Congressman Rokana. We're going

to be talking about all the corruption going on with the Supreme Court and maybe a little bit more

besides. But long before even that, we're joined once again by Ida Rodriguez. Ida, how's it going?

It's going great. How are you? I'm good. You know, it is what it is for me as well. It's been a

little bit since we spoke. You've been traveling all over, right? I have. I miss you guys. It's really

been, it's been great because so many of the TYT supporters, so many people from that watch,

your show have been coming to my show's live. And I feel very supported in this time. When you

know we're going out into this crazy country every single day that we step out of our homes,

we are risking it all.

Yep. Yeah, we're actually going to have a reminder of that at the tail end of our first block,

actually. You just, you can't walk around. You God help you if you knock on a door or anything.

It's fun country that we live in. Best country ever. Did you know that? Also, it's the best country

that has ever existed ever, not just now ever. And probably we shouldn't try to improve it anyway.

Anyway, we got a lot that we're going to be talking about people. So in advance of all that,

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