And we're live. We're having some technical difficulties. See if we pull this one off. Welcome to the show. Happy Friday show. What a whirlwind. That was Rachel Bovard.

I'm finally back. Vice President of the Conservative Partner Institute, Partnership Institute. Very happy to have you.

We have Erica gone today. She's giving a spiritual talk in Phoenix, which makes a lot of sense.

We've got to bring in some of the flamethrowers. We have Rachel and Josh. There's a lot of

political news going on, and we're really looking forward to getting your insider taken a lot

of this. So today up top, we're going to be starting with what we're looking at in terms of

the backdoors of Congress, specifically what may seem like a technical debate with the

filibuster, but actually has much larger implications for what could happen after 2026 and what we're

looking at for the landscape. The second we have here is the Washington Post has laid off

about a third of its employees, a very significant number. And that just sparked a lot of behind

the scenes talks about future media.

Obviously, you get some of their greatest hits of what they've been producing as of late.

But where does the future go for that?

That was like a perfect birthday gift for me.

I figured I wouldn't be getting too much sympathy from Josh on that one. But of course,

we have good news. We have Twilight Zone everything you'd expect from the show.

And thanks again, Rachel, for you joining today. We're looking forward to getting your perspective.

So I think what started this conversation, we'll just get right into it here, was last show we kind of hinted at it, winked at it.

Ross Duthat gave his two cents on Trump has lost the Republican Party here.

And Josh, you even said that you're really expecting the House to go back the other way.

This is kind of a standard thing that happens in the cycle.

But Ross said, you know, this is a little bit preventable at this point.

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