with the rising cost of housing and job security as fragile as my ego there's one man you can trust running for senate of minnesota land of ten thousand lakes he's not going to let you drown please welcome billy nord hey come on come on in, Billy. Billy. What's going on?

Billy Nord is sitting in with us. And if you don't know who Billy Nord is, you will soon because he's

running for Senator, Senator of Minnesota. And I know Billy, because Billy used to produce a wonderful

comedy show back in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, underneath a bookstore that's called the Word Bookstore.

Is it still exist?

It still exists.

It's one of the last remaining original gentrification buildings in Greenpoint.

When it first became gentrified, now it's like double gentrified in Greenpoint Brooklyn.

Would you say your stand-up background helps you in politics? I think stand-up is like a, it's definitely a form of working class. I don't do stand-up. I just, you know, I'm in the background and I help do the gritty stuff. I mean, stand-up is gritty on its own. But it's, I mean, stand-up is working class. I mean, you just described Amber. You just got back from San Diego. He took an Amtrak.

You're still wearing the same clothes for three days. That's like working class. So I would say what I want to do as a U.S. Senator is really speak and beholden, be beholden to the working class. You know, I'm not taking any money from anybody.

No packs, no donors.

I'm taking zero dollars.

I'm running this through social media, through the work that I, you know, do every day just

by talking to people.

Hold on a second.

So I cannot donate to you.

No, and I will refuse it. Whoa. Wow. What if I could chew a cup of coffee? I mean, as long as there's a brown paper bag filled with $50,000 cash in a baby. Yeah. So, all right. So you're running for Senator and you just, how do you do that? Yeah, how do you? how do you like how do you like how do you run for? I don't it doesn't even make sense to me. Because you're like an adult. I'm a crazy person that just starts screaming, be like, I hate all of them. But you're being like, I'm actually going to do something about it and help people and run. And like not big picture just just like, what paperwork do you fill out?

Yeah, what's on? Like, do you have to have a law degree? Like, what the fuck's going on?

See, that's the, the misinformation that people like the normal candidates you see running and have

been running for decades lead us to believe. It's a simple Google search. You know,

check out your secretary of the state's website. A lot of times there's filing information there. There's costs. There's filing deadlines. There's everything you need to know from your local secretary of state's office. So that's what I did. Last year, I was like a lot of the people woke up after election day and was like, fuck, this, here we go again.

Yeah.

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