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Special guest on the podcast, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut is joining us there on higher learning.

Hey, thank you.

Thank you for being here.

Thanks for having me, guys.

You're in California.

You have a brand new book. It's out now. Crisis of the Common Good is the book. Let me ask you a question.

We're going to get into some of the stuff in the book. But before we get into all of that, how are you writing a book? There's so much for you to do in the Senate. What's you writing a book for,

man? Y'all need to be getting stuff done for us. Why are you? Why a book? Because I think if we want to

get stuff done for people, we have to understand how serious the problem is. And I do worry that,

you know, Trump dominates every inch of our discussion and we're so focused

on these elections.

And yes, I want to beat him.

But there's a deeper rot in this country that we have to talk about.

And I think everybody knows that, that, you know, we're lonelier than ever before.

We feel powerless in our lives.

But nobody really has a

language with which to sort of access that conversation and they don't know what to do about it.

So, yeah, I think the task is a lot bigger than just stopping Trump's legislative agenda, beating him at the polls.

I think we've got a spiritual mission that we have to engage in. And I wrote

the book because I worry that there's almost too much focus on Trump and on the elections.

You said that we've always kind of like known that some of this is here, right? Like it's been

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