We live on a house of cards because, and most people don't know this, and I don't want to scare your audience. The scarier audience if I tell too much. Go ahead. I voted to raise the age of Social Security, but it's not going to be around unless you raise the age to 70. It's the only way it sticks around. Do we really need American primacy? He said, when you go back to Washington, make sure they know that wars with China is not inevitable. But I think it's overstated how great AI is going to be.

The left, you know, has this back to Washington, make sure they know that wars with China is not inevitable. But I think it's overstated how great AI is going to be.

The left, you know, has this modern monetary theory, and it sounds ridiculous and it is,

except that it kind of worked for 10 or 15 years.

If 40 to 50% of Americans are employed directly or indirectly by a federal, state, or local government or government

contractor or earn their income from a government check, can we actually reduce spending?

Here's the bottom line.

I voted against the big, beautiful bill because of the debt ceiling, but also here's the projections.

What was at the heart of the cover-up? There's never been a more extraordinary cover-up in the sense that these people were saying in public the opposite of what they were saying in private.

I'm going all in.

All right, besties, I think that was another epic discussion.

People love the interviews.

I could hear him talk for hours. Absolutely. We crushed your questions. Admit it. We are giving people ground truth data to underwrite your own opinion. What'd you guys say? That was fun. I was doing all in. Senator, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me in your office for the conversation today. I'm really excited for this. You grew up in Texas with a well-known

father, 12-term congressman, three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul. However, you became a doctor

after residency at Duke Medical. I'd love to hear a little bit about how you chose that path

instead of politics at the beginning of your career. Well, that was sort of following father also. You know, my dad's a physician, too. So I went to medical school. In fact, I went to the same medical school as my dad. My dad is in OBGYN. He's retired now. We have a family of several doctors. My little sister's in OBGYN. My brother's a family doctor. I got two nieces,

three nieces that are doctors. So a lot of doctors. But as a kid, you know, I have distinct

memories of laying on the shag carpet, because we have had shag carpet in the 70s, and listening

to him in, I don't know, Missoula, Montana on the radio. I'd hear the one end of him

answering questions. I went to lots and lots of his speeches. I was interested in the books

he recommended other people to read, and I read many of those. I gave me a full set of

Einrand's novels when I was 15 and said there's a lot of good

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