Hey girls. It's me, Zach Stafford, and you are listening to Vibe Check, solo edition.

It's not really that solo. Saeed is not with us this week. He's getting a nice little break,

but he's also recording his own stuff. So you're going to hear us on our own a few times over the next few weeks. But today, it's just me. And I have a very special guest that you definitely want to stick around and listen to.

My guest today is Congressman Maxwell Frost.

If you're not familiar with Representative Frost, he is the youngest member of Congress at 29

years old and has been serving since 2023, meaning he was elected around 26, which is just incredible.

The congressman has made waves as the face of the next generation of politicians heading to D.C.

Once the octogenarians finally leave of politicians heading to D.C. once the

octogenarians finally leave office, we are all hoping that people like him, the generation of

Gen Z and millennials, will begin taking office there. But until that day happens, he is kind of

alone as the youngest. And he is our first Gen Z congressperson elected in D.C.

Maxwell Frost is the son of a Cuban immigrant mother who actually gave him up for adoption in Central Florida, and a moment that he says shaped his

political life in ways that are so evident once you hear him talk about it here on the show.

He cut his teeth on being a leader within the anti-gun movement in the wake of Sandy Hook

shooting, which he was only 15, didn't even live in Sandy Hook, but flew himself there to be a part

of the wake that was for those young kids that were killed in that shooting. And that kind of

started his entire political life, which led to him leading March for Our Lives, the youth organization

from Central Florida that was created in the wake of the Parkland shooting. And that's where he kind of began as a politician. But something that I did not know until we sat down and chatted this past weekend was that he is a musician, a drummer specifically. And he was in L.A. over this past weekend for the Grammys to attend events to help drum up support for his bill

create art act, which is a bill he hopes to become the first legislation to provide real money

to artists around the country who, due to Spotify and AI, are facing an existential crisis

on if they will ever be able to reach their dreams or at least make a living off creating their music.

Fun fact about this entire conversation that I want to point out is that our conversation had been

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