We are not okay.

America is not okay.

And we all know that.

Former Congressman Joe Walsh, this is the social contract with Joe Walsh.

Let's figure out how to get okay together.

Hey, it's Friday, former Congressman Joe Walsh with you this Friday. I am an open book, right?

I tell you that. I act like an open book every day. And I come into every show, right, with whatever mood I'm in.

And I've been in kind of a bad mood all week, you know, just stuff's been bugging me all week.

Hard to nail down. I'm easily bugged because look, look, look, all of us, no matter your political persuasion,

man, if you love this country and you're paying attention to what's going on in this country,

I don't know how you cannot be bug, bothered, concerned, scared, pissed off, whatever on a fairly

regular basis. And I am. And maybe as the weekends here this

Friday, maybe my mood this Friday can best be summed up in a piece I wrote yesterday on

Substack. Keith, do we have that little picture of my piece? When was the last

time anyone talked about policy? That was me, my piece on my substack, social contract with

joe walsh.com. Check it out. That was my midweek meltdown. Thanks, Keith. When was the last

time anyone talked about policy? And it's just hit me the last couple of days. And I worry about

using the word unsurious. We're an unsurious country. We're an unsurious people. All we talk about is who's up, who's down. Who said what? What did Trump do? Who slept with who? What's the gossip? Who yelled at who? Who sucks? Who's bad? Who's winning? Who's going to take over the house? Politics, politics, the horse race, about everything but policy. We talk about everything but policy.

You know policy. The issues that

impact people's lives, the problems this country has, how we're

going to fix them. It's just been bugging me of late.

We talk about our political media. We talk about, we write about,

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