Hi and welcome to a special edition of Culture War. I am not Tim Poole. My name's Hannah Claire Brimlow. I'm filling in because Tim is sick. I think it's going to be a great conversation. We're here tonight with Joe Kent. Hey, how's it going? Thanks for having me. Yeah, I'm glad you're back. You were here one of the last times I did IRL. Do you want to tell people a little bit about yourself? Sure. Yeah, absolutely. So retired Greenberry, I did a little over 20 years in the military, 11 combat deployments, worked for the CIA for a little bit, and now I'm running

for Congress in Washington State's third district. Okay, cool. And we're also joined tonight by one of the one and only Shane Cashman. What's up? Yeah, Shane Cashman, staff writer for Timcast.com.

Happy to be here.

I'm happy to have you.

Well, to start off, I was wondering if you could give us a rundown of Washington's

third congressional district.

I feel like last time you were on, I'm pretty sure we were like, oh, cool, are you

joining Idaho?

And you had to be like, no, not us. Yeah, we actually get that quite a bit now because

that's taking up a lot of the news. But Washington's third district is southwest Washington.

So we're just kind of in the shadow of Portland, Oregon on the northern side of the Columbia.

We go all the way out to the Pacific Ocean and then a little bit to the east in the Columbia River

Valley and then kind of up north, almost to Olympia. So it's still a very

rural district, timber country. Our major city is Vancouver. Right now, Vancouver is on the

cusp of becoming what Portland used to be, which was like a great beacon for small businesses,

a lot of the tech that's fleeing the rot of California in Oregon. We're just trying to fight that

back and keep it on that side of the river. But the rest of the district, in Oregon and we're just trying to fight that back and keep it on

that side of the river but the rest of the district really it's timber country the major

the Columbia river uh with the fishing industry drives a lot of the economy as well so yeah it's

it's definitely a uh a red district but we're in a very very very very blue state and you've had a

lot of population growth over the last 10 years, right? We have. Yeah, Washington State, right now the Democrats in Washington

are trying to take this away, but we used to have no income tax. Jay Inslee and the Democrats are

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