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Welcome, welcome, welcome. Come on in. We're going to have a fascinating political conversation with Kurt here in a moment. Press those red hearts. And then my partner is going to get on a plane and fly back to Dallas because Kurt Bardella, I think it's so cool that you don't live in the Beltway. You live in real fucking America. Game changer. Game changer on so many fronts.

I want to get into that. And as people come in, welcome. Hi, everybody. Hit the Red Hearts. I'm joined

today by Kurt Bardella. You've seen him a bunch uh news nation

now it sounds like this is exciting news he will you'll be able to see him on cnn ms now everywhere

um a great media expert a great political commentator um he beat me to the punch a a former Republican who turned Democrat. He did beat me to

that punch, but a really, really smart guy on everything that's happening today. And, Kurt, before we get

into everything that's happening today, as we do jump jump in go back to where you just ended you

did leave dc and you moved to like america what tell me and you said great move great move tell me

what and why i love that yeah and so you know um i lived in dc since. since 2006 when I first came to Capitol Hill as an aid to various Republican members of Congress.

And like so many who come here, you're younger, you're somewhat idealistic, but you also just get, I think, locked into the sport of politics.

Yeah. You know, it's like, we're a one company town here in Washington.

And it's, it's easy to, to only see what goes on here through that perspective of, of the same way that we follow the NBA or the NFL.

Like, that's how we kind of follow politics and campaigns.

But just as we, you know, as the kids particularly got older. Yeah. And, you know, COVID hits and it's like, let's, you know, the decision gets made to relocate to Dallas. That's where the grandparents are, the extended family, just have that, you know, additional child care support. Yeah. You know, and then eventually, you know, it's like, okay, I'll kind of split my time more

evenly.

Like, I'll do maybe 50-50, whatever.

It ends up being like, well, I'm only going to get to D.C. a couple times a month.

I don't need to be here for weeks upon end.

And it really dramatically changed, I think, my approach to political commentary, to how I perceive the political world, how detached.

I feel like both DC is with the real world and how the real world is with DC.

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