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Welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHeartRadio.

My guest today is Eugene Kantorovich, professor at George Mason Law and senior research fellow at the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation.

So nice to have you on, Eugene.

Thank you, Carolyn.

I love how you say my name.

Did I do it, right?

Yeah, of course.

I felt like I, you know, I had to do the Russian pronunciation.

You and I obviously have one or two things in common.

We were both born in the Soviet Union and got out of there as fast as we

could. So tell me about- I think we both worked for the New York Post at some point. Oh, yeah.

I mean, I continue to write a column for them, and I know you write for them as well.

Tell me about your journey to get to this thing of ours that we do, this public living and pontificating?

Okay, so I got to that journey pretty early.

So I was born in the Soviet Union, and my parents came when I was a little child.

I was naturalized in Media County Courthouse outside of Philadelphia when I was 10 years old.

Still a memorable experience. Grew up in the suburbs, a very normal kind of stuff.

I was always interested in writing in journalism.

And I think when I was 14, I took a train and I rode my bicycle into the offices

of the Princeton packet, which was the Princeton local newspaper. And asked for a job. And remarkably, I got one.

Really? At 14, they were like, okay?

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