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My guest today is Mario Loyola, the Senior Fellow in Law, Economics, and Technology

at the Heritage Foundation and a professor

at Florida International University. He's also a frequent contributor to National Review, Wall Street

Journal, and many others, and a friend of mine. Hi, Mario. So nice to have you on.

Hi, Carol. Thanks for having me on. You know, I associate you so closely with Florida, but you're kind of a D.C. guy, no?

Am I wrong about that?

Oh, my God.

It's like the worst thing you could have said.

Is that an insult?

Did I just, like, hurt your feelings?

This is exactly the time of the year when I start to get District of Columbia effective disorder

and really wish that I was on the beach where I belong.

Come home. What are we doing? Yeah. Well, you might be seeing me down there sooner than you think.

Okay, good, good. So I've known you a long time. I think of you as a very international affairs guy.

You're not Jewish, but you have what I would consider

a special relationship with Jews and with Israel. Would that be a fair assessment? Yeah, absolutely.

It's, you know, it's been a long time in the making. I think maybe I'll write an article about this

journey, I guess, one of these days, But this is a subject that, you know, was when I started out was almost entirely an academic of academic interest to me. I had never really, I was in college. I majored in European history at the University of Wisconsin, which is really a focus on Russian and German history.

And so, of course, anybody, any fair-minded person who studies a lot of Russian and German history is going to feel, you know, is going to come out of that experience feeling very protective of Jewish people.

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