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Welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHart Radio.

My guest today is Josh Holmes.

Josh is a partner at Cavalry LLC and co-host of The Ruthless Podcast.

So nice to have you on, Josh.

Oh, it's great.

Thank you for having me.

I love your show. I love your Twitter feed. I've been a huge fan of yours for many years, and I'm really excited to learn more about you. I don't feel like I know a lot about your background or about how you got into this, you know, thing of ours. So how did it start for you? How'd you get into politics?

Well, the feeling is mutual. Obviously, I've been an admirer of your work a lot over the years.

Thank you.

Yeah, it's a roundabout way of getting here for me. I grew up in Minnesota and had, you know, the time of my life, sort of an ideal upbringing in a lot of different ways. But when it was time for college and like professional, you know,

imaginment at some level, like what is that you do, I went to Arizona State University,

and I wish I could tell you that that was a academic decision.

That's a party school, right?

Yeah.

Well, it wins awards.

At the time, at the year that I was going, it was number one.

Number one.

Wow.

And I applied to two schools, Arizona State and the University of Florida.

And Arizona State said yes first. And so that's where I went, which was a long way from

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