And welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast. I get an opportunity now to

flip the script on Ryan Nobles, one of my very good friends and colleagues he's usually on one side of the

camera asking questions now he is answering them. Welcome to the Bocari

show of the year of our second season of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

What's up, brother, how are you?

Hey man, thanks for having me returning the favor.

You were one of my first podcast guests back when I had a podcast during the 2016 campaign. So this is, it's fun to be on the other side of the table.

So just go easy on me.

Oh, I got you.

No, no, no, too hard hitting questions.

You know, we always ask our guest about the arc of their career and you are a consummate

family man, husband, father. Ryan has like 14, 16 children, something like that.

Only four, only four.

Four children.

By the way, how was their holiday?

Everything's good, you know, I mean, I'm sure it's the same with you

and your family, this omicron variant has just thrown everybody for a loop. We have this kind of unique situation where, you know, we obviously have the Christmas holiday, but then we have literally everybody aside from my birthdays packed into the same period of time. So my my son's birthday is on November 26th, my youngest son's birthdays on January 14th and everyone else's birthdays are within that confine.

And so just to give you an idea, and I'm sure this is like many of your listeners, we had back to back,

well we had birthday parties planned for my two older kids who are less or five days apart, their birthdays are five days apart on one week and then a birthday

because my daughter, because my daughter was a close contact at her school.

She never got the virus, but it forced her out of school for 10 days.

We ended up doing them on back to back weekends on that Friday of the Saturday we had the first party

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