Hey folks, what up, what up? Welcome to the Michael Steel podcast. Yes, I'm Michael

Steel. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Tune In, or wherever you get your

podcast on. So glad you could be with us today. Follow me on Twitter at Michael Steel.

Well, guess what? The president gave a state of the union. The state of Virginia is imploding.

And other than that, there's not much else going on. So, this is how we live today folks,

from one moment to the next. And I'm really, really glad to have stepping into the house

today. Matt Kibby, I've known Matt for a long time, had a great pleasure of working with

him when he was the president of Freedom Works from 2005 to 2014. He's currently the president

and chief community organizer at Free the People, which is an educational organization,

turning the next generation on to the values of liberty. I love that. I love that. And we're

going to get into what that's all about and how he's doing it. He is also, most recently,

the author of the number two New York Times best seller. Yes, you heard that. The number

two New York Times best seller don't hurt people and don't take their stuff, a libertarian manifesto,

which I happen to ascribe to in so many ways. He's also the host of Kibby on Liberty on Blaze TV.

Matt, welcome to the Michael Steel podcast, man. It's great to have you.

Yeah, it's good to be talking to you again. It's been a while. It has been a while, unfortunately,

but I'm glad we got this time together. And so we'll have a little fun. So,

before we get into some real crazy, give us a little bit of what you're doing, man. This

free the people effort sounds not just exciting, but impactful. What tell it, give us a little bit

of the flavor there. Yeah, when when we left Freedom Works, I really wanted to get a little bit

upstream of politics. I find politics and political arguments to be a little exhausting. And I think

I think a lot of people agree with me, particularly young people. So we wanted to we wanted to

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