Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast Inside Rail.

I am delighted to be sitting in studio with Brandy Cruz.

Brandy Cruz is an independent journalist and commentator.

She was a broadcast journalist in Seattle for a decade.

She now runs her own show, which is undivided. That's in Camel case. The first word

is not the un. It's not even a word, is it? But un is not capitalized and divided is capitalized.

Brandy Cruz, welcome to Dark Horse. I'm excited to be here. Whenever somebody who's smarter than me

wants to talk to me,

I think it's the highest honor. And then I also get very concerned. But I already learned something from you because before you started, you told me about Camel case. I never heard about it. So I'm already learning things, Brad. But no, I'm super excited to be here. And thank you. Cool. Well, I'm glad you're here. It's obviously not so convenient to get here, but you as a dyed in the wool, Washingtonian, are familiar with the fairies. You managed to navigate that without difficulty, so well done.

You were recently at the White House for a symposium or a, what was it?

They called it a roundtable on Antifa.

And it was the weirdest thing.

I mean, I was at home on a Monday.

And I like to tell people that a bald eagle dropped a note down my chimney asking me to come to the White House, but I really just got a text message. And I was like, this must be a joke. And they said, hey, you know, this is so-and-so with the White House. Do you want to come to the White House on Wednesday for a round table on Antifa? And this is amid all the anti-ice stuff that had really ratched it up in Portland and to a lesser extent in Seattle. And I said, of course, you know. And they were

kind of apologetic. Like, anti-ice stuff that had really ratched it up in Portland and, to a lesser extent, Seattle. And I said,

of course, you know. And they were kind of apologetic, like, sorry, it's short notice and all these.

I was like, I will be there. We'll make it happen. And actually, I went with a lot of people who I already

know, who you know, Andy knows, some other independent journalists across the country who

have had interactions or been involved in covering radical left-wing extremism in the United States. And we got there and then they didn't even tell us until the day of that the president of the United States would be there. So I was under the impression, it was a private meeting with a few people from the administration to talk about how to deal with this scourge. And then the day of, they're listing everybody that's going to be there. And so then I got a little nervous, but it was such a cool experience. And an issue I care so passionately about, so to get an opportunity at a level like that to talk about it was insane. Yeah, it's an amazing invite. I've not been invited to talk to anybody. Well, you've got to go to a

congressional hearing, didn't you? Oh, I've been to a couple of those. It is cool, and I love that.

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