You're going to be here. We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Jersinski Culture culture editor here at the Federalist as always you can

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our website as well. Today I'm very

excited to be joined by Brody Mullins. Brody is the author of the new book The Wolves of K Street,

the secret history of how big money took over big government. The book is as

tantalizing as it sounds. It's a behemoth. Brody, first of all, I just want to

congratulate you on this book, which you co-wrote with your brother, and I just also wanted to thank you for coming on the show

Definitely, thanks for having me. It's a super fascinating topic and it's really important right now

Yeah, absolutely and you're at the Wall Street Journal. I wanted to see if you could tell us a little bit about how you got into reporting on K Street, just in the first place. You know, what led you down this path?

Yeah, great question. So, I'm one of those strange people who are from Washington, D.C.

So I sort of grew up with politics in my blood and for some reason I guess I'm having

like the nightly news on all the time and reading the Washington

Post growing up I kind of fell into journalism and when I grew up in high school and early college

I wanted to be a political reporter and I

liked reading biographies of presidential campaigns and White House actions and stuff.

And by the time I got around to being a graduate college and going

in the journalism, I was reading the Wall Street Journal regularly and the journal, as you know,

is a sort of more of a business newspaper and I get

heard a little more down the middle and it wrote more about industry and companies and what

companies want in Washington than other papers.

And I really like that.

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