Thank you for listening to this podcast one production.

Your life, your country, your listening to the Lava Agram podcast.

Amy and I are happy to share with you that I'm running to serve you as the next president of the United States of America.

This is a defining moment of truth for this country and for every single one of us.

The challenges that we face right now, the interconnected crises in our economy, our democracy and our climate have never been greater.

And they will either consume us or they will afford us the greatest opportunity to unleash the genius of the United States of America.

In other words, this moment of peril produces perhaps the greatest moment of promise for this country and for everyone inside of it.

Oh, we're bad. Oh, yeah, we're here. This Beto O'Rourke got into the race.

Oh my goodness, I'm surprised they didn't.

I'm surprised that the media, the media, faunting all over him that they didn't actually just film the whole thing in a big hot tub with everybody sitting around the hot tub talking about how we're all going to melt away from climate change.

And there'll be the great patterns of migration that will destroy huge swaths of land and it's all going to be over unless Beto comes in and taxes you to death.

I mean, let's do the whole thing in a hot tub. Why even pretend that this is going to be some type of discerning coverage of Beto O'Rourke?

Well, I told you this was going to happen. I said that the Democrats see their path to victory in 2020 running through Texas.

And whether he's on the top of the ticket or ultimately chosen as a possible vice presidential pick, that's what they think will bolster turnout in 2020.

And if they win Texas, they win it.

So I think it's a cynical, but in many ways, a strategic choice for the Democrats to build someone like a Beto O'Rourke up.

We all know he was in Congress for a couple of terms was an Al Paso city official.

He had a very interesting moment on Instagram where he filmed his dental surgery recently. That was fun.

And he claims to be someone who's very optimistic and he doesn't want to get negative. He's very optimistic.

I thought his whole thing was so depressing.

I mean, this is one of the greatest times ever to be an American citizen.

Economic opportunities galore wages are up 3% as by the way, wages stagnating in the rest of the G7.

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