GOP: Guardians of Pedophiles

30:23We're going to get every document. We're going to go into the White House with a chainsaw. We're going to find every secret of this bullshit that's going on. We're going to go into all these corporate donors to the fucking ballroom, and they're going to be sitting in front of committees in the House and the Senate, and they're going to get their heads caved in over and over again in public to explain the corruption and the cruelty and the bullshit that's going on and the criminality in this country. Democrats need to show America they've got some fight in them. One of the other things that I've had enough of is they're like, well, we'll focus group this policy statement and no one will be offended.

31:00No, go in and punch bad people in the face over and over again. And yes, does everybody like that? No. But do Americans respond when you fight for them? Yes, they do. Yes. Well, that's why Trump was president twice. Even though he lies through his teeth, he gives the appearance. I'm going to go fight for you. And the focus group situation is what I call pick me politics. And if you try to be a pick me politician. You're going to be milquetoast. Nobody's going to like you. Nobody's going to dislike you. They're not going to have a strong opinion about you at all. When we had Cory Booker on the podcast, he made an argument that nobody really knows who Chuck Schumer is.

31:42And I was like, yeah, fair enough. And I thought about it since we filmed. And I was like, you know what? Every motherfucker in this country should know who Chuck Schumer is because I know everybody knew who Mitch McConnell was. We all knew that turtle mini stroke train wreck. And everybody should know who the Democratic leadership is. They should be household names. And the focus group situation is so embarrassing. I read an article that said that they had focus group that the Democrats shouldn't talk about LGBTQ plus rights. And I'm like, you dipshits. Andy Beshear talked about it He won Kentucky twice.

32:17Zoran Mondani threw zero groups, zero groups under the bus and took on billionaires. And people fucking loved it for him because he believed in something. And he would much rather vote for somebody that believes in something that is a pick-me politicians. And the Democrats play this pick-me politics, and it drives me fucking crazy. You know, that moment, one of the weirdest moments of my time at Lincoln Project, in 2020, before he passed, I had one conversation with Harry Reid. You know, the old world of Rick Wilson talking to Harry Reid is like, you know, matter, antimatter could have never happened.

32:53But he said something to me in that conversation. He says, listen, he goes, there have been three great Senate leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson, myself, and Mitch McConnell. And Mitch McConnell was a great Senate leader in the minority or the majority because he always had a plan. And he didn't care how to get there. He had a plan to execute on it. And that is not Chuck Schumer. God bless him. I mean, maybe the guy is a lovely person. I don't know him personally. Maybe he's a lovely man. But we are at the point now where fighters are necessary. And, you know, I'd love to be in a world where more diplomats were necessary.

33:28But right now, street fighters are necessary. And that pick me stuff is, I'm so stealing that line. That's a great idea. You can have it. You can have it. But the pick me thing is so true. It's like they don't want to offend anybody. And so what you end up with is is something that might have worked in the beginning, but it gets ground down and it gets like there's no salt in it. There's no spice in it. It's all like vanilla paste. There's nothing wrong with vanilla paste, but it doesn't convince anybody. It doesn't make the world go, wow, OK, this is a different idea. These people are going to do something that I agree with or that I feel strongly about.

34:03you just get this like mush and that ain't it folks no that ain't it okay i want to ask you this question how worried are you about the midterms coming up you see you know the gerrymandering and all that but outside of that you know trump is now saying well if you do what i say they'll never get back in power again i'm like i know it's i know it's corrupt i know it's illegal because that's his MO. So he wants to do this filibuster thing. And I will say this, John Thune came right out today and said, I don't have the votes. He goes, I don't have the votes. You got to have two thirds of the Senate.

34:41That is a real high hill. You're not going to convince 12 Democrats to join the Republicans and pass an end to the fil. It's not going to happen. And in some ways, I want to encourage them in the fucking filibuster so that when we take the Senate and see how it rolls. But they're not going to do that. And so he's stuck there. The redistricting stuff, you know, look, California, the Prop 50 last night passed with a billion to one. Virginia now has a super majority in the House of Delegates. If you want to play fuck around, we got Virginia now and California and Maryland. Wes Moore came out of Maryland last night and said, well, you know what?

35:18Now the election's over. We could do redistricting too. How'd you like that shit? I love him. And in a lot of Republican states, Kansas now, Missouri, and Florida, they've all basically said, yeah, we can't really pull this together. So everybody needs to step back from the table, put the guns down and let us have a regular old bar fight with a normal election. I think the redistricting stuff, there may still be some screw around on that, but all the overall climate of the year right now, we are looking at an election that is driven by three things for 26. Democrats now have a pathway to talk about affordability, the economy, jobs, families.

36:02That isn't culture war. It's nuts and bolts. Hey, I'm going to get these roads paved. Oh, think about that. I mean, that's crazy, right? We're

36:14The second thing is Donald Trump is the most unpopular president of our lifetimes. And I'm 62 years old, and I went through the numbers in my entire lifetime. There has never been a less popular president at all, at all. And that is a drag on Republicans because they defined themselves as the Trump party. These members of Congress, they're not the Republican member from the 3rd District of Illinois or whatever. They're the MAGA candidate who serves Donald Trump. So they're stuck with him. So as his numbers have gone down, their numbers have gone down. The economy is killing them. The tariffs war is killing them.

36:54The shutdown is killing them. All the polling blames them for what Trump has done. And finally, and I think the biggest thing here is Donald Trump will not be on the ballot for 2026. He's not going to be on that line. And so these low propensity Republicans who are now sort of becoming dispirited and unhappy are like, fuck it, I'm staying home. And we also saw in New Jersey and Virginia last night, the Lincoln Project style Republicans, the moderate Republicans crossed over and voted for Sheryl and for Spanberger. Love it. So on the economy, I feel like the Republicans need to make a big shift in the manner that they talk about this.

37:40Not the Republicans. The Democrats need to make a big shift on the way that they talk about this. Republicans have always undeservedly gotten the accreditation that we're so good with the economy, we're fiscally conservatives. And it's a total heaping pile of bullshit. I can tell you as a Republican, that's a pile of bullshit. Right. It is one of the biggest lies that has been perpetrated on the American public that Republicans are fiscally conservative and the trickle down economic works. And that propaganda where we are from, Oklahoma, it hits really hard with Lincoln Project style Republicans.

38:17They say I'm fiscally conservative and I'm socially liberal. And the Republicans do a really good job for doing decades long propaganda that embeds into the electorate to take credit for things that they did not earn. The Democrats operate under assumption politics. We assume nobody is going to vote for Donald Trump. Well, they fucked around and he won twice. Right now they are ignoring Marjorie Taylor Greene. And I keep screaming from the rooftops. We have a fucking problem here. And they just assume nobody's going to vote for her because she's the crazy QAnon Jewish laser lady. And I think Democrats have to start messaging Republicans fuck up the economy every single time.

39:02Then they need to message how many big red cities can you name? How many big red cities that are economic hubs that are, you know, big donor cities? Name me one big red city. You can't fucking do it. Doesn't exist. No. And the Democrats need to start doing this, and it makes me fucking crazy that they're playing patty cake at Congress talking about stupid shit. Let me break this down into two parts because you made two really good points. First off, Marjorie Taylor Greene is craftier than people are giving her credit for. Yes. I don't think she's smart, but I think she's crafty. And there's a difference.

39:40And crafty in politics is a good – Donald Trump's not smart. He's crafty as fuck. Okay? Right. He is a sly motherfucker when it comes to emotionally powerful things with the base. I think she's crafty, and I think she's playing a game right now where she's going to say a little bit of like, I was drawn into MAGA because of my good heart about helping poor people, but it was a lie. Now, here's the real me. I think it's bullshit, but I think that's what she's playing at. I want to say this, though, about Democrats and economic messaging. They have for too long come out with policy papers and big, thick briefing books and slide decks in PowerPoints.

40:18Here's our plan. Read Chapter 7, Appendix 4, and you'll be convinced. It's what I call the Ezra Klein theory of politics. You know what? When Ezra Klein's like, you may think you know about toboggans, but the history – there's a joke about that. But it's like they need to speak to people in America in American. They need to talk about jobs in ways that aren't wrapped up in some weird policy statement or some catch-all bill that nobody really understands. Because as good as the Inflation Recovery Act was for a lot of things, nobody understood what it did. They never sold it in plain English to regular people.

41:00And I think there's an opportunity for Democrats right now because Silicon Valley and private equity and Wall Street and all this enormous wealth in this country at the very top is expanding a thousand times faster than families in this country. Real wages in this country creep, and the value in private equity and Wall Street and Silicon Valley leaps vertical every day. And I think there's a way for Democrats to start saying, you know, we got to build an economy that isn't just guys who have a summer home in the Hamptons. We got to build an economy that isn't just weird ass guys in electric cars in Silicon Valley.

41:42We got to build an economy that in farm country and in manufacturing country makes sense. We got to build an economy that gives a shit about real people. We got to train people for real jobs. We've got to educate people for real jobs. And stop trying to make everything into this hyper-sophisticated, like I said, the Ezra Klein argument. People don't need all that nuance and back-of-the-room think tank bullshit. They want to hear real talk. And it speaks to how the Marjorie Taylor Greene's and the Donald Trump's use very simple languaging. And I think if the Democrats were to go into deeply red places and say, we need an economy that isn't built on lies.

42:23The Republican Party has lied to you. They've used their faith against you. And they've tried to create a boogeyman for you to hate. And who you should hate is that one percent who they're always Donald Trump riding around his golf cart saying, I'm low on your taxes. You've been lied to by the Republican Party. And have some fire in it and keep it very simple, keep it very black and white. But I agree with you. It is this, when we have some of these Democratic politicians on the podcast and you ask them a question, which is a fucking layup for them to answer. And then 30 seconds into the answer, I'm like.

42:55Yeah, it's like, well, in my role on the subcommittee for toilet seat standards, I can tell you we passed several bills that would improve the possibility. No, stop it. And there's a classic American fight of small against big. Americans were always the small against the big. And that's the Great Depression. That's World War II. That's all these things in American history. I think reframing this because the Democrats as the party of big government is a lie, but the party against big entitlement and big wealth and big control and big tech and big insurance and big banks, that's a pathway where they can go out and Americans will go, those are my guys.

43:43Those are my guys. They're going to go kick the shit. Elon Musk does not need an eighth private jet. He does literally have eight private jets, by the way, just so you know. He doesn't need an eighth private jet. If he's worth a trillion fucking dollars, well, then he can pay 5 % more in marginal taxes every year or pay marginal taxes at all. There's a lot where they've got a cast of villains to run against now because Republicans also say, well, you know, oh, if you raise those taxes, it's going to be mom and pop on Main Street who pay the price. It's bullshit. It's a lie. But Democrats never wanted to tell that story evocatively.

44:22Well, and I think here's an important message that the Democrats haven't messaged. And the Republicans have done a very good job. The Republicans have talked, spoke about privatization and how important it is and how much preferable that is. And the Democrats have not offered an alternative, which the facts are aligned with their policy. If you are for privatization, then you're going to be on a Boeing and your door of your airplane is going to fly off because there's been zero regulations on that. And it's better for you to have these services that are a matter of life and death in the hands of people that aren't doing it for profit.

44:59Because every time it's for profit, look no further than the pharmaceutical industry, the fertilizer industry, the military industrial complex, the tobacco industry, 12 times out of 10, they're going to dick you over and they don't give a shit if you or somebody you love dies. But the government does. And the Democrats have not offered a defense. And that's why the public was so down with all of these normal, everyday civil servants that worked for the government getting fired. Because the Democrats have never explained how lifesaving and important those jobs are. Is there room for cuts? Yes. But I believe it was somebody that worked under Elon Musk that they interviewed that said, I was actually really surprised at how efficient the government was.

45:45And I didn't find that much waste. You know, years ago, a guy who was the secretary of the Air Force was a friend of mine, a guy named Don Rice years ago. We were talking about this one night and he said, you know, here's what Americans want. They want a government that's smaller, smarter, and better. And I think those all could be done. I think the Democrats could run on those three things. You know, we do have bloat in the government. Sure. 100 percent. We could do things a lot smarter. 100 percent. But we could also craft a government that is more about taking care of things that people need in their lives.

46:19You know, during World War Two, we provided child care because women had to go to work in the factories while men were fighting the Nazis. We did things in our country that that today, you know, people would, oh, that's that's communism. But you know what? I look at the rest of the world and the things that they do for people. And if we had a structure in our country where this absolutely incomprehensible amount of wealth that has been generated from private equity, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley was accountable at all. And I say this from a conservative economic perspective. These guys get a free fucking ride on regulations, on taxes, on everything.

47:07We support and basically fund them and provide them with an enormous amount of wealth and protection. When the banks went tits up in 2008, it wasn't those poor fuckers who lost their houses and were upside down on their mortgages who got bailed out. It was J.P. Morgan. Yep. You know, all this. And the airlines. You know, the airlines have been bailed out all on and on. The airlines, I think, have been bailed out like five times in my lifetime. And what an important message that the Democrats should be crawling all up like Moses Mike grinder Johnson's ass. This is what pisses me off. You would like that.

47:46No, don't turn him on. He's going to have to report you on his porn app. It pisses me off too that Democrats don't call because the Christian nationalists brought faith into the political discourse. And I think Republicans need to, I mean, Democrats need to respond to that to say, this guy, this guy's your example of Jesus, the guy that's the pedophile protector that doesn't do anything to fight for young kids to eat. And they need to call it out directly. Hakeem did a few days ago. He talked about the pedophile protection program. I was like, yes, more of that. Now take it further and call him a Christian hypocrite.

48:24Because when they quit playing pick me politics and they put a little fight in their step, it works. And I remember, and y 'all probably do too, in 2015, when Trump called Ted Cruz Lion Ted and Marco Rubio, little Rubio, little Marco. I loved it. And what was he? What was Jeb Bush? Low energy Jeb. Low energy Jeb. There was something at the beginning of that. Nobody ever thought he was going to win or go anywhere. You know, we all assumed because assumption politics. But there was something refreshing about calling out these fuck twats that just lie to us all the time. You know, there was and I wish the Democrats would start doing that.

49:04You know, the the the the passion that that you want to see in a candidate. Too often the consultants are saying, now you need to be a statesman right now. Right. I was very successful with a lot of candidates when I was a political consultant. Because I told them, you have to show fight. You have to show people what you're going to do. You can't – don't be the diplomat now. And sometimes you have to punch the other guy in the face. And then they would hesitate. I don't want to do that. My country club members would not like it if I – And I always had one line. I'm like, so here's the deal. On election day, you're going to feel terrible if you lose.

49:42And if you do these things, you're going to feel terrible if you win is what you're telling me. But do you want to on election day have the title scumbag or the honorable scumbag? because the honorable scumbag gets to go to Washington and be in the fucking Senate or gets to be the governor or gets to be a member of Congress. And a lot of them, thankfully, chose the honorable scumbag route. But it is a fight. You have to show people that you will fight. And you have to call out the things that you see. And Trump's greed and corruption and selfishness has become the brand of the Republican Party.

50:21Democrats have not figured this out yet. They still think, well, we're going to run against this guy in this district because, you know, we looked at his vote on the things Trump has done are unpopular with two thirds of the American people. Right. And by unpopular, I mean like like radioactive waste unpopular. And it's just an open opportunity for them to go in there and speak American to people. You know, Bill Clinton's speechwriter was a guy named David Cousin. He wrote a book called Speaking American because Bill Clinton used small words, easily understandable, spoke to people at a seventh or eighth grade education level, and they found it persuasive.

50:59Trump does the same thing. Democrats abandoned the multisyllable words to get across the central argument. What do you think about the way Zoran ran his campaign? So look, I think, you know, you mentioned yourself, Zoran's a little to my left, but his campaign, just from a technical perspective, was brilliant. It was disciplined every day. He communicated where the voters were, which is social media, which is earned media and press. You know, look, voters in New York do not spend their day locked onto their television set. You know, you're commuting, you're working, you're around. It's not that kind of place.

51:40But they do get their news from their phones. He ran a campaign that was mediated by this, by the phone. So he used social media brilliantly. His affordability riff over and over and over and over again worked to build up a pad of support for him. Yes, he won Brooklyn by 80 percent. But he also overperformed in Queens, which is a more conservative part of the city. He overperformed even on Staten Island. He didn't win Staten Island, but he did better than anybody thought because the affordability and economics cuts across every ideological boundary right now. The higher price of groceries, it's unspinnable.

52:21You're looking at that bill when you're in HEB or Publix or Whole Foods or whatever, and that's not spinnable. So families feel that. And when he talked about it over and over and over again, and when you see New York as this city with this insane wealth on the top end and people who – a middle-class family in New York now has a$300 ,000 income. And that's – it's impossible to raise a child there. And so he kept that discipline and that focus every day. He also was a happy warrior, which counts in politics. You know, people – you see certain presidential candidates, whether you agree with them or disagree with them, they were happy warriors.

53:05Reagan was a happy warrior. Bill Clinton was a happy warrior. George W. Bush was a happy warrior. And, you know, things got shitty on September 11th, but he was a happy warrior in the campaign in 2000. Barack Obama was a happy warrior. Pessimistic candidates have a much harder hill to climb. And this being a change election cycle where people want a change, Mom Dami was able to run against Cuomo, who basically functionally became Trump in the race. Right. And he ran a brilliant campaign. I mean, there's just technically a lot to learn from it. The branding was great. The logos were great. The music and the video composition was great.

53:46And people felt like they knew him. he became a friend to people through the social media stuff and they liked it a lot now being mayor is a hard fucking job right it's the hardest job in america i know this i was a senior advisor to the mayor of new york at one point and it is a terrible grinding often depressing job because it's a big old city and things go wrong every single day and you don't get to you don't get the luxury of like i'm gonna have my big plan for the day when a cop gets shot or a building collapses or a school catches on fire or whatever. And that stuff happens every minute of the day.

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58:31Does that mean you like them? Listen, it's not that I like them or hate them. It's that I understand that they're a sign that the other side is pissed off at you and that you're doing your job. Yep. So I hit them. Hit it. I like it. See, that's how cool. I like it. That's a winning attitude. That is the brand of fuck you politics that I need in a leadership position right now. You know, as I like to say, make me Democratic chair for a week. I will change the entire party. It will not be pretty, but it will be fun. No, we need to have, we need to embrace, get rid of integrity and function politics and head straight into fuck you politics.

59:08People are craving it. And that's what the focus group is never going to pick up on. Correct. Okay. Had it or hid it, Florida. I'm a fifth generation Florida man. My granddaughter is a seventh generation Florida woman, but I have had it. Yeah. I live in North Florida. I live, I'm practically Rhonda Santis's next door neighbor. I love my state on some levels, but I've had it. It's just, it's such an ugly place now, both spiritually and physically. It's developed, like it's overdeveloped like crazy. It's the politics here is so ugly and cruel and shitty. And it's, I hate saying that, but I've had it.

59:46What's going on with Kittenhills? What's he up to? I mean, he thought he was the big heir apparent to Trump. And I haven't really seen that tough guy or his kitten heel around much at all. You know, here's the thing. He did not understand that Trump would never let him back in the circle. Right. Because Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, used to work for DeSantis. And DeSantis' wife, Casey Macbeth, I call her, Casey decided Susie Wiles had to go and humiliated her publicly. And Susie Wiles has never forgotten that. And she pisses in Trump's ear about DeSantis all the time. He's dead, but he's too dumb to lay down.

1:00:25Yeah. And I've had it with him. Yeah, he's over. I did see him, though, very recently on Fox News. And you know, he has that weird mouth. He has no riz. People talk about how – yes. So he is on there. I swear to God, during the interview, he's sitting there going – he's like really trying to smile. Oh, yeah. You can see it in the frame. I will now run Human Program 7. Smile fetchingly. A warm and smile. Yeah, exactly right. That's exactly, it's really inauthentic to say the least. Oh God. Yeah, the guy's a hot wreck, hot mess. I just, that photograph of him with the white rain boots on. Yeah. That is just, I mean, it is just absolute perfection.

1:01:05And it tells you that when you are a politician that paints over pride sidewalks, if you would have had a gay person on staff, they would have never told you to be in front of a camera and those ridiculous. I have a theory that is related to that. Okay. Let's hear it. Is that, is that his staff hates him? Yeah. Has to be, has to be. That is my theory. His staff hates him. And they have to, he is a, he's an incredibly unpleasant person, incredibly unpleasant. and will never be president. He's just poison. Yeah. Okay. Had it or hid it, Trump's ballroom. Oh, God. Had it. I wrote a piece right after the East Wing was torn down.

1:01:56When I was at the White House, I mean, the East Wing was this beautiful historic place. It was a symbol of American generosity and graciousness and hospitality. And, you know, and that place would be one day would be a team of junior high basketball championship girls. And the next day would be astronauts. And the next day it would be Nobel Prize winners. And the next day it would be, you know, kids working in an apprentice program. And it was it was a special historic place and the obscenity of him tearing it down in the 10 years of Trump. Other than January 6th, I can't think of something that made me more emotionally angry than that.

1:02:38It was just such an obscenity and it's such an arrogant Saddam Hussein-like ego thing. Just really infuriating. Did you see where now, because of the advanced dementia, that they have in gold lettering put on the outside of the Oval Office, it says the oval office and it's like you fucking dipshits it's rounded everybody fucking knows that everybody gets it everybody gets it these people you know this is like an insane medieval king they all know that he's not the guy in power anymore he still has that that ability to command but but everybody knows this game is ending yeah this game is winding down and it's curtains and And none of the people around him, by the way, who are getting away with murder right now, quite literally, in Stephen Miller's case.

1:03:36Yes. Democrats, if you let them go, you are fools. They will spread the virus if you don't hold them to account when he's gone. I agree. You think that they would ever fucking blink if an Obama or Kamala Harris did something to the Oval Office? Let me tell you. That's before we even get into the war crimes. If I put up – if I was Barack Obama and I put up Timu whorehouse decor stick on gold leaf bullshit all over the White Oval Office, Fox News would be running a 24-hour thing, the desecration of the White House. And there would be people in the street with pitchforks and torches because it is – there's a southern word that my grandmother used to use, gradu.

1:04:24I don't know if you all know that word. We say gradu in Oklahoma. Right. Well, the gradu all over the White House is a sign of his dementia also. Yeah, I agree. He wants to be somewhere that looks like Mar-a-Lago, so he's comfortable. It looks like his Liberace, Bukkake, Spooge, Glitter, fucking whatever. Marie Antoinette. Yeah. I also have this theory, Rick, that the real psychotic planners that are thinking long-term here, that want to dismantle the Constitution. they realize let's give him projects we'll give him arts and crafts projects and he can have show and tell with the billionaires in the oval he can build his uh arc he can do his ballroom and we'll keep him occupied with the lincoln bathroom 100 while russ vaught steven miller and peter teal yeah where they really fuck it up because they know that if they do not consolidate power in him right now.

1:05:25They do not have an heir apparent that can go win a real election. You think J.D. Vance, the failed drag queen, is going to win a general fight? No. And Kitten Hills, everybody hates his ass. J.D. Vance is a guy who is really trying to play act charisma. And the whole Erica Kirk, J.D. Vance thing is just weird. So gross. It's so weird. The way that whole thing is rolled out has just been so bizarre. My favorite, my favorite, some woman on Instagram, she's like, Oh, Usha, you in danger, girl. Okay. Rick Wilson, last one. Had it or hit it, the United States of America. Hit it. I'm keeping it. I'm going to fight for it.

1:06:10They're going to carry me out feet first out of this fight, most likely. You know, I'm just going to, I'm going to keep plugging away for this place because we are the inheritors of a tremendous gift. Our country didn't start out perfect, but we have millions of people who have sacrificed their lives on the battlefield and in the streets and in courts and in Congress and who've tried to build something that honored the Constitution and the founders and the sacrifices that generations before us have made. And I absolutely refuse to give that up to this petty tyrant and his and his scuzzy little minions and this grotesque movement that they think is going to replace the republic and American democracy.

1:06:59Just won't do it. Yeah, I love that. We'll leave it there. Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project. Thank you for all of the work. Thanks so much for both of you for having me. I really appreciate it. It was so fun. Yeah, it's so fun. i'm so glad that we collabed and let's just keep let's keep fighting them let's keep pushing the dems to do a better job and let's just absolutely ridiculing the out of these tyrants hate ridicule that's why i deliver it hot every day love it thanks guys appreciate you thanks uh bye-bye okay i just think he's fantastic i really i mean i cannot believe this is just now having him on.

1:07:37I like everything he does. I want to see it. And he delivers the, um, what the Democrats haven't tapped into, which is this kind of rage, you know, with, with status quo politics, with MAGA, with democratic establishment, he's a very good communicator. And I think his idea of going to run the DNC, doing it like a two month little stint there, I'm all for that. I think that that could be something unorthodox that they need to try to get off of the focus groups and all that bullshit. All right, tell our listener about our book. The hit book of the fall that's going to take you into this holiday season.

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