Garrison Davis

I am here with a mission.

And my mission is to help people who are probably just getting plugged in or even people who've been plugged in for a while and are getting tired understand how power operates in America politically, historically and now.

And that takes a lot of digging and a lot of research and a lot of fact checking, as you were saying.

So I need people to trust me.

Because if they don't trust me, they're not going to take my advice.

They're not going to get involved in the places I tell them to get involved.

There's not going to be any strategy to the ways that people are formulating their resistance or their opposition to rising authoritarianism.

So it matters a great deal that I am right in the things that I'm saying and that it's accurate.

I mean, I'm not saying my takes are always right.

And of course, like you said, I make mistakes sometimes and I will go back and correct myself.

But I mean, you know, I've been an American history person for 20 years now.

So I do have a pretty big base of knowledge.

decent yeah but i am going to go back before i say a word and like double check my dates double check like was this person in the house or the senate you know what was the bill number like i am going to do all of that and that takes a lot of digging like i don't i don't think it's on purpose necessarily but going through congressional records is everything is very scattered nothing is in one place yeah you're checking 14 different you know resources congress.gov and all these other things and i have to collate all of that and put it together and it takes hours you know hours yeah

But it's my full-time job now, so that's fine.

But when I was working full-time, when I had a corporate job, I was in big tech up until June of last year.

Wow.

So it was just a lot of hours.

It was 18, 19-hour days.

I slept almost zero.

I mean, it's better now.