James Talarico

And to me, that is probably the best thing about working in the legislature – I think I told you this – of being forced to get outside my bubble.

Because, of course, I live in a bubble like everybody else does, right?

Right.

My information feed is curated like everybody else's.

And I try to break out of that whenever I can, but my job forces me to break out with that because I have to sit down with

Very far right Republicans, very far left Democrats and hammer out solutions to problems.

I mean, that's what I do all day at the Capitol or when things are going well, that's what I'm doing.

But, you know, I think about there was a colleague.

I hope he doesn't mind me mentioning him on here.

His name is James Frank out of Wichita Falls.

Very, very conservative Republican.

And he and I met when I got elected and we bonded over the stupidest thing, which is that we both have the same first name.

Right.

Like that's when you meet someone like that's sometimes you go off of like the most superficial basis to create a friendship.

James is a really common one.

I know.

That's his joke.

Yeah.

But we started this joke of like we're the James caucus and you're vice chair, blah, blah, blah.

Right.