John Heilman

And he, according to the article in Politico about his book, he's hoping to use his reputation and his record of being on the left to give courage to many of my colleagues who I know agree with me, but are inhibited from saying that some of the left wing politics is making them too unpopular.

He says, until we separate ourselves from the far left agenda, we don't win.

You know, Barney Frank, obviously mostly known for gay rights.

Frank Dodd Frank, you know, popular Northeastern liberal.

And there's one way to look at that, which is like, this is an old, like, move aside, old man.

You don't understand where the world is going.

But the other way to look at it is, I don't know, maybe is he...

Savvy?

Is he seeing something?

What do you make of the Barney Frank swan song?

Senate Twink was a Senate staffer.

There's a video that leaked of him

bottoming in the senate hearing room and i always thought it was kind of offensive uh because we never learned who the top was and poor senate twink has has now fled i believe to australia or new zealand being so ashamed he's somewhere far away and we don't know who the other partner was so it's a leaked video if that interests you at all you can go google it i just said first of all when was that

Well, there's I mean, there is a tie between Barney's behavior in the gym and the Senate.

I'm just trying to make a generational connection.

And I thought that you were very eloquent on Barney Frank.

I'd never met him.

I had nothing to add on the topic.

You did exactly what I wanted, which was I wanted to put a quarter in the machine and hear you riff about Barney Frank.

Good podcasting.