Ryan Holiday
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1,843 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mm-hmm.
I remember he was saying he felt like a lot of, I was talking to him once, and he was telling me that he feels like members of Congress
tell themselves there's a super congress and their job is, like, that super congress will take care of it.
And it's like, no, no, you were elected to take care of this.
This is what we sent you to Washington.
We didn't send you there to be in the job for as long as you could have it.
We sent you there to represent our interests and to solve the problems of...
uh, governance, right?
That's the fucking job.
And you think your job is to continue to be congressman or congresswoman.
And, um, you're so afraid of being the former senator from Massachusetts or the former congresswoman from California that you aren't making the tough decisions that you have to make.
And... look, one of the things I've been trying to remind myself of
It's very easy as citizens to be like, why aren't these people risking their jobs to do what is right?
And why aren't they putting themselves out there?
And then it's like you, and by you I mean the person listening, you are working a job you fucking hate.
And you know you could be doing something different or better.
You're working in an industry that you know is fucked up.
Like, blah, blah, blah.
What was the last risk you took like that?
Like, you know what I mean?
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