Snow globe shaking in August

I mean, I think in the beginning I was worried.

I was worried that we were like too zoomed in and too focused in on the business versus labor progressive thing.

you know, sort of inside baseball politics.

And, and we had, you know, friends who, who thought that we should be battling the big Trumpian, you know, illiberal demons.

And, and actually, especially like after the primary and this political season that we're having this summer, I, I feel like we had a idea of what was important and, and, and the conversation in many ways has like landed and, in this place right where you have had a major political upset in colorado i mean think about the things we were talking about in january you know of 2026 we mean we had mike beasley on who did his best to try to describe the dysfunction that's going on in the completely atrophied world of republicanism And then it was like, well, maybe Barbara Kirkmeyer could win and this could be an interesting race.

And and, you know, you could tell he was he was not there.

I think he knew it is in his in his gut that that no, that's not the way it's going to go.

And so we have this totally atrophied Republican Party.

And then, you know, we spent time, like you mentioned, Donna Lynn, you know, former chair of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, basically being like capitalism is broken and we need major change in our health care system, like you said.

um and then we had david seligman on you know who was and i i think he kind of fried your brain a little bit i i think having this this economic populace just sort of stating well this is how it should be and you know i think it was a respectful conversation and of course but it was this exchange of you know philosophies and now we find ourselves in this political moment um in which You know, there is a genuine red scare happening in politics, both nationally

and locally.

And we don't mean red state, blue state.

It's Democratic Socialists of America.

Yeah,

there's a little nugget in

there.

We used to be red-blue.

I remember reading Newsweek, a physical copy of Newsweek in 1998, and it was like, welcome to red state, blue state.

But the red-blue divide has morphed.

Oh, it's morphed.

And, you know, parts of MAGA and parts of DSA match up.

You know, they don't like foreign wars.

I've got a hole.

Yeah.

I don't mean to go far off the script.