Hi, joe. Good evening. Hows everybody doing . Good thanks for being here. And thank you to everybody. Our politics and prose for making this possible, as well as to the cspan crew who are with us tonight. And welcome to everybody who was watching us as well. Im really, really delighted to be able to have conversation about the updated of lost in the gulf with my friend and and colleague joe campbell. And im sure that youll have a lot of questions afterwards. I think were going to, you know, start by listening to joe. I have a few questions you and well see how this is going. But please, you know, we are going to be looking forward to hearing from you as well later on. Thank you, filippo. Thanks very much. Okay. Thanks many thanks to the fine staff and professional staff here at politics prose. Its been a real pleasure working them and and their efforts and making tonight possible so thank you thank very much all right lets get started ive got my copy its a signed copy as well. I encour
Hi, joe. Good evening. Hows everybody doing . Good thanks for being here. And thank you to everybody. Our politics and prose for making this possible, as well as to the cspan crew who are with us tonight. And welcome to everybody who was watching us as well. Im really, really delighted to be able to have conversation about the updated of lost in the gulf with my friend and and colleague joe campbell. And im sure that youll have a lot of questions afterwards. I think were going to, you know, start by listening to joe. I have a few questions you and well see how this is going. But please, you know, we are going to be looking forward to hearing from you as well later on. Thank you, filippo. Thanks very much. Okay. Thanks many thanks to the fine staff and professional staff here at politics prose. Its been a real pleasure working them and and their efforts and making tonight possible so thank you thank very much all right lets get started ive got my copy its a signed copy as well. I encour
We have no chance. What do we do, ignore the problem . There are things we can do. Thethe goal should be to channel the trade every substance as well as other current illicit drugs and illegal channels come into the hands of reputable businesses which means requiring standards for labeling and dosage so that customers no what there getting. And then as citizens of a free society they get to make there own decisions. People see a percentage of the population has a great desire to get high one way or the other. People have been sniffing glue and paint thinner for decades. We are not about out those substances. It would not be effective if we tried. Again the focus ought to be on Harm Reduction policy one that tries to channel the trade through the hands of reputable businesses, guarantees accurate labeling and dosage and then allows people to remain free to make there own decisions for good or ill. Nobody saidnobody said the ability to make these decisions will always ensure wise decisio
Followed. An agency that over the past several years has been mired in a tory us gridlock. Theyve had difficulty really agreeing on anything of great subs. Substance. As a result, many of these areas that we are talking about are very fuzzy. Court nations, Nonprofit Organizations and whether they can spend as much money as they want to on politics coordinations, Nonprofit Organizations and whether they can spend as much money as they want to on. Many of these issues are being punted. Agencies cannot agree on it. They will be weighing in in 2016 which leaves everything up in the air on these specific questions. Host for the radio listeners we showed a headline to one of Dave Levinthals recent stories about gridlocked elections watchdogs. Questions about these Campaign Reports . Time to call in in general. Democratic line, st. Louis missouri, good morning. Caller good morning. Mr. Leventhal, this is a hypothetical question. If you were to add up all the money that was spent on campaigns,
Peter this is the smallest book we have ever done on this program in 28 years. Brooke i can imagine. There arent books much smaller than that. Peter its 90some pages the most. Anyway, whats it about . Brooke well, i call it a rumination. Its not even a complete argument. Its a summary of an argument. What it was was a response to the kind of incredible anxiety that people in my cohort, my eastern elite cohort were feeling and ally i realized the level of stress was really high that it really went beyond politics or a president. Its a dread and i wanted to know why this time its not just as simple as its donald trump and he doesnt seem to know what hes doing. It seemed to be much deeper than that and that was my exploration and in this little book im taking people down the rabbit hole with me. Peter why its full of a lot of stuff but why a short book, 8. 95, its not expensive, and what did you and what did you think it would be so, why would people buy this . Brooke to be honest with yo