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There's been a lot of attention paid to the presidential

0:02

race this election cycle between Donald Trump

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and Joe Biden, but the Senate

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is very much in play for Republicans.

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There are thirty four seats up in twenty

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twenty four. Twenty three are held by

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Democrats or independents. Now,

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as someone who's worked in politics, that's a very

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favorable Senate map for Republicans

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as long as we don't mess it up. So one thing

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I want to do this election cycle is get to

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know some of the candidates who are running. One

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of those candidates, the person we're going to be interviewing today, is

0:29

Eric Hovedy. He's running for Senate in Wisconsin,

0:32

a crucial presidential state, a crucial

0:34

Senate state as well. He's running

0:36

against Tammy Baldwin, who is extremely

0:39

liberal. She's already a United States Senator, so

0:41

she's the incumbent in the race. So far.

0:43

One of the recent polls had him within three

0:46

points, so that is within the margin

0:48

of error. So this race is extremely winnable.

0:51

And of course we all know what that means for Eric. He's

0:53

on the receiving end of attack ads.

0:55

He's on the receiving end of the media. He's going

0:58

to get all this scrutiny directed him. Way,

1:00

I'll bring up some of those charges and give him a chance

1:02

to respond to them. But I want you

1:04

to get to know Eric, and so that's the

1:06

goal of today's podcast. He's

1:09

a super successful entrepreneur, he's a really

1:11

interesting guy, gives a lot back to charity. But

1:13

I wanted you to get to know him in his own words.

1:15

So trust me, you're not gonna want to miss this episode.

1:18

Stay tuned for our covety.

1:24

Well, Eric, it's great to have you on the show.

1:26

So I have actually spent some time in

1:28

Wisconsin. I worked for the Tommy Thompson

1:31

for Senate campaign back in twenty twelve,

1:33

towards just towards the end for the last couple

1:35

of months, so I got to spend a lot

1:37

of time in your state. It's a beautiful state.

1:39

It's an absolute gorgeous state. We

1:41

have fifteen thousand blakes. Beautiful

1:45

state, you know, created by glaciers,

1:48

so some of the greatest farmland in

1:50

the world. So yeah, and you

1:53

know home to the Green Bay Packers.

1:56

So I'm a die hard Packer

1:59

fan.

2:00

Well, I learned that you do not mess with people

2:02

football seasons very serious. And

2:05

then also your press corps

2:07

they are tough. You've

2:09

got a liberal press corps

2:12

that you are up against, which you

2:14

know you've already been on the receiving end of so far.

2:18

Oh yeah, I mean, look, the press corps is

2:20

largely centered in Madison, which is a very

2:22

progressive, liberal city, and Milwaukee

2:25

another not progressive

2:28

but very liberal city. So you

2:31

know, you just state your message,

2:33

you push on. You don't let

2:35

them, you know, knock you off your target.

2:38

And you know, some of them are

2:40

decent. Some of them, you

2:42

know, you have this problem in the

2:45

national media. A lot of them are propagandas

2:48

they are tools to the democratic

2:51

left, and you know you have that with

2:53

different news organizations. But

2:56

you know, it is what it is. And if

2:58

you're going to be a candidate, better have very thick

3:01

skin.

3:01

I think that is a fair assessment.

3:04

And you know they're already after you, which we'll get into an

3:06

a bit. I guess you know, you see

3:08

what they're trying to do to, you know, Donald

3:10

Trump. I mean, they're trying to throw the freaking

3:13

guy in jail, bankrupt him. I

3:15

guess you know, why why do you want this

3:17

job? You know why do you want to expose

3:19

yourself to I mean, you've got a good life,

3:22

You've done really well for yourself financially, so

3:25

you know, why do this? Why run?

3:27

Look, I get that question asked all the time,

3:29

particularly by my friends, because I'd

3:31

had been fortunate, built a great

3:33

life for myself. But it's really simple, and

3:36

it may sound corny, but I love

3:38

my country. I

3:40

was raised in a time where patriotism

3:43

was high. My father served President Reagan.

3:46

You know President Reagan. You know the

3:49

shining City on the hill, and that's

3:51

American. I've been in one hundred

3:53

countries around the world. I've homeless shelters

3:56

for street children and

3:58

rescuing kids out of the section trade

4:01

and slavery and all the rest.

4:03

So I've seen what the rest of the world

4:05

is like. And this

4:08

country is such an

4:10

exception, and it has provided

4:14

its people greater prosperity

4:16

and freedom than any country

4:18

in the history of mankind. And we're

4:21

watching it melt away. I

4:23

often say, you know, waking up every

4:25

day the last three and a half years, I feel

4:27

like I've oken up in a bad episode of the

4:29

Twilight Zone. Or what is right

4:31

is wrong? Or what is wrong is right?

4:34

And to see what President Biden

4:36

and the progressive left have done to

4:38

our country is just stunning.

4:41

And they gaslightly all the time. They're

4:43

destroying us financially. You know, we've

4:46

added more debt in the last three and a half years

4:48

than in our first two hundred and thirty years

4:50

of our country. That is a byproduct

4:53

of why inflation is where

4:55

it is. They say

4:57

they're defending democracy, and all they're

4:59

doing wing is destroying

5:02

democracy, weaponizing our justice

5:04

system, using our court system

5:07

as political theater, as you

5:09

just mentioned, trying to ban

5:11

another presidential candidate for access

5:14

in the ballot and trying to bankrupt them.

5:17

It's disgusting. And

5:19

then look what they've done with our borders.

5:21

I mean, they've created a humanitarian

5:24

crisis on our border, and you

5:26

know, we're already struggling to house and

5:29

provide medical care for our own citizens,

5:32

and now we've you know, anywhere

5:34

estimates ten to twelve million

5:36

people. Some say that numbers low. And

5:40

by the way, they've lost one hundred thousand

5:43

children. You know, President Trump got ripped

5:45

for not being able to account for four thousand. They

5:47

can't account for one hundred thousand children, I

5:49

can assure you because three of

5:52

my hufty homes are in Central America.

5:54

Many of those children are ending up

5:56

in the sex trade. So I

5:59

could just keep going on foreign policy

6:02

and the division they cause. So you

6:05

know, that's really the reason I decided to run.

6:07

I co sit on the sideline and

6:09

I have two daughters and three

6:12

grandchildren, and the world

6:14

we're leaving to them, I

6:16

just shudder at I mean, we're supposed to leave the

6:18

next generation better off, and

6:20

that is the last thing we're doing. And this

6:22

administration has been an utter disaster.

6:26

I mean, utter disaster is

6:29

absolutely true. I mean, I think we kind of all share

6:31

that sentiment of feeling like we live in this upside

6:34

down world these days. You

6:37

know, you talk about restoring the American dream

6:39

on your website. I think a lot of people are

6:41

asking themselves, you know, I mean, does the American

6:43

dream even still exist?

6:45

That's a really good question for a lot

6:47

of Americans. We've been hallowing

6:50

out our middle class and

6:52

a lot of these issues have been going on for

6:54

a long time. And the economic

6:56

policies where

6:59

we're just continuing to spend all this money

7:02

and then the Federal Reserve has to buy

7:04

that debt, and

7:06

that creates greater money supply,

7:09

and what is inflation. It's too

7:11

much money chasing the same amount of goods

7:14

and services. So we're hammering

7:16

the middle class and the working class

7:18

and the elderly that are in fixed incomes

7:21

and making it harder for them to get

7:23

ahead. For those that own assets,

7:26

you know, I benefit because I own real estate

7:28

and stocks and companies. So

7:31

yeah, it makes me wealthier,

7:33

but it's hammering, you know,

7:35

ninety percent of Americans. So

7:37

it's made it so much more difficult

7:40

for Americans to have that

7:43

quality of life. And then

7:45

you look at our freedoms. I

7:48

never, in my wildest imagination

7:52

growing up, would ever think my freedom

7:54

of expression would be under attack. But

7:57

you know, it started in the universities with

7:59

cancel culture. You know,

8:01

our universities were supposed to be

8:03

the spot where people could debate

8:06

and discuss ideas, and then they became

8:09

where you had to follow this mantra,

8:11

this leftist mantra, and

8:13

if you expressed any other ideas,

8:16

or if a conservative even went to go

8:18

speak on campuses, that'd be shut down.

8:20

And now you've seen that manifest

8:23

itself in other aspects of our

8:25

society. I mean, during COVID, you

8:27

know, the best virologists and epidemiologists

8:30

wrote a letter called the bait Great Marrington

8:33

Declaration, saying, trying to lock

8:35

down our society is absolutely the

8:37

wrong thing, and we'll have very

8:39

negative consequences. And what did

8:42

big tech do? They just shut them

8:44

down. What did big media do to shut

8:46

them down? Called them climate deniers.

8:48

It had nothing to do with climate. So

8:51

you just you see these things unfolding

8:54

that is really changing the America that

8:57

I grew up in and that we were so blessed

9:00

all you know, you know,

9:02

start our lives in and you look

9:04

at it for our young people, and yeah,

9:07

I'm very worried about what

9:09

their future looks like. And you already

9:12

see it. I mean, look at the rates

9:14

of anxiety depression amongst

9:16

our youth. I always say, the most

9:18

stunning statistic that it's hard

9:21

for me to even conceptualize. Seventy

9:24

seven percent of our

9:26

young people cannot qualify for

9:28

military service due to mental

9:31

health problems, drug addiction, and

9:34

obesity. Now that's stunning.

9:36

I mean, you know, I'm fifty nine

9:39

years old. In my generation, maybe

9:41

that number would have been ten percent, twenty

9:44

percent at the utmost. So our

9:47

country is in deep trouble, and so yeah,

9:50

I want to try to restore the American

9:52

dream, do my part in that, And

9:56

that's a big part of the reason why I'm in this race.

10:00

Of thinks at the root of that depression

10:02

and the increased depression as a society.

10:05

You know, why do you think we have arrived

10:07

at this place, you know where so

10:09

many people are struggling.

10:11

I think there's a lot of factors. I

10:13

think part of it is economic. I

10:16

think bigger parts of it

10:18

are social media. I

10:20

think technology and our uh,

10:23

these new platforms. You can track literally

10:25

the rise in youth anxiety

10:27

and depression with the advent of

10:30

social media, Facebook and

10:33

Instagram and all of that, and

10:35

particularly for young females. You

10:39

know, everybody's living in the surreal

10:41

world where you

10:43

know, doctored photos.

10:46

Everybody's looking like they're having such

10:48

this wonderful time on the photos.

10:51

You know, in the old days it was people in US magazine,

10:53

but you know, women would

10:56

largely get that once a month and look at

10:58

it. Look at these beautiful people where

11:00

their photos are all doctored, creating

11:02

like they're all these such

11:05

wonderful, happy people. And then

11:07

you know, you'd sit there and look at your own life

11:09

and say, well, geez, I'm not doing this, I'm not doing

11:11

that. Well, that was a once a month thing with

11:14

People magazine and they were Hollywood

11:16

starlets. It

11:18

wasn't everyday people. Now it's pervasive.

11:22

You know, these young people, they pick up their phone

11:24

all day long. They're they're getting this

11:27

stuff sent to them. So I think the technology,

11:30

even though it's connected us, has really

11:32

disconnected us in a lot of way and

11:35

created this false reality. So

11:38

I think that's a big part of the problem

11:40

that youth are dealing with. But I think it's multifaceted.

11:44

What's going on in our society. I

11:46

mean the obesity issue, you know,

11:48

the amount of process food, the

11:51

kind of food that the chemicals

11:54

that go into our food is

11:57

clearly having health consequences

12:00

for our society. And

12:02

as you know, you know, physical, mental,

12:04

and emotional health, they're all connected. If

12:06

you start loosing want, it starts putting

12:08

pressure on the other and they're all integrated.

12:11

So I think there's so many

12:13

layers to the issues that are happening in

12:16

our society today.

12:17

We've got to take a quick commercial break. More on the Wisconsin

12:20

Senate race. On the other side, you

12:24

know, we talked about the upside down world that it almost

12:27

feels like you're punished if you're a law

12:29

abiding American. You know, we've got criminals

12:32

coming through, you know, Joe Biden's open borders,

12:34

and we as taxpayers put the bill.

12:37

You know, you look at a lot of these cities. I mean,

12:39

look, we all saw what happened in Kenosha,

12:42

Wisconsin. You know, you've got a lot of these cities

12:44

where there's little to no consequences for criminalism.

12:46

We've got squatters stealing property

12:49

from homeowners. Do you

12:51

think enough people realize that.

12:54

You know, there's a strong correlation

12:56

and a direct correlation between the left policies

12:59

and that on fairness for

13:01

a while abiding Americans.

13:03

You know, because we are all

13:06

in our own echo chambers right

13:08

now. If you're on

13:10

the right, or you're a person

13:12

that's willing to digest news

13:14

on both sides, you understand

13:17

that. But one of the most stunning

13:19

things is when you

13:21

listen to Democrats that

13:23

say the border is a serious

13:26

problem. It needs to be fixed, it

13:28

needs to be shut down.

13:31

Even a border wall now has

13:33

widespread freight approval. But

13:36

when you ask these Democrats,

13:38

well, who's at fault? They

13:41

won't blame Joe Biden. And

13:43

why is that because they're never hearing

13:46

the facts. They don't know that there

13:48

is only three hundred thousand people that

13:50

cross the border the last year President Trumps

13:53

and since Joe Biden took over, it's

13:57

you know, literally three million

13:59

people a year. Now, you would

14:01

think they'd be able to piece that together.

14:04

But if you're sitting there watching MSNBC

14:06

all day or CNN, you're never

14:08

being told about how Joe Biden

14:12

melted away all the policies,

14:14

you know, Stay in Mexico, Title

14:18

forty two, Section eight, to all these

14:20

different things that President Trump used

14:23

to reduce the amount

14:25

of illegal immigration. If

14:28

you're watching MSNBC, what are you hearing?

14:31

Well, the Republicans then passed this

14:33

bill to provide funding. It has nothing

14:35

to do with funding. There

14:38

was no significant change

14:40

in funding. In fact, funding has only

14:42

gone up. It's the policies

14:44

of what he's enacted. So, you

14:47

know, I think a lot of people are waking

14:49

up to it in their own way. But

14:53

if you're in your echo chamber listening

14:55

to MSNBC, you're not getting the facts.

14:58

And that's one of the problems going on our

15:00

society today.

15:01

Well, and part of that echoed chamber and sort

15:03

of the line of attack against you that

15:05

you know we're already staying. I mean, Cook Political

15:08

Report is reading their analysis of your race, and

15:10

they wrote this about the left line of attack against

15:12

you. Democrats have already made their attack

15:14

lines clear. Paint hovedy as

15:16

an out of touch multimillionaire who abandoned

15:19

his home state for his businesses in

15:21

real estate. How

15:23

do you push back on that? You know, what's

15:26

you know, what's your pushback against

15:28

them in that line of attack.

15:30

Well, first of all, trying not to make me

15:32

a Wisconsin night is laughable.

15:35

I'm a fourth generation wisconsinight

15:38

born their race there, graduated

15:41

each high school, went onto the University

15:43

of Wisconsin. So I'm a badger, big

15:46

badger fan. I've

15:48

had a business there for twenty five years.

15:51

Yes, I moved out of there, moved

15:53

to the East Coast for twenty years, met my

15:56

wife, started my family, my other businesses.

15:58

Moved back in two thousand eleven, and

16:01

that is my home. The fact that

16:03

I bought another home where

16:05

I have a business and spent once

16:07

my daughter. By the way, my daughter graduated

16:10

there. It's

16:13

it's a silly attack. I don't think it's going

16:15

to have much effect. Now as it comes

16:17

to saying I'm out of touch, I

16:19

just have to laugh at that one very

16:21

hard. Every day I am

16:24

dealing with real

16:26

people, my companies,

16:29

uh, you know, when I build buildings

16:31

in Wisconsin, my development companies,

16:33

I'm walking job sites with construction

16:36

workers.

16:39

You know, my banking company. Uh.

16:42

You know, my colleagues are my friends. So

16:46

I'm dealing in the real world every day.

16:48

Senator Baldwin lives in the ultimate

16:51

political bubble of DC and

16:54

you know, lives with

16:56

her girlfriend in Manhattan.

16:59

So when they talk about out

17:01

of touch, I said,

17:04

my response is, look at the mirror. For Senator

17:07

Baldwin, she is the ultimate out of

17:09

touch per politician comes

17:11

back to our state a little bit here and

17:13

there to do some publicity,

17:16

and then flies back to d C and

17:18

lives in her little bubble where

17:21

I live in the real world. You know,

17:23

I have a foundation

17:25

that's deeply involved with the

17:28

food banks and you

17:31

know, helping rescue children

17:33

out of the sex trade. Here

17:35

in America, I have my hub

17:37

the homes nine of from around the world, for in

17:40

Africa, five in Central and

17:42

South America. So

17:45

I deal in the real world every

17:47

day, she's the one that doesn't well.

17:51

And you know, in the irony is the left policies are

17:53

the ones that are ruining the American dream

17:55

and preventing anyone from from getting ahead

17:58

in this society. But there does seem to be an animosity

18:00

on the left towards people who are successful.

18:03

Why do you think that is.

18:06

Because a lot of what fuels the left

18:08

is envy. It's

18:11

interesting the dynamics when

18:13

you look at they're

18:15

so negative. They're very

18:17

divisive, the progressive left. And I

18:20

try to say this to Democrats that

18:22

are reasonable. Your party left you

18:25

and you didn't even realize it. A lot

18:27

of Democrats are waking up to that.

18:29

But they're very divisive. They like dividing

18:32

us by gender, by

18:35

race, by economic class,

18:37

by religion. They're dividers

18:40

and that's part of the way. You know, if

18:42

you look at the history of

18:45

that hard progressive left or

18:47

the communist socialists,

18:49

it is by division. And so

18:53

yeah, you know, our country was

18:55

always built on. Part of the American dream

18:58

was to be successful, and still

19:00

most Americans, the vast majority,

19:03

want that. But with the left, they

19:05

operate off of a lot of envy

19:07

and anger and I think

19:10

that's going to be their ultimate demise because

19:13

everything they touch goes

19:15

to hell. I don't care. You know, they run our big

19:17

cities. Look what's happened to our big cities.

19:20

They largely control education

19:23

in Wisconsin. You know, we're

19:25

better than a lot of states, but you

19:27

know, twenty seven percent of our children

19:29

can read a great level lesser proficient

19:32

at math. They have destroyed

19:34

our education of our young people.

19:37

And you can just go our healthcare.

19:40

What you know, access to health care

19:42

and the cost of it's gone straight up. Higher

19:46

education. You know, the highest rate

19:48

of inflation is healthcare and higher

19:50

education. And yet the quality

19:53

of a higher education, in my view,

19:55

has gone down. And certainly the

19:57

debating of free ideas, so everything

19:59

the less touches goes

20:01

negative. But they're so divisive they

20:03

are even destroying things like comedy.

20:06

Most comedians

20:08

don't even want to go on to university

20:10

campuses. They're very progressive cities

20:12

because they can't even make jokes. And

20:15

I think that's going to be their ultimate demise

20:18

is I think people are going to wake up and say

20:20

enough is enough. We're

20:22

tired of it. You

20:25

know, this push of transgenderism

20:27

pushing males to

20:29

compete in female sports. I

20:32

was raised in the time when

20:34

females didn't have a lot of opportunities

20:37

in sports. One of the great things I saw

20:39

was women having girls having

20:41

these opportunities to compete in all these

20:43

sports. And then my youngest daughter

20:46

was a superstar athlete. She was

20:48

voted Wisconsin's Female Athlete

20:51

of the Year her senior year. And

20:54

to think if boys

20:56

would have been able to compete against her in

20:58

her sports, would

21:00

you know? Her teams won the state

21:03

championship and all the rest. So, I

21:06

think their policies have gone so extreme.

21:09

I do think a lot of Americans are

21:11

rejecting it. And interesting you're

21:14

seeing the Hispanic

21:17

community and large tunks of the Black

21:19

community moving away from them now,

21:21

like this open border thing is really

21:24

having the Black community

21:26

saying enough is enough? What the

21:29

heck? So, I

21:31

think their policies are creating so much

21:34

destruction. I think a lot of Americans

21:36

are waking up.

21:37

I hope so. And I think people are okay

21:39

with success in respect it as long as the

21:41

person who's been successful is like, yeah, I've done

21:43

well for myself, but I want you to do well for yourself

21:46

as well. And here's how we do it quick

21:48

break more with Eric. Obviously

21:53

abortion's going to be or Democrats

21:55

are going to try to make abortion a central

21:57

issue this election cycle. Where

22:00

do you stand?

22:01

I believe several

22:04

things. First of all, it's back

22:06

to the states. I think the citizens

22:08

of our states should vote on this

22:10

through a referendum. Everybody will

22:12

have their vote. I'll have my vote

22:14

like everybody else. I believe in

22:16

the beauty of life. I have two daughters, and

22:19

I believe in exceptions

22:21

for rape incests and the health of the mother.

22:24

I also believe that a woman early

22:26

on in a pregnancy should have a right

22:29

to make a choice.

22:31

But I totally disagree

22:33

where Senator Baldwin is, and

22:36

that is a healthy baby that can be

22:38

born alive should

22:40

be terminated. And she's

22:42

so extreme up to the point of

22:44

delivery. Look, most of

22:46

Western Europe has

22:48

resolved this issue

22:51

decades ago, and

22:53

you women have a right to choose

22:55

in almost any Western European

22:57

country. In the first ten to fifteen

23:00

weeks, I think Germany's at twelve, France

23:03

is at fourteen, but all countries

23:05

are pretty much somewhere in that first trimester.

23:08

But again, once a baby gets to a

23:11

point of development, that it can be born

23:13

and live outside the room it

23:16

is not allowed, and

23:18

even before that in European countries,

23:21

and that's more than enough reasonable

23:23

time for a woman to make a choice.

23:25

So that's where I am, and I believe that's where

23:27

the majority of Americans are, if

23:30

you believe the polling on it.

23:32

But I think the left has pushed

23:34

that again to such the extreme,

23:37

and so I'm not going to run from that issue.

23:41

I'm going to talk about it and I

23:43

will address it head on.

23:45

I'm definitely to the right, you know, I'm definitely

23:47

an outlier in terms of the population

23:49

and you know, pretty pro life to the

23:51

point where I think I've arrived at I don't even believe

23:53

in exceptions at this point, but

23:55

you know, I respect your opinion

23:58

and where you stand on that. Right

24:00

now, this race is in a

24:02

striking distance at the hill.

24:04

Numbers in College recently had

24:06

you down by three, which is in the margin of error.

24:08

How do you beat Tammy Baldwin? You know she's

24:10

been there for a while. What's the plan?

24:13

Well, first of all, it's rather stunning

24:15

that I've been in this race now for five

24:17

weeks and within five weeks time I

24:20

put it within a margin of era of

24:22

three percent, and

24:24

this race has just begun. You know

24:26

how you beat her, You hold her accountable

24:29

for a record. She has been a disaster

24:31

in every single manner.

24:34

She votes with Joe Biden ninety five

24:36

point five percent of the time. Now

24:38

think of that. You know, my wife and I've

24:40

been together for over thirty years. We have a wonderful

24:43

relationship. I love my wife to death,

24:46

but we don't agree ninety five point

24:49

five percent of the time. I don't know how in

24:51

the name the heck you could ever agree with Joe

24:53

Biden even ten percent of the time. So

24:56

she is your classic progressive,

24:58

you know, backbench who's just a rubber

25:01

stamp for whatever the progressive left

25:03

wants. I mean, she's voted one of the

25:05

three or foremost liberal senators in

25:07

the Senate. She's been

25:10

a politician her whole life, literally

25:12

thirty seven years from the time she's graduated

25:15

college. She went to on the Dane

25:17

County Board, and

25:20

then the State Assembly, then

25:22

Congress, and then the Senate. And

25:24

I'm going to hold her accountable for her votes

25:26

that have caused this massive amount

25:29

of debt that is killing

25:31

America and destroying us financially.

25:34

I'm going to hold her accountable for supporting

25:37

President Biden's open border policy.

25:40

I'm going to hold her accountable for supporting

25:43

Barack Obama's deal with Iran

25:45

that blew up, you know, terrorism

25:48

all throughout the Middle East right after

25:50

and then she doubled down with

25:52

Joe Biden and supporting the deal

25:54

with Iran again that they

25:56

were getting doing. You

26:00

know, look what I ran through its proxies

26:02

did with Hamas and has a blot

26:04

on Israel. So you can just

26:06

go one issue after another. She

26:09

is a complete do nothing, never

26:12

has accomplished almost anything in her

26:14

tenure. She collects a paycheck

26:17

and does whatever she's told by,

26:19

you know, the leaders of the progressive left.

26:21

So the way you beat her as hold

26:23

her accountable and point

26:25

out her track record to the people

26:28

of the state of Wisconsin.

26:29

Although Eric, they do say, happy wife, happy life.

26:31

You might want to get that percentage up.

26:35

Oh, we agree on a lot of

26:37

things, not ninety five point five.

26:39

You know, sometimes we want different things for dinner.

26:41

Sometimes we want you know, she

26:44

wants certain things in the house done

26:46

her way, and you know, okay, honey, you got

26:49

great taste, so you roll with it.

26:51

But yeah, but Yes,

26:53

happy wife, happy life. I totally

26:56

concur with that.

26:57

COmON, what do you think makes

26:59

a happy marriage? Way, it's a long time

27:01

to be married. What do you think what's the

27:03

key to your guys' success?

27:05

You know, there's several things. Never

27:07

go to bed angry, even if we're upset

27:09

each other. We always will give each other kiss

27:12

and tell each other we love each other. But

27:15

probably the most important thing being sweet

27:17

and kind to each other. You know, we each have

27:19

different needs, different desires, and

27:22

you know I go out of my way to spoil

27:24

her on those things that are important to her, and she

27:27

goes out of her way to spoil me on

27:29

things. Don't take things too seriously,

27:32

laugh and enjoy, you

27:34

know, making

27:36

humor of yourself. So but

27:40

most importantly, I think just being kind and

27:42

sweet. And you know, it's so

27:44

easy when you know you got stresses

27:47

on your life to take it out on the person closest

27:49

to you, But you

27:51

know you got to try to push back

27:54

against that and just always be kind

27:56

and sweet to each other. That's really what

27:58

I think the glue to marriage.

28:01

Well, there you have it, folks.

28:03

Thanks Rek.

28:04

Before we go, where can people

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follow?

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So it's huggedd And that's a good

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old nerveegion name means

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a head of the month.

28:30

You've decided not to take a paycheck. Why'd

28:32

you make that decision? And how

28:35

do you? Money corrupts politicians.

28:37

Look, I think money and special

28:40

interests have corrupted Washington. I

28:42

think that's a big problem that we have in

28:44

our country and our governments today. You

28:47

know, they say money's the

28:49

mother's Malka politics, and

28:52

it is distorting everything at our tax

28:54

system, our regulatory system. Who has

28:56

the money to buy off politicians?

29:00

Iss don't want it cleaned up because

29:03

they get money contributions

29:06

for twisting the tax code

29:08

and creating loopholes or earmarks

29:11

or regulations. So you

29:14

know, look, I've been blessed in life. I've worked

29:16

my tail off, I've taken a bunch of risks,

29:18

and I don't need anybody's money. So

29:21

my view is I'm not going to take any corporate

29:24

special interest money. I

29:27

will not influence my decisions. I'm

29:29

going to put the people of the state of Wisconsin

29:32

in my country. First, I'm not doing

29:34

this for the lifestyle. That is for darn

29:36

shirt. And I

29:38

want to go to Washington and do what is always

29:40

right. And then as it pertains to my paycheck,

29:43

I thought, you know, I give away

29:46

enormous amounts of money every single year

29:49

through charities. I'm a big believer

29:52

to who much is blessed much as expected

29:55

to wear. A man's heart

29:57

goes, so goes his treasures.

29:59

And and so I thought,

30:01

okay, I'll donate my senate

30:04

salary every year. Well, my foundation

30:07

team will pick out three four good

30:10

charities and they'll let the people at the State

30:13

of Wisconsin vote on them and pick

30:15

which one for the year where that money will go

30:17

to. So I look

30:19

at this as service. Our country

30:22

was governed and our founding fathers

30:24

wanted to be governed by citizen

30:26

legislators who went to

30:29

serve for a term or

30:31

two, which is important, bring

30:33

their skills and go back home.

30:35

That's how I look at this as service

30:38

to serve the country that allowed

30:40

me to create a wonderful

30:42

life and prosperity for myself. And

30:45

it's in a desperate shate now

30:47

so I'm going to serve and

30:49

then a term or two and then I

30:51

will go out because the last thing I'd want

30:54

to do is spend the rest of my life in politics.

30:56

Eric, we appreciate your time. We'll be following the race.

30:58

Love to get you back on as we get further into

31:01

the election cycle. But we appreciate

31:03

making the time for us today and coming on the show. It's

31:05

nice getting to know you.

31:06

Wonderful being on your show, Lisa, and

31:08

I wish all your listeners have a wonderful

31:11

day.

31:11

So that was Eric Hovdy. We appreciate him

31:13

making the time. He's running for Senate in Wisconsin

31:16

against Tammy Baldwin, who is an uber

31:18

LIB and also these guys are busy, so

31:20

I appreciate him for giving us so much time. He

31:22

was very gracious with that. I want to thank you guys

31:24

at home for listening every Monday and Thursday, but of

31:26

course you've been listen throughout the week until next time.