Radio Mano, Papa Chango Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Tangentially Speaking.

My guest today is a lovely woman named Aline, named after her father, Alan, I think she said. Evans.

Aline worked for many years as a hyper-successful lawyer in the state of Texas primarily.

She worked for the state insurance board.

She was a litigator for years.

She's like one of those lawyers that they make movies about sometimes,

you know, defending the victims of negligence.

And I don't think she worked as a criminal lawyer,

but she worked in some really big cases,

big money cases against automakers who were negligent at best in some of the things that

they did.

But really, this conversation, we don't really talk much about her professional career.

We talk more about her family background, her parents are really interesting people.

And basically, I think Aline doesn't think of herself this way, but I see her as a bit of a trailblazer

in many ways. You'll hear personal, professional, lots of different ways in which she broke the

mold and really stepped out on her own and created her own path and her own sense of meaning in life.

She's a, like I said, she's a lovely woman.

She's a very, very smart, very insightful, very decent person, exactly the kind of person that we need.

I'm tempted to say now more than ever, but I don't know.

I guess we always need people like this who are smart and decent and ethical and on our side, on the side of decency.

So that's a lean. I'm not really going to talk much more. I'm going to keep my political

commentary and all that other nonsense for the Romas that I've been doing. I'm keeping the conversational episodes

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