Welcome to the box action show everybody with me now my friend David Reboy. He is a fellow at the

Claremont Institute. He also has a great sub stack late Republic nonsense, but you can all

subscribe to. And if you want to know how to get gains in the gym, he's also an expert on that one

for those of you who are only listening and not seeing. If you're watching this on YouTube,

you'll see exactly why. Mr. Reboy, honored to have you on the program, sir. What is it? Tell me

about late Republic nonsense. That's an interesting title for a sub stacker. Are we the late Republic?

And what kind of nonsense is going on? We are indeed the late Republic. Thanks for having me on.

It was, it was a name that came to me because nothing else seemed even remotely as appropriate.

I think, I mean, I thought for years that we're in the kind of late Republic period. And

you know, when I started saying it, people thought I was crazy, but at this point, I don't think

there will be all that much pushback. And the nonsense part is like these are the things that

happen when you start, you know, when it seems like the form of government and the, the,

the things that we used to take for granted really about our union and about

you know, comedy and civility and the things that we all thought we agreed on or maybe haven't

in quite a long time. I mean, at some point, it's going to reach, it's, you know, at some point,

it's going to reach the end. And I think that talking about it and talking about why

these problems are, you know, maybe seem insurmountable is the only way that we can really face them

and do something about it. How did we get to this point? What happened? Because I do often talk to

friends of mine, my peers about how it didn't seem like maybe everyone has nostalgia for the era

of their youth. But it felt like in the 90s, we were arguing over things, but we were arguing

over things from roughly the same side of the world viewpoints. I can't really explain it better

than it felt like we used to be arguing more over, you know, the tax code and things that

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