We are back inside the hive with myself Joe Hagen Emily Jane Fox. What is going on Emily

what's going on? It's a great question, an age-old question.

We're here today because we have an amazing interview

with John Lovett, who, if you are listening to this podcast,

Odds are you are listening to one of his other two podcasts.

He is a co-host of PodS America.

He is a host of Love It or Leave It.

He is a founder of Crooked Media and a former Obama speechwriter and we have an amazing talk about all things that are happening in the world right now, all of the wonderful things that Crooked is doing. Love it is a

personal friend of mine too so we talk about a very odd game that we are engaged

in during the pandemic that is part of our daily routine that is so nerdy

when we were describing it to our listeners I realized how much of a loser

I have become in quarantine but the conversation is

very fun I'm excited for you to hear it. What I'm thinking about today is

after this episode I believe that we, my math may be wrong, but I believe

that we only have two more episodes before the election, could it be?

I mean, you mentioned that to me

before we started taping and it kind of blew my mind

and I'm looking at the calendar and it's actually true.

There are only. I'm glad I can count. Yeah, well I mean you know and math, you know we're we're mere journalists not expected

to know anything about math but it's true and two weeks to go and

where are we in just pure feeling of the numbers feeling of the

the sightgeist and the tone and the of in the arc of the news cycle

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