Michael?

Peter. What do you know about political pundits?

All I know is that the only job easier than their job is doing a podcast about political pundits. So we were bouncing around premium content for our dedicated listeners

or paying customers. You know we are at the end of the day a media criticism podcast that has sort of taken a firm position

against opinion columnist.

An anti punditundant position,

anti-pundant stance.

And so what better way to highlight that stance

and dig in than to have a series where we explain some to each other and to our audience.

Where we introduce each other to specific pundits and their punditry.

Yeah, because I think a lot of these people sort of blend together in my mind, right?

Where I have a sense that if I hear a name, oh, that's a dummy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I couldn't quite pin specific opinions on them.

Also I think there's something interesting with punditry and maybe with like everybody on the

internet where it's like they just come to you fully formed.

You're like this is just a political pundit whose views I'm hearing and oftentimes you don't know like wait who is this

person yeah this is also an opportunity to like go into the background of some of these people

yeah although I won't be doing that too much okay I. I was sub-treating my own segment,

but maybe we're not gonna do that for years.

Well, my pundit portrait is Kathleen Parker,

columnists for the Washington Post,

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