This is a special bonus episode of the 99% of visible breakdown of the powerbroker.

I'm Roman Mars.

So a few weeks back, Elliot and I held our final Powerbroker event.

It was an AMA on our Discord server where we shared our final thoughts about the book and our thoughts about this whole experience.

We took questions from the listeners.

It was a ton of fun. But we know a lot of you couldn't make it. So as promised,

here is a recording of the event. One of the questions that we want to start with was just about like our impressions of the book. We've each read it three times. And so, Elliot, now that you've read it three times,

what is your favorite part of the Powerbroker? Now that I've read it three times, and now that I'm

back on my mic after telling a six-year-old, no, he cannot play Xbox right now, which is why I want

with. Mike was turned off briefly. I think my favorite part, I don't know. I love that Al Smith biography section so much just going through his life. It's so exciting. It's a story that until I read the power broker, I was really truly unaware of, like, just what an amazing personality and amazing history that guy had. But reading it this third time through, I feel like there

were parts of it I was picking up on before that I hadn't before. And I think it's any time when

Robert Caro's personal kind of like feelings and interests come through, not just the part

where he's writing in italics, you know, they could have done it better.

You know, this was the wrong choice.

But instead, how clearly he feels an admiration for some of the characters in the book and how

clearly he does not feel admiration for some of the other people.

Like, I don't think I fully picked up on the dislike of John Lindsay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it was very funny to me on the third time through.

But what about you, Roman?

Are there parts after this multiple readings?

What are your favorite parts now?

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