Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

I'm on the road and Saga is about to go on the road himself. So for this start of our

season, we decided we would do one last big Q&A episode. It's been one of the

favorite parts of the podcast. For both of us, we're going to start exploring a

different format for bringing the audience into the show starting in September

to October. So considering we had a bunch of submitted questions and the

relaunch of the newsletter, this was the perfect time to do this. So huge thank

you to Lincoln Network. Check out the substack. You all know the deal. Let's get

into the question. This first question is a good one because it's meta award

that people say I say all the time. Hey guys, love the show. I'm curious about

each of y'all's process for preparing for guests. You've referenced articles,

audiobooks, etc. But how do you pick and choose content so that you're well

prepared on the right topics? Also, my fiction recommendation dark matter by

by Blake Crouch. Excellent sci-fi novel. Now the work y'all do across shows, keep

it up. Best cool Hsaga. How do you prep? Yeah, it's a great question. I think

really what it is is there's a simultaneous if it's a guess that I don't know

that much about. It might be looking at the most recent thing that they've read.

Obviously if they have a book like learn, don't necessarily always have time to

read the book or read as much of I read as much of it as I can. But honestly,

really living this job, breaking points and more, I just always have to be in

it. So if I reference something, it's usually because that's just something I

encounter from my day to day life in terms of reading articles, in terms of

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