#157 The State of the Union w/ Matt Negrin
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
After our last episode on the separation of powers in the Constitution, we heard from several listeners who said they wished we'd spent more time on the topic. The people have spoken, so we're following up with another episode on modern politics and the Constitution with special guest, RTN-favorite Matt Negrin!
Matt Negrin holds the record for most appearances on RTN. He is also Senior Producer for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. You can hear him as host of "Slowbama," on the The Daily Show Podcast Universe, available on apple podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you get The Road to Now. You can follow Matt on twitter at @MattNegrin.
The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network. This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Across the margin of the podcast is a show that brings you in-depth interviews with notable authors, artists, musicians, activists, filmmakers, and introspecticentrics of all kinds, diving deeply into topics that demand deeper examination, and illustrating the notion that there are captivating stories to be found everywhere. Across the March in the podcast is proudly in the loop. I'm Ben Sawyer. |
| 0:46.5 | And I'm Matt Negren. |
| 0:49.0 | Back again for the Road to Now podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | Matt Negrin, this is episode number 157. This is Matt |
| 0:56.1 | Negren's 173 appearance on the Roads Now. It is fantastic to have you. Thank you. I got to say, |
| 1:02.8 | Matt, no one ever says have Matt Negrin back on, but we've had you on like 20 times. |
| 1:09.0 | You got to give the people what they don't want so that they |
| 1:12.2 | know what they don't have. But you know what? Your two biggest fans are right here. |
| 1:18.4 | Sometimes I talk to you guys and I'm like, are we recording on this or are we just talking? And that's |
| 1:22.1 | honestly the tone we're going for. Depends how heated it gets. I just want to take this opportunity to promote some personal projects. So all those listeners out there. Okay. Go ahead. Go ahead. No, I'm kidding. That's going to come at the end. That's the bonus. Hey, Matt, can you still rent your Twitter handle? Can you still rent that? I will lease it out for $8.99 a day. |
| 1:46.2 | Anybody who wants me to promote their message on my Twitter handle, it is available for leasing. |
| 1:51.6 | There are absolutely no restrictions unless it's something that's like pro meet the press. |
| 2:00.1 | I would not run anything that is pro meets the press. |
| 2:02.5 | Other than that, anything goes. |
| 2:04.8 | Okay, that's good to know. And we will probably be purchasing that. Again, we've purchased |
| 2:09.1 | it before the road to now we're big clients. Yeah. We're going to do it again soon because |
| 2:14.2 | we have more live shows to promote. Yeah. And I think the metrics will show that after that ad buy, your sales did, there was activity. |
| 2:24.6 | So it may have helped a little bit. |
| 2:26.6 | Anything I can do. |
| 2:28.1 | And I just want everyone to know that if you do rent my Twitter handle, I tweet twice as often about things you probably don't want me tweeting about, but I'm out there twice as much just for you because I work for you. I work for the people. I'm man of the people. Well, it works because our January 25th show at Chapel Hill at Carborough at Cat's Cradle. It's sold out. It's been sold out for like over a month. I just dabbed, by the way. I dabbed. |
| 2:51.3 | I saw that dab. I saw that dab. What a perfect chance to roll into this. You know, our January 24th show, it had sold out because we were only going to do the orchestra, but then we opened up the balconies. And those tickets are selling. So if you're hearing this on Monday, you've got time to sell it. And today you will hear the announcement that Road to Now is doing a live show on the Nashville Comedy Festival, Polk Theater, April 18th at 4 p.m. |
| 3:16.6 | Our guests will be Langhorne Slam and Tom Shadyak and some more surprise guests. |
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