The second part is moving into areas that more or less fall into the heading of excuse me of

There is the microphone

Hello and welcome to the 538 politics podcast. I'm Galen Druke. I'm Nate Silver and

This is not exactly my model talk

We are taking the opportunity today to open up the mailbag and answer some questions that listeners have on their minds about politics and polling and whatever else and

I guess we shouldn't really call this model talk because that's not what it is Nate

But I don't know that mailbag talk has that much of a ring to it. Do you have any thoughts on what we should call this?

That's the pressure. You shouldn't tell me ahead of time. I mean, it's kind of

20 questions with Nate and Galen 20 questions. Okay. I like that. Although I think let me see how many questions we have here

We have 18. Yeah, that's pretty well rounded up to 20

I'm sure there's like there's actually some follow-ups in here

First question is Nate how are you? It's been a minute you were out this past week. I was out the week before

I was in Mexico. You were in Miami

Just like ships crossing in the middle of the night

The last time I checked in on you you had like some new news. You're writing a book. What's going on? Yeah, I'd been

Taking advantage of my vaccinated status to do some travel

but also I

Have reached the remit with Penguin press which is my couple sure for signal the noise

To work on a second book which is tentatively

Entitled on the edge

And then there's some subtitle which I forget wait what that's a book. Would you already forgot it?

Let me look it up. I know it's on the internet. It's called

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