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Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history

from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avregan.

This day, August 27, 2014, well technically it's August 28, 2014, but we're going to do it anyway, because this is the day of our show,

on this day at a press conference about ISIS and Russia's intervention into Ukraine,

President Obama wore a tan suit. And that's basically my intro. President Obama wore a tan suit.

So here to talk about why and how and if that was a controversy and what to make of it is, as always always Nicole Hemmer of Columbia. Hello

Nicky. Hey Jody and our special guests for this episode host of It's been a

minute on NPR and a charter member along with me of former hosts of political podcasts who are not

doing that anymore so they're actually getting some sleep in 2020 it is Sam Sanders

hello Sam.

Ah, hello sir you'll be happy to know that after my turn at NPR politics I don't use an alarm clock anymore.

That is how I wake up when the spirit moves me. It's a great life.

It's glorious. So my goodness. Oh yeah. So Nicky this is a

controversy, fake controversy, all sorts of sort of interesting things to

pick apart. But we should probably talk about some of the specifics of that

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