#273 Seven Years of RTN w/ Doug Heye & Margaret Talev
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It's been seven years since Ben & Bob launched the first episode of The Road to Now, so we invited two of our early guests – Doug Heye & Margaret Talev – to join us for a conversation about how things have changed since 2016 and the events of the preceding years that now appear to be most pivotal in creating those changes. Our conversation covers campaign finance reform, social media and the impact ai is already having on American politics.
Doug Heye is a political commentator who previously served as Communications Director for the Republican National Committee and Deputy Chief of Staff for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. You can follow him on twitter at @DougHeye.
Margaret Talev is Director of Syracuse University's Institute for Democracy, Journalism & Citizenship and Senior Contributor at Axios. You can follow her on twitter at @MargaretTalev.
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This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
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| 0:00.0 | I've been Sawyer. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Bob Crawford and this is the Rhodes Now seventh anniversary. |
| 0:12.9 | Bob, this podcast is now old enough that if it passes the swimming test, I can leave it alone at the Y pool and go work out. It's amazing. |
| 0:20.3 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:21.2 | That's incredible. |
| 0:22.2 | Yes. |
| 0:23.1 | Yes. |
| 0:23.5 | This podcast is now old enough to where it will sit in a room and play Xbox |
| 0:28.3 | all day long. |
| 0:29.5 | That's right. |
| 0:30.5 | This podcast is now old enough that when it goes to school, it has to take tests all day |
| 0:34.1 | to satisfy politicians. |
| 0:35.6 | It's really good, really good what's happening and this podcast |
| 0:40.1 | is still old enough to say really cute things like really funny things when it says something that's |
| 0:45.0 | adult it's like actually kind of cute yeah it is and it maybe it still has a lisp oh like it's child |
| 0:51.3 | voice yes so so now that we're old enough to walk, welcome to our two guests coming here. If you can't, by the way, I got to set this up. You haven't noticed. This is a birthday present to ourselves here. We just wanted to have people who were smarter than us who had interesting things to say and just get this out there. So our guest today, Margaret Tolliv, welcome to the Road to Now. |
| 1:15.2 | Thank you. Great to be here for this fabulous celebration. Doug High, welcome to the roads and now. It's good to be back. Thank you. And if there's anybody out there who's listened to this |
| 1:20.9 | podcast for seven years and doesn't know, Margaret Tolliv is the director of Syracuse University's |
| 1:26.6 | Institute for Democracy, Journalism, and Citizenship in Washington, D.C. and an Axios senior contributor. And of course, Doug High is the former RNC. Coms Director and Deputy Chief of Staff to the House Majority Leader. So great to have you guys both back on the road to now. |
| 1:46.5 | It's great to be back, but seven years seems like I was much younger and probably 20 pounds |
| 1:51.3 | later. |
| 1:52.2 | God, I mean, it's not just seven years, but it's like seven dog years of heaviness and everything |
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