Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaelin. Today, I'm joined by

Dave Pell, the self-described managing editor of the Internet and writer and publisher of

Nextraft, a curated newsletter of the Internet's top 10 news stories of the day.

Dave is also the author of new book, Please scream inside your heart, breaking news,

and nervous breakdowns in the year that wouldn't end. Dave, welcome to the show.

Thanks so much for having me on. It's great to be here.

So listen, before we get into your curation of the Internet, which sounds like a pretty

big job. I want to talk about the new book, so it's called Please scream inside your heart.

And as I was reading it, you know how they say that thing about how, as you get older

every year, shorter because it makes up, you know, a smaller slice of your life, I feel

like 2020 was sort of the exception that proved that rule, right? Like it felt like the year

that would never end. So, you know, going through it, you cover obviously the politics of

it, impeachment, the pandemic, you know, Black Lives Matter, the biggest election of our

lifetime, a slide towards autocracy. So as someone who was trying to consolidate all of these

hugely impactful things that were all occurring simultaneously, how did you do this in such

a way? Because I'll tell you what it vividly did for me was made me relive the year, which

was what I would say is almost a wake up call. Now is we're almost a, you know, a year past

the last election day, almost two years to the beginning of the pandemic. So take us

a little bit through what you were hoping to get out of putting all this together and hope

what readers, you know, will get out of it. I really think of 2020 as sort of being

the earthquake and what we're experiencing now as being all these aftershocks, you know,

and hoping to avoid a tsunami at some point. So I really wanted to do a few things with

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