Hey Wonderful! Welcome to episode 409 of the JV club with my marvelous guest Alexandra Petrie.

She is a fantastic, very recognized, renowned Washington Post columnist. She is a book author.

We will include more info about places you can and should check out Alexandra's work. She's very prolific just in general and

an all-around awesome human being. So I hope you enjoy this episode. I want to

thank everyone who has sent well wishes in the last couple of weeks and as

always I super appreciate you enjoy the episode. This is a stellar success. All happening. It's all happening. Where is it happening for you? Are you in New York? I know I'm in DC. Oh, you're in D.C. Of course you are, you're a fancy, you're a fancy D.C. writer.

Yeah, no, I like that like it, the adjective you chose was fancy for D.C.

Because I feel like D.C. is always like, you know, like, we have restaurants now.

We didn't use to what we thought now.

Like, I know, I don't know why I guess I, somehow in my mind I was legitimizing like journalism in DC as being more authentic

or highfalutin somehow than journalism in New York.

I mean I that's there's no that's a no win statement like that's

going to get me in trouble just across the board both cities but every

journalist like there's just nothing nothing smart about what I said

nor was there anything like particularly like founded or grounded about what I said.

Yeah I know everyone will be upset for their own particular reason.

Congratulations!

All I'm trying to do.

You've then diagrammed it.

That's right.

I just want to hurt everyone's feelings equally.

That's what it's about.

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