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It's the best of the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz.

It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz. It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.

Well, I thought I was done for the day after doing Media Buzz,

came home, relaxed a little bit,

and found out at the same time as the rest of the world

that Jimmy Carter had died at the age of

100. You know, it was a couple of years ago that he went into hospice care and we all assumed,

along with his family, at the end end was near, but he hung on.

I'm going to talk about a lot of things on this podcast today.

I hope you had a good weekend as we head into the new year.

This will be the last podcast of 2024.

Going to take off New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, and then I'll be back on Thursday.

But I do so want to start with Carter because that was the first national campaign as a kid that I covered.

I was working for the Bergen record in New Jersey.

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