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🗓️ 22 November 2025
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-- On the Bonus Show: Behind the scenes of the Kamala Harris interview, and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, David here. What you're about to hear is an episode of the bonus show. We do a bonus show every day for our members and for a limited time. We will release one of the week's bonus shows on Saturdays exclusively for our audio podcast listeners. If you'd like to get access to all of the bonus shows, simply sign up at join packman.com. |
| 0:24.2 | Here is that bonus show episode. |
| 0:32.3 | Welcome to the bonus show. |
| 0:34.1 | Let's discuss a little bit of the behind the scenes of getting the Kamala Harris interview. |
| 0:39.0 | So I think this might be interesting for people, Pat. |
| 0:41.8 | I don't know, but at my intuition is just seeing, you know, how the sausage is made, as people |
| 0:46.9 | like to say. |
| 0:47.9 | So basically, we were offered an interview with Kamala just days before her weekend book event. |
| 0:58.0 | And that is a really, first of all, that's really common. |
| 1:01.6 | And it is so common that I will get messages like, hey, do you want to come to DC the day |
| 1:06.3 | after tomorrow and do a creator row? |
| 1:08.9 | And it's like, I wish I could. I have kids. I need child care. It's not |
| 1:13.1 | as easy as maybe it once was to just kind of like go down there. We sometimes have to move |
| 1:16.7 | guests around. Okay. So they give us the offer with the Kamala thing. And initially, the offer |
| 1:23.0 | actually was we can get you in the meet and greet line with her and you can get a picture. And I said, |
| 1:28.2 | listen, I appreciate that. I've met her in an actual structured setting at the White House, |
| 1:34.3 | that off the record, you know, thing that we did with creators. I really appreciate it. But it's, |
| 1:39.2 | my life is so complicated right now between kids and travel and all these different things. |
| 1:42.9 | I think if there was a content opportunity, I would do it. So then they said, all right, we'll come back to you. So then they came back and said, listen, here's what we can do. Much like when Don Lamon, Don Lemon went in at the end of the photo line in I believe it was Chicago, you can hop in the photo line and do an interview five to |
| 2:02.1 | 10 minutes with her at the end of the photo line. |
| 2:03.9 | I said, cool, sounds good. |
| 2:05.9 | So we mobilized producer Pat, and he makes a number of different technical determinations |
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