I'm Ben Nadefaffrey, host of the history show The Last Archive, and I want to tell you about a new series we're running in our feed.

It's called The Dead Line. Six essays written and read by Jill Lepore,

the New Yorker writer, American historian, and founding host of our show.

These are incredible essays on everything from the history of Cryogenics to the Silicon Valley

Gospel of Disruption.

And at the end of each essay, I interview Jill about her craft as a writer.

You can listen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. our radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, welcome to the buck brief.

We are very fortunate to be joined by our friend Mike Slater,

who we have known here for, I don't know, like a decade now.

It's been a long time, Mike,

been in the game a while.

Tell everybody what you're up to these days,

just so they know who it is that we are talking to.

Like, are we getting old. Maybe.

Yeah.

I like you're kind of going silver fox over there buddy.

I haven't seen you a while.

You know what I mean?

You were blonde when we met.

You were like surfer dude, San Diego blonde and now, you know what I mean?

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