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,

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Welcome to the buck brief, Ryan Gerdusky in the mix.

He's going to explain who's going to win the election,

why they're going to win the election,

all the data, all the numbers, all the things, he's just going to make sense of it all for us because that's what he does

he's got the national populist newsletter on sub stack which you should all subscribe to

let me start with let me start with this Ryan

Everything that seems to happen now the consensus opinion quickly becomes it doesn't matter it's not going to do anything you

know what I mean? Trump's convicted and everyone's like it doesn't matter no one

cares like it's not going to do things. Hunter Biden's convicted

it's not going to matter. What is going to matter?

You know what I'm saying?

Like, these people who could go either way,

Trump or Biden, what is going to make up their minds?

Because it doesn't sound like any of this legal stuff

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