Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for those who feel homeless in today's political hellscape.

I'm your host, Andrew Heaton.

And as the host of a semi-prominent political podcast. I get a lot of requests from authors to come on the show and talk about their new book.

If it's interesting, I bring them on. If it's just a Plymouthist screed, I politely turn them down. For example, there are plenty

of tomes that have titles like, Demon Rats, why the Democratic Party is ruining America

and what you can do about it, or the Devil's Hand Towel,

how progressives is literally a satanic institution, literally.

Stuff like that.

It always has a dumb title and it always has a colon.

There's always a subtitle.

Usually a ghostwriter too, since the person writing it is a talking head in the media, probably

doesn't have the patience or maybe the skill to actually write a book.

For example, I will not mention the person or network,

but a friend of mine is on one of these networks

and they recently approached him and went,

hey, we wrote a book, we want to put your name on it,

so you can go on shows and we'll sell it

and we'll cut a deal with you.

He wasn't even going to be involved in the process.

Now I never bring on guests like that because I find those books absurdly, amazingly

boring. They are so boring. I never learned anything from them. They're just saying

our team is the good team, the other team is the bad team over and over and over again for

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