Episode 157: Andrew Gretes / XTC [Part 1]
Political Beats
National Review
4.8 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 185 minutes
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| 1:15.0 | standing by as always, Jeff Blair. Jeff, how are you? I am doing fantastic. I'm like a spinning top. |
| 1:23.2 | I'm burning with optimism flames practically. I've been waiting to do this show for what,, to say, nine years, nine years of political beats that I've been waiting to do this episode. There's no need for much prayer. Let's just get on with it because all roads lead to beat town. I just don't want to get about, you know, 60% through the episode on the brink of something really good, good discussion, then have you decide that you |
| 1:44.6 | can't do it anymore. |
| 1:46.3 | Can't follow through. |
| 1:47.5 | We're going to have to do something else. |
| 1:48.6 | That's my big fear about this episode. |
| 1:50.2 | We'll have to wait and see. |
| 1:51.8 | Just have to record it in pieces. |
| 1:53.3 | Jeff is on X at Esoteric CD. |
| 1:56.8 | Our guest for this program is a fiction writer teaching rhetoric and creative writing at Georgetown and George Washington University. |
| 2:05.7 | Somehow George Mason is not there, but the other George is yes. |
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