Welcome to Blocker reported. I'm Jesse Single.

Katie Herzog is out this week searching for the perfect speedo for Moose.

Attempting to fill her tiny shoes is Dave Waggle. Dave, welcome to the show.

How's it going?

Good man.

You are a guy.

Dude, I have known for a while.

You're also a journalist at Semaphore where you cover politics and write the twice weekly

Americana newsletter, which is billed as quote an insider's

guide to American power. Before that you wrote or worked for I think every

publication in the country reason slate Washington Post, Slate Society's New American Meat Packer Monthly.

No, I started at my career at Reason, really. I had a fellowship at USA Today, and then I was at Reason and did a bunch of

Freelancing for different political magazines, some of which still exist. I think most

them still exist. They're just different now. The American prospect, American Conservative.

But I've been pretty semaphores exclusive for the last two years.

It's going pretty good. New media. You've done it.

I have done it. It's exciting. People like to read it.

Would you, I feel like there's not a lot of people who have written for as ideologically wide a range of outlets as you.

Yeah, the origin story is pretty lucky.

It's that I was interested.

I mean, I started freelancing for reason in college

and was pretty attitude and alignedantly aligned with especially 2006 Libertarianism and was covering the movement taking the movement very seriously

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