I am Anthony Scaramucci and you may know me from my career on Wall Street or my 11 days in the White House.

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but I'll tell you, if you read books, you can.

I love to read and my new podcast Open Book is about just that.

Each book is this curated source of knowledge which we can buy for ten dollars and

digest in ten hours together with some of the brightest minds and

authors out there, I'll turn the pages on everything from history and psychology to

finance and tech. You can find open book with Anthony

Scaramuchi on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. I hope to see

you there. Hey everybody it's Joe Trippy and welcome back to that Trippy show.

This week we're excited to welcome a special guest who we've been looking forward to talking to for a while.

Dr Heather Cox Richardson, author, professor of American history at Boston College, her newsletter, letters from an American, is a must read.

And we'll put a link to that in our show notes. Her podcast now and then tackles how history informs the news of the week.

We'll link to both of them in the show notes.

We wanted Heather's perspective on what's going on.

She's also wrote a book on the history of the Republican Party

to make men free.

And I think I heard her as the first person I remember saying

history doesn't repeat itself but it sure does

rhyme it's really insightful Heather welcome it's such a pleasure to be here it's

really great to get on we've been trying to do this for a while, but events often overtook us. But listen, I am a ferocious reader of Letters from America every morning and I can't recommend it more to our

listeners.

Alex, where do you want to start today?

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