How Jonathan Capehart Almost Sabotaged His Career
The Michael Steele Podcast
Two Squared Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What did you say to me, Mr. K-Part? |
| 0:02.6 | What did you just say? |
| 0:03.4 | Wait, you were going to make me repeat it? |
| 0:05.2 | Yes, what did you just say to me? |
| 0:06.5 | I said, you're not going to put on a shirt collar for me. |
| 0:08.6 | You just told me I should dress more appropriate to be with you in your presence? |
| 0:13.2 | No, just, I mean, you know, I went and put on a shirt, I put a sweater on to be decent. And you, if you show up like you just came from the treadmill. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm just going to keep watching cab videos. |
| 0:36.6 | Jump from all kinds of hoops, |
| 0:39.3 | getting to look pretty because they are sitting there in a sweater |
| 0:48.3 | in a day of summer. |
| 0:50.3 | Is this better? |
| 0:52.3 | It's a button down let me do the button |
| 1:00.3 | yo folks my guest today is a dear buddy of mine i have a lot of fun fun with Jonathan K. Part. He makes me laugh, |
| 1:12.9 | and I just have a real good vibe every time we're together. He is a Pulitzer Prize winning |
| 1:19.6 | journalist, co-host of the weekend on MSNBC and Associate Editor at the Washington Post, |
| 1:26.2 | where he is also an opinion writer, |
| 1:28.3 | and you can and should read his work there. |
| 1:32.5 | He's also an analyst on the PBS News Hour. |
| 1:35.8 | His editorial campaign in 1999 to Save the Apollo Theater earned the board the Pulitzer Prize |
| 1:42.9 | for editorial writing. |
| 1:45.0 | He is a phenomenal individual who has an incredible journey and story that he tells in his new book, his new memoir. |
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