It's a Numbers Game: Unpacking 'Original Sin' with Alex Thompson

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🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this episode, Ryan interviews Alex Thompson, national political correspondent for Axios and co-author of the new book 'Original Sin.' They discuss the Biden's political ethos, the evolution of Jill Biden's role, the controversial vice presidency of Kamala Harris, the implications of the Biden family business, and the dynamics of media accountability and press relations.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.2	Welcome back to a numbers game podcast, Ryan Gurdowski.
0:08.4	Happy Memorial Day.
0:09.6	I hope you are all having a wonderful Memorial Day, whatever you're doing, having a barbecue
0:13.9	or going to the racetrack.
0:15.4	My family always did being degenerates.
0:18.1	I'm just joking.
0:18.7	We didn't, we weren't that degenerate.
0:20.8	Anyway, I hope you guys have a great Memorial Day. Thank you for listening on this holiday. I'm just joking. We didn't, we weren't that degenerate. Anyway, I hope you
0:21.5	have a great Memorial Day. Thank you for listening on this holiday. I am exhausted because I spent
0:28.3	up, I was up two nights in a row, three o'clock in the morning each night reading original sin,
0:33.9	President Biden's decline, its cover-up, and his disastrous choice to run again by Jake Tapper and
0:39.0	Alex Thompson. It's a good book, really good. I mean, it kept me up because it wasn't bad. It was
0:45.3	actually a page turner. It was quick. And there were things that I learned there. And I want to talk
0:49.4	about the book in this episode, Special Memorial Day episode, maybe you're looking for summer reading.
0:53.6	I actually do
0:54.1	recommend this book to people. I do. I know there's a lot of anger by conservatives around,
0:58.1	especially Jake Tapper and the CNN's coverage over Joe Biden. I understand. And very few people
1:04.6	have been as wronged by CNN as I have, and I can still get past it. So you can get past it to read
1:09.9	this book. Certain things that I think were super interesting in this book that I just, I'm kind of
1:18.0	blown away from.
1:18.9	One, one of the people involved in Joe Biden's, like to make Joe Biden look better,
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