I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

And welcome to another episode of McCary Sellers.

Today we have the man, the myth, the legend,

the person who has turned the media industry on his head and it continues to survive, thrive, and when

Jake Sherman, how you feeling today? I'm all right man, how are you? I'm good. Where are you? It looks like you're in a

quarter or something. I am in I'll tell you where I am. I am in a this is going to sound crazy. I am at a phone booth in the house periodical press gallery in the capital.

They still have phone booths in the capital?

Yeah, they have privacy booths because these are communal work areas.

Although punch poll news, the only other reporters here are reporters that work for Punchball news.

But yeah, this is where I squat during the day.

I love it. So my show is kind of unique because we ask everybody to say first question.

And so we start each show by having our guests walk us through the arc of their career.

So talk about each of your careers stops

since finishing Columbia and talk about your work now with punchball.

Yeah, so I had a pretty was pretty traditional at the time. I went to George Washington University

undergrad Columbia for grad school, did internships, so I interned at the

Journal News in White Plains, New York. I interned at the Minneapolis Star Tribune in DC,

which doesn't exist in DC anymore. I don't believe. I interned at Newsweek and after Columbia,

I went to the Wall Street Journal in DC but then I funny it was right after

Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal in 2009 and I had an offer to move to

Minnesota to cover the State House for the Star Tribune.

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