Welcome to the Bullerwork Podcast.

I'm Charlie Sykes.

It is Friday.

We usually have Tim Miller on, but Tim Miller is out pushing his New York Times bestselling

books.

Speaking of New York Times bestselling books, we're joined today by Jonathan Martin, Senior

Political Corresponder for the New York Times, a political analyst for CNN, and co-author

of.

I'm going to publish this, will not pass, Trump Biden and the Battle for America's

future.

How live a week, Jonathan?

I mean, damn it.

It really was.

It really was.

You know, Charlie, I wrote a piece for the Washington Post in the summer of 2006, which

is, well, it will be the ice age, you know, in our current politics.

It's a miss of time.

But it was a fun piece, though, talking about how there's this myth in Washington that

August is somehow a dead month, that nothing ever happens in August, and that everybody's

at the beach in August, and we're all like Parisians going to the river of the era.

That is like, historically so untrue, man.

There's an amazing political history of consequential even seismic events taking place

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