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

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

Welcome to another episode of the McCarty Celles Podcast.

I promise you guys week in and week out, well twice a week actually,

that I will bring you guys smart guests and today we actually have someone who fits right along that description or descriptor

None other than Josh Green. How you doing today? Good. Good it be with you. What part of the world are you in during these monsoons, if I may ask?

The monsoon outside my window is Midtown Manhattan.

Yeah, I fled the monsoon in DC to come up here and experience it from New York.

Well, I will be joining you shortly.

So yeah, I'm not looking forward to it.

We usually start each one of our shows by having our guests walk us through the arc of their careers,

and you're an optional correspondent for

Bloomberg Business Week now and you have written for the New York or the Atlantic

and Vanity Fair to name a few. When did you first realize the journalism would be

your career and what led you to the beat that you have now

Been covering for some time which is our national politics?

Honestly, totally stumbled into it after college. I moved out to Boulder, Colorado with a bunch of my kind of idiot friends and I wound up with a job working for the onion, the satirical news weekly in Boulder, Colorado. So my first job literally was writing fake news you know but it was it was fun I kind of got

interested in politics I went to Northwestern got a journalism degree and got to work for a

semester as a Washington correspondent for a little paper in Indiana that couldn't afford a real one.

And my congressman got caught having an affair with his secretary and I sort of caught the political bug.

How did he get caught with his secretary?

Who told on that?

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