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Negren. Back for more. You know my voice. You know my name. Here I am back on road to now.

Find out why in two seconds.

And you should have seen it coming, folks. He has not been on the podcast in about nine months now.

And he is more than due. Here's the question. Here's the question. Do I still hold the all-time record for guest appearances on Road to Now? I believe the number was 10. Yes. That is, if you consider we, that's roughly like 6% of the

entire episodes we've ever launched. It's amazing considering it's a history podcast and I am not a historian.

Well, you know, the road to now, you know where it leads. It leads to now. So that's my justification.

I only live in now. I'm here at the beginning of this episode to introduce it because now is what we're talking about.

Negri came to me this week and said he's working on a project and he wanted to know if we wanted to collaborate.

He sent me some of the rough interviews he had done.

It's fantastic.

And I know from knowing a lot of our listeners and seeing the responses, these types of things have been on your mind. So I'd like to introduce now a series of episodes called Making the Call with Matt Negren.

Negren, what's it about?

Well, first of all, let me address the huge elephant in the room, the big question, why did I come to Road to Now? Obviously, Road to Now was not my first choice. Okay, let's just get that out of the way. Okay, I went to the Daily first, the New York Times podcast. And they were like, in no way would we let you do this. I was like, that makes total sense. I would never want to tarnish your brand.

And you were like, can I get on this? And they were like, here's what we're launching. It was I'm Matt Negren, and this is the daily. I sent them the audition tape, and they were like, no, you've, you've nailed it too much. And we're not ready to replace Michael Barbaro yet. So then I went to POTSave America and they were like, wow, we love you.

We are obsessed with you.

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