Aloha and mamaste everyone and welcome to in-politik with John Heilman my

podcast on politics and culture for Odyssey and Puck. Since we started up this show a couple months ago, we have been dropping

fresh episodes twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays, but, but starting next week, Consumer Alert, we are shifting our schedule to Wednesdays and Fridays, so please do not lose your shit when a new show isn't waiting for you next Tuesday morning.

It will be there 24 hours later and every Wednesday thereafter

for as long as you can stand it.

Bring you fresh, intimate, candid conversations with people who roam the

quarters of power and influence in America shaping our culture in entertainment, sports,

tech, business, food, and of course, politics, a realm that has been an absolute shitcho, whirlwind, earthquake zone

over the past month, culminating with Joe Biden's historic decision on Sunday to bow out of

the presidential race and endorses vice president to be his party's nominee and take on

Donald J Trump for the rest of the summer and into the fall.

Since then the Democratic world has been consumed by

Kamalomania, coconut craziness, and the summer of brat adjacent celebrations.

People in the Democratic Party have only turned the volume down on Charlie XCX for one reason and one reason only,

and that was to listen and hushed reverential and

well-earned silence to Joe Biden's address from the Oval Office on Wednesday night

a speech that was roundly seen as meeting this extraordinary moment with words that were gracious, graceful,

grateful, selfless, and a thousand percent driven by a sense of duty and an

appreciation for the democracy and the balanced stakes of this election.

Words, which is to say, that even vast quantities of the highest great hallucinogens

could never cause anyone with half a brain on planet Earth to imagine coming out of the mouth of Donald Trump.

To talk through, break down, chop up, and suss all of this out, we have two guests from wildly divergent places on the

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