Hey there listeners, Gaelin here. I hope everyone is having a nice holiday season.

As we head into the new year and our attention begins to turn to the presidential primaries,

we decided to re-air our audio documentary series, The Primaries Project. It originally

aired at the beginning of 2020 and across three episodes we looked at how our presidential

primary system came to be, what its consequences are and how it could be different. Here is the

first of those episodes.

The Iowa State Fair. It's known for things like...

We're serving corn dogs so we have regular foot long, double bacon, sweet corn,

food on sticks, cattle competitions.

I am clipping her udder, which means I'm going to take all the hair off of it and I'm

going to be able to expose that mammary system for its full glory.

At amusement rides. And here we go.

You know, like bumper cars, teacups, the Tilted World.

I am a little old to be riding on the Tilted World. I don't see any other journalists on

the ride, but you know, it's a place where you can play carnival games.

The first of either side person is going to be there.

With the people vying to be the leader of the free world.

Like Tulsi Gabbard, a congresswoman from Hawaii.

Teamwork, right? It's all about the world.

It's a simple photo op, but it's also part of how we select our candidates to be present.

Thank you.

You got to go one more time in every match.

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