So we've already done episodes on the 2008 and 2000 elections.

And we saved this one for last because we thought it would be the least interesting, having lived through this election.

We were really kicking the can down the road.

But as we started to do research, we found it to be way more interesting thanks to the figure of John Kerry, the ultimate damn loser, the winter soldier, the baby killer who loves the Iraq

war and the climate czar with a yacht.

He is a fascinating man of contradictions and contrast.

A short bibliographical note, to research this, we watched all three debates, we read a book,

an extremely normie lib book put out by Newsweek called Election 2004.

We skimmed a book called A Defining Moment.

And Giordano, you read his memoir, right?

It's not his memoir.

Somebody compiled his diary entries and letters from Vietnam into a book called Tour of Duty,

which I actually quite enjoyed.

Of all the books here, I thought it was the most readable.

Right off the bat,

you guys have put more effort into this episode than the Democratic Party put into trying to win the

2004 election. True. Yes. I was trying to remember the title of his book. I just remember it being

something super banal and military. I'm like, it's something like call of honor, metal of duty,

something of that nature, like tour of duty. I'm experiencing

mixed emotions here because when you said that this would be such a boring election that you'd

been kind of procrastinating on it, part of me was like, but this was the election, this was

the election that shaped me. This is the first election I ever paid attention to. Fahrenheit

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