Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman,

Puck and Odyssey Joint, featuring lively in-depth conversations with the people who

cruised the corridors of power and influence in America, sculpting and shaping the ebb and flow

of our politics and our culture. As I explained at the top

of our last show, I was far, far away last week in an undisclosed but excellent location and

entirely unplugged from the news. But as I said then, and I'll say again, don't worry, fam,

I would never ever leave you hanging or

hankering for fresh episodes of Impolitic without having left some behind for you to chew on.

In our last installment, we had Susan Morrison on for a fantastic conversation about Lorne

Michaels and Saturday Night Live, the subject of a recent best-selling biography, Lorne.

And if you haven't listened to that episode yet, you really ought to, it's a delightful

and entirely welcome break from the political mayhem that is, like it or not, in politics

bread and butter.

Today, however, for better or worse, we are back to politics.

But rather than jawing about the current week's mayhem,

we have a special retrospective show teed up for today. As all of you are well aware,

Donald Trump's 100th day in office is tomorrow. And while the whole first 100 days thing is an

arbitrary, ultimately meaningless, kind of a phony baloney milestone.

It will nevertheless occasion a veritable tsunami of analyses, appraisals,

and assessments on cable news, the internet's, pretty much everywhere.

So we figured, hey, why not beat the rush and put together a look back on the highs and lows,

the madness, the mania, the mayhem of the first 98 days,

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