Hey everybody, it's Glenn Thrush with this week's episode of Politico's off message

podcast.

And before I get to the business of the week, I got one of the best emails ever, and I want to share it with you.

This is from Shelley from California.

I'm not going to give her last name.

And the subject line of the email is,

stop the cursing, exclamation point.

Here it goes.

Dear Glenn, okay, so you can curse on your podcast. Big deal. As a former social studies teacher,

I would have loved to play some of your interviews in the classroom. So quit cursing and give

the high school kids a chance. Also, if you want an interview suggestion, how about me?

I am a doctor of education in my 60s and know a thing or two about politics.

Oh, yeah, and I'm a woman.

Oh, yeah, I'm from California.

So get out of your bubble and interview of real Americans and stop the cursing.

And she is a doctor.

She signed it as a doctor.

What I will do, and I'm going to send her an email to this effect, is we are going to produce, depending on the podcast that she chooses.

She's going to email me and tell me which one she wants.

And I'm going to have my very diligent and hardworking producer, Bridget, bleep out all the curse words so that if she wants to use it

for her own listening or to play it for her former students or send it anywhere she wants,

it will be a G-rated version of our goddamn podcast. So this week is kind of a special podcast. Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer,

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