In 1993, while covering the Bank of Credit and Commerce International scandal as a reporter for Time magazine,

I appeared on television for the first time at age 25.

And so we have asked a reporter to come in and help us with it who has covered that case for

two years for Time magazine John Dickerson.

Did the jury get any of this today?

I was terrified.

Six months for a while...

Are you going to be there the whole time?

I'm not sure that's up to my editor.

125 or more witnesses being called.

I have been talking to you ever since about political campaigns, political scandals, the evolving state of our democracy.

Along the way, I've also been talking to myself in notebooks I've carried in my back pocket.

I had one in my back pocket in August of 1993 as I do right now.

They've captured thoughts about life,

parenthood, death, friendship, writing, God, to do lists, and more.

I'm John Dickerson, and I'd like you to join me in figuring out what these 30 years of notebooks mean in my new podcast, Naval Gasing.

Every week we're going to dig through the piles of notebooks that I've been collecting and from their entries sometimes just a single entry

we'll try to sort out what makes a life or a day in a life or just a moment in the shadow of the day

we'll talk about things like when dogs walk their owners.

Why you shouldn't read a will on a Sunday.

What that man smoothing his hair is up to in the middle of Columbus Avenue, and what you notice at the counter

at Murries while they're cutting your fish, and so much more.

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