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This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me. This is the homeschool edition,

which will be the edition we're doing, I guess, for the rest of the year. I'm fine. Thanks for asking. And I'm delighted to have Carrie Budap Brown, who is the editor of Politico. Hi, Carrie. Hi, Peter. Thank you for having me. Thank you for joining me. I don't know how you have time to talk to me. There's an election. There's a pandemic. There's a Supreme Court fight. What else am I missing? That's it for today, right? Yeah, that's just it for today. We'll see where the day takes us and the week.

I've known you a little bit for a while, and this is something we've tried to do for a while, so thank you for coming on. We had John Harris, who was one of the co-founders of Politico on a while back, and he sort of explained the general idea of political and the history. I want to talk briefly about your history.

You are a longtime Politico person who took over the site in 2016.

Were you there from the beginning?

Yeah, I was one of the original hires by the team of co-founders.

I was at the Philadelphia Inquirer just covering state politics and read about Politico starting

and just, you know, sent them

an application out of the blue. And you never left? I never left. No. Yeah, it's, it's kind,

it is hard to believe in a lot of ways that it's been 14 years. I was a reporter for about eight

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