Hey, it's Dan Feifer. The Cricket staff is often joining their last moments of rest before 2024 hits.

So today we're bringing you a special preview of my brand new Crooked subscriber exclusive podcast

series, Polar Coaster. Polar Coaster is my chance to sit down with expert guests to break down the latest polls,

unpack what they actually mean, decide whether it's time to completely freak out.

The full first episode is already available to our subscriber community,

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Happy holidays, everyone. Welcome to Polar Coaster. Today I'm joined by Cornell Belcher, the founder and president of

Brilliant Corner's research and strategies, an NBC political analyst, a

imposter for President Obama, and the author of the book,

a black man in the White House.

Cornell Belcher, welcome to the polar coaster.

Thanks for having me on the polar coaster, I think.

Well, you know where a polar coaster comes from.

It's when it is in 2011-12 when people like our mutual friend John Favreau would be freaking out about every individual Gallup Polluff, David Plough, our campaign manager in 08 and senior White House senior advisor in 2011 2012 would tell him to start get he would say get off the

fucking polar coaster and so we have taken that brand because it is a as a wild and

nauseating ride and we've applied it to this brand new podcast here

at Kirkkin Media.

So, I love that by the way.

I remember Fluff used to say we're not going to play the polling game.

That's right.

It's right. It had this back and forth with all the reporters

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