Hey all, this is Max, an emergency physician in the US Navy currently deployed in Afghanistan.

This podcast was recorded at

140 pm on September 30th of my son's birthday.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this. What won't have changed though

It's how my wife Laura and I connect using podcasts just like this one. Follow them away. Today we'll listen

while we celebrate our third anniversary together. I love you Laura and I'll see you soon. Okay, here's the show.

Oh, that's so nice and thank you for your service and have a great anniversary and I wish I had a birthday to your son.

Thank you. Hey there is the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Aisha Roscoe. I cover the White House.

I'm Scott Detro. I cover the presidential campaign and I'm Mara Liason National Political Correspondent.

And Scott, I hear you're on Rail Force One. So is that the Amtrak or is that a special, it's not the Graham.

What are you on? It's I am on the official name is the Build Back Better Express, which I don't know if it's the best branding in the world

But this is a old-fashioned whistle stop tour. Today, Joe Biden is campaigning like it's 1936 and we are on a whistle stop tour

from Cleveland, Ohio to Johnstown, Pennsylvania. And I'm going to be honest with you. I'm super excited about it right now.

I'm on a moving train through Eastern Ohio. The views are great.

Scott, are you going to sleep on the train? No, no. We will we back in Wilmington tonight. It's actually just a regular Amtrak train

that the Biden campaign has chartered. I heard that Joe Biden did speak with you guys. What was he saying?

He has been giving the stump speech in Cleveland and then the line to Ohio just now where he took questions.

And obviously all of our questions had to do with what exactly happened last night.

I asked Biden what he learned from going one-on-one with President Trump and whether he would follow the advice of some people

who are saying these debates are not even worth having the way that last nights went and skipped the next two.

He said to be clear he does look forward to to the next debate. He thinks the fact that the next one

is a town hall where voters will ask the president questions is really important.

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