Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

I'm your host Tim Miller.

Happy daylight savings time.

Finally, I'm in my element.

Okay, we have light at night and I appreciate that. We've kicked out Bill Crystal this Monday. He was getting a little too excited singing Barbara Ann over the weekend. That's only a joke for people who are paying attention to politics in 2008. It's not true. But that's a John McCain joke. We have a guest for a different reason. She's the publisher of the Bullock, you know, or she's a host of the Focus Group podcast, The Illegal News with Sarah Longwell.

She's now the best-selling author of a book that isn't going to even be out until September.

But she's a front of the class person and wanted to do even better on the pre-sales.

And so she's here on this podcast. You should pre-order it right now. Link is in the bio. How to Eat an Elephant, one voter at a time is the name of the book. It's Sarah Longwell. What is up? Hey, do you want to apologize to me for saying I definitely shouldn't write this book? I don't. Opposite. And now I kind of feel like you want to get first on the New York Times list.

I got second behind Secretary of War, Pete Hanksuff, and you want to be first. And that was really the main reason behind the book. And I think it was probably about me.

Yeah, I was just going to say, I know you think everything in the world is about you and competition with you. But actually, actually, I wrote it

for the bulwark community who, by the way, they ride so hard for us. All I had to tell them was,

if I sold 20,000 copies, maybe I'd let JVL moderate a focus group. And boom, they were all over it.

Can't thank them enough. I just got to sit this weekend on my birthday weekend

and see my book become a bestseller on the strength of pre-orders from the board community.

So thanks to all of you for doing that. I do want to be number one. I am number one right now in

all of the like political categories just in front of Senator Kennedy, who has a book, apparently.

If you watch the Amazon chart of Sarah going up to wanking,, it was kind of like the gas prices chart. It was just like straight up. It was like the gas prices chart. Straight up. The book is How to Eat an Elephant. We'll talk about it at the end, about why. And you should get it just because it's Sarah and she's great and you'll love it. It doesn't matter what it's about, but we'll tell you more about why it matters. What's important about it at the end, but we have news to get to.

We're in a war

we are so i guess we're going to spend a lot of time talking about that here at the top a couple

of dues items from the weekend we had the seventh american killed in action and as an army

soldier in saudi arabia it also announced another marine infantryman,

19-year-old Kevin Melendez, died. But it doesn't seem like that was in the killed-in-action

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