Hello, and welcome to Positively Dreadful with me, your host, Brian Boitler.

So last week, Pod Save America, our flagship show, did something a little different.

If you heard, hopefully you listened.

The interview guest on last Thursday's show was Chris Christie.

The Chris Christie you're all thinking of, the former New Jersey governor, bridge gate

dude, critical early Donald Trump endorser, that guy.

And it shouldn't be a big mystery why.

Christie has landed in the anti-Trump camp and of all the thousands of people in the

Republican presidential primary.

He's the only one who's both qualified for the first GOP debate.

And who's made it clear he'll attack Trump directly for essentially for being a crook.

That doesn't necessarily redeem him or redeem anything about him, but it's interesting

and useful and healthy in a way.

Trump probably won't show up to that debate because Chris Christie will be there, which

is valuable information.

Christie could nevertheless make all the other non-Trump candidates look pretty cowardly

and ridiculous in the ways they bend over backward, not to notice that he's seemingly

broken a bunch of laws.

So Christie's injected some novelty into GOP politics.

And I'm probably a bit biased, but it was a good interview.

Check it out if you haven't listened to it already.

But not everyone agreed.

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