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The Realignment

Supercast Ask Me Anything Teaser | Saagar's Birthday Edition - BuzzFeed News Shutdown, Pessimism About America, Getting Narratives Right, and More...

The Realignment

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In today's Supercast exclusive discussion and Ask Me Anything, Saagar and Marshall discuss birthdays, the shutdown of BuzzFeed's news division, and answer subscriber questions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to the supercast edition of the realignment podcast where

0:05.5

Saga and I do a bit of like discussion and then get into the questions and comments that listeners

0:11.7

have submitted. Reminder, if you would like to get the full access to this conversation,

0:16.3

you can go to realignment.supercast.com or click the link at the top of the show notes.

0:22.0

After we hit the end of this teaser, we'll get into the actual questions. And once again,

0:26.6

if you'd like to get the full access to that, any of other previous conversations,

0:30.4

we'll also submit your own questions, go to realignment.supercast.com. Okay, Saga, two things I wanted

0:36.1

to hit during the discussion section. Number one, happy birthday. This is the birthday edition

0:42.0

of the supercast. So here's just the quick question. How does it feel to be 31 years old?

0:48.4

Pretty much feels this. I think this is cringe, but in there's a good,

0:54.5

almost like mental framework that I remember from how I met your mother, where Barney Stinson

1:00.1

talks about relationships and how relationships are like highways with with exits. He's like one

1:06.8

week is an exit three months is an exit six. So I think that life is kind of the same way in terms

1:12.2

of like demarcation points. And I think 31 is in between the 30 and the 35 exit. It's something

1:19.6

where it's like the mile marker and you just drive past it. You're like, yeah, it exists,

1:23.1

but I don't think about it. So that's where I'm at right now.

1:26.2

What exits did you see at 30? I didn't see an exit. I just knew that they existed.

1:32.7

I was like, this is a milestone. I mean, look, like if you think about it, like, so that was a year

1:37.6

ago, that was my 20s or over. My most, what's the book that you used to talk about?

1:44.4

Oh, why your 20s? It's called the defining decade. We actually read it for people.

1:51.3

You could kind of get it from the title, but I think let me put it this way. It's called the

1:54.4

defining decade. Why your 20s matter? It came out in 2012 when I think that was more revolutionary,

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