The 2023 Can't Let It Go Year End Spectacular
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political correspondents Danielle Kurtzleben, Ashley Lopez & Susan Davis, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh, and senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
This episode was edited by Erica Morrison. It was produced by Jeongyoon Han and Casey Morell. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 0:10.0 | And today, our annual holiday tradition, |
| 0:13.0 | unlike any other, the Can't Let It Go, |
| 0:16.2 | Year in Spectacular! |
| 0:18.4 | The moment we all wait for. |
| 0:21.0 | All year, I've up pins of needle. It is all the things that we have not been able to stop thinking about |
| 0:26.2 | this year politics or otherwise and we will start with two very familiar voices, Danielle Kurtz Laban and Franco-Ordonez. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:38.5 | Danielle, no pressure. |
| 0:41.5 | Start out, start this off. I never feel pressure. I'm a pro. All right. We're going to talk about this. The thing I can't let go of this year is the fervor |
| 0:50.1 | overrun to Santis's boots. Now to be clear to be clear here I am not my can't let |
| 0:56.7 | it go is not his boots themselves. I take no position as a professional |
| 1:00.5 | reporter who reports on Ron DeSantis. |
| 1:03.0 | But not fashion. |
| 1:04.1 | I take no position. |
| 1:05.1 | Also, I'm bad at fashion. |
| 1:06.6 | No, but like I take no position on whether he's wearing them, |
| 1:10.7 | whether it matters. |
| 1:11.7 | I'll be honest, there's probably some voters out there who |
| 1:14.3 | subconsciously want a taller president. |
| 1:16.8 | And you know what, that's a bad reason to vote for someone, but I, we're a candidate to wear lifts, you go right on ahead. |
| 1:24.0 | But... |
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