Hi, I'm Chris Styrwalt and this is The Hangover, a limited run podcast from the Dispatch

and Dispatch media that aims to figure out how Republicans took the shortest trip for

a party in nearly 70 years, from total control in Washington to absolute minority.

The GOP doesn't seem very interested in understanding why, so we'll have to do it for them.

How did the surprise success of 2016 give way to defeat, an effort to overturn the election,

and the siege of the U.S. Capitol?

And what comes next?

There's a little zealig in John Pudhoritz.

He appears again and again in the story of the birth of the modern conservative movement

and the right-wing media.

He has worked at nearly every big time-right of center outlet and can count as friends,

and sometimes foes, many of the luminaries of American public lives in the past four

decades.

I was thrilled when my friend agreed to join us for a survey of the birth, growth, and decay

of the conservative media as we knew it.

As they say, he's got the receipts.

Our conversation was just as I expected.

A roleicking, expansive, and insightful, just like our guest himself.

John, thank you for being with us.

A pleasure.

Well, I will confess, since it will be evident anyway, that I've most been looking forward

to this part of the hangover and talking to you because it's not only are you just fun

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