I'm Ben Sawyer and this is The Road to Now.

Guys, we just wrapped up our nine episode third party series.

Thank you so much to everyone who listened.

We got incredible feedback from people on those episodes and they were so much fun to do.

Shout out to John Alsup for covering it in the Columbia Journalism Review.

To all the people who gave us kind

words on social media and everyone who sent kind emails. It was a rewarding series, and shout

out to all of the incredible guests for that series. Bob and I are really proud of the way it

turned out, and we hope that it was useful to all of you as you try to, let's say, make your

way through this year's election. We'll make it,

guys, we always do. This week, since we've been dealing with the high politics of it all,

I wanted to share one of my favorite all-time episodes. This is from 2017, the history of the

Harlem Globetrotters, one of America's great entertainment institutions to this day, but the background of this team is so fascinating, and I hope you guys will take the time to listen. Yes, it is a hard turn from high politics to the Globetrotters, but I guarantee you you will learn something if you haven't listened to this, not just about the Globetrotters, but about the history of the country in general. Before we move on, just a couple of things. First of all, shout out to our supporters on Patreon. You guys keep the show going. If you enjoy the third party series, guess what? There are a couple of extended episodes, way longer conversations that are there. If you want to join us, just go to patreon.com slash the road to now. Our patrons the show going. We say it time and time again, but for real, that is where our revenue lies. And so shout out to everyone who's there. If you want to keep the show going, we'd love to have you. Finally, speaking of engagement, Bob and I are going to be in Tallahassee, Florida on April 27th, that's a Saturday, doing

a live road to now as a part of the Word of South Festival.

The festival runs from April 26th until April 28th, Friday night, the Flaming Lipser

headlining.

But aside from that, Saturday and Sunday, you've got Us, you've got George Clinton on Sunday. Local favorite,

Andy DeRousseau is playing. Everything is free on Saturday and Sunday. And we're going to be

interviewing Jonah Goldberg on a big stage. This festival sounds like a blast. It is a music and

literature festival. So if you are close to Tallahassee, Florida, or you're not close and you just want to go check it out and find out more and then come visit, that'd be great. Go check it out. We've got links to it on our social media. It's Word of South Festival. That's April 26th through 28th, and we are on April 27th. That's a Saturday at 5 p.m.

Guys, I hope you're having a good week.

I hope you got sunny skies and warm weather like we do in Nashville.

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