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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on IHartRadio.

My guest today is Armin Rosen, correspondent at large for Tablet Magazine.

Hi, Armin, so nice to have you on.

Great to be on.

So what's the origin story?

How did you get into this thing of ours?

I mean, what I tell people is that I really only have one skill and I've always only had one skill, which is writing.

And basically, this is the only job I'm qualified to do.

You know, I have no graduate degrees. I have no expertise in almost anything. As if graduate

degrees gives expertise, you know. Right. But I'm not, point is I don't have any qualifications

to do much. And if I'm an expert at one thing, it's, you know, the ability to kind of like

nag people until I get the information that I feel like I'm entitled to. Yeah. I could see that

being one of your skills. I would also add, though, I feel like you're a good researcher. Right. Well,

also, you know, when you can't, when there are no people to nag, you do the next best thing, which is just look at what's available and take as broad a definition as available as you possibly can.

I mean, it's amazing the stuff you can find just by putting like random names into the Harvard Library database.

Right.

Like it turns out the Harvard Library has like a Lexus Nexus level record of like out of print

newspapers and magazines.

Don't give away all your, you know, all your secrets.

There are just things hiding in plain sight everywhere.

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