This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed Human.

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

My guest today is Jacob Segal.

Jacob is a columnist for tablet and the author of the new book, The Information State, Politics in the Age of Total Control, published by Henry Holt.

Out now, anywhere you buy your books.

He also co-hosts the Manifesto podcast with the novelist Bill Clay.

Hi, Jacob.

So nice to have you on.

Hi, Kendall.

It's great to do.

So I had your brother, Harry Siegel, on, just a month or two ago, and I told him he has the very best New York accent because it feels so familiar to me and it's like my part of South Brooklyn accent and you sound exactly like him.

You know, personally, I like that Marine Park, like the Irish Brooklyn accent.

It's my personal favorite.

That's your favorite.

Okay.

How does that sound really?

It's got like a higher quality to it almost like old James Cagney gangster pictures.

Right.

You guys sound like annoyed Jews, which is what I would be going for.

Okay.

Angry Jews.

...