Hello everyone welcome to the next level. I'm JVL here with my best friend

Sarah Longwell and a very good acquaintance and colleague sunny bunch both of the bulwark.

This is an inside joke because I've known sunny since he was in high school.

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I saw somebody out there on Reddit complaining that I ask you people to do this,

and I thought that was really big of them since we don't charge for this, we don't put

advertising on our website, but they're really pissed off that we take 10 seconds

at the top of the show to ask people to support us

in minimal ways.

You're gonna fight with a random commenter on Reddit?

Yes, I am.

This is why JBL is best when he's not on Twitter by the way.

JVL is a living version of that meme that like cartoon where the guy says to his wife,

I can't go to bed, somebody on the internet is wrong, right?

This is why I stay off the Twitter,

and I do all that on my podcast where they can't talk back to me.

Okay, guys, it's a big morning.

We woke up to news that Chris Licked, I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly because otherwise it'll be awkward,

is out as the CEO of CNN. This is amazing on a bunch of different levels because this is one of the rare cases where a journalist killed a guy's career. Doesn't happen all that often.

Tim Alberta, a friend of the bulwarks, published a 15,000 word profile of Licked in the Atlantic last week.

And it was so devastating that it was clear from the outset, Licked would not be able to survive the publication of this thing.

Let's talk about it, because most of my thoughts are about Tim Alberta.

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