Hello and welcome to the Punch Bull News readback podcast. I'm your host, congressional reporter Max Cohen,

and today I'm joined by a very special guest, our co-founder, Jake Sherman, who's here to talk all things,

Punch Bull News, Fly Out Day,

our new YouTube show that just launched on Thursday.

Jake, how you doing?

I am wonderful, Max.

How are you?

I'm great.

It was a really fun day Thursday.

It was.

We were there bright and early to talk to Speaker Mike Johnson,

and I want you to talk us behind the scenes of how this idea came together and how it finally

got executed. So that's a really good question. We have early in the Punch Bowl news days you might

remember, we did like a Sunday night thing on Zoom. It was like a book club kind of a show.

Here's what I would say.

I wanted to create a show that was tailored to the Punch Bowl news audience and

included, not like, I don't want members of Congress to come on and just play pundit.

Like, I'm not interested in that.

I'm not interested in people just riffing on the newsit. Like, I'm not interested in that. I'm not interested in people

just riffing on the news of the day, although there's some of that. I want people talking about the

issues they're involved in, their view on the issues, their view on power, their view on Congress.

And as with many things, it took me a while to kind of get this idea together. But Anna and I had some

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