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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

The #WITHpod Mailbag (2018)

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

You asked, Chris answered! In our inaugural mailbag episode, we talk about the organizing power of county fairs, why members of Congress contradict each other on Yemen, whether there’s any hope for the Internet, and more. Can you guess which WITHpod revelation Chris thinks is the most shocking yet? Also, the first ever appearance of WITHpod producer Tiffany Champion. EPISODES WE TALKED ABOUTWho Broke the Internet? with Tim Wu (released May 29)America's Role in the World's Worst Crisis with Shireen Al-Adeimi (released September 4)Investigating the President with Nick Akerman (released September 18)Social Infrastructure Week with Eric Klinenberg (released September 25) RELATED READINGThe Curse of Bigness by Tim WuPalaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Wise is happening with me your host Chris A's well it's a big day

0:07.1

it's a big day here with Bob I sit there every time but today is the biggest because you're

0:10.4

gonna meet someone that I get to hang out with and talk to and work with every day who is

0:15.6

often named check on the show she is she sort of moonlights as a producer on Wise is happening

0:21.0

but she's a line producer on all of Chris A's she's also the offensive coordinator for Chicago Bears

0:26.7

and her name is Tiffany champion Tiffany say hi to the with pod listeners hello with pod fam oh nice

0:35.5

Tiffany's been the one who has been managing a lot of things about the show and she's been reading

0:40.0

all your emails and forwarding me the good ones which is like one and one hundred and like that's a

0:45.2

joke that's a joke and she's been just doing a ton of work again we this whole thing Matt

0:51.9

totals here to who who has been doing editing with us and is is someone who helps produce the show

0:58.0

this this is literally like a science project it's just a fun hobby we love to do it's like an

1:04.3

extra credit class or something like when you do model you and it's like when you do model you

1:08.7

and in high school and it's like the people that sign up to do a club where you have to write an

1:13.6

extra paper for no reason like that's what that's what that's what with pod is so so it's exciting to

1:20.0

have Tiffany here on the microphone and so today we are doing a year and first annual very special

1:26.7

with pod mailbag we've been getting tons of really interesting feedback from you and questions and

1:31.7

responses to the conversations and really just I gotta say just so much gratifying feedback about

1:37.0

how much people have not just enjoyed the show but learn new things from the show open up new

1:42.2

avenues of inquiry for themselves like it's pushed people to get books sort of think about a period

1:47.1

in history they haven't thought about or zoom in on something like Yemen a conflict that was in

1:51.9

the news sort of simmering the background so that's really why we do it we find that really

1:55.2

gratifying because we know firsthand Tiffany I particularly because we work on a daily cable news

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