This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

Anyone who has listened to this show knows that I love stories from history.

And one of the things I love the most is that a history story in and of itself has a certain value. But what's

amazing is how much the current situation that you're hearing the story affects how

it's understood. It's like adding a musical score to a scene in a movie. The mood of the

current moment changes our interpretation of everything. This is all leading me to

introduce him you to a brand new history show that we have premiering today from

radio topia. It's produced and hosted by the immensely talented and

recently moustacheoed Jody Avergan who you may know from ESPN's

3430 podcast and he was the host of the 538 politics

podcast for many years.

I am a huge fan of Jody. I'm so excited he's joining the team and so on this episode

I'll talk with him and premiere two episodes of his new

podcast this day in esoteric political history.

Hey Jody. Hello there Roman. So for context we're talking on Friday, March 27th.

Each in our respective homes, me in California, you in New York City.

And we're going to talk about your new show on Radiotopia.

That's right. I'm really excited to join Radio Topia. I just want to confirm

though I'm recording in my bedroom which has two windows. You're recording in your bedroom, which

I believe listeners learned in a previous episode, has five windows.

I live on the corner, my bedroom is on the corner of the house, and so it has five windows which makes it very good for

sun very bad for recording quite to tell you the truth I thought I thought both of

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