Hey everybody, today we have a very special episode.

I'm here with Felix Will and Matt to discuss a game-changing work of nonfiction that stands to become the handbook of the hashtag resistance.

Dan Puffifer, senior advisor to Barack Obama and co-host of our sister show, Potsay of America, just came out with his memoir slash Creed Acour.

Yes, we still can. Politics in the age of Obama, Twitter and Trump.

I caught Puffifer on the opposition with Jordan Klepper a couple weeks ago.

You remember that show? It was canceled because several viewers had heart attacks from laughing too hard at the jokes.

And at one point in the interview, Klepper breaks character so that both of them could sigh wistfully, imagining the next Barack Obama,

the next inspirational cool dad politician who would put Trumpism back in the Pandora's Box.

Before we jump into this, I have two big kovites.

First, speaking for myself here, I want to make clear to the listener that I have no personal animosity

towards Dan Puffifer. I don't really know him. I've never met him.

Before this book, I had never heard or read a word of his.

And it's clear to me from this book that he is an amolicious actor, just a deeply misguided one.

And although I find his book completely ridiculous, and I find the boss that he loves so much to have

to have thoroughly failed in his mandate, a critique expounded in our book, The Chapel Guide to Revolution,

a manifesto against logic facts and reason now available for preorder, none of that is personal.

To Dan's credit, he admits at many points that they had fundamentally risked

the political situation, particularly with respect to the Republican Party, whether they actually

learned anything is another story. The second is that the copy I have is an incorrect

and proof. This is before fact checking, copy editing, rearrangements of the text, that kind of thing.

We might be discussing passages that are not in the published copy of the book,

so this should not be considered representative of it. For all we know, the manuscript may have been

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