Hello and welcome to Whistle Stop, a podcast of Campaign Curiosities. I'm John Dickerson.

The episode you're about to hear is a special mashup from my recent time on the road.

I'm just wrapping up a fantastic book tour meeting all of you out there who've been so loyal

and who are responsible for this podcast continuing and for the book and all of the research

that it took and the long hours that it took to put it together.

And I'm so incredibly grateful.

This episode will include audio recorded during our live shows in New York and San Francisco.

Thanks to everyone who came out.

Enjoy the show.

Okay.

Thank you all for being here, first of all.

And so many of you are standing.

I'm overdressed tonight, and I'm often overdressed for the actual whistle stop.

Because what happens is, usually on a Sunday after we're done with the broadcast,

I then realize I have to do the whistle stop by to Monday morning.

I go into a closet at CBS. There's a light switch on the wall that says this light switch does not work.

I flip it every time I go in. It still doesn't work. And then I sit in and I stand in the dark with a music stand that's not unlike this. And I don't have enough room for my stuff. And then I sit in there, and I stand in the dark with a music stand that's not unlike this.

And I don't have enough room for my stuff.

And then I basically smell acoustic foam for what used to be 15 minutes.

And now the last one was 55 minutes.

I apologize for that.

You know, and hopefully tonight won't be like what they used to say about a Humphrey

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