I think early on, a lot of those early interviews, for its been aminute. I was so eager to connect with the guess that i was sometimes talking over them in a way that really pissed some listeners off. Listen to criminal now, wherever you get your podcasts. In politics, you're often told not to get lost in the weeds, but we love the weeds. Here at the weeds, we help break down where politics becomes policy. Like what can we do about learning loss in children after covet or how can we stream line unemployment benefits to people who need it?
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“I don’t think I ever wanted a career where I was doing the same thing for 30 years. I think that, editorially, I had become someone who was really contemplating what kind of capital-j journalist I wanted to be, want to be, and I was questioning a lot of rules and the structure of what we think journalism is supposed to be, and I think I needed to be away from a legacy institution like NPR, at least for a spell, to work that out.”
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