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We've been listening to so I would like to welcome to the show gimlets resident policy wonk noted Hillary Clinton pantsuit Enthusiast any Strasser well also my editor. What do I did you known for my enthusiasm and Hillary Clinton fancy? I don't even know if that's true. I just know you like pantsuits. I respect a pantsuit. I don't want it. Welcome my heroes. Thank you. Thanks for having me. So as you mentioned I'm your editor, but I have lived many lives one of which was at a think tank in DC one of which was working on Capitol Hill. So I guess I like politics. I mean, it feels like the wrong thing to say. Because I kind of hate politics, but I follow it. It's like Kanye you love it. You hate it. You follow it. I just I love Kanye. That's my only feeling about he stresses me out sometimes but I mean, you know I'm saying I love and compassion for him. So last week when the Democratic Convention and the week before that was the Republican convention. Wow, and we're deep in the middle of a hot election cycle hot. Okay. So I feel like it's a good time to talk about politics podcasts and even more specifically I think like election themed podcasts Mmm Yeah. I'm into it cool. So what I've noticed in the political podcast realm is that it does a really good job of sort of I would say a humanizing politicians or like helping you to understand where they're coming from Mmm. So I brought you a bunch of Clips today and they're all sort of on that beam of like understanding the political process and politicians better. I'm ready. Yeah, I'm game. So this is from a show called no one knows anything and it's a buzzfeed politics. Pop tight right full disclosure disclosure alert. I was waiting for this yet. But as soon as my former employer, but I think it's a really great podcast because it does a really Job of basically like explaining the like ins and outs of politics that you might not otherwise get like stuff. That's like a little confusing or complicated. Hmm and doing it in a way. That's like super accessible great. I love accessible. So the host of it is Evan McMorris Santoro who's a politics reporter for them and basically all you need to know going into it is that it's about a job that you don't hear a lot about in an election cycle. Hmm, and and you'll hear evidence. As voice first. Let's open the portal to the dark side of politics meet the Sith Lords who work in the shadows skillfully destroying powerful men and women with the power of their minds. There's an art to you know, buttering up the local Clerk and you know, I very often bring baked goods. All right, that's on a daily. She's not a Sith Lord, but she does know how to use tasty snacks to get the information that she needs. She's an opposition researcher and her job is to dig into a candidate to past and find things that voters won't like that means going through huge sets of data and Stacks and stacks of public records looking for anything any little thing that somebody might have missed. That's what Shauna was doing for the Obama campaign. When our Story begins it was April of 2007. So, you know, Hillary Clinton was running John Edwards is running Barack Obama was running a few other folks if you run for federal office, you have to file File an FDC report their detailed lists of a campaigns income and spending required by law, you know tens of thousands. If not, you know hundreds of thousands of lines of data when you're trying to get something on a candidate these FEC reports can really be like a huge gold mine because when they come out reporters and campaigns and super Pacs and all these other kinds of people start going through them trying to find that one damaging piece of information. Shana was going through the FEC report for John Edwards Edwards are really popular guy back. Then he was handsome running as a man of the people. My father worked in this mail and others lock it for 30 years. I worked here when I was young now. It's closed. The jobs are gone to the Obama campaign Edwards and his Southern Charm was actually like a real threat. They really wanted to burst his bubble. So Shana was reading through his FEC report line by line and she found something there was one transaction that really stuck out at us. It said it was too pink sapphire. Those are words that you know, don't really appear too often in these very dry reports. So so we Googled it and it turned out it was a hair salon and Manchester New Hampshire and then we ended up finding a few additional hair salons that had large purchases including one for $400. And so I am that to to Ben Smith at Politico. I was covering the Democratic primary and so I was here in constantly from the the Clinton Edwards and Obama campaign's band is not the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed. But back in 2008. He was just a Plucky blogger and he was pitched up. Oh, we in the business call it Oppo from people like Shawna all the time. Sean is instant message about pink sapphire and the four hundred dollar haircut would turn out to be some of the best Oppo of the cycle. Here's why John Edwards is a great-looking guy with a great head of hair. But remember he's also a guy who ran as an Everyman a Supercuts kind of guy not a forty dollar haircut kind of guy Ben were too quick blog post about the haircut. But that little detail in that little post turned out to be really kind of a big deal which brings us to tonight's word $400 hair. So this is actually one of those moments from the movies. We're top advisors or slapping their foreheads watching their candidate go from man-of-the-people to out-of-touch. Rich guy. We've had a Congress that spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop and it's hot. It's no coincidence that that happened Shana and the Obama campaign people. I talked about it, you know realized some will taneous lie that it was very explosive and also that it was kind of ridiculous and I think you know, but that's that's politics. You got to be able to hold all these things in your head at the same time. The haircut heard round the world Oppo at its best or worst depending on your point of view. First I remember this did you remember our of course? I remember this. This was the first election that I was that I a presidential election that I was ever old enough to vote in. Hmm. I just think about my own hair and then I think about John Edwards hair and I'm like, what the fuck were you spending $400 on? What could you possibly have been spending $400 on he didn't have that much hair. I mean you have way more hair. I have way more hair. It's a much trickier to find somebody who knows what? They're doing won't make you look crazy. I mean is haircut was not that popping. I'm very sorry to insult the person who did it. But like there was nothing about it to me that was worth that amount of money. Yeah. So I remember there was like a gift at the time that was like John Edwards like combing his hair and it was I feel pretty was underneath it. Do you remember that has like such a moment. I mean one of the things that I really love about this clip and also I think this is like something that happens during election Cycles as you revisit old election cycles, and you remember things that you didn't remember like things are just totally slipped. Your mind like everyone United under Obama. Yes, and you totally forgot about the primary and now here we are and like the primer just ended and it doesn't feel like people are united yet and it's like you totally forget that there are like that that was that came from another Democratic campaign. Yeah, and that was I mean, that was a really really huge deal. I also didn't know that there were like people like sneaky people like this Shawna woman who like who's who I actually like, I mean what an amazing job. That is right? Yeah. I mean, I think it's like a really it's a huge part. Of a political campaign, but it's one that you sort of don't nobody is saying like, oh, I have a war room of like 22 year olds who are like going through everything you've ever done. Yeah acting like a bunch of stalkery x's but like they do. Yeah, and when they first had pink sapphire my first thought was like, oh it's gonna be a strip club. That's what I was thinking. I was like, this is a strip club or like some sort of like Sex Dungeon, although I don't think you would put a Sex Dungeon on your FEC report. I would hope not I do also like to that like that the The dirt was like legitimate, but it wasn't like, how do I put it? It's low stakes. Yeah, it's low stakes. Like I just remember all that goofy stuff from like 2008. I don't know you can just thinking about like, like people said things that were like pretty racist or like mildly racist. But like now it's like balls to the wall like the 2016 election cycle is Buckwild. Yeah. So actually that's I think that's a really good segue into another clip that I wanted to play for you which is kind of about that idea of like saying things. You're implicitly racist. Yeah, and I think it kind of goes back to the theme to of like explaining stuff. You might not hear about or like that. You don't really understand the terminology of in elections. So this is from a podcast. That's really new. It's um, it's called politically reactive. Oh, yeah W. Kamau Bell and Hari kondabolu. It's from First Look media and they do it with panoply. It's cool because it's kind of like it's got these guys talking about it. They're obviously they're both people of color. They have like kind of a different perspective then I think what you hear in a lot of traditional media, like whatever CNN and and this clip is about dog whistling. So dog whistling is a term that people use when they talk about speeches and it's basically the well, I'll let them explain it. So yeah, so their guests in the episode is a professor at Berkeley named Ian Haney Lopez, but the first voice you're going to hear is W kamau bells and then you'll hear Hari and then you'll hear you. I defined dog whistling as like the Illuminati for dummies. It's like coat Language that we can all crack the code on you know what I mean? And how are you how would you define dog whistling? Yeah, man, that sounds that sounds about right. It's just it's a simple way to hurt people's feelings and alienate others while like uniting other people around that hatred but without saying the things that would get you in trouble in our society. Yeah, I think Harry you're actually pushing it a little bit further. So the generic meaning a dog whistling is speaking in coded speech then that your target audience can hear but others can okay die happens all the time. That's just that's just called political speech, but when we're talking about race or about gender what we really Talking about is a dynamic in which politicians are saying things that are socially offensive and would be understood as socially offensive and would be widely repudiated if they were clearly understood so they use coded phrases that trigger social anxiety social revulsion that trigger racism and sexism. But at the same time allows them to deny that they're doing any such thing that they're intending to manipulate people's racial fears or or fears based upon gender Donald Trump when he says that he wants to build a wall. Wall, you know when he's talking about Mexicans as rapists like that's blunt. Like that's not really dog whistling. And then he gets challenging that he says, yeah. I said I want to build a wall in ways that some politicians are like, well, I didn't meet a wall like they start to write register when they when they get caught dog whistling they pull back but he goes I'm a builder twice as high now that you challenge me open that dog whistling whistling. So think about what happened with David Duke in the clan. Well, I have to look at the group. I mean, I don't Know what group you're talking about. He's Miss calculating. Of course, he knows who David Duke is, of course, he knows who the clan is and he's wondering to himself, you know, if I don't condemn them do I win more votes and he just got it wrong because the rule with dog whistling is you got a fool two sets of people. What are your liberal critics? He's given up on that. He doesn't he doesn't give a shit about fooling us. All right, that's we all hear it. But the other is you got a fool your supporters because your supporters do not want to believe leave that they support you because they're racist they want to believe that they support you because they are common sense Patriots who love America and this is what Trump is always saying to them. So when Trump refuses to repudiate the clan his supporters got to look at themselves and say hey, this is a guy who wants Clan support. That's not me. I'm not a racist and it's this it's in this way that Trump is still dog whistling, even he says build a wall. He says this isn't about race. This is about the fact that we don't know. Common across our border and its people from every nation and and that's all yeah crime and it's Muslims. It's not you know, some of them are good people. It's okay, but but we can't take the chance. We can't take the chance. We got to figure out who it is and then if they're good people will let them in right he's very careful never to talk in color-coded terms. He does not ever say stand up and say I am here to ask for your vote because I intend to defend the white race, which is currently embattled by a surging tide of black and brown people who never says that he's came off. Leslie that's B's came out of your mouth really quickly like well because I've been translated Trump's speeches in my mouth. That's what he's saying, but he can't say it expressly and he never uses a racial epithet. So there's dog wasn't going to lift who correct? Yeah that happens to right and you know, you can even think about Bill Clinton who sort of playing both sides of the racial aisle when he says, okay. Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna say end welfare as way of life. And then I'm going to go on The Arsenio Hall Show. Yeah exactly. Which which is the one of the greatest dog whistles to black people of all time. Exact I always feel like that I think about Bill Clinton their Seton Hall Show, I think about that when I see Hillary Clinton trying to dance on the Ellen show like the difference between Clinton on The Arsenio Hall Show. Is he actually knew how to play the saxophone? Where's Hillary Clinton on Alan doesn't actually know how to do that dance and is never bad dancer. It's like he actually invested in his dog whistling in a very profound way. He practiced over time where she was shown by an intern backstage move your arms like this. You made a lot of faces listening to that because it like as soon as I start talking about Trump's speeches. I was like, oh ultimate dog whistle make America great again. What's a bigger dog whistling that yeah. I the one that came to mind for me was do you remember on Cinco de Mayo when he tweeted out that picture of him eating a taco bowl. Yes, and he was like, I love Hispanics here. I am eating a taco bowl and it was like it was like, I don't think that his intention in saying that was to prove. He loves Hispanics for an audience. That doesn't think he does or for Hispanic people themselves. I think it was for his his followers for their legitimised to be like, yeah look like we love Taco balls. We love Hispanic people here and it was actually really appreciate in the clip that which was totally new idea for me. Is that dog whistling like you said is not just for like it's not just for your critics, but it's also for your supporters. Yeah, and they end later on in the code actually go in there and talk about Obama and how Obama does that? Yeah, and like the one that that came to mind for me when I was thinking about it was when Obama talks about personal responsibility and fatherhood. Yeah. Yeah. Actually that's a really good point especially because I feel I always have such complicated feelings whenever he says something like that. But like I also know that like, he's not necessarily speaking to me, I guess when he says that like I imagine that like Moe like any powerful black person in the public eye feels like it's their responsibility to tell people to keep personal. Stability in mind but I also like I don't know that that's necessarily for me as much as it's for like critics and also probably for like older black supporters and like possibly white supporters like of Obama. Yeah, I guess that is a form of dog whistling. Yeah, it's funny. I've never liked I know the term I've known the term for a long time but I've always thought of it is as like only racial dog whistling in a negative sense. Another thing to talk about in the clip is the idea of Obama brushing dirt off his shoulders. La Jay-Z So I guess like for our last clip we can kind of go in whatever Direction you want to go in like whatever is most interesting to use like a Choose Your Own Adventure kind of yeah, I mean, I just basically what I want to do is I want to play you stuff that you feel like piques your interest in politics. I could play you something about one of the most notable booing in electoral history that I do want to hear you want to hear that. Yeah. Okay. So this is from a show called Kennedy confessional and it's a it's basically like revisiting pull. Little failures so it's like that so it's from The Huffington Post. It's hosted by Sam Stein and Jason Turkish their guest is somebody who probably haven't heard of his name is Ben can up know and he ran for mayor of Toledo. Oh my God, Toledo, Ohio, uh-huh. Yeah. It's like an hour away for I grew up in I believe 2009 and so in this clip, he's talking about getting booed. But the first voice you are going to hear is Sam steins. So you show up at the scene? Yeah, it looked like a really nice day. Yeah, I think it was as I said and you have what I assume is a crowd of supporters around you and a few members of the media. That's right. Okay. I'm pretty sure beforehand. Someone had told me that there's this guy sitting on the porch who's like, you know think some of our supporters stepped on his flower bed. And it's like upset or something. And you start talking. Yep know what happened. Yeah, so I guess we just got our supporters, you know lined up for the camera shots and the media is there and everything and I start giving my Spiel and this guy is like on the porch starts yelling. I guess, you know, my name the street that my mother actually grew up on down the street, you know, I didn't really think much of it. It's up like this, you know, it's going to be Kind of just screw up our our little like press clippings. Legally. We have a situation in Toledo where there's faulty fire lines and then he keeps yelling. Yeah. Yeah. He was very persistent. I think so, you know, I mean honestly like I didn't think it was that big of deal. I felt like I just needed him to be quiet for like five minutes so I could just give my thing. Yeah, then I'll go talk to him and whatever. You know sure if you're just walking down the street and some guy started yelling at me. I would have handled differently obviously. So yeah, I mean there's a there's cameras on you. And I mean also I there was a bunch of little kids there. For some reason. I don't know why how that ended up happening but there was like a group of like ten year old or eight year old kids. They weren't part of the campaign. They were I think they were yeah, they were part of the campaign event, but I don't like I don't they weren't campaign workers now I could have my little child labor law. I don't know how I mean they might have been like family of us importers. Don't see anybody wearing our shirts. So, you know, it was kind of like and they were screaming him safety of many. Right. Yeah, I mean yeah, they were started and then he was so consistently over and over again and it sort of monotone. Yeah. And so I mean, you know, I think frankly he had he had he was within his rights to the didn't like me and and to make that apparent which he did. Is that amazing? Yes, I love is a person booing was just like run for mayor somewhere else. I know that it's like a little flare that took a little creativity. He clearly was not super well prepared to boo is how I'd put it no, I think he also thought that like if he kept at it like he may like Coalition build or something like that. Yeah, which I would I would not have Assume that myself and he only got child enemies. Yes only got a child. So that's not the whole story. So so after that happened but Cliff went viral, it was like 2009 early virality. So I looked it up today. It has something like 800 thousand YouTube views and it's amazing to watch but it became such a big deal. That's South Park imitated it to inherit. Yeah, they did. So it's a little different because they made a they made the politician a woman, but he here it is refugees from Syria should be considered in need of international protection Wendy Boo Boo Boo midi the vast majority of refugees from Syria are likely to meet refugee. Wendy laughs boo boo been they throw in a nice little boob in don't you just love I think it's so it's like, you know, you know, you've reached like political notability if wanted or otherwise. Oh, yeah, if you making South Park, like I did not win election. That's the theme of Canada confessional. They all didn't I just love the way you feel like they all lost. Yeah, it's great. I mean, I think it's like so this, you know going back to the idea of podcasting and sort of why I think this It is so interesting. Is that when are you going to hear from Ben Kenobi unless you have this podcast that's like about a really specific thing. You know, like that guy doesn't make the news know and I feel like it's like so olestra Dave of like how incredibly trying it is to run for office like at any level and like I don't think we need to like love them as people know. I think it's really helpful to understand like a politicians they are people and like it hurts when they get booed and they don't want to go viral that like you put so much into trying to win. When you don't ask to be devastating yeah has to be devastating totally and then at least like you're someone like if someone is disrespectful to you, which is why someone's wildly disrespectful to you in public like you can kind of at least like file in the back your mind like, all right. Well, you know what when I win all this is gonna be worth. It just suck its kind of suck ears. This is great. I feel like you played me so much amazing stuff. Like I feel like it's gonna be great. It's Ruben ate food. How long have you been? How have you been waiting to bust that out? That's what I really want to know. When did the life lies in this morning all Isis? Okay, so I need to go recover from getting booed. So we're going to take a quick break. But when we get back someone's gonna cry. This episode is brought to you by TaxACT. This tax season Tax Act has your back with their deduction maximizer and a hundred K accuracy guarantee. You can feel confident. You're getting the most out of tax season learn more about how to maximize your deductions and your refund and get 25% off federal and state filing attacks act.com gimlet. That's TaxACT.com gimlet for 25. Sent off federal and state filing. Welcome back to sampler. So today's show is all about elections and campaigning and I want to tell you guys a story about a podcast that raised a lot of questions for me questions about gender and running for office. It comes from the ways and means podcast which is a show produced by the Sanford School of public policy at Duke University. It's hosted by Emily Hanford and it's about you guessed it public policy. So obviously this here we have a woman in the race for the White House Hillary. 10 but in the not-so-distant past there was a point in time when a woman even running for congress was a big deal and you're going to hear from one of those early Pioneers in this next clip. She's a former congresswoman named Pat Schroeder and back in 1972 Pat's husband and some of their friends suggested that she run for Congress to represent her state of Colorado. So even though Pat had a lot of grief from Harvard, she'd never actually thought she'd run for office. In fact when her husband brought it up. Her first instinct was to ask if he had been drinking Emily Hanford will explain it and then you'll hear from Pat herself in 1972. The idea of a woman running for national office was kind of crazy. There were many women who are very good friends telling me we don't even have a woman on the school board Pat. What are you thinking? She was 31 and kind of outspoken. I must say I can't integrate trouble early on my mother just about died. I don't suffer fools lightly and every media person would say to me. How could you be a congresswoman and a mother and I got through about 40 of those questions and on the 41st. I think I said, I have a brain and I have a uterus and they both work and my dear mother was like you did. Didn't say that so Pat actually ended up winning the seat and in doing so became the first woman ever elected to congress from the state of Colorado and she ended up holding that c for 24 years and the late 80s Pat thought about taking her political aspirations to a much higher office again. Here is Emily Hanford Pat publicly flirted with the idea of making a bid for the White House. But ultimately determined it was too late to raise millions of dollars and attract enough delegates. And she concluded that as a woman. She just wouldn't be able to win. So standing at a podium in Denver. She told the world she would not run for president. I said that I wanted America to see me as a candidate for president who was a woman rather than a woman's candidate and label me and pigeonhole me because I felt my qualifications were every bit as good and had my name been Patrick. That's how they would have treated it. A little later in the speech. She began to cry. That's why I will not be a candidate for president. I could not figure out. how to run That's a lot of flak for crying and it's always bugged her for years. She kept a file of men who teared up in public. Wait. Did she just say that Pat kept a binder full of men? I have to know more. Hello. Hi Pat this how are you? I'm good. It's Brittany. How are you? Well, I am fine. Okay, so let's say this just dive in so we heard you on the ways and means podcast you said, you kept a binder of all of the times a male politician cribe. Well, I did we just did newspaper clippings or maybe some notes if you happen to watch a a TV interview It was very interesting because that incident obviously was in 1987 and by the end of that primary period almost every single politician in the Democratic party who have been running. I've been running against or would have been running against had had a time where they choked up, you know, and everybody thought. Oh, isn't that just wonderful during the 80s? He's almost every time Ronald Reagan saw an American flag. He could get tears in his eyes and people thought that was terrific almost every person in politics. I think I had another pointer by the time I was over it was very large behind. So one politician who is kind of Infamous for his crying was former Speaker of the House John Boehner. I mean like you could have had an entire separate binder just for him alone. I have to stop making entries right you think maybe the whole block grant. What did you think every time you saw him cry to be honest good for him that he was able to do it and and continue on and I do think every human being should be able to that's it's part of our humanness. But as a woman it made me very angry had that been Nancy Pelosi. Oh my goodness. I watch this current race. And I really feel for Hillary people say, you know, she doesn't get out there and wave our arms and excite people and the minute she did it. They that's why is she shouting? You know, the last time you were here a nano eight if you remember the woman asking her don't you find this really hard and she kind of choked. It's not easy and I couldn't do it if I just didn't, you know, passionately believe it was the right thing to do. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country. It is still want to see us fall backwards, you know, so. But oh my goodness it all started again. So we have a cub that far so aside from the crying what are some of the double standards that you're seeing that are still playing out as Hillary is running today the most important thing I think for Americans is visuals and the real advantage that men have if they have a uniform. Yeah. They know that you were a suit the tie sure. If you want to look like you're working you loosen the tie I throw the code over your shoulders your roll up your sleeves that mean if it's all down when it comes to women, we either look like a Vogue model or an unmade bed. I mean, we're either overdressed or underground. Yeah, they don't like the color or people don't like the jewelry or they don't the pantsuits. I remember the last time around Hillary had, you know between her haircut and the colorful pantsuits. It was like people didn't What to do? Yeah, and I must say when I was in Congress, I got more letters about my hair than anything else including people include checks and take a look at you know, good it died or go get it done. There is a sink was wrong with your hair. I don't know. I mean you just say, who are you people? Yeah. Can you imagine somebody sending money soon Newt Gingrich and telling him look your hair looks like a chrysanthemum, but I'm out loud get something done. I wish they would oh I got welding right? Maybe we should start that. Well Pat before you go. I just have one more question to ask you. Did you ever catch any of those checks and buy yourself a drink? No, you are better of a much better person that I am because I want to cash those and gone straight to the bar. But that's why you tried to reform run for president and why I just hosts a podcast. East My conversation with Pat reminded me of one of my favorite thing. She said when she was on the ways and means podcast is about why crying can be a good thing. Oh, one of the things I used to say when they criticize me about crying I would say, well, you know, I'll debate that if you want someone who answers the red phone, which is the nuclear phone. That doesn't cry. Okay, I I think I would like somebody who does cry because I would like to have them think this is really a compassionate terrible thing that could happen to humanity. If that phone rings to recap the clips featured on the show today Amy Rose brought me clips from no one knows anything politically reactive and candidate confessionals. And the story of Pat Schroeder was from the ways and means podcast. This episode was produced by Rose Reed Sarah abdurrahman and myself with help from Kate Parkinson Morgan. It was edited by a Nero Strasser. Our theme music was made by Michael Valiant and our add music was made by Mark Phillips additional music in the show is by talk star. The show was mixed by Matthew bowl and Enoch. Kim sampler is a production of gimlet media. Next week on sampler finding interesting Sports podcasts for the non sports Enthusiast photographer. Like what most measures like what three hours it's like they're running for that like straight. You don't say. Yeah, but they're not make me seem like the 3 hours. I just soon indication of how much you like soccer. The games are 90 minutes.
As the election season heats up, Gimlet editor Annie-Rose Strasser highlights podcasts that help us understand the grueling, complex world of campaigning. Plus, Brittany gets the details on a politician’s “binder full of men.” **Warning, this episode contains adult language** Episode #23 features clips from the following episodes (please go to our website www.gimletmedia.com/sampler for links to all episodes):  No One Knows Anything, "How to Destroy A Man With A Haircut" Politically Re-Active, "Episode 1: Dog Whistling With Ian Haney-López" Candidate Confessional, "Relive One Of the Worst Booings in Political History" Ways & Means, "Women In Politics: A Shout Or A Whisper?" The Facts:  This episode was produced by Rose Reid, Sarah Abdurrahman, and Brittany Luse, with help from Kate Parkinson-Morgan. It was edited by Annie-Rose Strasser. Our theme music was made by Micah Vellian and our ad music was made by Mark Phillips. Additional music in the show by Takstar. The show was mixed by Matthew Boll and Enoch Kim. Sampler is a production of Gimlet Media. Our Sponsors:  Spotify (Try Spotify’s Discover Weekly Playlist by visiting http://spotify.com/discoverweekly) Backblaze (Go to http://backblaze.com/sampler to sign up for a two week free trial) Wealthsimple (Get your first ten thousand dollars managed for free at http://wealthsimple.com/Sampler) 