678: The Wannabes
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- Is that how you chase? - Iron glass. - So you went to Iowa? - I did. You know, there are like 50,000 Democratic candidates running for president, they're all in Iowa. - It's 25 right now. - It's 25 right now. And there's this one political writer, Dave Waggle with The Washington Post. He writes this newsletter thing called "The Trailer" three times a week and he has this particular superpower where somehow he seems to be with every single candidate who's running at the exact same time. So at this moment where everything seems like this grand 25 ring circus with this race, he seemed like maybe the very best person in the world to watch this with. When there's an ex president, he'll have seen every moment not skipping anything. Hopefully he will understand why it happened. - And so you basically wanted to see the whole election all at once the way he does. - Yeah. And it's so crazy traveling through primary states with him. Like he knows these places so well. Like in Iowa, we pulled up to a gas station. - If I had to rank Iowa gas stations, I think quick trip, then come and go, then Casey's. - Wait, so what's so great about quick trip? - It, the current ones, the fairly new ones, there are some that have been there for a while, but the new ones, if this one, I think it might be have a high quality lids that are like a high quality plastic as opposed to the thing that just breaks after one new. Yeah, lids. And keep in mind, this is like the only taste I'm gonna have for a few hours and I need the caffeine. So I put thought into it. - This was, we're leaving a Hickenlooper event and racing over to a Beto event. - Beto is a former Texas Cemeteryal candidate, Beto O'Rourke, Hickenlooper, John Hickenlooper, former Colorado governor, took me so long to read up on all these guys, it took like a day to figure out who's who, yes. - Thank you for that. We flew in, we went to four things in a day. First, Knoxville, Iowa. Waggle looks kind of like a reporter from the 70s.
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