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Announcing: What A Day · Pod Save America

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Pod Save America. We're here with some bonus content
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  Speaker 1: for you. By now, you've probably heard us talk about
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  Speaker 1: Cricket Media's new daily news podcast, What A Day. You
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  Speaker 1: guys have been asking for a daily podcast basically since
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  Speaker 1: we started Pod Save America. And today, that show, What
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  Speaker 1: A Day, is officially out in the world.
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  Speaker 2: It's out there.
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  Speaker 1: And if you haven't subscribed, what the hell are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Subscribe right now.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The news is hard to keep up with. There's only
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  Speaker 2: so much we can cover in two episodes of Pod
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  Speaker 2: Save America a week. You know, Tommy's doing his part
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  Speaker 2: in Polite of the World. I'm doing my part in
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  Speaker 2: Love It or Leave It. But every morning, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to wake up and you're going to get an episode
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  Speaker 2: of What a Day in your warm, fully charged phone.
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: My phone being warm.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice and hot off the charger.
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  Speaker 1: What a Day will be hosted by comedian Akilah Hughes
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  Speaker 1: and reporter Gideon Resnick. They're great. So much fun to
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  Speaker 1: listen to. Ad-lib compliments about them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I feel like we did it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what else can we say?
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  Speaker 2: Smart, funny, concise.
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  Speaker 1: A joy to be around.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a truly entertaining, informative show in that you'll
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  Speaker 2: get all the news you need in 15 minutes or less.
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  Speaker 2: The show comes out every morning, Monday through Friday, 5 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: Eastern for you early risers catching that worm, you know. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you should all be subscribed already, but in case you haven't,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to play you the trailer right now then please,
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  Speaker 2: go smash that subscribe button.
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  Speaker 1: Smash it!
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  Speaker 4: Enjoy. Hey everybody, I'm Akilah Hughes, a writer and comedian.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm Gideon Resnick, a politics reporter who's written for
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  Speaker 5: the Daily Beast, The Atlantic, and the Walnut Hills High
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  Speaker 5: School Chatterbox.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that last one was really legit.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the news can be overwhelming, and it's pretty
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  Speaker 5: hard for us to keep up over here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all the crime and corruption and that giant-ass jacket
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  Speaker 3: that J-Lo wore in Hustlers.
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  Speaker 4: Why was it so big?
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  Speaker 5: It's a Great question that we're going to try to answer.
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  Speaker 5: That's why we're launching What A Day. It's a new
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  Speaker 5: podcast from your friends at Crooked Media, the people that
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  Speaker 5: are behind Pods of America.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, let's face it.
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  Speaker 4: You're busy. You're stressed.
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  Speaker 3: You're single.
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  Speaker 2: You're projecting?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, the point is, in 15 minutes, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: give you a quick download on the news that you
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  Speaker 3: need to know, from impeachment to Pete Wentz. Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 5: The bass player from Fall Out Boy. He'll be back
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  Speaker 5: in the news at some point. And we're not just
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  Speaker 5: going to tell you about what's broken and what's not
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  Speaker 5: working every single day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like some other news shows.
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  Speaker 5: We're also going to talk a little bit about what
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  Speaker 5: people are doing to address these systemic problems and what
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  Speaker 5: you can do in your life as well.
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  Speaker 3: Because even though the news can be pretty frustrating at times,
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  Speaker 3: it's just important to remember that we're all in this together.
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  Speaker 3: Hashtag High School Musical.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was nice, Akilah.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Kitty, and what a day.
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  Speaker 1: What a day.
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  Speaker 3: Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 4: Our first episode is out Monday, October 28th.
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  Speaker 5: What a day.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 4: A day?
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  Speaker 2: What? A day.