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Ezra Klein: “You can't do a podcast, a good podcast, with a politician…”

Featuring: Ezra Klein, Liberal | New York Times Columnist and Podcast Host | National

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How Gavin Newsom Became the Democrats' 2028 Frontrunner | The Ezra Klein Show

Published | Video Starts at 1:33:08

Although that does work for me because I won't have anybody on his podcasts. Do not like people who speak in a very structured way. Yeah, I agree with that. You can't do a podcast, a good podcast, with a politician, when you can watch them buffering before they answer. for you. We've been talking for a long time in this medium, for this long. It doesn't work. It's a way that the mediums change who succeeds in them. (1:33:08–1:33:16)

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Asserts that politicians who are overly cautious or rehearsed do not perform well in podcast formats.

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