When we started this podcast in January 2018, we weren’t thinking about making it to 200 episodes. Then again, we didn’t think we would get reprimanded by Werner Herzog, either. So, borrowing from the “How It Started, How It’s Going” meme, here’s our 200th episode!

Show Notes:

• We started a podcast about ‘political theater.’ Then the term went through the wringer
• Political football, Donald Trump-style
• Politics’ thin line between laughing and cringing
• What ‘The Front Runner’ says about today’s politics
• When Werner met Mikhail … ‘Meeting Gorbachev’
• ‘Running with Beto’: The offstage version of Beto O’Rourke
• What Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Dick Cheney have in common
• Ben Foster and being part of a ‘Continuing Conversation’ about veterans
• Donald Trump: How to win kitsch and influence people
• ‘Anything could happen,’ and it did. But political dynamics did not budge
• “Out of the blue … all hell broke loose”: Mario Diaz-Balart on his COVID-19 recovery
• Making sense of Congress, one year into the pandemic
• What happens when you lose track of your own story
• A long way in a short time: What George Floyd spurred
• ‘Just come home’ — Black lawmakers reflect on their interactions with the police
• We may not be through ‘the worst of this,’ say John Heilemann and Jennifer Palmieri
• Political Theater goes to ‘The Circus’
• What Deb Haaland at Interior means for Native Americans
• 50 Years Later, Bobby Kennedy for president lives on
• Remembering John Lewis, in his own words
• ‘Watching John Lewis watch himself’: Dawn Porter’s documentary on the civil rights icon
• Errol Morris on documentaries in the age of COVID-19 and chaos
• The Political Theater archives