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 wringerPolitical football, Donald Trump-stylePolitics’ thin line between laughing and cringingWhat ‘The Front Runner’ says about today’s politicsWhen Werner met Mikhail … ‘Meeting Gorbachev’‘Running with Beto’: The offstage version of Beto O’RourkeWhat Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Dick Cheney have in commonBen Foster and being part of a ‘Continuing Conversation’ about veteransDonald 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 recoveryMaking sense of Congress, one year into the pandemicWhat happens when you lose track of your own storyA long way in a short time: What George Floyd spurred‘Just come home’ — Black lawmakers reflect on their interactions with the policeWe may not be through ‘the worst of this,’ say John Heilemann and Jennifer PalmieriPolitical Theater goes to ‘The Circus’What Deb Haaland at Interior means for Native Americans50 Years Later, Bobby Kennedy for president lives onRemembering John Lewis, in his own words‘Watching John Lewis watch himself’: Dawn Porter’s documentary on the civil rights iconErrol Morris on documentaries in the age of COVID-19 and chaosThe Political Theater archives
