The Iowa caucuses were this week, and on this edition of The Daily, we have a recap of the results with our political correspondent, Reid Epstein.
Wait, sorry, we got confused. This is still a cross-country skiing podcast. But this is, in fact, the crossover xc-politics content you’ve been waiting for. Epstein, a friend of the pod who is really a political correspondent for the New York Times, interviewed Jessie Diggins a few days ago to get her perspective on finishing second place when it’s really gosh darn cold — which, apparently, is an appropriate analogy for the big story of this year’s Republican Iowa caucuses. So since we couldn’t get Diggins on the podcast this week, we thought it would be fun to hear from Epstein, instead.
If you hate this, or hate us now, we’re sorry, but we actually think this was pretty fun. We’re posting a mailbag episode at the same time for those of you who want vanilla ski racing content. Send us your hate mail, race predictions (World Cup or GOP primary) and feedback at devon@fasterskier.com and nat@fasterskier.com.
Nathaniel Herz
Nat Herz is an Alaska-based journalist who moonlights for FasterSkier as an occasional reporter and podcast host. He was FasterSkier's full-time reporter in 2010 and 2011.