![]() SANDERS: Yeah, I think they still do the cable stuff. And it was - you know, they still had free cable on THE flights. And with that done - and I was trying to kind of figure it out. That didn't work because I had smoked pot two months before my interview, so they cut that short. And so I went - you know, I wanted to join the CIA. And I sort of had that moment - and I say this in the book - there's kind of like - it can be hard to tell the difference between the absence of talent and the presence of destiny where I was like, OK, maybe I'm - I should do something bigger, by which I meant I'm not going to get hired at The Onion. LITT: Discovered I was not great at writing Onion headlines. And I had just - I spent the summer before interning for The Onion. Walk me through that moment when you saw Obama giving this speech and you're, like oh, that's it. So you open your book by describing the scene of falling in love with Obama while taking a plane back to New York from somewhere. Like, we're the second-most sheltered children on the Eastern seaboard. LITT: Well, you know, I feel like we're very proud on the Upper West Side of being the, like, down-to-earth totally. LITT: Upper West Side, please, we're the down. ![]() So walk me through how you get from - what? - Upper West Side or Upper East Side? His new book is called "Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years."ĭAVID LITT: I'm from New York City, grew up on the Upper West Side. Here's me talking to David Litt here in D.C. And then at some point came to realize Obama, just like them, was a mere mortal. David is really honest about how he and so many others kind of fell in love really hard for candidate Obama. And there's a bunch of good stories in this chat about all of that. During his time in the White House, David wrote a bunch of the president's funny speeches - White House correspondents' dinners, that kind of thing. It's called "Thanks Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years."īit of background - David left the White House in 2016 before the election, and now he's a comedy writer for the website Funny or Die. What have we done with our lives? Anyway, he has a new book all about the experience. David was writing speeches for President Barack Obama at the age of 24. Today, we have one of the youngest speechwriters in the Obama administration, probably in any White House. Every Tuesday on the show, we bring you a deep dive.
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