Second verse, same as the first? Your homework this week is to update your political operating system. Here are three exceptional podcast episode chats to get you there.

First, Paul Wells talks to David L. Cohen, outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Canada, and they provide a baseline of our relationship before we start the next chapter.

Second, Jon Stewart talks to gentleman historian Jon Meacham about historical norms (spoiler: actually, this isn’t that not normal—and, no, that’s not a bad thing).

Third, Ezra Klein talks to Chris Hayes about his forthcoming book, The Siren’s Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource (2025), which is really going to reset how you see things in a good way. No, seriously, your political operating system is out of date and you really need to download this new patch. More on Hayes’s book once it’s released, I have a copy on order.