"Yeah, it was a big-time mistake." That's not a sentence you expect from a politician, but that's exactly what former Montana Governor Marc Racicot told me, and it's the center of this bonus episode.

In our last episode, "Contradiction," we talked about what it means to tell a fuller, more honest story about who we are, including our mistakes. This bonus episode picks up that thread with a conversation from our interview with Racicot that didn't make the final cut, but is one I can't stop thinking about.

We talk about how politicians so rarely admit when they've gotten something wrong. Then, Marc does exactly that, walking through two real mistakes from his time in office, including Montana's 1997 electricity deregulation and a change to Health & Human Services that backfired. We also talk about Colin Powell, a public school kid f ...