#338 Murder & Mayhem in the Capital City w/ Major Garrett, Doug Heye & Margaret Talev (Live in DC part 1)
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Major Garrett (CBS News), Margaret Talev (Syracuse University/Axios) & Doug Heye (too many to list) join Bob & Ben for a conversation about Washington, DC's long history of scandals and how media has shaped public perceptions of what is/isn't acceptable in American politics.
The conversation was recorded on May 29, 2025 at The Hamilton Live in Washington, DC. A special thanks to Matt Burton and the crew at The Hamilton for hosting us and to everyone who came out to the show!
If you enjoy this episode, make sure to check out part 2 of our live recording in episode 339 (air date 6/11/25).
This episode was edited by Ben Sawyer.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the Road to Now. |
| 0:08.7 | Today, I'm happy to share with all of you, part one of our live show from Washington, D.C. |
| 0:15.7 | This was back on May 29th. |
| 0:17.7 | You heard us talking about it a lot and it was amazing. |
| 0:23.5 | Our guests were Major Garrett of CBS News, Margaret Taleb of Syracuse University in Axios, and Doug High. You know all three of |
| 0:30.6 | those people, perhaps just because they're kind of everywhere in the media. But also, you |
| 0:37.0 | probably know him from being guests on this show |
| 0:38.8 | before. It was such a fun conversation. The topic was murder and mayhem in Washington, D.C. in |
| 0:44.9 | the capital city. Bob told an incredible story at the show. I'm really happy to share this with you. |
| 0:50.7 | So we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoy doing it. Just want to say a special shout |
| 0:55.1 | out. Number one, to everyone who came to the show. It was great to meet a lot of folks there. |
| 1:00.3 | It's always a delight whenever you get to see the people that you know exist, but I have |
| 1:04.6 | never met in person. Second of all, thank you to the Hamilton Live. The venue was great, |
| 1:09.5 | and especially Matt Burton, who ran the tech, |
| 1:12.7 | who did a fantastic job of getting us this audio and just making sure everything worked. Couldn't |
| 1:17.7 | have been a better venue. Couldn't have been better people. As you know, when we're saying |
| 1:22.3 | thanks on the show, we also say thanks to the patrons, Patreon.com slash the road to now. |
| 1:28.6 | Actually, if you want to see the full and edited conversation, it is there. |
| 1:32.3 | The whole video of the show is there, actually. |
| 1:34.1 | We posted it last week. |
| 1:35.7 | If you like this and you want to hear more of it, then the whole thing's there for the rest |
| 1:39.9 | of you guys. |
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