Bob Woodward Is Back. Plus: Don Winslow on Fiction and Politics.

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🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker dive deep into Trump’s recent comments to veteran journalist Bob Woodward (2:08). They question Woodward’s motives and examine whether or not he should’ve waited to release his revealing interview earlier (13:33). Novelist Don Winslow joins to discuss his latest collection of short stories, ‘Broken’ (32:10). Plus: The Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	David Bob Woodward's new Donald Trump book is called Rage. His previous Donald Trump book
0:09.0	was Fear. So if Woodward makes it a Trump trifecta, what do me one word title will he choose
0:18.4	next?
0:19.4	Wait, is this taking place in a hypothetical future where Trump is reelected or is this post
0:25.8	Trump post Trump book about Trump?
0:28.7	Let your imagination wander.
0:30.0	I mean, we've seen the Trump has managed to break some of our, you know, some journalist
0:40.3	you would get previously considered to be unbreakable over the past four years.
0:43.9	I can totally imagine a world in which Bob Woodward's next book was if Trump was reelected
0:48.4	was just the title was just wow.
0:50.8	Damn.
0:51.8	Oh, hell.
0:52.8	I guess that's two words.
0:55.8	And what do you think? Do you think Bob Woodward would drop the F bomb on the title of his
1:00.2	book?
1:01.2	Or is he, is he dignified for that?
1:03.4	Feels like more of a Matt Taibe kind of moved in a Bob Woodward kind of move before in
1:07.2	the political writer.
1:08.8	I just like him doing moods, right?
1:10.7	Or moods are feeling so there's fear.
1:13.8	There's rage, right?
1:16.0	Acceptance.
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