Bonus: The Surge | Indicted for Swagger
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
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Summary
A throwback week in politics finds New York’s Boss Tweed of Swagger in trouble, a Republican bucking the party line for his constituents and a name Democrats thought they were done with.
Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer, who writes the weekly newsletter The Surge.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, happy Friday, everyone. It's time for another installment of The Surge from Slate Podcasts and what next. |
| 0:06.4 | Every week, I sit down with Slate political guru Jim Newell, and he reads the fortunes of our biggest political players. |
| 0:13.9 | We decide who's up, who's down, who's off the charts. Jim. How you doing? Was it a surgy week? |
| 0:21.6 | Mary, I'm doing great, and it was a modestly surgy week, I would say. |
| 0:28.8 | A mid-surge. |
| 0:29.6 | We don't have to kind of fill out most of this with fluff, which is what we're doing in bad weeks. |
| 0:35.0 | This week we have good, discreet, entries. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm calling this episode of the Surge, New York's the Istanbul of America edition. |
| 0:44.5 | And if you don't get that reference, you will soon. I promise. I promise. |
| 0:49.8 | Like always, I've asked our producer page to give Jim and me 15 minutes on the clock to get through our surgers. |
| 0:57.4 | Paige, how are you doing? |
| 1:00.0 | I got it. |
| 1:00.9 | It's rock and roll, baby. |
| 1:02.3 | Buckle up. |
| 1:02.8 | On it. |
| 1:03.6 | Do you have an air horn this week? |
| 1:06.3 | I don't have an air horn. |
| 1:07.8 | I have my vocal cords. |
| 1:09.8 | That's going to be your air horn. |
| 1:11.7 | Or I'll just start singing you off the stage when you have a minute left. |
| 1:16.6 | Looking forward. |
| 1:18.5 | Okay. |
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