Coming soon: Playbook Deep Dive

The Playbook Podcast

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4.2 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Playbook Deep Dive is a new weekly podcast from Politico — for the stories that seem stranger-than-fiction, but are all too real. Underneath all the theater, backstabbing and strategy in D.C. are colorful characters and real life consequences. You know those stories that stop you in your tracks? That's what we're going to tell each week. Featuring Playbook authors, reporters from all across the Politico newsroom, and characters from all over D.C. Launching April 23.

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0:00.0	Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, right?
0:04.8	Boy, is it ever, you know?
0:06.5	Is it ever?
0:08.3	What's it like behind the scenes in our nation's capital?
0:12.1	Like the side that most people never get to see.
0:15.3	D.C. is a place where...
0:17.5	Is the town filled with status-obsessed, narcissistic, backbiting people?
0:24.7	Everybody has an agenda.
0:26.3	When someone calls to curse me out, it's not fun, and people should stop doing that.
0:31.0	Didn't your mom tell you to be nice?
0:35.3	At Politico, we hear it all.
0:38.9	And coming soon, you will too.
0:41.5	The old cliche that Washington is Hollywood for ugly people does still ring true.
0:49.1	So while people might not wear great suits, a lot of it might be polyester and maybe not well fitted. You just have to be
0:55.9	aware that there is money involved in everything in Washington. Power. And a lot of it.
1:02.7	Arm twisting and influence very quickly muddy what folks intended to do or wanted to do.
1:09.3	Presenting Politico's new podcast, Playbook Deep Dive, where Playbook Insiders spill their
1:14.7	secrets, gossip, lies, bad behavior.
1:17.7	Actually, you should probably cut that because that might be illegal.
1:20.6	And everything else that happens behind closed doors.
1:24.2	And if anybody knows Lisa Murkowski, it's that she walks extremely fast. And she knows how to
1:31.1	get a nap without people seeing her. I found it incredibly difficult and awkward to ask a U.S.
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