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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

Coming soon: Playbook Deep Dive

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Government, Politics

4.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 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 DC 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 DC. Launching April 23. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, right?

0:05.0

Boy is it ever, you know? Is it ever?

0:08.0

What's it like behind the scenes in our nation's capital?

0:12.0

Like the side that most people never get to see?

0:15.0

DC is a...

0:16.0

DC is a place where...

0:18.0

Is the town filled with status obsessed,

0:22.0

narcissistic, back-biting people?

0:25.0

Everybody has an agenda.

0:26.0

When someone calls to curse me out,

0:28.0

it's not fun, and people just stop doing that.

0:31.0

Didn't your mom tell you to be nice?

0:35.0

At Politico, we hear it all.

0:39.0

And coming soon, you will too.

0:41.0

The old cliche that Washington is Hollywood for ugly people

0:47.0

does still ring true.

0:49.0

So while people might not wear great suits,

0:51.0

a lot of it might be polyester and maybe not well fitted,

0:55.0

you just have to be aware that there is money involved

0:59.0

in everything in Washington.

1:01.0

Power.

1:02.0

And a lot of it.

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