Dave Eggers and the Struggle of Satire

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On the Gist, Donald Trump and Devin Nunes know Lev Parnas. In the interview, Mike talks with author Dave Eggers about his new book, The Captain and the Glory, a story about the clownish captain of a great ship. Eggers discusses how satire can help us admit the absurdities of our times and how writing the book helped him process our current political climate. In the spiel, bunging a bob for a big ben bong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	What you're about to listen to may include some potty talk.
0:04.9	Then again, it may not.
0:06.5	I hope it does though.
0:07.7	["Wrong Meat Song"]
0:11.8	It's Thursday, January 16, 2020, from Slate,
0:15.0	it's the Gist I'm Mike Pasca.
0:16.7	Lev Parnas.
0:18.4	Should we believe him? Who knows?
0:20.2	Just weeks ago we were deriding him
0:21.8	as a thick-naked associate of Rudy Giuliani
0:24.2	with little to no credibility.
0:25.7	And today, hey, this guy was an associate of Rudy Giuliani.
0:29.6	He knows where the bodies are buried.
0:31.4	That's credibility.
0:32.9	But the best use of Lev Parnas, at least for now,
0:35.9	is Trump administration and associate bullshit detector.
0:39.5	Now remember, here is what Donald Trump said
0:42.0	when asked about Lev Parnas and his pit,
0:44.7	partner and thuggery, Igor Frueman.
0:47.0	There are what conversations have you had
0:49.0	with Lev Parnas and Igor Frueman?
0:51.2	I don't know those gentlemen.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Peach Fish Productions, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Peach Fish Productions and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.