Gabfest Reads | A Beach Read for the Outraged

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

David Plotz talks with author Carl Hiaasen about his new book, Fever Beach. Fever Beach is a political satire that follows a couple of dimwitted white supremacists, a corrupt congressman, and the people that try to take them all down. They discuss the real-life racist event Hiaasen witnessed that inspired a central scene in the novel, how Matt Gaetz factors into the book, Hiaasen’s next moves, and more. Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, that's my prime delivery.
0:01.6	What, already?
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0:06.2	And that's the buzz of Prime's entertainment.
0:09.0	What are we watching?
0:09.7	Heads of state, that new action comedy with Idris Elber as the Prime Minister,
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1:06.2	Welcome to GabFest Reads for July 2025.
1:09.5	I'm David Plotz, one of the hosts of Slate's political GapFest.
1:14.6	As far as I can tell, and that means I did two Google searches, there are a lot of states that have poets laureate, but none, as far as I can tell, has an official novelist.
1:26.3	This is a shame because my guest on Gatfest reads today would surely have held that title
1:31.4	for the last 30 or so years in Florida.
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