Hedging Your Bets With Lake Success

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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On The Gist, Bob Woodward's good intentions. Wealth and road trips are two of America's favorite obsessions. In his new novel, Lake Success, Gary Shteyngart explores these themes through the story of a hedge fund manager who, after a crisis, takes a trip across the country by bus. Shteyngart joins us today to discuss his research on Wall Street, the concept of privilege, and his trips on Greyhound busses. In the Spiel, Gwyneth Paltrow and jade eggs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.8	It's Wednesday, September 5, 2018, from Slated to the Gist on Mike Pasca.
0:13.5	Bob Woodward is out with a new book and as befits one of the great practitioners of the nonfiction
0:18.5	form that apparently builds a fairly strong case that Donald Trump, our president, is
0:25.2	impetuous, impetuous, impetuous, and angry, and attentive, cruel, dangerous, incompetent
0:32.4	mucus.
0:33.4	Let us remember mucus, our acronym for Trump's habits that most imperil the country,
0:38.9	mentally unfit, cruel, unethical, stupid.
0:41.8	And to that, based on Woodward's reporting, we can add easily distracted and also ineffective.
0:46.6	That last point alone was demonstrated by the odd tape that Woodward released of his interview
0:52.5	with President Trump about President Trump not being interviewed for his book, Woodward.
1:01.3	The Washington Post titles its annotation of this tape quote, the mind blowing chat between
1:07.6	Woodward and President Trump.
1:09.1	Well, mind blowing in the sense that yeah, I can't believe this guy is President, but
1:12.3	everything in that call was a private or semi-private reflection of everything that we always
1:19.7	knew about Trump and a bit of what we knew about Woodward too.
1:24.0	Trump's staff won't let him sit down with Woodward, probably the right move.
1:28.2	Trump throws his staff under the bus, says he doesn't talk to his spokesman, Raj Shah.
1:33.0	At one point, he puts Kellyanne Conway on the phone with Woodward and what seems like
1:36.8	a rebuke to her.
1:38.7	And he decides that the book is going to be critical of him.
1:42.1	He doesn't know anything about the book.
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