Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | A Beach Read for the Outraged
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🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 30 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, that's my prime delivery. |
| 0:01.6 | What, already? |
| 0:02.7 | Only one thing can match the buzz of Prime's fast delivery. |
| 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, |
| 0:13.3 | John Sina as the president, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, as their only hope. |
| 0:17.0 | It looks like a blast. |
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| 1:06.3 | Welcome to GabFest Reads for July 2025. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm David Plotz, one of the hosts of Slate's political Gap Fest. |
| 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, as an official novelist. |
| 1:26.3 | This is a shame because my guest on Gap Fest |
| 1:29.0 | reads today would surely have held that title for the last 30 or so years in Florida. |
| 1:34.8 | Carl Hyacin is one of Florida's great treasures. He's the author of 20 or so novels about his |
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