S4 Ep. 5: The Road to Hell

Slow Burn

Slate Podcasts

News, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Politics

4.6 • 25.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Edwin Edwards was a towering force in Louisiana politics. Buddy Roemer dethroned him and promised to modernize the state. In 1991, David Duke challenged both of them—and was soon on the verge of the biggest victory of his life. In Episode 5 of Slow Burn: How a Louisiana governor’s race became one of the most consequential elections in modern American history. Season 4 of Slow Burn is produced by Josh Levin and Christopher Johnson. Mixing by Paul Mounsey. Slow Burn’s production assistant is Madeline Ducharme and Sophie Summergrad is the podcast’s assistant producer. The last two episodes of this season are available only to Slate Plus subscribers. You can sign up by going to slate.com/slowburn. It’s only $15 for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Is it true that he's kind of a private and quiet, like, introverted person when he's by himself?
0:13.2	Are you asking me or him?
0:14.4	I'm asking him.
0:15.8	If you want to weigh in too, that's fine.
0:18.2	He definitely is.
0:20.0	That's Trina Edwards.
0:21.8	We were talking about her husband, Edwin Edwards, the former governor of Louisiana.
0:26.2	Trina is almost 42 and Edwin will be 93 in August.
0:30.8	She was passing along my questions because he has a hard time hearing over the phone.
0:35.4	Is it true that you're a quiet kind of introverted person when you're not in public, when you're home by yourself?
0:42.0	Well, I'm a very different person when I'm not on the stage.
0:46.4	This is the way I am.
0:48.4	I'm very quiet and private and I don't drink at all.
0:54.2	I don't use drugs at all.
0:56.8	And so now, no fun I have in life is taking care of my seven-year-old child and my wife.
1:07.8	Okay.
1:08.8	Trina is Edwin's third wife.
1:11.2	They've been married since 2011.
1:13.8	The two of them met when she started writing him letters in federal prison.
1:18.2	Edward served eight years on corruption charges.
1:21.6	He was convicted of rigging casino licenses during his final term as governor.
1:26.4	When he got out, he and Trina brought their relationship to reality TV.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

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

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