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I'm Dory Shimer, filling in for Magna Chucker Barty, and this is the jackpot. And yes, by popular demand, we are back in your earbuds on a Friday starting this week.

As you probably know by now, the jackpot is the podcast where on point news analyst Jack Beaty

helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings unique clarity to the world we live in now.

Hello, Jack.

Hello, Dari.

It is episode 47.

What's the headline this week? The Gates of Hell.

And you are not talking about the weather in Washington, D.C.

this week.

So it's from a quotation from Dostoevsky, I believe in the idiot. I've been trying to track it down and I haven't been able to but I'm pretty sure it's there and the

quotation is humility flings open the gates of heaven, humiliation, the gates of

hell.

And we're talking about humiliation

spurred by recent reporting about President Obama's

humiliation of Donald Trump at a 2011 dinner.

The personal here, we're going to argue is the political.

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