Veepstakes Week: The Legend Of The Sarah Palin Cruise Ship (2007)
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Veepstakes Week! From time to time this election year, we're going to do some special series that highlight the rhythm of an election cycle. This week, we are looking at the process of speculating, vetting, and selecting a Vice Presidential pick.
Today: We go to Juneau, Alaska, in the spring of 2007 to discuss the conservative-magazine-sponsored cruise rides where Governor Sarah Palin wined-and-dined the Washington cognoscenti. A year later, she would be picked to be John McCain's Vice Presidential pick.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Jody Avergan. |
| 0:09.0 | And welcome back to Vep Week, Vep Stestakes week, our look at the period in the election cycle |
| 0:15.3 | where speculation over who will be the vice presidential candidate is bubbling up, there's |
| 0:20.0 | jockeying and debating and endless hand-ringinging over who should be that VP pick. |
| 0:25.0 | A decision which maybe as we discussed last time might be ultimately probably pretty |
| 0:30.0 | meaningless except not so fast because we are going to talk about probably my |
| 0:35.3 | favorite Veepe steak story and one that resulted in a pick that maybe really did |
| 0:39.7 | have an impact on the way that the election played out. It's also just one of my favorite |
| 0:44.4 | stories with a favorite particular small detail in it from modern political history and it is a |
| 0:50.9 | story that I've been wanting to do since the moment we |
| 0:53.2 | launched this podcast I remember the list I made and I said we have to talk about |
| 0:57.0 | 2007 Juno Alaska and specifically the cruise ship ride that led to Sarah Palin becoming |
| 1:05.7 | John McCain's Vice Presidential running mate. So here we are. Let's go to Juno |
| 1:11.0 | let's go aboard a cruise ship. But here to do that as always, |
| 1:15.4 | Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wesley. Hello there. |
| 1:20.2 | Hello Jody. Hey there. So let's talk about how Phelan gets picked, but Juneau, Alaska, I've been there actually, and I actually |
| 1:29.6 | had one of my, another harrowing story from there. |
| 1:31.7 | That's the place where I got lost on this mountain overnight |
| 1:33.8 | and didn't think I was gonna get. |
| 1:35.0 | What? What? |
| 1:35.8 | Have you not heard this story? |
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