Washington Goes to the Dogs
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
What day is it? Who is in charge? Eliana and her cohost, AKA Chris, try to make sense of the busy week in Washington as they breakdown the mess in the House, Biden’s “rabid” dogs, Michael Wolff’s surprise NYT bestseller, SBF’s style and the demand for political disinformation. Wretch on!
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1:29 Front Page
37:21 Obsessions
44:02 Reader Mail
50:38 Favorite Item
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Show Notes:
Politico: Playbook: Inside Trump's surprise endorsement
NYT:Can We Talk About Joe Biden?
Wapo:Commander is second Biden dog removed from White House after biting
Daily Beast: Michael Wolff’s New Book Is a NYT Bestseller—With Just Over 3,000 Copies Sold
NBC News:Second Republican primary debate had the lowest TV viewership since 2015
WSJ: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Courtroom Look Spells a Personal Vibe Shift
NYTimes: Gerry Turner Is the First ‘Golden Bachelor.’ Just Don’t Call Him a Silver Fox.
WSJ: After Shunning Scientist, University of Pennsylvania Celebrates Her Nobel Prize
WaPo:Americans don't hate living near solar and wind farms as much as you might think
The Demand for Political Misinformation is a Bigger Danger than the Supply
Hans Niemann pooh-poohs a chess cheating theory that's based on vibrating beads
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is there anything you would have done differently? |
| 0:02.0 | We've reported a true story. |
| 0:04.0 | Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq. |
| 0:10.0 | Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past. |
| 0:16.0 | Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey, dog. I'm Chris Stierwald. And I'm Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:27.7 | Welcome to Engstain Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right. |
| 0:32.1 | With the American news media, Eliana Johnson, I joined your friend Megan Kelly on her show this week, and I had the |
| 0:41.5 | distinct privilege of being introduced as your co-host. |
| 0:45.1 | I've been introduced as many things in my life, some flattering, some not flattering, |
| 0:48.8 | but I have never had the specific distinguishment of being introduced as your co-host, |
| 0:54.0 | and I liked it. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm getting quite used to it, I must say. |
| 1:01.5 | Well, it was cool, and it was nice to follow in your well-trod footsteps in that space, and we had a good time. |
| 1:08.1 | Chris, are we going to talk about Matt Gates? |
| 1:12.9 | Well, I mean, obviously here, just as I record, just blocks away from the United States Congress. Much of Washington |
| 1:18.5 | remains in ruins, a smoldering pit after the apocalypse of Kevin McCarthy. That's our obvious front |
| 1:26.6 | page. |
| 1:33.8 | So why don't we dive in? |
| 1:36.0 | What day was that this week? |
| 1:37.1 | My week has been a blur. |
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