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🗓️ 2 August 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Some disputes resist an easy “good vs. evil” dynamic, but when one side calls their plans “Operation Satanique,” it’s not too hard to figure who “the baddies” are.
Guest: Dan Kois, Slate writer.
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| 0:00.0 | Heads up here before we get the show started. |
| 0:04.2 | There are a few good nature expletives in this episode. |
| 0:10.3 | Hey, Slatsters, it's Mary. |
| 0:12.3 | You hear this music and you know it's Friday. |
| 0:14.9 | It's time to let our hair down, chat with a Slater about what they are pouring their soul into in the newsroom. |
| 0:22.2 | This week, I am so happy to have someone who is very special here. |
| 0:26.5 | I would call him a Slate National Treasure. |
| 0:29.4 | Wow. |
| 0:30.0 | Dan Cois. |
| 0:32.1 | Dan, how long have you been at Slate at this point? |
| 0:34.6 | 13 and a half years. |
| 0:37.1 | Wow. Do they give you a medal for that or like a small stat and a half years. Wow. |
| 0:37.8 | Do they give you a medal for that or like a small statuette? |
| 0:40.7 | No. |
| 0:41.5 | No. |
| 0:42.1 | We don't have the budget for that. |
| 0:44.7 | There's nothing in the budget for statuettes, Mary. |
| 0:47.6 | Okay. |
| 0:48.1 | Well, here's the thing you need to know about Dan. |
| 0:50.3 | Creativity, like, shoots out of his eyeballs and fingertips. |
| 0:54.9 | He writes novels. |
| 0:56.4 | He writes viral interviews that you have read. |
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