I appreciate the Keeping It 1600 folks ' insight , them being former Obama administration figures . But I just can ' t stand their pompous , holierthanthough tone for 15 minutes each podcast . At least separate out the opinion from the story enough to make a distinction instead of every 5 seconds chiming in and saying what fucking idiots , we ' re so smart . I ' ll give them credit though with how humble they were at the beginning of the first podcast since Trump got elected about being wrong with the polling and such . For those out there , try the Slate Political Gabfest . John Dickerson knows his shit , and the other two he talks to David Plotz and Emily Bazelon are great in discussing topics although Emily Bazelon pulls out the feminist card way too often