The best of Slate podcasts for the weekend of Oct. 6.

What We Get Wrong About Mass Shooters, on This Week’s Best Podcasts

What We Get Wrong About Mass Shooters, on This Week’s Best Podcasts

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Oct. 6 2017 8:57 PM
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The Best of Slate Podcasts

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A couple stops on the Las Vegas Strip October 4, 2017, to look up at the two broken window in the Mandalay Bay hotel from which killer Stephen Paddock let loose the worst mass shooting in modern American history on October 1, 2017 at a country music festival across the street in Las Vegas, Nevada leaving 58 dead and over 500 injured. Mass killer Stephen Paddock used semi-automatic weapons which he modified with 'bump-fire stock' to make them fire much like a fully automatic weapon. / AFP PHOTO / Robyn Beck (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)

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In this edition of our members-only podcast digest, listen to the best segments of the week:

  • The DoubleX Gabfest on Hugh Hefner's legacy (begins at 00:00:30)
  • the Culture Gabfest on the genius of the nonfiction writer John McPhee (00:16:40)
  • the Political Gabfest on Puerto Rico (00:33:30)
  • and The Gist on the psychology of mass shooters, with Masha Gessen, author of The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy (00:49:00)