Bern, Baby, Bern
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss the Democratic presidential primary, Harvey Weinstein’s conviction, and conservative ascendency in the courts.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment: with inspiration from Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light, Emily, David, and John discuss the historical figures and events they’d like to read about in novels (not yet written).
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| 0:00.0 | His goat has been gotten. |
| 0:03.6 | He's got a goat. |
| 0:06.3 | Goat. |
| 0:07.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 27th, 2020. |
| 0:11.0 | The Burn, Baby Burn Edition. |
| 0:14.0 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:16.1 | One more week as David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:18.5 | It's my last week, the CEO of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:20.6 | Joining me from New Haven, the campus of Yale University, where she teaches in the law school. Emily Bazelan is in New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily. Hello. You made me feel like a fraud because I'm not teaching this semester. Oh, well. You do teach there generally. In the fall, if they reappoint me. |
| 0:39.5 | It's all very year to year. Possibly unreappointed, Emily Bauer. Yeah, yeah. In Limbo. |
| 0:47.9 | John Dickerson, who knows something about Limbo, being a good Catholic of CBS is 60 Minutes. |
| 0:53.5 | Hello, John. You're in New York. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello. |
| 0:56.1 | On today's Gab Fest, is Bernie Sanders pulling away in the Democratic primary? |
| 1:00.6 | Then the conviction of Harvey Weinstein and the state of Me Too. |
| 1:04.9 | And then turmoil at the Supreme Court. |
| 1:07.4 | Has it become just an arm of a right-wing ideological movement? What is going on with |
| 1:13.0 | all these interesting things with justices and justices, spouses and the cases that |
| 1:17.0 | justices are taking? Plus, Emily's got a big piece coming out. And we, of course, |
| 1:22.7 | we'll have cocktail chatter. And GabFest listeners, we've got an exciting announcement. We have a |
| 1:27.1 | live show coming up really soon. We are going to South by Southwest. We are going to be at South by by on Tuesday, March 17th at 2 p.m. So go to Slate.com slash live to get tickets for that show or find out more information about that show. So if you're going to be in Austin for South by Southwest, you should definitely come and see us. Again, 2 p.m. Tuesday, |
| 1:45.3 | March 17th, Slate.com slash live to come see us in Austin at South by Southwest. |
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