Bernie Burns It and Biden Bites It
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🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the Democrats after New Hampshire, Trump’s emboldened post-impeachment moves, and COVID-19.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and John discuss the possibility that Trump will order that future federal buildings have only neoclassical designs.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 13th, 2020, the Bernie Burns |
| 0:16.9 | It and Biden bites it edition. I am David Flots of Atlas Obscure. I feel a lot better than I did last week. Thank you. Thanks for your good wishes for my recovery. I have recovered. Did you actually get good wishes? Yeah, I did. A couple. Someone in the universe. My mother. My mother. |
| 0:38.2 | Unfortunately, I've given this illness to my kid who's now home sick, so I have to race home after this podcast to go sit with my child. |
| 0:45.2 | That, oh my God, came from John Dickerson of CBS The 60 Minutes in New York. |
| 0:49.4 | Hello, John. |
| 0:50.4 | Hello, David. |
| 0:51.6 | And that exclamation of some other sort, which I didn't catch, came from Emily Bazelon in New Haven on the campus of Yale University and representing the New York Times Magazine team. |
| 1:04.2 | Hello, Emily. |
| 1:05.0 | Hi, David. |
| 1:06.7 | That was so peppy. |
| 1:08.2 | That was such a nice giggle out of you. |
| 1:11.2 | On today's Gab Fest, the collapse of Joe Biden and the continued rise. |
| 1:17.5 | Well, I guess it's not rise, the continued success of Bernie Sanders. |
| 1:21.1 | Then just a week since the Senate acquitted him in an impeachment trial, the president is unbound, justice-corrupted |
| 1:29.1 | vendetta by the president against his enemies and against the executive branch. |
| 1:35.5 | Then will coronavirus, will the new coronavirus smash the global economy? |
| 1:40.3 | Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:43.2 | I have been wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong again about Bernie Sanders. |
| 1:48.1 | I've been wrong so many times. |
| 1:49.4 | I don't know why anyone listens to anything I say on the show about Bernie Sanders. |
| 1:53.7 | I thought this campaign was over after a heart attack or anything at all. |
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