Bonus: Would you Shut Up Man
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this special bonus episode Emily, John and David debrief and decompress after the first presidential debate of 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 30th, 20th, the Would You Shut Up, Man edition? |
| 0:14.8 | This is a special edition we're doing after the first presidential debate. |
| 0:20.0 | It is Wednesday morning. We will do a |
| 0:23.2 | regular show for you tomorrow. So this is just going to be a quick show just about the debate. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm David Plotz in Washington, D.C. I am joined from New Haven from her home by Emily Bazelon |
| 0:35.0 | of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:38.4 | Hey, David. |
| 0:39.4 | And also from Washington, where he was commentating on the debate. |
| 0:45.4 | And it just got off commenting this morning on the debate. |
| 0:47.9 | Is John Dickerson of CBS News and CBS at 60 Minutes? |
| 0:50.8 | Hello, John. |
| 0:51.8 | Hello, David. |
| 0:52.8 | And on today's GabFest, just one topic. Last night was the |
| 0:56.3 | first presidential debate between Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, and Donald Trump, |
| 1:02.1 | the Republican nominee and the president. In case you were under a rock, if you, I can't |
| 1:07.8 | imagine the listener to the show who doesn't know last night was the first debate. |
| 1:12.6 | Emily, let's start with you. |
| 1:14.9 | You know, we've now had time to sleep on it, time to absorb the horror that was this truly, truly, truly remarkably horrible 90 minutes in American political history. |
| 1:26.6 | What is your, what was your initial reaction to it? |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah, I feel like maybe this can be our cleansing ritual, then we can shed it from our systems. |
| 1:35.6 | It was so unpleasant to listen to, the interrupting, the just real rank bullying from Donald Trump. |
| 1:43.9 | I think Biden was in a really tough position, |
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