Burner Phone

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss Biden's gaffe in speaking too honestly about Russia; Trump’s missing phone logs; and Ginni Thomas’s efforts to subvert the election. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Bob Woodward and Robert Costa for The Washington Post: “Jan. 6 White House Logs Given To House Show 7-Hour Gap In Trump Calls” Hugo Lowell for The Guardian: “Trump Used White House Phone For Call On January 6 That Was Not On Official Log” Bob Woodward and Robert Costa for The Washington Post: “Virginia Thomas Urged White House Chief to Pursue Unrelenting Efforts to Overturn the 2020 Election, Texts Show” Benjamin Wittes for Lawfare: “Donald Trump, John Eastman and the Silence of the Justice Department” Karl Rove for The Wall Street Journal: “Republicans’ Jan. 6 Responsibility” Here are this week’s chatters: David: Beforeigners; City Cast John: Anna P. Kambhampaty for The New York Times: “Want to See the Weirdest of Wikipedia? Look No Further.”; Morning Brew newsletter; Elden Ring video game Emily: “The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Refutation”; Anne Frank House Listener chatter from Andre Walker: All The Sex I've Ever Had at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, John, and David discuss what they would do if they needed to disappear. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.
0:10.0	Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit
0:15.0	because your wrapped up is so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top
0:20.0	and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to top.
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0:37.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate political gap has from March 31st, 2022, the Burner phone edition.
0:43.0	I am David Plotts of CityCast here in Washington DC. If I sound a little low-key it is because I am still recovering
0:50.0	from last night's cocaine filled orgy it was it was a doozy last night it's one.
0:57.0	You guys must miss it you must must be missing it now that you are not in DC anymore.
1:01.0	What are you talking about? What you don't know about the cocaine filled orgy's in the parking garages?
1:07.0	Oh my gosh between the the key bumps that are flurrying around the head and the smell of the oil stains in the parking lot.
1:15.0	Man, the orgy's in the parking garages are not great. I don't like the ones in the parking garages John.
1:20.0	I don't know about you. I only thought I thought they only happened to parking garages.
1:24.0	Sometimes I guess they could happen in the little valet booths but Emily obviously.
1:29.0	You miss the you miss the story. The Madison Cautorn, the horrible horrible rate wing.
1:37.0	South Carolina maybe. North Carolina has finally said the thing which enraged his fellow Republicans
1:44.0	in the house which is that he said in Washington people he respected had had you know we're doing cocaine
1:52.0	and drug filled cocaine cocaine filled orgy's in parking lots.
1:57.0	And had invited him well first he said they were these people he were inviting him to orgy's to do co and then he saw people doing cocaine and then he was pressed by the Republican leader and then he said oh I saw a dude a hundred feet away in a parking lot.
2:10.0	That's what he cop to. But the Republicans are really mad at him for talking about the orgy's and blaming them saying they're implicated in the orgy's anyway.
2:20.0	Rock on Madison Cautorn. Guess we know who hasn't been the orgy Emily Beth.
2:25.0	I don't know how to feel about that. Actually I felt pretty clear how I felt about them.
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