Good Order and Discipline
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🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and Jamelle Bouie discuss the firing of the Navy Secretary, the case for prolonging impeachment investigations, and new holidays everyone should celebrate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 27th, 2019, the Good Order and Discipline edition. |
| 0:13.7 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C., joining me from New Haven, from the campus of Yale University, where she is associated with it in some fashion, which I can ever remember. |
| 0:27.7 | And the New York Times magazine also, but she is not at the New York Times magazine, Emily Bazelon. |
| 0:33.9 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, that was like more detail and introducing unnecessary uncertainty to my world. |
| 0:40.7 | It was. It was. It was also ungrammatical, too. And then John Dickerson is off again this week. I don't even know why. Maybe he's finishing his book. That's okay. |
| 0:51.0 | Gavis Stalwart, Jamel Bowie, New York Times columnist. Jamel Bowie joins us from Charlottesville, probably. Hi, Jamel Bowie, New York Times columnist. |
| 0:57.3 | Jamel Bowie joins us from Charlottesville, probably. |
| 0:57.9 | Hi, Jamel. |
| 0:58.8 | Hello. |
| 1:02.0 | And we are taping on Tuesday. |
| 1:04.7 | So we're a little bit before Thanksgiving. |
| 1:06.9 | So you're getting a slightly early Gab Fest this week. |
| 1:10.4 | On today's show, what is going on in the Navy? |
| 1:13.4 | We'll talk about the Gallagher case and the naval secretary being made to walk the plank. I guess that's the right metaphor. If it's the |
| 1:17.4 | Navy, being made to walk the plank. Then impeachment takes a breath kind of after a wild couple of |
| 1:22.7 | weeks. Where do we stand? What is about to happen? Is there more room to build a stronger case against the president? |
| 1:30.0 | And then Thanksgiving is here. Thanksgiving, of course, is a holiday manufactured in part by |
| 1:34.4 | President Abraham Lincoln. What holidays can we manufacture? We are going to adjust the calendar. |
| 1:39.2 | We're going to fill out the roster. We're going to find new holidays that we should be celebrating |
| 1:43.3 | rather than the ones that we do |
| 1:44.3 | celebrate to go along with our Thanksgiving. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. It is very |
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