Moscow Mitch
Slate News
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and Mike Pesca discuss white supremacist violence, Mitch McConnell’s new nicknames, and the impact of Joaquin Castro tweeting the names of Trump donors.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 8, 2019, the Moscow. |
| 0:11.8 | Mitch edition. I'm David Plotz of Alice and Secura. I am in Slate's lavish, lavish, baffled New York studio. I'm here with a guest host, Mike Pesco of the Gist. Hello, Mike. |
| 0:27.4 | But I'm always in the studio is the thing. You are. Do you spend all of your time in the studio? |
| 0:30.9 | Yeah, and I wake up like a Harry Potter character who is actually connected to the room. |
| 0:35.6 | I was thinking on, as I was on my subway over here, that has anyone recorded more |
| 0:42.0 | podcast episodes than you, Mike Peska? |
| 0:44.1 | I think you must be in the top 10 of podcast episodes recorded by anybody in the world. |
| 0:49.9 | Not just Slate? |
| 0:51.1 | Not just Slate, no. |
| 0:52.2 | I'll name, so me and my friends at the baseball podcast, effectively wild, are in a neck-and-neck race for most episodes ever. But my friend Luke Burbank is on episode like 20,000 or something. What are you on? Of his show, Too Beautiful to Live. 12,000? 15,000. I don't know. It's up there. 15,000. No, 1500. 1,500, I hope. Yeah, I think so, 1,500. All right. Okay, orders a magnitude off. |
| 1:14.1 | If you want orders |
| 1:15.1 | a magnitude off listen to the gist that's the gist it's sort of within a factor of 10 right uh that voice |
| 1:22.2 | you didn't hear you voice that you barely heard that silent voice uninterested in the number of episodes, is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University. |
| 1:32.3 | She is at a studio in New Haven, Connecticut, her home city. |
| 1:36.6 | Hello, Emily. |
| 1:38.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 1:39.5 | Mike is here because John is on vacation. |
| 1:42.9 | He is in Europe. He's in the EU. He's |
| 1:47.7 | preventing Brexit while he's over there, but he'll be back in a couple of weeks. |
| 1:52.4 | He's the hard backstop, right? On today's Gab Fest, there were mass killings this past week |
| 1:59.7 | in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, just hours apart. |
| 2:03.2 | A week after, there was a mass shooting in Gilroy, California at the garlic festival. |
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