My President Went to North Korea and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate political gapfests for July 3rd, 2019. |
| 0:11.0 | My president went to North Korea and all I got was this Lousy T-shirt edition. |
| 0:15.5 | I am David Ploss of Atlas of Stura. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm in Washington, D.C. where just 24 or 29 hours from now, there will be tanks, there |
| 0:24.9 | will be flyovers, stealth bombers, there will be a political rally from the Lincoln Memorial |
| 0:30.1 | all celebrating Independence Day. |
| 0:31.9 | Congratulations, Happy Birthday America. |
| 0:34.6 | Joining me from New Haven is Emily Baslan of Yale in the New York Times magazine. |
| 0:40.4 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:41.7 | Hello, hello, hello. |
| 0:43.2 | Emily is wearing ATHLEASER wear for the gapfests today. |
| 0:46.3 | All right, enough. |
| 0:49.0 | I got made fun of for my take-duff. |
| 0:50.8 | Emily looks like- |
| 0:51.6 | That looks like- |
| 0:52.6 | It's covered by a sweater. |
| 0:53.6 | It looks like she's come from Soul Cycle. |
| 0:55.3 | I don't even know if Emily goes to Soul Cycle. |
| 0:56.9 | I don't even- |
| 0:57.9 | I've never been to Soul Cycle. |
| 1:00.1 | You should go because you're really dressed for it. |
| 1:04.6 | And then I don't know what he's wearing because I cannot see him because we're not video |
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