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Political Gabfest

My President Went to North Korea and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Democratic presidential primary debates, Trump’s bizarre trip to North Korea, and Customs and Border Patrol’s scandals over appalling detention conditions and a racist Facebook group. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss whether tourism that makes people more invested in stopping climate change is worth the carbon emissions it could entail. Topic ideas for next week? You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter or post it to our Facebook page. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Become a fan of the Political Gabfest on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @SlateGabfest. The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email 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

Transcript

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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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