Nobody Likes Him
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss Trump on trial, the Democratic primary race, and Mohammed bin Salman’s hacking of Jeff Bezos.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 23rd, 2020, the Nobody Likes Him edition. |
| 0:13.4 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:17.1 | Joining me, of course, is John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes from New York City. |
| 0:23.5 | Hello, John Dickerson. |
| 0:25.3 | Hello. |
| 0:27.0 | Nice. |
| 0:27.4 | We've extended the syllables. |
| 0:28.8 | Now the show's over because just those two syllables, my John and your hello took an hour. |
| 0:34.0 | And also joining us. |
| 0:34.8 | That was very Winnie the Pooh, like from a tunnel. |
| 0:37.5 | It was. Oh, no, he says hello, doesn't it? It was very Winnie the Pooh, like from a tunnel. It was. |
| 0:38.2 | Oh, no, he says hello, doesn't it? |
| 0:40.1 | It was very Winnie the Pooh. |
| 0:41.6 | It was. |
| 0:42.7 | He's a wedge bear in great tightness, that John Dickerson. |
| 0:45.7 | That is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times magazine and also of Yale, who is in New Haven. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:53.1 | Hello, hello. |
| 1:14.2 | On today's GabFest, the impeachment trial is underway. What's happening? Is it shaping opinion? What have we learned? Then, Iowa looms. The surge of Bernie Sanders. Hillary Clinton's shots at Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders shots at Joe Biden, what is happening in the democratic race? And then the extraordinary spectacle |
| 1:19.6 | of the ruler of Saudi Arabia hacking Jeff Bezos's phone, feeding dirt to the National |
| 1:26.9 | Inquirer, the MBS Bezos's phone, feeding dirt to the National Enquirer. |
| 1:28.5 | The MBS Bezos situation, it's just, it's unbelievable. |
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