North Carolina Crazies

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss what’s happening with the Kamala Harris v. Donald Trump race, what to expect with the Tim Walz v. JD Vance debate, how crazy Mark Robinson’s gubernatorial campaign in North Carolina has become, and whether college can survive careerism. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, David, Emily, and John discuss the all-important Electoral College vote of Nebraska’s 2ndcongressional district. In the latest Gabfest Reads, David talks with Elizabeth Strout about her new book, Tell Me Everything: A Novel. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Public.com+Public Investing Disclosure: Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank. See public.com/#disclosures-main for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the slate political Gabfest. September 26th, 2024, the North Carolina Crazies Edition. I'm David Platz of CityCast, I'm in Washington, D.C. in a gray and
0:26.6	stormy Washington, D.C. Wow, it's gray and stormy. From New Haven, which is, my experience mostly gray, is of Yale University and the
0:38.4	New York Times magazine shot across the bow Emily Emily Bazelon.
0:43.0	Yeah, you know, it is gray today, but the weather has been glorious for the last few weeks,
0:49.0	just absolutely beautiful and blue sky and green leaves turning red, yellow and orange.
0:55.6	So I don't know what you're talking about.
0:57.0	The sun does shine on New Haven, Connecticut once in a while.
1:00.5	In New York City, John Dickerson from CBS News, hello John, where the sun mostly shines from John and on John.
1:09.0	I should note that I am 1234th in line of succession in the May oral line in New York City.
1:17.6	So, good to know.
1:19.0	You have to kill the Duke of Lancaster first?
1:22.1	Yes, no, actually it's the falafel guy at 57th who's oddly ahead.
1:27.0	That's true.
1:29.0	We are speaking of course of the indictment of Eric Adams, the mayor of New York. We are not going to talk about
1:34.7	this indictment this morning because it has not yet been unsealed as we tape, but we look forward to
1:40.6	following this really alarming and amazing news story.
1:44.4	But we shouldn't give the impression to viewers or listeners, I should say, that that's going
1:48.4	to stop us from having sallies of wild opinions about things about which we may be uninformed.
1:54.1	We're just choosing in that specific case not to.
1:56.8	What we will to sally forth around is the vice presidential debate and check in on the
2:01.2	state of the race specifically that New York Times
2:04.4	poll that was discouraging for some Democrats. Then we will talk about the salacious
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