Political Gabfest - Conundrums 2021
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🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz wrap up 2021 considering life’s many conundrums—with special guest Dwayne Betts!
Questions this year include: if you could eliminate one word from the English language what would it be? If you could transport the characters of one book into the time and place of another, which would you choose? If you were ONLY able to brush your teeth in the morning or the night- which would be optimal?
Special thanks to everyone who sent in conundrums for consideration.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, Emily, John attempt a conundrum lightning round.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, yeah, you've never had Okra when it's done perfectly. |
| 0:06.8 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for December 30th, 2021, the conundrum edition. |
| 0:13.3 | I am David Plotz of Citicast, and I'm not in Washington, D.C.C. We're all together for the very first time since pandemic. |
| 0:22.4 | Hello, Emily Bazelon, sitting right next to me in New York City. |
| 0:25.3 | Hello, David Plotz. I am so glad to be here with you guys. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello, John Dickerson, sitting right next to me. |
| 0:31.6 | I wanted to be sitting in your lap, but that was probably going too far. |
| 0:35.9 | But to feel the vibration of other human beings in a closed space, it's amazing. |
| 0:39.7 | It's so great. |
| 0:40.9 | We are... |
| 0:41.4 | But that's enough of it. |
| 0:42.8 | We're... |
| 0:43.3 | Cut that off right there, John. |
| 0:47.3 | We got a conundrum show. |
| 0:48.7 | You guys this year sent us an epic list of questions. |
| 0:53.9 | There are so many great questions this year, and there |
| 0:59.0 | are literally 800 questions. One person, one single person sent us 400 questions, which were great |
| 1:06.0 | just by himself. But we have so many questions to get through. So let's get going. We're going to have a guest |
| 1:11.9 | coming in. Dwayne Betts is going to join us very soon to talk about conundrums, including conundrums |
| 1:18.9 | that he has for us. So hold your horses. We'll be there in a second. Let's get started. |
| 1:23.5 | The one I would like to start with is from Harris Feldman, to whom or what do you owe the most money? |
| 1:31.4 | In other words, what have you taken the most benefit and joy from in life per dollar that you've spent on it? |
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