Political Gabfest - Halloween
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss the impeachment resolution, Twitter’s ban on political ads, and the downfall of Katie Hill.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Halloween. |
| 0:15.1 | October 31st, 2019. |
| 0:17.5 | You really reached for it on that one. |
| 0:19.9 | Nice. |
| 0:20.6 | Leaned into it. You're like the people change that one. Nice. Leamed into it. |
| 0:21.2 | You're like the people have changed their Twitter bios with like these weird Halloween. |
| 0:25.5 | Halloween edition. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm David Plots of Atlas Obscure. |
| 0:30.4 | I don't really like Halloween at all. |
| 0:32.0 | I have no interest in it. |
| 0:33.5 | It's raining here, which is not good for trick-or-treaters. |
| 0:36.6 | That's Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. |
| 0:41.8 | Hello, Emily, from New Haven. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello. |
| 0:44.6 | And then, next to me, it's throwback Thursday because it's super sweaty, and John and I are in a studio, and it's unbelievably hot, even though it's the end of October. John Dickerson of CBS's 60 minutes. Hello, John Dickerson. Hello, David. It's great to be in this sweat lodge with you. Oh, God. It's terrible. That's, ugh. On these Gab Fest. You guys look cute, even if you are miserable. Thank you. |
| 1:11.0 | Oh, that's nice. |
| 1:12.5 | On today's Gab Fest. |
| 1:15.2 | We will talk about... |
| 1:16.7 | So easily plied with a compliment. |
| 1:19.1 | We will talk about impeachment. |
| 1:20.4 | We're going to talk about the House voting on the procedural rules for the ongoing impeachment investigation, the voting that's happening as we tape. |
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