Political Gabfest - My President Went to North Korea and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
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🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for July 3rd, 2019. |
| 0:10.9 | My President went to North Korea and all I got was this lousy T-shirt edition. |
| 0:15.6 | I am David Ploss of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm in Washington, D.C., where just 24 or 29 hours from now, there will be |
| 0:23.9 | tanks, there will be flyovers, stealth bombers, there will be a political rally from the Lincoln Memorial, |
| 0:30.1 | all celebrating Independence Day. Congratulations. Happy birthday America. |
| 0:34.5 | Joining me from New Haven is Emily Bazelon of Yale in the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:41.7 | Hello, hello, hello. Emily is wearing athleisure wear for the Gab Fest today. |
| 0:46.3 | All right. Enough. I got made fun of for my tag job. Emily looks like... |
| 0:51.3 | That was covered by a sweater. I am not going to do that again. I don't even know if Emily goes to SoulCycle. But I haven't. I don't even... I've never been to SoulCycle. You should go because you're really dressed for it. And then, I don't know what he's wearing because I cannot see him because we're not video chatting. John Dickerson of CBS at 60 Minutes. Hello, John. |
| 1:12.1 | Hello, I'm over-dressed, as always. |
| 1:15.1 | I cannot imagine you in athleisure wear unless they be tennis whites. |
| 1:18.6 | I can see you in tennis whites. |
| 1:22.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.3 | I mean, John works out. |
| 1:25.5 | I work out, but it doesn't. |
| 1:26.6 | He does how to wear sports clothes. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, but anyway, I think we're fine. |
| 1:31.7 | I feel like John works out in that kind of... |
| 1:33.5 | You know, do you remember chariots of fire where they do the hurdles in their glasses of champagne on the hurdles and they're wearing a bow tie as they run? |
| 1:41.8 | That's how I imagine John working out. |
| 1:43.7 | Yes, I think that's fine. |
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