Political Gabfest - One Year From This Week
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss new polls and election results, impeachment, and leaving the Paris climate accord.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, Emily, and John discuss the “OK, Boomer” phenomenon.
Get your tickets to the Gabfest’s December 18, 2019 “Conundrum” live show at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA here.
And submit your conundrums at Slate.com/conundrum!
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The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.
Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 7th, 2019, the one year from this week edition. |
| 0:18.1 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura here in Washington, D.C. joining me visually but not physically |
| 0:25.7 | is Emily Bazlon of the New York Times magazine, who I'm looking at over Skype. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello, David. I'm Yale. How are you? I'm good. Glad to be here. And then joining me, not visually, but telephonically, is John Dickerson of CBS 60 Minutes from New York. Hello, John Dickerson. Hello, David. Is it telephonically? I don't know. Oh, come on. Come on. Well, I'm just, no, it's interesting. |
| 0:55.4 | Is it a telephone? |
| 0:57.1 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:57.8 | It's magic. |
| 0:58.4 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:59.1 | I understand. |
| 1:00.4 | It's not telephonic. |
| 1:01.5 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:02.3 | You're being pedantic already. |
| 1:03.7 | On today's Gab Fest, election results in Kentucky and Virginia in bold and Democrats. |
| 1:09.8 | And then there are discouraging poll results in swing states for Democratic presidential candidates. |
| 1:15.1 | Then impeachment barrels forward. |
| 1:17.9 | What happened this week? |
| 1:19.0 | What is about to happen? |
| 1:20.4 | And then President Trump withdraws the United States from the Paris Climate Accord. |
| 1:25.4 | Is that catastrophic or merely terrible. |
| 1:28.3 | Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:31.7 | One year from this week, we will have elected a new president or possibly the same president. |
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