Political Gabfest - Rescue Squad
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Trump’s racist attack on members of Congress; whether the Census has been saved; and if we should go back to the moon.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for July 18th, 2019, The Rescue Squad Edition. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm David Plotz and Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C. We are farther flung than usual. |
| 0:20.5 | This week, John Dickerson of CBS is, CBS's |
| 0:24.8 | CBS, CBS's 60 Minutes is in California. Hello, John Dickerson. |
| 0:31.1 | Sybilance. Hello, David. And hello, Emily. And that's Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. |
| 0:40.0 | And she is, I'm just going to guess she's in New Haven. |
| 0:42.8 | I have no idea, but that's a safe guess. |
| 0:44.9 | Good guess. |
| 0:46.1 | Sweet. |
| 0:46.9 | Awesome. |
| 0:48.1 | On today's Gab Fest. |
| 0:50.6 | By the way, it was so nice being in Canada. |
| 0:52.6 | I loved our Canada trip. |
| 0:53.8 | That was so fun. Thank you, Canada. Thank you, Toronto. Yeah. And the people, oh, my God. I mean, they were just, it was, that was the best part of all. I know. I mean, Canadian with you guys. Canadians have such a reputation for being rude and horrible. And it was surprising. |
| 1:11.4 | They were really nice and welcoming. |
| 1:13.2 | It's really guinea-winter-against against national stereotypes. |
| 1:15.5 | They were way more nice and enthusiastic than we really deserved, honestly. |
| 1:20.1 | That is true. |
| 1:21.3 | You mean in broad terms, or you mean specifically with respect to our performance that evening? |
| 1:26.0 | I think both, actually. |
| 1:29.3 | All right. On think both, actually. All right. |
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