Political Gabfest - Slate: The Frankenstein's Monster Stimulus Gabfest

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🗓️ 13 February 2009

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Pay dirt for the stimulus package, Obama holds his first news conference, and the State Secrets Act lives on

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0:00.0	A note to listeners. This episode of The Gab Fest was recorded shortly before Senator Jug Greg withdrew his nomination to be Commerce Secretary under President Obama, which is why John David and Emily don't talk about it.
0:15.9	The Gab Fest is sponsored by Audible, the Internet's leading provider of spoken audio entertainment.
0:25.0	GabFest listeners can download a free audiobook by signing up for an Audible membership at Audiblepodcast.com slash gabfest.
0:34.2	Hello and welcome to this late political Gab Fest for Friday, February 13th.
0:39.1	I'm John Dickerson.
0:40.4	Friday the 13th.
0:42.4	Yikes.
0:43.3	What could possibly happen to you?
0:45.8	Clearly I'm here with Emily Bazelana and David Plotz.
0:48.0	You know, there was a great story that appeared in Slate many years ago that Atul Gawande
0:51.0	did about do people really get more injured on Friday the 13th?
0:57.6	Are there more accidents?
0:58.6	And what was the conclusion?
0:59.5	They probably do because they're nervous.
1:00.7	Well, I think his conclusion, I need to look it up, but it was about full moons on Friday
1:03.9	the 13th and that there actually is weirdly an uptick in ER visits on one of them.
1:10.4	But I think on full moons.
1:12.4	Is there an expression for full moons and if you have a full moon on Friday the 13th,
1:16.8	is that called like just stay home day or something?
1:20.6	Anyway.
1:21.4	That was the day George W. Bush was elected president.
1:23.3	Our three topics today will be the first is the stimulus package that is inches away from getting the president's signature, the new president's signature.
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