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Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2012
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:47.2 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for the week of July 27th, 2012, the greatest ad you will ever see GabFest. |
| 1:11.3 | I am David Plotz, the editor of Slate, but I would trade it all in, trade in editing the awesomest magazine in the world to be on the U.S. Olympic team, to be a sprinter, perhaps on the U.S. Olympic team. In New Haven, joining us is Slate Senior Editor, Emily Bazelon. Emily, what sport would you want to be in Olympian? Actually, you know what? Hold that. Let's talk about that in our Olympic segment. |
| 1:13.0 | Good. I have no answer for you. Okay. Think about it as we do the show. |
| 1:15.6 | What would you want to? |
| 1:16.8 | What would you want to meddle in? |
| 1:19.7 | And here in Washington this week, back from the road, is John Dickerson, who is Olympian on Twitter. |
| 1:26.9 | Olympian in his charisma, Olympian in his |
| 1:30.4 | ability to multitask with electronic devices while saying intelligent things on a podcast. |
| 1:37.7 | John, you too, should send us a, tell us what you want to meddle in. |
| 1:41.8 | You think that he was like saying all of that to wait for me to come in from outside or something? It sounded like you were playing for time. Well, you were looking at your iPhone. I heard everything you said, but then I was so embarrassed by it that I couldn't look up. I would like to know. Good. No, don't say. Save it. You're talking to us now. Huh? Save it. It was for the show. |
| 2:01.5 | Very important things I'm reading. |
| 2:03.0 | All right. |
| 2:03.2 | So think about what sport you're going to meddle in. |
| 2:05.2 | So we have three topics today. |
| 2:07.0 | Our first topic will be the aftermath of the shooting in Aurora, Colorado. |
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