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Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2010
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The GabFest is sponsored by Audible, the Internet's leading provider of spoken audio entertainment. |
| 0:12.9 | GabFest listeners can download a free audiobook by signing up for an Audible membership at |
| 0:18.5 | Audiblepodcast.com slash gabfest. |
| 0:22.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, January 29th, 2010. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm David Plotz here in Washington, D.C., with Chris Beam, who's substituting for John Dickerson, |
| 0:34.2 | who is on assignment. I always want to say that. John Dickerson is on assignment. And joining us from New Haven is Emily Bazelon. Welcome, Emily. Hello. And this is, you know, this is, I just noted something, which this is my last Gab Fest in my 30s. Oh, yikes. It's going to be all different. I'm going to be really sober next week and I'm going to become really sort of ultra-conservative |
| 0:57.9 | as I age. |
| 0:59.2 | So my 40s will be, expect something totally different for me next week. |
| 1:03.2 | You wish. |
| 1:04.2 | We're going to talk about three subjects today, or maybe two. |
| 1:09.0 | One will be the State of the union that President Obama gave on Wednesday |
| 1:13.7 | night and all the myriad political and policy implications of that. So his proposal is about the |
| 1:21.7 | deficit, the status of health care, the general state of the Democrats. And that will be, |
| 1:30.7 | that'll count for at least one, probably two topics. |
| 1:36.7 | And then we're also going to talk about the political and social implications of the new iPad, |
| 1:42.8 | the Apple product that was also introduced on Wednesday with great fanfare by Steve Jobs in San Francisco. |
| 1:44.8 | And then we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:51.5 | But first, before we do anything else, Emily, tell us a little bit about the update to our New York Live Gab Fest on March 3rd. Our New York Live Gab Fest has proved to be very popular for which |
| 1:57.8 | we're extremely grateful and we are excited to be coming to New York. |
| 2:02.1 | A lot of you have asked about the remaining tickets and here is the story. There are about |
| 2:07.9 | 40 tickets that are going to go on sale. They should be on sale on Friday when the show goes |
| 2:13.9 | up or soon thereafter. We're charging $20 for them in order to defray our own costs. |
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