Political Gabfest - Slate: The Team Obama Gabfest
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2008
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, December 5th. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm David Plotz here in Slate, Washington with Emily Bazelon down from New Haven. |
| 0:15.6 | Emily, thank you for... |
| 0:16.2 | Hello, hello, yeah. |
| 0:17.1 | Gracing us with your presence. |
| 0:18.0 | And sitting in for John Dickerson today is none other than my wife, Hanna Rosen, not just my wife, but X-Factor blogger. |
| 0:27.5 | Extraordinaire. |
| 0:28.2 | Atlantic Monthly contributing editor and also my wife, mother of my children. |
| 0:34.0 | Hannah Rosen, welcome, Hannah. |
| 0:36.0 | How are you, sweetie? |
| 0:36.9 | I'm good. |
| 0:37.4 | I'm happy to have a heavily female gap fest today. I feel like we're taking it over. I know. We really shouldn't have let you host. We should have, like, taken that. Yeah, it's true. It doesn't look good for David to be hosting, you know, us. It's a little Charlie's Angels. But anyway, keep going to go. That's awesome. That's cool. I like that. |
| 0:54.8 | Who's the third? That's the question. That's why I wanted to have Megan. We were going to |
| 0:58.2 | have another, we were going to have Megan O'Rourke, another slate person join us, but we decided three was enough. I want to start today. Well, we're going to have, as usual, we're going to have three topics. We're going to talk about the transition. We're going to talk about the Mumbai-Bombay |
| 1:10.6 | terrorism, and we're going to talk about the transition. We're going to talk about the Mumbai, Bombay terrorism, and we're |
| 1:12.7 | going to talk about the car industry's increasing woes, and the spectacle of Washington |
| 1:19.9 | dealing with a possible car industry bailout. And then we'll, of course, have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:23.7 | But let me just start by saying we had last week we asked listeners if they would be interested in a live gab fest in front of an audience during the inauguration period in January in Washington. |
| 1:35.5 | And I'm really pleased to report that we got a huge response from you. |
| 1:38.9 | We got tons of emails from listeners who looked forward to attending such a thing. |
| 1:43.4 | And we are going to do it. We're |
| 1:45.3 | going to do it on probably the afternoon of Monday, January 19th, the day before the inauguration. |
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