Political Gabfest - The "2017 Conundrums featuring They Might Be Giants" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson dig in, dissect and debate listener-generated conundrums with special performances from They Might Be Giants.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains the word fuck. |
| 0:23.6 | Give it up for They Might Be Giants. They Might Be Giants. |
| 0:27.6 | They will be back throughout the show to brighten us. |
| 0:36.6 | A huge thank you to They Might Be Giants who are throughout the show to Brighton, to brighten us. |
| 0:40.9 | A huge thank you to They Might Be Giants, |
| 0:45.3 | who are not only the most delightful musicians, I know, |
| 0:47.3 | but they're also very philosophically difficult. |
| 0:52.3 | And I would give you this conundrum from their 2002 album, |
| 0:54.4 | No, which I listen to a lot with my children, |
| 0:56.4 | which goes like this. |
| 0:57.7 | Clowns are from the circus. |
| 0:59.6 | Barking comes from dogs. |
| 1:03.2 | Eggs come from a chicken, and log cabins come from logs. |
| 1:04.6 | But where? |
| 1:06.1 | Where do they make balloons? |
| 1:13.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for December 28th, 2017, |
| 1:14.8 | The Conundrum Edition. |
| 1:23.2 | We are live in front of a sold-out crowd of noisy and morally confounded New Englanders in the Wilbur Theater in downtown Boston. |
| 1:26.6 | And I want to start by saying that for too long, |
| 1:29.4 | this beautiful city has been held hostage |
| 1:31.3 | to the moldy old wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 1:35.8 | and Henry David Thoreau. |
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