Political Gabfest - The “Al Franken and Charlie Rose and Bill Clinton and Roy Moore and John Conyers Should All Resign” Edition
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🗓️ 23 November 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Zoe Chace of This American Life, and Chairman of The Slate Group, Jacob Weisberg discuss the state of the GOP tax bills, the case for resignation by perpetrators of sexual harassment and the health of the magazine industry.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.5 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 23rd, 2017. |
| 0:14.8 | The Al Franken and Charlie Rose and Bill Clinton and Roymore and John Conyers should all resign edition. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm David Plotz at Atlas |
| 0:21.8 | Obscura. I'm in Slate's New York studio and I'm surrounded by goodness. John and Emily are |
| 0:28.7 | getting an early start to their Thanksgiving, but that doesn't matter because we have two great |
| 0:33.7 | guests to my right Slate chairman and Trump cast host Jacob Wiesberg. Hello, Jacob. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello, David. Happy Thanksgiving. Right back at you. And making her GabFace debut, producer of This American |
| 0:44.2 | Life, Zoe Chase. Hello, Zoe. Welcome to the manifest. Zoe and I, we were just discussing, |
| 0:50.1 | have met only once before, which is that we met on the night of the 2016 election. |
| 0:54.9 | We were both performing in a Slate live show at the Bell House. |
| 0:59.2 | And it was a surreal evening. |
| 1:00.5 | It was a surreal evening. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm glad Zoe to reunite with you. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.6 | On this week's Gab Fest, the Republican tax bill has wiggled its way through the House. |
| 1:10.0 | It will now slither its way through the |
| 1:11.6 | Senate. Can it get through? Then should Al Franken resign from the Senate? Should John |
| 1:17.7 | Conyers resign from the House? Should Bill Clinton retroactively resign from the presidency? |
| 1:22.7 | Then are magazines dying? Jacob will explain. Maybe he'll explain that they are or aren't. I don't know. |
| 1:29.6 | I can't wait to find out. I'm excited to find out too. About 40 minutes from now. |
| 1:33.9 | Plus, we will have cocktail chatter and reminder. In just two weeks, two weeks, about two weeks. Yeah. We're going to have our political Gab Fest conundrum show live in Boston at the Wilbur Theater on December 6th at 7.30 p.m. We're going to have, they might be giants accompanying us, opening and playing with us. So you get a concert and you get conundrums. It's going to be a really fun show. It's always our funest live show of the year. So please join us Slate.com slash live. |
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