Political Gabfest - The "Conundrum" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2016
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz debate a selection of
listener-generated conundrums that range from the political to the
fantastical.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for December 25th, 2016, the Conundrum Edition. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas of Spirit. |
| 0:19.7 | John Dickerson of Slate is here with me. |
| 0:22.4 | Hello, John. |
| 0:23.3 | Oh, you're with Face the Nation. |
| 0:25.1 | I was just looking at my, your slate and Face the Nation. |
| 0:27.9 | But hello. |
| 0:28.5 | Hi. |
| 0:29.4 | Emily Bazelon at the New York Times Magazine. |
| 0:31.2 | joins us from New Haven. |
| 0:32.8 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:33.9 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:34.9 | On this week's Gab Fest, our special excellent show, our conundrum edition, |
| 0:42.4 | would you rather be interviewed by 100 Dickerson-sized ducks or one duck-sized Dickerson? |
| 0:50.0 | If you overheard Emily Bazelon telling a police officer, her real name was Amelia Beaselstein, should you intervene and tell the cop that actually her name's Emily Bazelon? |
| 1:00.7 | If I fought a panda to the death, who would you want to win? |
| 1:04.9 | That's some of the conundrums we will not discuss on this show. |
| 1:08.1 | But we will have real conundrums, the conundrums that you sent us, |
| 1:11.7 | and we will also have more of them in the Slate Plus segment, bonus conundrums. And if you |
| 1:16.1 | are not yet a Slate plus member, you can get that by going to slate.com slash gabfest. |
| 1:20.9 | Plus, you send in a ton of questions. So, this is a Dickerson special. You discover extremely |
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