Political Gabfest - The “I Have a Gun and Her Name Is America” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon discuss the future of the Supreme Court, the Republican race for the Presidential nomination, Jeb Bush's now famous hand gun and they are joined by Slate's technology writer Will Oremus to discuss Apple's fight to keep iPhone privacy settings under lock and key.
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| 0:00.0 | The Slate Political GabFest is brought to you by Stamps.com. |
| 0:03.3 | Buy and print official U.S. postage using your own computer and printer and save up to 50% compared to a postage meter. |
| 0:10.7 | Sign up for Stamps.com and get a four-week trial and a $110 bonus offer when you use the promo code GabFest. |
| 0:18.6 | And by ZipRecruiter. |
| 0:20.3 | With ZipRecruiter, you can post your job to more than 100 |
| 0:22.9 | job sites with a single click, and it has an interface that's easy to use, and right now you can try it for |
| 0:28.8 | free. Go to ZipRecruiter.com slash GabFest. That's ZipRecruiter.com slash GabFest. And by |
| 0:37.1 | Harries, the shaving company that offers German-engineered blades, well-designed handles, |
| 0:42.0 | and shipping right to your door. |
| 0:43.8 | Visit harries.com for $5 off your first purchase with a promo code GabFest. |
| 0:48.9 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:59.6 | Music podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 19, 2016, the I Have a Gun |
| 1:04.9 | and her name is America edition. I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in New York City this week. I am alone. |
| 1:14.3 | But John Dickerson, you have manned, you're manning the fort back in Washington at our new studio, |
| 1:20.5 | right? I'm not, yeah. I'm not only manning the fort. I am ensconced in the new fort, |
| 1:25.1 | which every time we move locations, it gets better. |
| 1:30.8 | And this recording studio is a wonder. It's a marvel. There's felt of different colors on the walls. |
| 1:37.0 | There's a window so that we can see into the producers and engineers in the next room. |
| 1:44.3 | Microphones have dots with colors on them, color coded. |
| 1:47.9 | There are plenty of outlets. |
| 1:49.8 | It's basically... |
| 1:51.7 | John, I can't even... |
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