Political Gabfest - The “I Think We're Going to be Okay” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the future of the Affordable Care Act, the challenges of covering glitter, Twitter and news from the Trump administration and the commuting of Chelsea Manning's sentence.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 19th, 2017, the I think we're |
| 0:15.6 | going to be okay edition. I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. We've had a very giddy pre-show |
| 0:20.6 | here at the Slate DC studio with John Dickerson of Face the Nation. Hello, John. Hello, David. And the reason we're giddy is that we can see Emily. We have a huge TV and we can see Emily. So it's almost like Emily is in the room, except a larger version of Emily is in the room with us than the actual Emily. She's literally hovering over us. |
| 0:39.8 | Kind of an alarming prospect, no doubt. |
| 0:42.6 | But I'm glad to be among you, sort of. |
| 0:44.6 | But this is a huge and important development that we should just ruminate on for just a moment. |
| 0:48.8 | We used to it to the extent we could have a visual representation of Emily at all. |
| 0:52.4 | It was like on David's laptop, always a skew. |
| 0:55.2 | Emily had half of her head inside of a box to keep the reverberations from. |
| 0:59.2 | Literally, she talked into a box. |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.8 | And so it was a net reduction in closeness because of the odd angle. |
| 1:05.9 | Every time you saw her talking, you thought, why is she trying to put her head in that box? |
| 1:09.1 | Now we have this angelic vision |
| 1:11.0 | above us uh i'm feeling like it's a whole new whole situation that's emily basil on the new york |
| 1:17.0 | times magazine but actually i want i now worry john that because she's above us and she's so big that i'm |
| 1:21.8 | going to be more respectful of her opinions than they weren't i think the i think the 11 years we've |
| 1:27.1 | been doing the show would suggest you were impervious to that problem. Yeah, I think you're immune too. Although I like that idea. I think the fact that she's like hovering over is she's just a physical manifestation of what she has been on the show ever since she started. That's true a looming threatening presence is that what you mean no no |
| 1:45.7 | no no an angel to which we all turn our gaze for reflection and uh inspiration on i don't know why we're |
| 1:54.4 | so chipper i think it's because we're together on this week's gab fest we are not actually going to |
| 1:58.1 | talk about the inauguration of president donald trump although he will be president presumably by the time you listen to that the reason |
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