Political Gabfest - The “I Threw a Chair in Reno Just to Watch it Fly” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
John Dickerson, David Plotz and Emily Bazelon discuss the threat of a Democratic Party fracture, the latest polls on Donald Trump's popularity and the Supreme Court's action plan with its current team of eight.
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| 0:44.3 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:59.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for May 19th, 2016. |
| 1:02.8 | The I threw a chair in Reno just to watch it fly edition. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura, joining me this week at a distance, at a remove, far away. |
| 1:44.5 | John Dickerson of Face the Nation, you are aware, John. I'm in New York City. Can we just pause for a moment and appreciate that excellent show title you made up? Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. That's very sweet of you. Yeah. I knew you would like it. Yeah. Oh, my God. Fantastic. That other voice you heard is Emily Bazelon at the New York Times, who's even though she's at the New York Times, is not in New York. She's in New Haven. Indeed, I am in New Haven in my lair. On this week's Gab Fest, is the Democratic Party falling apart? We'll talk about that. |
| 1:45.5 | Then this week in Trumpiness, groping, tax returns, Megan Kelly, the usual plethora of Trump. |
| 1:54.2 | Then the Supreme Court whimperingly punts on the contraceptive mandate case it was facing. |
| 2:00.6 | We will talk about that. |
| 2:01.6 | We will have cocktail chatter. |
| 2:03.6 | And in Slate Plus, should the Olympics be canceled, banned, disbarred, should the torch be |
| 2:10.9 | extinguished? |
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| 2:16.3 | Do not forget Washingtonians and people near Washington, |
| 2:19.2 | July 13th, 2016 at 7 p.m. right before the conventions, we have a DC live show with the Warner |
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