Political Gabfest - The “It Still Seems Pretty Swampy To Me” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz discuss the new Congress and the botched effort to gut the House ethics office. And, in the first of three segments looking back at Obama’s presidency in its final three weeks, the hosts discuss Obama’s economic legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.1 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 5th, 2017. |
| 0:15.5 | It still seems pretty swampy to me edition. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura, joining me in Slate, D.C.'s studio. We now have a black tablecloth in our studio table. Is John Dickerson of Face the Nation. Hello, John. Hi, David. This is presumably for sound. I think it's for sound. It's very filthy. Then in New Haven, is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine? |
| 0:41.1 | Hi, Emily. |
| 0:41.9 | Happy New Year to both of you. |
| 0:43.5 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:44.5 | How are you, Emily? |
| 0:46.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm sick, but I'm so excited because I have this new tie line in my house. |
| 0:50.9 | Jason, one of our fabulous producers, came and installed it yesterday. And hopefully I sound loud at 30. Wait, what did you say? And you sent, I got a Thailand. Yes. He just played you. No, no. But I also, she responded right away as opposed to before. Oh, I thought you were trying to trick her. Oh, no, no, no. I'm trying to see if she could. What? You are being so mean this morning. This is not boating well. But what listeners should embrace and feel comfortable about is that that exchange just happened in real time, as opposed to in the last way where you'd have to wait for 10 minutes for one to pause and the other to pause and then one to interrupt and get angry. And now it's perfectly synchronized. |
| 1:28.4 | This is, this bodes incredibly well for 2017, which will be one harmonious, frictionless |
| 1:33.7 | forward progression. |
| 1:35.4 | Well, I did think that. |
| 1:36.6 | So Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds died, whatever, on the last couple of days of the year. |
| 1:40.4 | But the first couple of days of 2017, Charles Manson is in the hospital, dying, |
| 1:44.8 | perhaps in the hospital. So maybe things are looking up, just positing that. |
| 1:50.8 | Now that you mentioned Gerald Manson, you kind of look a little bit like Charles Manson |
| 1:54.5 | with that new goatee, too. David is looking very rough and really and highly masculine. |
| 2:00.4 | I feel like you should be getting on a motorcycle when you leave here with a... |
| 2:03.1 | Highly masculine. |
| 2:04.4 | Well, he's got this goatee. |
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