Political Gabfest - The Jiggery-Pokery Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2015
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act, the meaning and symbolism of Confederate iconography, and Pope Francis's encyclical on climate change. The Slate Political Gabfest is sponsored by Stamps.com. Buy and print official U.S. postage using your own computer and printer, and save up to 80% compared to a postage meter. Sign up for a no-risk trial and a $110 bonus offer when you visit Stamps.com and use the promo code GABFEST. And by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price. Casper mattresses come with free delivery and returns within a 100-day period. And get 50 dollars toward any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com/gabfest and using the promo code POLITICAL. And by Blue Apron, the new service that delivers all the ingredients you need to make incredible meals at home. Discover a better way to cook. Visit BlueApron.com/gabfest to get your first two meals free. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus. Twitter: @SlateGabfest Facebook: facebook.com/Gabfest Email: gabfest@slate.com Show notes at slate.com/gabfest
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| 0:00.0 | The Slate Political Gab Fest is sponsored by Stamps.com. |
| 0:03.8 | Buy and print official U.S. postage using your own computer and printer and save up to 80% compared to a postage meter. |
| 0:10.7 | Sign up now for a no-risk trial and a $110 bonus offer when you visit Stamps.com and use the promo code GabFest. |
| 0:18.6 | And buy Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the |
| 0:23.1 | price. Casper mattresses come with free delivery and returns within a 100-day period. And get |
| 0:29.7 | $50 toward any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com slash political and using the promo code |
| 0:36.0 | political. And by Blue Apron, the new service that delivers all the farm fresh ingredients you need to make incredible meals at home. |
| 0:44.0 | Discover a better way to cook. |
| 0:46.1 | Visit blueapron.com slash gabfest to get your first two meals free. |
| 0:50.5 | That's blueapron.com slash gabfest. |
| 0:53.7 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 1:00.8 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for June 26, 2015, the jiggery |
| 1:10.3 | pokery edition. I am David Flots of Atlas Obscura here in our |
| 1:15.3 | Washington studio, a rapidly heating up Washington studio, is John Dickerson of Face the Nation. Hello, |
| 1:21.1 | John Dickerson. Oh, David, by the time we're done with this gap fest, you and I are both just going to be |
| 1:25.0 | in puddles of... It's going to be terrible. It is really going to be terrible. It's already started. And then, in her home in New Haven, her own private recording studio where she's producing Pet Sounds is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times magazine. Yes, that is me. I hope no one can hear the lawnmower that's running outside, not at my house. |
| 1:44.9 | Can't hear it. |
| 1:46.4 | No. |
| 1:46.6 | Good. |
| 1:47.5 | On this week's Gab Fest, King versus Burwell, of course, Emily is all ready. |
| 1:53.6 | She's fired up and ready to go like a presidential candidate to tell us all about the big Obamacare decision. |
| 2:00.9 | Then the Confederate flag still flies, I think, in front of the state capital in Columbia, |
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