Political Gabfest - The John Kerry is Polishing His Nobel Peace Prize Edition
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🗓️ 17 July 2015
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss Obama's Iran nuclear deal, Scott Walker's presidential candidacy, and a pro-life group's undercover Planned Parenthood video. Slate's Political Gabfest is sponsored by Volvo. Experience the Wonder of Summer. Have a month’s payment on Volvo and spend your summer doing the things that matter to you. Plus get up to five years full coverage, including wear and tear. Go to volvocars.com/us. And by Harry's, the shaving company that offers German-engineered blades, well-designed handles, and shipping right to your door. Visit Harrys.com for $5 off your first purchase with the promo code GABFEST. 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 Volvo. |
| 0:03.3 | Experience the wonder of summer. |
| 0:05.4 | Have a month's payment on Volvo and spend your summer doing the things that matter to you. |
| 0:09.8 | Get up to five years full coverage, including wear and tear, by going to VolvoCars.com slash U.S. |
| 0:16.5 | And by Harries, the shaving company that offers German engineered blades, well-designed handles, and shipping right to your door. |
| 0:23.6 | Visit harries.com for $5 off your first purchase with the promo code, Gab Fest. |
| 0:28.7 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:54.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for July 17th, 2015. The John Kerry is polishing his Nobel Peace Prize edition. I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. John Dickerson of Face the Nation is here with me. Hello, John in Washington. |
| 0:55.8 | Hi, David. |
| 0:56.9 | He's got some, he's been on the ground in real America. |
| 1:00.7 | By real America, John means only states in the central time zone. |
| 1:05.5 | John, the only states you count as being in real America or in the central time zone. |
| 1:09.3 | South Carolina is in the Eastern Times. So you've forgotten my whole affection for the South. Oh, so the South or the Central Time Zone. Or the Mountain or Western. Really just anything is not New York or Washington. Do you count Maine as being in the Real America? Parts of Maine, yeah. Parts of Maine are not. But even the parts of main that aren't have like hard pockets of |
| 1:29.0 | your snobbism is so much worse than regular snobism yeah me and emily snobism is at least |
| 1:36.2 | like we're we're we know the world that we know and we don't pretend to speak for the world that we |
| 1:40.9 | don't know whereas you're like you valer, you valorize, you valerize this |
| 1:45.7 | other. You sort of said the other is better. I say screw you, other. I valorize nothing. Emily, |
| 1:52.8 | are you going to join me? Emily Vasslaw. I'm not sure what to say at this point. We haven't even |
| 1:56.6 | announced our topics and we're having some like serious scratching of itches. |
| 2:02.4 | All right. |
| 2:02.7 | Our topics on this week's Gab Fest, we'll talk about the Iran deal. |
| 2:05.9 | Is it the best deal in history or just amazing? |
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