Political Gabfest - The “Just A Little Bit of Shoe Polish” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Virginia Democrats in turmoil, Trump’s State of the Union speech, and the appalling conditions at a federal prison in New York.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.6 | Hello, and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for February 7th, 2019, the just a little bit of shoe polish edition. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm in Washington, D.C., and my confrars, my fellow host, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon of CBS this morning and New York Times Magazine, respectively, are both in CBS's studios. So I'm not with you guys. What secrets are you sharing with each other? What things you're talking about that you're cutting me out of? I just texted you all the secrets. You're not cut out of anything. I just updated you. All the secrets. It's true. All the secrets, including the location of the Masonic Key. The buried treasure. It's all in your text. Just go look for it. What about the location of the after party? |
| 0:55.6 | Are you going to tell me where the after party is? |
| 0:57.2 | Yes. |
| 0:58.0 | It's at Clive Davis's house. |
| 1:00.2 | All right. |
| 1:00.7 | On this week's Gab Fest, the cataclysmic race and sex scandal that is convulsing Virginia politics, then like Groundhog Day, the State of the Union is the one day of the year. |
| 1:13.4 | President Trump shows up and sees bipartisanship, and then there will be six more years of misery. |
| 1:18.8 | We will talk about the State of the Union and also just the President's Week in general. |
| 1:24.5 | And then the appalling conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn |
| 1:28.7 | prompt outrage and a grassroots protest. Why is it okay to treat prisoners, treat people in jail, |
| 1:36.3 | as badly as we seem to be treating people in jail. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. And a reminder, |
| 1:41.9 | we've got two live shows coming up on the East Coast on March 27th, |
| 1:46.9 | a Wednesday at the Lincoln Theater here in D.C. We're going to have a live show. It's going to be |
| 1:52.2 | great. It's also going to have an extra special sneak preview of Emily's book charged, which is a |
| 1:58.2 | wonderful book, and you're going to get a chance to hear more about it early |
| 2:02.0 | and you get a chance to buy it if you'd like for a discount. |
| 2:05.5 | So go to slate.com slash live for information on tickets and tickets to that show. |
| 2:10.4 | And then on Friday, April 12th, we are going to be in Charlottesville, Virginia as part of the TomTom Festival. |
| 2:16.3 | And you can get tickets for that show also at slate.com slash live. |
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