Political Gabfest - The Live at the Bell House Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2015
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss the shooting death of Walter Scott by North Charleston, SC police officer Michael Slager, the possibility of a President Rand Paul, and the sesquicentennial anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Twitter: @SlateGabfestFacebook: facebook.com/GabfestEmail: gabfest@slate.comShow notes at slate.com/gabfest This week's episode is sponsored by Stamps.com. If you go to stamps.com, click on the microphone at the top of the home page and enter GABFEST for a $110 bonus offer, including up to $55 in free postage and a no-risk trial. 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, GapFest listeners, it's David Plott's. I'm here backstage at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn, |
| 0:04.4 | getting ready for the show you're about to hear. John and Emily are tapping away on their |
| 0:09.2 | computers behind me. Before we start the show, I need to tell you, the Slate Political GapFest |
| 0:14.0 | is sponsored by Stamps.com. Buy and print official US Postage using your own computer and printer |
| 0:20.2 | and save up to 80% compared to a postage meter. Sign up for a No-Rest trial and a $110 bonus offer |
| 0:26.7 | when you visit Stamps.com and use the promo code GapFest. Now on with the show. |
| 0:32.8 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:43.1 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GapFest. For April 10th, 2015, the live at the Bellhouse |
| 0:48.6 | edition, I am David Plott's of Atlas Obscura. John Degersen of Slate and CBS News is at my |
| 0:54.8 | bar left and my near left is your hometown, New York Times's Emily Bazzleon. |
| 1:06.9 | Those chairs were for both of you. Yeah, yeah. We are live at the Bellhouse in Gawana. There's a |
| 1:14.8 | packed house which we can barely see but I understand your packed. Let us know that you're packed right |
| 1:20.6 | now. Let us know if you're packing too. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed. I've heard |
| 1:35.1 | tell of your Brooklyn Beards before but I come to Brooklyn. I come to Brooklyn. And all you |
| 1:42.4 | look like, you can pull your Mindy Little Chin hairs in shame because a Washingtonian has the |
| 1:47.9 | busiest beard in the house. But I think they're thinking like, you know, the beard, that was the |
| 1:52.4 | last year. That's right. That's like, you're the Brussels sprouts and kale of like facial hair. |
| 1:58.7 | I heard that. They're like, they're like, they're like, they're like, they're like, |
| 2:01.3 | parsnips and like all kinds of things. We live in Queens. I don't know if you're like, I don't |
| 2:05.3 | get it. On this week's GapFest, we will talk about the murder of Walter Scott in North Charleston. |
| 2:11.5 | Will it change what the other murders have not changed? Then we'll talk about President |
| 2:17.2 | Rand Paul and what his presidency will be like. It will be good for you guys. I'm sure. |
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