Political Gabfest - The Live at the Bell House Edition
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4.5 • 6K 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 Plotz. I'm here backstage at the Bell House in Brooklyn, getting ready for the show you're about to hear. John and Emily are tapping away on their computers behind me. Before we start the show, I need to tell you, the Slate Political GavFest is sponsored by Stamps.com. Buy and print official U.S. postage using your own computer and printer and save up to 80% |
| 0:21.8 | compared to a postage meter. Sign up for a no-risk trial and a $110 bonus offer when you visit |
| 0:27.2 | Stamps.com and use the promo code GabFest. Now on with the show. The following podcast contains |
| 0:34.9 | explicit language. |
| 0:49.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 10th, 2015, the live at the Bell House edition. |
| 0:51.2 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:58.5 | John Dickerson of Slate and CBS News is at my far left, and at my near left is your hometown New York Times is Emily Bazelon. |
| 1:06.8 | Those cheers were those cheers for... |
| 1:09.2 | That was for both of us. |
| 1:10.2 | Those for both of you, yeah. |
| 1:12.0 | We are live at the bell house in Gowanus. |
| 1:14.7 | There's a packed house, which we can barely see, but I understand you're packed. |
| 1:18.9 | So let us know that you're packed right now. |
| 1:26.1 | And also let us know if you're packing, too, because it's just... |
| 1:31.3 | I have to say, I'm a little bit disappointed. I've heard tell of your Brooklyn beards before, |
| 1:36.8 | but I come to Brooklyn. I come to Brooklyn. And you're the only one. |
| 1:42.7 | And all you, Brooklynites, you can pull your, your mingy little chin hairs in shame because a Washingtonian has the busiest beard in the house. But I think, but I think they're thinking like, you know, the beard like that was last year. Yeah, probably. That's right. It's like, you're the Brussels sprouts and kale of like facial hair. I had Russell Sprouts. They they moved on to like parsnips and like all kinds of crazy. |
| 2:03.6 | We live in Queens. |
| 2:04.0 | I don't know what you're like that. |
| 2:04.9 | I don't get it. |
| 2:06.5 | On this week's Gab Fest, we will talk about the murder of Walter Scott in North Charleston. |
| 2:11.6 | Will it change what the other murders have not changed? |
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