Political Gabfest - The "Meet the New Trump" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2016
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz and Emily Bazelon are joined by Adam Davidson of the New Yorker to discuss the new messages coming from Donald Trump, the new trove of Hillary Clinton emails and the geographic patterns of capital punishment in America.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.2 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 25th, 2016, the Meet the New |
| 0:16.2 | Trump edition. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:20.5 | Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine is in New Haven. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:26.2 | Hello, hello. John Dickerson is taking a much deserved break. I hope he's in some secret location. |
| 0:34.4 | Although he did answer an email, so he's not totally off of whatever he's off of all |
| 0:38.5 | devices. |
| 0:39.4 | I disapprove. |
| 0:41.0 | But in any case, he has a worthy substitute. |
| 0:44.7 | Adam Davidson, now of the New Yorker, joins us from his vacation. |
| 0:49.5 | Hello, Adam. |
| 0:50.3 | Hey, David. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm in the Berkshires. |
| 0:51.6 | And true story, I swear this is true. I had a stress dream last |
| 0:55.1 | night that while doing this podcast, John Dickerson was sitting next to me judging everything |
| 0:59.6 | I say. Even though he's like the least judgy guy in America, it was a very stressful |
| 1:05.2 | stress dream. I can't believe that this show produced an anxiety dream for you. That is not what we are going for. That is very funny. We'll have to talk to your shrink about that. Yeah, I also, same night, had a stress dream about not being able to find my desk at the New Yorker. So there's a lot of stress going on in my dreams these days. Congratulations on your new job. That's awesome. Yeah, I'm very excited, but sad to leave the times. |
| 1:29.7 | On this week's Gab Fest, has Donald Trump actually flip-flopped on immigration? Then another |
| 1:36.0 | trove of Hillary emails is coming in the scandal that never ends. We will talk about that |
| 1:41.6 | scandal that never ends. And then Emily has written a brilliant |
| 1:44.7 | article about the death penalty and another way it might end or why it's become geographically |
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