Political Gabfest - The “Squirmishes” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and John Dickerson discuss Ted Cruz and Donald Trump and the state of the Republican race for the Presidential nomination. They talk about the U.S. relationship with Iran and the water crisis in Flint Michigan.
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| 0:00.0 | The Slate Political Gap Fest is brought to you by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price. |
| 0:06.9 | Casper mattresses come with free delivery and returns within a 100-day period, and get $50 towards any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com slash political, and using the promo code, political. |
| 0:20.4 | And by ZipRecruiter. |
| 0:21.9 | With ZipRecruiter, you can post your job to more than 100 job sites with a single click, |
| 0:26.6 | and they have an interface that's easy to use. |
| 0:29.4 | And right now, you can try it for free. |
| 0:31.6 | Go to ZipRecruiter.com slash GabFest. |
| 0:35.2 | That's ziprecruiter.com slash GabFfest. And by credit karma. Do not pay for your credit score. |
| 0:43.3 | With credit karma, you can get your credit report right now, absolutely free. Just visit credit karma.com |
| 0:49.5 | slash save to get started. There are no strings attached and no credit card is required. Credit karma.com |
| 0:57.0 | slash save. The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 1:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 22nd, 2016, the squirmishes edition. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 1:15.8 | We have complicated geography this week. |
| 1:17.8 | I am in New York. |
| 1:20.8 | John Dickerson of Face the Nation is somewhere else. |
| 1:23.7 | Where are you, John Dickerson? |
| 1:24.6 | Well, I was supposed to be somewhere else, but all this weather made me in the boring place of Washington, D.C. |
| 1:31.0 | And then Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. |
| 1:35.1 | Oh, maybe you're just a New Haven. |
| 1:36.2 | Maybe I'm the only one with complicated geography. |
| 1:38.2 | Yeah, you're excited that you're in a new place, but I'm not. |
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