The “That Mexican Thing” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and David
Plotz discuss Donald Trump's taxes, the yapping dog of the VP debate
and the Supreme Court's attempt to avoid ties with their cases this
season.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for October 6th, 2016, the That Mexican Thing Edition. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:18.8 | Let me pass the mic to John Dickerson to face the nation. Hello, John. Hello, David. And across intergalactic time and space in New Haven, it's Emily Bazelon. Hello, Emily. Hello, David. And hello, John. On this week's gabb... Gavish clava. Blabba. Let the giggles begin. |
| 0:39.4 | That was like a stubbed toe. |
| 0:44.5 | On this week's Gab Fest, did the New York Times tax revelations sabotage Trump's election chances? |
| 0:47.7 | Hillary Clinton, you know she's crafty. |
| 0:50.0 | How will she use those revelations in the debate? |
| 0:54.6 | Then Mike Pence, looking down the barrel of a gun, said, I'm going to get it together. |
| 0:57.7 | He went slow and low on Tim Cain and won the debate. |
| 1:00.5 | That is the new style, I guess. |
| 1:09.4 | Then the Supreme Court without its brass monkey, that funky monkey and Encelia reconvenes for a new term with five guys and three girls. |
| 1:11.4 | Will they get anything done? |
| 1:12.9 | We'll have cocktail chatter. It's a super failed sitcom pitch. |
| 1:15.7 | I know. |
| 1:16.1 | It was like the Brady bunch only not. |
| 1:18.6 | Then in Slate Plus, we're going to fight for our right to pick the best political |
| 1:22.0 | songs ever recorded. |
| 1:24.1 | You guys are so fucking lame. |
| 1:27.4 | What? I can't believe this. John Dickerson. What? After showing us up. you guys are so fucking lame. |
| 1:28.0 | What? |
| 1:29.0 | I can't believe this. |
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