The “Thoughts and Prayers” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the Las Vegas shooting, the response to Puerto Rico’s suffering and Supreme Court's examination of gerrymandering.
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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 October 5th, 2017, The Thoughts and Prayers Edition. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas of Scura. |
| 0:19.1 | John Dickerson of CBS's Face the Nation is here with me in the D.C. studio. |
| 0:24.5 | Hello, John. |
| 0:25.2 | Hi, David. |
| 0:26.4 | And Emily Bazelon is at, I don't know where you are, Emily. |
| 0:30.9 | You're in New Haven. |
| 0:31.6 | The Yale Studios in New Haven. |
| 0:33.3 | The Yale Studios in New Haven, Connecticut. |
| 0:35.5 | Yes, exactly. |
| 0:36.2 | On this week's Gab Fest, the worst mass shooting in modern American history and the political nonchalance of the response to it. |
| 0:44.4 | Then the worst natural disaster in modern American history and the political nonchalance of the response to that as well. |
| 0:52.3 | And then the Supreme Court is back. So we'll noodle over the fascinating gerrymandering case that was argued this week. |
| 1:01.1 | Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:03.3 | And two announcements that, in case you had forgotten, we have two live shows coming up on October 25th, a Wednesday in Chicago at |
| 1:14.2 | the Reskin Theater. We will do a live at Gab Fest. And we're going to have as a guest, |
| 1:19.3 | Kim Fox, who is the leading prosecutor in Chicago, is going to join us, a reform prosecutor. |
| 1:24.6 | So that's October 25th in Chicago. There's still some tickets left for that. |
| 1:28.4 | And then we have our conundrum show, our annual conundrum show, live in Boston at the Wilbur Theater on |
| 1:34.5 | December 6th. That's going to be capped and punctuated and highlighted by our guests. They might be |
| 1:42.8 | giants who will be opening for us and playing throughout the show. |
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