Political Gabfest - The “Wahoo” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Jamelle Bouie discuss the arrest of Julian Assange; Trump’s purge of the Department of Homeland Security; and the 2020 contenders for President.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for April 12th, 2019, the Wahoo Edition. |
| 0:18.2 | The Gab Fest is live at the Paramount Theater in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. |
| 0:24.6 | We're here as part of the Tom Tom Festival. |
| 0:27.2 | We are a few blocks from the campus of the NCAA men's basketball champion of Virginia Cavaliers. |
| 0:36.9 | I... Hey one. Excuse me. It sounds like they won. I I Point |
| 0:39.9 | Excuse me |
| 0:41.0 | Mr. Mr. Chairman, point of personal privilege |
| 0:44.1 | It's the grounds |
| 0:45.3 | Spoken like the pedantic |
| 0:52.3 | alumnus that you are |
| 0:53.6 | He's going to make me pay for that later. |
| 0:58.0 | So I wore my UVA colors, just in honor of the evening. |
| 1:05.0 | And we are, of course, in our own small ways, champions of the hardwood. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm, of course, David Plotz of Atlas Obscura, but let me |
| 1:11.0 | introduce the true superstars of the Gab Fest team at forward standing five feet, ten inches tall |
| 1:17.7 | from New Haven, Connecticut, a woman who routinely dunks on Justice Kavanaugh, a woman who would |
| 1:25.0 | never, she would never take a charge. |
| 1:28.2 | Why take a charge when you can go to trial? |
| 1:30.8 | Is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine in Yale Law School. |
| 1:39.4 | And at shooting guards standing six feet one inches tall, |
| 1:43.9 | the philosopher of the free throw line, |
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