Political Gabfest - The "Wedding Cake" Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss why Roy Moore appears to be surviving while Al Franken and many other harassers are being pushed out of office, the wedding cake case currently before the Supreme Court, and what impact President Trump could have on peace in the Middle East.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for December 7th, 2017, The Wedding Cake Edition. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:21.3 | John and Emily and I are all together. |
| 0:24.2 | We're all together in the Mix One Studios in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 0:27.7 | We taped our conundrum show last night, which will air later this month, and we are now lovely and together. |
| 0:35.4 | Hello, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. |
| 0:37.6 | Hello, hello. Hello, John Dickelon of the New York Times Magazine. Hello, hello. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, John Dickerson of CBS's Face the Nation. |
| 0:41.7 | Hi, David. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm loving this studio we're in. |
| 0:44.1 | It's like we should all be recording some kind of a record. |
| 0:47.2 | Would you like to? |
| 0:47.9 | Is it like to sing? |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.4 | It's a very nicely, pleasingly shaped room. |
| 0:51.9 | That's we could call our album. |
| 0:53.7 | It could be called the hexagon. |
| 0:55.3 | It could be called inside the hexagon. |
| 0:57.3 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 0:58.4 | That could be our free-form jazz album inside the hexagon. |
| 1:03.0 | All right. |
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