Political Gabfest - Wash Your Hands
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss Super Tuesday, COVID-19's spread and the Supreme Court's hearing of a crucial abortion case.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and John discuss pandemics in fiction.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Slate listeners. |
| 0:01.6 | Do us a favor and help us make a better slate by answering our survey. |
| 0:06.0 | It'll only take a few minutes. |
| 0:07.3 | You can find it at slate.com slash survey. |
| 0:15.6 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for March 5th, 2020, the Wash Your Hands edition. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:25.5 | I have not maintained, not maintained sanitary conditions, not maintained corona hygiene because John Dickerson is here in the studio with me. |
| 0:34.7 | Forming a disease vector possibly. |
| 0:39.9 | Hello, John Dickerson of CDS. Oh Oh my God. Of the three of us, |
| 0:45.2 | John is the least likely to catch the virus and the most fastidious. So you're in good hands being in John's company. I know, but John's has washed his hands more than both of us combined. I've watched my hands a lot. |
| 0:50.3 | But John's, John's, John is risking himself. I'm the one who should be, I should be |
| 0:56.7 | participating in search. He's touching the table right now, which is like touching my face, I think. |
| 1:02.0 | That other, hello, John. Hi. Hi, David. Sorry for that graphic image. That other voice over there |
| 1:08.9 | was Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School from New Haven. Hello, Emily. |
| 1:15.2 | Hello. |
| 1:16.2 | On today's Gab Fest, the Democratic Party strikes back catapulting Joe Biden to the front of what remains of the pack. Thank you, John. That was good. Then the coronavirus pandemic, how it will |
| 1:29.2 | shape the world, how it will shape politics, how it will shape the economy, and then a wild |
| 1:33.7 | week at the Supreme Court. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. Before we get to our first topic, |
| 1:40.1 | just a quick announcement, we talked last week about a live show that we planned to do at South by Southwest in a couple of weeks. Just an update that because of coronavirus concerns, we will not be doing that live show at South by Southwest on March 17th. So we are sorry to miss you, Texas and South by, but we will get you later. So, dip me in honey, invite the |
| 2:04.2 | flies in to come eat me. How quickly, quickly, quickly things have changed. I had, of course, |
| 2:10.1 | predicted something terrible happening to Joe Biden. And lo and behold, John, here he is, |
| 2:14.5 | what happened? How would you describe the extremely rapid transformation of this race, the elevation of Joe Biden, the consolidation of the moderates, the revenge of the party? |
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