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🗓️ 25 May 2012
⏱️ 70 minutes
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0:41.7 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest. |
0:46.6 | The Washington is just awful, but you, dear listener, are wonderful edition. |
0:50.1 | I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate. |
0:57.8 | Joining me today are Sharp as a Samurai sword, Emily Bazelon, Slate's senior editor to my right, |
1:04.0 | and John Dickerson, as dangerous as an angry rattlesnake, Slate's chief political correspondent and political director of CBS News, to my left. We are live in front of a gorgeous crowd at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue for a live |
1:17.1 | version of the Gab Fest. John, please tell me, are these beautiful people I see real, or are they |
1:22.1 | figments of my imagination? They are real to me, but our listeners don't know that you're real. So, |
1:29.2 | and I don't know that you're real. And I don't know if our listeners could tell, but that's two balconies of people. |
1:48.3 | It's not clear, but there are a lot of people. |
1:50.7 | This is the biggest crowd. |
1:52.2 | This is our biggest crowd here. |
1:53.3 | This is great. |
1:54.0 | We're so glad you guys are here. |
2:02.9 | It's our, it's a pretty's a pretty rock star moment, right? |
2:04.5 | Yeah, well, that's why we've got the headsets. |
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