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Political Gabfest

Slate Plus Bonus: The "Live from Chelsea New York's Slate Day" Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this Slate Plus special Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and guest Nikole Hannah-Jones discuss the Democratic Primary and the crucial African American vote, potential antitrust investigations of Big Tech and how the resegregation of America's public schools is ruining our future. Join Slate Plus to hear this episode in full!  www.Slate.com/gabfestplus Recorded by Merritt Jacobs Research by Bridgette Dunlap Edit by Jocelyn Frank Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GavFest for June 8th, 2019, Slate Day Edition.

0:17.1

We are live at the SBA Theatre in Chelsea in Manhattan as part of Slate Day.

0:23.6

I'm David Plotz about with the Obscura.

0:25.6

I am joined on stage by the New York Times magazine and Yale University's Emily Baselon.

0:34.5

Hello, Emily.

0:35.5

Hey.

0:37.7

And John Dickerson cannot be with us today, but that's okay.

0:41.4

We have somebody better, somebody who's not going to bore us with stories of a walrus

0:48.0

mustachioid presidents.

0:50.0

Well, you never know.

0:51.6

Maybe she will.

0:52.5

Yeah, maybe she will.

0:53.6

I don't know.

0:54.3

So sitting in between me and Emily is Nicola Hannah Jones, also like Emily at New York

0:59.5

Times magazine staff writer, author of a forthcoming book.

1:03.3

The problem we all live with.

1:08.0

And New Yorker, and I would note that there are one of the three of us on stage is a

1:11.8

MacArthur Genius.

1:12.8

And we're going to ask, let's have a guess, who thinks that I'm the MacArthur Genius?

1:18.8

Thank you.

1:19.8

Who thinks that Emily is the MacArthur Genius?

1:23.2

No, you know that.

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