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Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate political gap fest for Wednesday, November 4th, 2020.
0:14.2	The counting of the votes edition, I am David Plott's city cast.
0:18.9	I'm in Washington, D.C.
0:20.8	I'm actually pretty well rested because I made the wisest decision to take a sleeping pill
0:25.8	at 11 o'clock and just get through the hard dark night of the soul.
0:32.7	Emily Baslan of the New York Times magazine in Yale University Law School in New Haven
0:37.7	looks, or maybe in Philadelphia.
0:39.7	She looks, she looks okay.
0:40.9	Did you sleep, Emily?
0:42.4	I slept fine.
0:43.4	Yeah.
0:44.4	Well, no, I should take that back.
0:45.6	I slept.
0:46.6	And John Dickerson of CBS is 60 minutes of CBS news.
0:52.0	It looks really good because he's dressed for success and for television.
0:56.0	But John, you, I think, had the longest night.
0:58.8	Have you slept at all?
0:59.8	That's for sure.
1:01.3	I slept from about four to six, which is the worst kind of sleep of all because you get
1:10.2	just enough REM sleep so that you're absolutely pulled from the grave when you wake up.
1:17.2	Well, and then I had to go on TV.
1:19.5	So that was...
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