Slate: The Gigantic, Delicious, Sugary Drink Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2013

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz. This week: Obama goes up the Hill, Michael Bloomberg's soda law is overturned, and the selection of a new pope raises the question: Can religion and modernity coexist? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.4	Hello and welcome to the slight political gab Fest for March 15th, 2013, the gigantic, delicious, sugary drink edition.
0:44.4	I am David Plotz, the editor of Slate.
0:46.8	To my right is Slate's chief political correspondent Jean Dickerson.
0:52.3	Bonjour, Jean.
0:53.3	Bonjour, David.
0:54.3	Why French? You should have picked Italian today, I thinkerson. Bonjour, Jean. Bonjour, David. Why French?
0:55.2	You should have picked Italian today, I think.
0:57.0	Or Latin.
0:58.4	Bonjour, I know.
0:59.6	And from Vatican City, where she has just been named the first Jewish and female Pope.
1:05.7	God save us all.
1:06.5	Habemus Mama is Slate's senior editor, Emily Bazelon.
1:11.0	Emily, what were your papal name be?
1:13.3	Oh.
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