Slate: The One Trillion Dollars Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2013

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: An embattled Chuck Hagel, a debt ceiling coin and Obama's white men problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	GabFest.
0:45.8	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 11th, 2013, the $1 trillion edition.
0:50.1	I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate in Washington, D.C., and I have a coin in my pocket.
0:52.1	It is worth 25 cents.
0:53.3	That's your joke? It wasn't much of a joke. It was worth 25 cents. That's your joke?
0:56.4	It wasn't much of a joke.
0:58.2	It was trying to build tension.
0:59.5	It was only 25 cents. I was trying to build tension about that.
1:01.0	Oh, right.
1:01.8	This is really a dollar coin.
1:02.8	Okay, sorry.
1:03.8	Oh, my God.
1:04.1	Oh, my God.
1:04.5	You didn't even get the joke.
1:05.9	Right.
1:06.5	You just thought he was making a joke about having a quarter in his pocket totally detached from the news.
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