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Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2011

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: American intervention in Libya, the Supreme Court’s look at Wal-Mart, and academic intimidation in the Midwest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, April Fool's Day, April 1st, that is, 2011.
0:14.0	There will be no April Fool's pranks on this show.
0:16.4	But verily, we are April Fool's.
0:19.0	Is that Shakespearean?
0:20.0	We're the prank.
0:20.9	No, we are, right. We are foolsan? We're the prank. No, we are, right.
0:21.9	We are fools, and we are now in April.
0:24.1	Huh.
0:24.8	But is that a line?
0:26.0	No, I just mean.
0:26.9	If you slap a little verily on anything, it's like chocolate sauce.
0:31.1	It just adds a whole kind of special elevation to it.
0:35.4	Verily.
0:36.4	Yay.
0:37.2	Verily. We. Verily.
0:37.8	We doth go next week, incidentally.
0:40.7	April 7th, we're going to be live in West Lafayette, Indiana, at University Church.
0:46.2	At show is at 6 o'clock.
0:47.5	We're going to meet for drinks in advance.
0:49.4	Anyone who is listening, please join us for drinks at 4.30 at speaking of chocolate.
0:53.6	Harry's chocolate shop, which apparently does not serve chocolate.
0:56.4	Or maybe it's chocolate.
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