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The Gist

Slobs vs. Snobs

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Why does it feel like our political debate was brought to us by the National Lampoon? Sonny Bunch applies his powers of cultural analysis to the changing face of political conservativism. Bunch is executive editor of the Washington Free Beacon, where he also writes film criticism.  In the Spiel, Devin Nunes really messed this thing up, huh? Today's sponsors: Control GX gray-reducing shampoo is the FIRST shampoo that gradually reduces gray. It reduces gray a little with each shampoo. It's easy to use and provides subtle, natural-looking results. Green Mountain Coffee. Green Mountain Coffee is passionate about making a smoother-tasting cup. Try it today with $4 off, when you buy two boxes of most Green Mountain Coffee K-Cup pods at keurig.comwith code TRYGMC. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:07.9

Thursday, March 23, 2017 from Slated to Justine, Mike Pasca,

0:12.6

and everything in the world is scheduled for today.

0:15.1

We will be offering team coverage of every development in the world today.

0:20.0

This just in, the day has been expanded to 43 hours to accommodate

0:23.8

all the votes, arrests, attacks, hearings, murders, and Kiev, boycotts, filibusters,

0:28.6

Jewish community center, bomb threats, and the Secretary of Energy,

0:31.8

weighing in on a student council election, that involved the improper use of glow sticks.

0:37.5

Okay, we won't get to that last one, though it actually happened.

0:40.9

We have been told how they will fund the 43 hours.

0:43.8

They're going to borrow it from the next seven leap days, you know,

0:46.9

the day when we gain an hour, they're going to put that in a fund.

0:49.8

Hope it grows over time due to the miracle of compound interest.

0:54.4

And perhaps future generations will make up the difference.

0:57.1

We hope we're going to bend the time curve.

0:59.3

But today, the big news was to be the vote on Trump care.

1:03.5

Now it turns out that is inaccurate.

1:05.1

No, not the notion that Trump cares.

1:06.9

The fact that there will be a vote today, members of the freedom caucus couldn't get

1:11.8

to yes, as their chairman, Mark Meadows said, maybe a vote tomorrow will happen

1:17.0

early tomorrow, even.

1:18.7

But I've been watching a lot of learning to pundits, making predictions about

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