The “Après Moi, Le Déluge” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and David Leonhardt of the New York Times discuss Hurricane Harvey, Antifa, and insubordinate Trump officials.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for August 31st, 2017, the Apremois |
| 0:15.1 | Le Deluge edition. I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. Emily Bazellon of the New York Times is yawn, but inhaling distance in New Haven. |
| 0:26.2 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:27.9 | Hello, David. |
| 0:28.9 | And you're on book leave starting tomorrow? |
| 0:30.9 | Book leave starting tomorrow, but not Gab Fest leave. |
| 0:33.5 | We should make clear. |
| 0:34.2 | Good. |
| 0:35.1 | John Dickerson is away continuing on his well-earned vacation, I hope. I don't even know. Is that where he is, Emily? Maybe you know. I don't know. I think so. Yeah, let's just say that he's on his well-earned vacation. But that is his loss. Our gain is David Lienhardt, the New York Times columnist, is back. your frequent or occasional GabFest co-host. It is a privilege. |
| 0:57.3 | Hello, David. |
| 0:57.8 | Hello, David. Hello, Emily. is David Lianhart, the New York Times columnist, is back. You're a frequent or occasional GabFest co-host. |
| 0:56.3 | It is our privilege. |
| 0:57.3 | Hello, David. |
| 0:57.8 | Hello, David. |
| 0:58.3 | Hello, Emily. Hello, we're so glad you're here. That's what David Plotz meant to say. Yeah, you're going to say David Plots and David Leonhardt. We're going to have to do that. No, just that one moment. On this week's GabFest, Hurricane Harvey drowns Texas, leaving tragedy and destruction behind it. |
| 1:13.6 | What can we learn? On this week's Gab Fest, Hurricane Harvey drowns Texas, leaving tragedy and destruction behind it. |
| 1:13.6 | What can we learn from this natural disaster? |
| 1:17.5 | Then the Antifa movement, what is it? |
| 1:19.5 | What do they want? |
| 1:21.2 | Is it good or bad for the left? |
| 1:24.0 | Then some of the president's top advisors and senior cabinet members have told him implicitly or explicitly somehow to buzz off what happens when there is a president who is neither loved nor feared by the people who work for him. |
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