The “Bart Simpson Versus Lisa Simpson” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John
Dickerson debate the ethical murkiness of Donald Trump's payment to
Attorney General Pam Bondi, the candidates' preparation styles for
the upcoming debates and the reparations offered by Georgetown
University.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 8th, 2016, the Bart Simpson versus Lisa Simpson edition. |
| 0:17.3 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:20.4 | Person who grinned, almost audibly grinned across for me here in the DC studio is John Dickerson of |
| 0:25.6 | Face the Nation. How old John? Hi, David. That was a great, because I know where you're going with |
| 0:30.3 | that. And so I'm full of joyful anticipation, as I say. Good. All right. Can we bring in the |
| 0:36.2 | movie election as well, since that is the same metaphor? Not yet. Not yet. That's my metaphor is Bart versus Lisa actually stolen from my wife, Hannah Rosen. So it goes. That voice. Your metaphor. That's an interesting phrase. That voice is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. I'm glad to see we're already at it at even though we've barely gotten a sentence out. |
| 0:57.7 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:59.0 | Hello, David. |
| 0:59.7 | Hello, John. |
| 1:00.6 | Hi. |
| 1:01.6 | Is it oppressively hot where you are right now, Emily? |
| 1:05.1 | No, but it's super humid. |
| 1:07.3 | It's so right now, I think even like if you were on the enterprise, they would not let a landing party land here. |
| 1:14.4 | It would be, oh, God. |
| 1:16.1 | It's so gross here. |
| 1:17.7 | It is, I was just talking with Jocelyn before the show. |
| 1:20.8 | Just we, you and I both grew up in D.C. John, it's, the weather is so much worse than it was when we were kids. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, it's true. |
| 1:26.8 | It's like having a wool, like a, take a wool blanket, soak it in hot water, ring it out, and then wrap it around your head. |
| 1:34.4 | That's a terrible feeling. |
| 1:35.7 | Yeah. |
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