Political Gabfest - The “But Every Politician’s Gonna Say That” Edition
Political Gabfest
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4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Howard Schultz’s threat to run for president, Mitch McConnell’s legacy (with guest Charles Homans), and performative workaholism.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 31st, 2019. |
| 0:14.6 | The But Every Politician is going to say that edition. |
| 0:18.1 | That's a quote from our own dear John Dickerson. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C. It is my birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to me. |
| 0:25.2 | Happy birthday. Happy birthday dear me. Those voices were, of course, John Dickerson of CBS this morning |
| 0:32.1 | in New York and Emily Bazelon of New York Times Magazine in New Haven, I'm guessing. |
| 0:38.1 | Maybe New York. |
| 0:38.7 | I don't know. |
| 0:39.3 | New Haven. |
| 0:47.9 | On this week's show, why has Howard Schultz's trial balloon about running for president as an independent enraged so many Democrats and so many journalists? |
| 0:50.4 | Why didn't rage so many of our colleagues? |
| 0:55.0 | Then a fascinating profile of the most important person in American politics, |
| 1:01.8 | Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader. Then, performative workaholism. Why do you young people love work so much? Why do you young people just pretend to love work so much? What's up with that? |
| 1:07.7 | Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And a reminder, we've got two live shows coming |
| 1:11.9 | up on Wednesday, March 27th at the Lincoln Theater here in Washington, D.C. We're going to do a live |
| 1:18.0 | show, which will be coupled with an Emily Bazelon book signing, book promotion, book talking, |
| 1:23.2 | preview, book preview. So go to slate.com slash live to get tickets for that show on March 27th at the Lincoln Theater. |
| 1:30.3 | We've got another live show on Friday, April 12th in Charlottesville, Virginia as part of the TomTom Festival, a big festival about small cities. |
| 1:38.3 | We are going to be doing a show in Charlottesville, also John's alma mater. |
| 1:44.0 | We will be monitoring. We will be moderating. |
| 1:45.0 | You will be muttering, motoring, muttering and motoring. |
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