The "Conundrum" Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 1 January 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz debate a selection of listener-generated conundrums that range from the political to the fantastical. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus.Twitter:@SlateGabfestFacebook: facebook.com/GabfestEmail: gabfest@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for December 25th, 2016, the Conundrum
0:15.6	Edition.
0:16.6	I'm David Plott of Atlas Obserat.
0:19.6	John Dickerson of Slate is here with me.
0:22.4	Hello John.
0:23.4	Oh you're with a fascination.
0:24.4	I was just looking at my, your slate and fascination.
0:27.7	But hello.
0:28.7	Hi.
0:29.7	I'm David Plott of the New York Times magazine.
0:31.3	Join us from New Haven.
0:32.8	Hello Emily.
0:33.8	Hello hello.
0:35.0	On this week's Gap Fest, our special excellent show, our Conundrum Edition, would you rather
0:43.0	be interviewed by 100 Dickerson-sized ducks or one duck size Dickerson?
0:50.4	If you overheard Emily Baszlant telling a police officer her real name was Amelia Beaselstein,
0:56.2	did you intervene and tell the cop that actually her name is Emily Baszlant?
1:01.2	If I fought a panda to the death, who would you want to win?
1:05.2	That's some of the conundrums we will not discuss on this show.
1:08.2	But we will have real conundrums.
1:09.6	The conundrums that you sent us and we will also have more of them in the Slate Plus
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