The "Deface the Nation" Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Hosts David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon discuss John's interview with President Trump, the public return of Hillary Clinton, and Bret Stephens now writing for the New York Times.
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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 May 4th, 2017. |
| 0:14.3 | The you know this title is coming, the DeFace the Nation edition. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:21.7 | Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine is joining from New Haven. |
| 0:26.2 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:27.4 | Hello, David. |
| 0:28.7 | And the defacer in chief himself, John Dickerson of Face the Nation, is on the road in a car. |
| 0:35.9 | Hello, John. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello, David. Hello, David. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm headed back from Reading, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:42.0 | Lucky you. |
| 0:43.4 | I've always wondered why it isn't reading Pennsylvania, |
| 0:45.7 | but we're not going to talk about that. |
| 0:47.9 | It's spelled reading, right? |
| 0:49.7 | Yeah, I think, I don't know. |
| 0:51.9 | Maybe a listener from there can weigh in. |
| 1:11.5 | Emily, you're from Pennsylvania. Why? What's the answer? I don't know the answer to that. I never thought that it should be reading because I just grew up with it being Redding. Like the idea of it not being Reading to me seems strange. Well, it's the English town is also Redding, and it's a Redding Railroad. But why there? Why even to begin with? |
| 1:14.3 | Anyway, we will not discuss that on this week's Gab Fest. |
| 1:20.2 | On this week's Gab Fest, John Dickerson's interview with President Trump was one of the big stories of the week. |
| 1:28.3 | We will get down and dirty with John about what it revealed and how it went and why it was significant. |
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