The Gabfest to End All Gabfests Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2014

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, John Dickerson, and special guest Dan Carlin. This week: Executive action on immigration, the Ex-Im Bank and crony capitalism, and the centenary of WWI. Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GavFest for August 29th, 2014, the GavFest to End
0:41.6	All GavFest. In addition, I'm David Plottsy, editor at large of Slate in Washington, DC.
0:46.6	On this week's show, will the President overhaul America's immigration policy without congressional
0:52.1	approval and will the GOP shut down the government if he does? Then the bizarre face-off over
0:58.4	the XM bank and does it signify anything about the rise of a libertarian wing in the Republican
1:04.8	Party? Then it's the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I. We'll talk about the
1:09.6	Great Wars Long Shadow over international politics over business, technology, society and we'll
1:16.1	have cocktail chatter. Slate Senior Editor Emily Bazelon joins us from New Haven. Hello, Emily.
1:21.2	Hello, everybody. John Dickerson has been found. John, what was it like to
1:28.0	be rescued from that well where you were trapped the last 28 days? How did you feel when you got
1:32.8	out of there? I came back into the light blinking. I thought Truman was still President. I thought
1:39.2	why did our fascism have been silent? What is the point of that? What? You thought what is the
1:44.1	point of coming back from vacation? Why? Well, to hear your voice and to be once again in
1:49.4	community with you and David. That was really what drew me back from my otherwise completely
1:55.6	serene existence. Well, we're really glad you're back. We are. So we have had a lot of special
2:00.4	guests on the Gavfest over the years. We have had Stephen Colbert on the Gavfest. We have had my
2:06.0	wife for going to six, but I have to say I have never been as excited about a guest as I am today
2:12.6	joining us on the Gavfest from somewhere in Oregon. An amirical of podcast cross-pollination is
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