The “Great Blotch” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the government shutdown, the 2020 Democratic presidential field, and Brexit doom with guest Tanya Gold.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.8 | Brexit. |
| 0:04.6 | Brexit. |
| 0:05.5 | Brexit. |
| 0:06.3 | No, it's not a G. |
| 0:08.2 | Exit. |
| 0:08.6 | It's not the word egg. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello, and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 24th, 2019, the Great Blotch edition. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm David Plotz and Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:20.5 | Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine is in New Haven. Howdy, Emily? |
| 0:25.1 | Hello, hello. And John Dickerson of CBS this morning is in New York City. Hello, John. Hi. |
| 0:33.5 | On this week's show, the shutdown gets even worse. The State of the Union is off. |
| 0:38.1 | We will dig into that. |
| 0:40.1 | Then what to make the latest crop of would-be Democratic nominees for president, |
| 0:45.9 | especially Kamala Harris. |
| 0:48.9 | And then the tragedy, the horror, the insanity that is Brexit. |
| 0:52.2 | We will be joined by Tanya Gold, a British journalist, to wallow in all of that. |
| 0:57.4 | Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. |
| 0:59.6 | Before we get started, two, we have two live show announcements. |
| 1:03.1 | So you may remember that on Wednesday, March 27th at the Lincoln Theater here in Washington, D.C., we will be doing a live show, which will also be a special promotion for Emily's new book charged, and a chance for you to hear Emily talk about that book, a chance for us to do a regular show. |
| 1:20.7 | Emily will talk about the book and also will sign it. |
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