The “He's a Natural Toucher” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Joe Biden; the White House’s stonewalling of Congress; and Brexit--with guest Anne Applebaum.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.6 | Plots is a congested pricer. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm A, I'm congested. |
| 0:06.9 | And B, interested in prices and cities. |
| 0:10.2 | Hello, and welcome to the Slate political gabfest for April 4th, 2019. |
| 0:14.3 | He's a natural toucher edition. |
| 0:17.3 | David Plotz of Atlas Obscura here in the late DC studio, joining me, of course, my co-hosts from CBS HQ in New York. |
| 0:29.9 | CBS this morning is John Dickerson. Hello, John. Hello, David. And from the campus of Yale University, where she is a professor of some sort. You're not really a professor. You're something at Yale law school. No, I am not a professor. Let's make that clear. She's not a professor. The real professors around here do not like it when we can mix that up. We have not a professor at Yale Law School, but a staff writer at York Times Magazine. They let me teach a class, which is really nice of them. |
| 0:55.8 | They add every year they approve it, at least so far, but I am not a professor. |
| 0:59.8 | A teacher at Yale Law School. |
| 1:02.1 | There's actually a joke that I think is really true that the long, the more words you have after your name at a university, the less important you are. |
| 1:10.0 | So I have like three different titles, all signifying that I have no status. |
| 1:14.9 | Right. |
| 1:15.1 | Whereas if you're just professor, that means, whoa. |
| 1:17.9 | Exactly. |
| 1:18.8 | Big time professor. |
| 1:20.0 | That's a good point. |
| 1:20.4 | Or you have a named chair. |
| 1:21.7 | That's some more words. |
| 1:22.7 | But yes. |
| 1:24.1 | No. |
| 1:24.5 | Could you ever be put in the condition of being adjunct? |
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