The “Let’s Just Ban Everything” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are joined by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to discuss the Parkland, Florida shooting, job openings at the White House, and whether it’s the right time to ban porn.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.7 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 15th, 2018, the Let's Just Ban Everything edition. |
| 0:16.4 | I am David Plotz of Atlisgura. I'm in Washington, D.C. From New Haven, Connecticut is Emily Baslon |
| 0:23.3 | of the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily. Hello, David Plotz. And John Dickerson of CBS is on the air. |
| 0:30.7 | He is covering the Stoneman Douglas Massacre. And so he isn't able to tape today. But that's okay, |
| 0:36.9 | because we got Super Sub New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, the Kevin McHale of podcasting. Ross, thank you for stepping in at the last minute. It's nice to be here, Larry. It's good of you to have me. Yeah. I just want to note that New Haven is taking over because Ross is here with me at the L. Studio in New Haven. |
| 0:56.5 | We've got you outnumbered. We're finally going to get that outside the Beltway perspective that this show has needed for so long. |
| 1:02.4 | That's right. And at least a five-minute drive from the Assella corridor. |
| 1:06.1 | Exactly. Inside the Academy. Outside of the actual Beltway. |
| 1:11.4 | On this week's GabF, the latest school massacre and the undoubted unwillingness of America's |
| 1:20.4 | political class to take any action in response to it. |
| 1:24.3 | Then the chaos in the White House goes to 11. |
| 1:27.4 | Is that a feature or a bug of the Trump White House? Then should porn be banned? Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And in Slate Plus, we're going to talk about the Obama portraits. And it will be an art lesson, Emily. |
| 1:45.0 | Because we're really qualified art critics. |
| 1:47.1 | It's going to go brilliantly. |
| 1:48.4 | So if your Slate Plus member, you know you get extra segments on every Gab Fest on all Slate podcasts. |
| 1:53.8 | And you will not want to miss this deep discussion into the history of art, the history of portraiture. |
| 2:04.4 | I can't even frames. |
| 2:05.9 | We'll talk about frames. |
| 2:07.3 | We will. |
| 2:08.3 | No, I just couldn't think of any other art terms. |
| 2:10.9 | Brush strokes. |
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