The “Live from Austin: Do You Have a Drinking Problem, Senator?” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss the state of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, the possibility that former felons will regain the right to vote in Florida, and guest DeRay Mckesson’s new book, On The Other Side of Freedom.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.7 | Hello and welcome to Slate Political Gap Fest for September 30th, 2018. |
| 0:13.8 | Do you have a drinking problem, Senator Edition? |
| 0:16.5 | We are live at the Capitol factory in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:24.3 | In fact. We are live at the Capitol factory in Austin, Texas. In partnership with the Texas Tribune Festival for Day of Live Slate Podcasts, I'm David |
| 0:29.5 | Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:31.5 | And after one of the most dramatic and grueling weeks in American political history, there's no one I would rather be with than my two co-hosts. |
| 0:39.9 | So to my immediate left is, of course, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. |
| 0:46.7 | The Anne Richards of Political Podcasting. |
| 0:51.8 | And then to her left is John Dickerson of CBS this morning. |
| 0:56.6 | The Lyndon Johnson, perhaps, with the LBJ of political podcasting. |
| 1:02.2 | Should I show you my gallbladder scar? |
| 1:05.3 | Maybe next time. |
| 1:07.9 | On this week's Gab Fest, the Kavanaugh nomination in purgatory, what will result from the FBI investigation? |
| 1:15.0 | How can the country recover from this past week's fury? |
| 1:18.5 | Then we're joined by a special guest, civil rights activist, Ray McKesson, who will talk to us about the state of political activism and how political activism is connecting to electoral politics. |
| 1:28.3 | And then America is on the brink of the single largest voter enfranchisement since 18-year-olds got the vote. |
| 1:35.3 | We will talk about Emily's quite brilliant new article about the movement to allow former felons in Florida to vote, |
| 1:42.3 | which they should be allowed to do. I mean, not to tip my hand, |
| 1:45.5 | but that's what I think. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. And although this is weird, because |
| 1:51.9 | you're a live audience, and I'm about to talk about another live show that you almost certainly |
| 1:54.9 | won't be able to get to, I need to pitch this. So, Slow Burn is one of the most popular |
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