The “One Hundred Percent Certain” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss the testimony of both Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for September 27th, 2018, the 100% Certain Edition. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C. John Dickerson of CBS this morning is getting |
| 0:23.2 | on a train. So he is also in Washington, D.C., but we'll probably be in Baltimore by the time we're |
| 0:28.4 | done. And Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine is also either on or off a train. And I don't know what state... |
| 0:35.1 | She's off a train. John's on a train. I was on a train last night. It's train. And I don't know what state. She's off for train. John's on a train. I was on a train last |
| 0:39.3 | night. It's, it's train. We are well trained. On this week's Gab Fest, we're going to give the |
| 0:45.8 | whole show over to the astonishing hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee all day. That's going to be |
| 0:52.9 | all we're going to talk about. It was a historic and strange |
| 0:55.9 | and grueling day for all of us. And we will also do cocktail chatter and then we'll have a |
| 1:01.5 | slate plus where we'll talk a little bit about John's trip to England and his interview with |
| 1:05.7 | the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Before we get started, I just want to quickly announce from |
| 1:10.7 | the, you know, the somber to the |
| 1:15.3 | extremely frivolous. We will be doing our conundrum show on December 12th at the Skirball Center at |
| 1:23.0 | NYU. You can get tickets at slate.com slash live. That is always the funnest live show we do in the year. |
| 1:29.9 | It will be a very joyful, distracting and interesting event. We will discuss whether it is |
| 1:35.7 | insulting to get someone the gift of a cleaning service or whether you'd rather work for a great boss |
| 1:40.1 | as a terrible person or a terrible boss who is a great person. And it'll be really fun. |
| 1:45.0 | So go to slate.com slash live to get tickets to our December 12th conundrum show in New York City. |
| 1:52.9 | So, Emily, let's start with you. |
| 1:55.7 | I think everyone who is listening to the show and all of us spent the day glued to the television. |
| 2:01.7 | I should note that I stopped watching just during Ted Cruz's questioning, so it was almost |
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