Political Gabfest - The Political Gabfest: The May I Introduce You to President Harding and His Friend Jerry Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2014
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg. This week: A new round of violence between Israel and Hamas, Millennials may lean right politically, and Warren G. Harding named his penis.Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.6 | This is Mike Folo, host of Slate's Lexicon Valley. |
| 0:06.7 | After a long hiatus, we are back with an all-new episode, Monday, July 14th, and every two weeks thereafter. |
| 0:14.6 | We'll also be introducing a new feature with the great linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer. |
| 0:19.8 | Join us Monday, July 14th, for an all-new episode. |
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| 0:33.0 | Sign up for a no-risk trial |
| 0:34.4 | and get $55 in free postage when you visit Stamps.com and use the promo code GabFest. |
| 0:47.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for July 11, 2014. |
| 0:51.1 | May I introduce you to President Harding and his friend Jerry edition. |
| 0:55.7 | I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm in Washington, D.C. today on the Gab Fest. |
| 1:00.8 | The catastrophe in Israel, how much worse can it get? |
| 1:04.3 | Then, what Democratic majority are millennials actually going to become conservatives? |
| 1:09.7 | That's what the New York Times said this week. |
| 1:12.5 | And then Warren Harding, Warren Harding, that's a name we have not said much on the show. |
| 1:17.4 | Warren Harding wrote saucy, extremely dirty letters to his mistress. |
| 1:22.2 | Should we be shocked? |
| 1:24.5 | Also, after that, there's going to be a Slate Plus segment, our bonus segment on the GabFest for you who are Slate Plus members. |
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