The Political Gabfest: The "You're Married—Psych!—You're Not Married" Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2014

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. This week: Should the NSA be restrained? Will the Supreme Court revisit marriage equality? And is the First Amendment absolute outside abortion clinics? Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The GabFest is sponsored by Stamps.com.
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0:09.7	Sign up for a no-risk trial and get $55 in free postage when you visit Stamps.com and use the promo code GabFest.
0:22.9	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 17th, 2014, the You're
0:28.0	Married, Syke, You're Not Married Edition.
0:30.9	I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate in Slate's Washington Beach studio.
0:33.7	Do you think anyone uses the word psych?
0:35.7	No, but the way he used it was so perfectly, Edvid rang so true because it was like, I was back in 1985.
0:41.9	It's funny.
0:42.5	I had a different title for the show, but Mike Bolo, as he was looking over my title right before the show, was like, how about psych?
0:48.3	And I thought, yeah, that's right.
0:50.2	Hey, I'll do the other one.
0:51.2	You're married.
0:51.8	You're not married. You're married. You're not married. That's much worse than you're married. Sike.
0:56.7	Yeah. Plus, you don't want to deny our listeners their big 80s flashback. Every week is an east flashback. We are such people of the 80s, the three of us. We're all like, grew up in the 80s, formed in the 80s.
1:06.3	The professor from Gilligan's Island just passed away, 89 years old. Really?
1:11.7	Wow.
1:14.2	I wonder what percentage of the cast is alive.
1:17.0	It's like, you know, there are no living World War I veterans.
1:19.6	There are no living Gilligan's Island cast members.
1:21.5	Gilligan is almost certainly alive.
1:22.5	Yeah, he is, I think.
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