The Political Gabfest: The You're No Frank Underwood Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and Slate political editor Will Dobson. This week: Is Ukraine headed for war? Are unions headed for extinction? And is House of Cards any good? 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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0:17.8	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:28.2	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 21st, 2014, the
0:32.3	You're No Frank Underwood edition. I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate in Slate's Washington, D.C. studio.
0:38.5	We are just two weeks out from our live show here in D.C. at Sixth and I, Historic Synagogue.
0:43.6	Thursday, March 6th, it's going to be a fun night. Come join us. Get tickets at Slate.com
0:49.1	slash political DC. Slate.com slash political DC. Will John Dickerson breakdance at that show? Will Emily Bazelon sing?
0:57.4	Will I hold my breath for six and a half minutes? Who knows? You'll only find out if you come.
1:02.5	So we hope to see you there. From New Haven, joining us Slate Senior Editor, Emily Bazelon. Hello, Emily.
1:08.4	Hi, David. Can I just say you're wearing a bike helmet with an R2D2, like, light attachment to it? Are you going to keep it on?
1:14.8	I'm going to keep it on for... I'm wearing a GoPro camera because I was asked to wear a GoPro camera to do a POV of the show. So I just do what I'm told to do, okay? I realize I look like a complete idiot. I understand them. The things I will do for the good of Slate, amazing. Also here is John Dickerson. I think we should have a contest.
1:37.2	Slate's chief political correspondent. Where people should write in and outline the malady for which that is the remedy, for which like sort of some encephalytic
1:47.9	situation going on in your head that requires it to be bound in and yet also emitting or not
1:54.8	emitting, but taking in video pictures. Oh my God. It's terrible. I feel like I can't wait to
1:59.6	see the picture of me, though.
2:06.2	On this week's show, the crisis deepens in the Ukraine and tensions grow between Russia and the West.
2:12.6	Are we on the brink of a new Cold War? Then the UAW lost a unionization battle in Tennessee.
2:20.6	Is that the final nail, the final nail of many final nails in the coffin of the labor movement, at least as far as the private sector goes?
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