The Political Gabfest: "Was That the Alamo or the Battle of the Bulge?" Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2013

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The why and wherefore of the end of the shutdown. Plus, what Facebook's new policy means for teenagers. Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.7	Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for Octoberth, 2013, the Was That the Alamo or the Battle of the Bulge edition?
0:43.9	I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate. John Dickerson's guitar has left my house, which means the shutdown is over.
0:50.5	John, Slate's chief political correspondent, joins me in the Washington studio. Hello, John.
0:54.7	Hello, David.
0:55.3	Did you play that guitar?
0:56.6	I did.
0:57.2	I did.
0:58.1	It was nice to go back to an acoustic after living off and electric while I was at your house.
1:03.8	I knew that you weren't guitarless.
1:05.5	That just didn't make sense.
1:06.8	No.
1:07.2	I was not guitarless.
1:09.0	And that, friends, is Emily Bazelon, late senior editor, joining us from New York this week.
1:14.3	Emily's happy because all over the country young people are being bullied and treated in awful ways, which means that Emily is in demand to go speak.
1:22.7	Is that right, Emily?
1:24.0	That is mean of you.
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