The “Tinkle Contest With a Skunk” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss Michael Cohen’s sentencing, the search for America’s next White House chief of staff, and Trump’s threat to shut down the government over border wall funding.
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| 0:00.0 | Hot dog is a taco. It's clearly this is not closed all off all debate, but it helps. It helps. |
| 0:07.4 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Catafest for December 13th, 2018, the Tinkle Contest with a Skunk Edition. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm here at Slate's Brooklyn studio with Emily Bazelon of the New York Times |
| 0:23.0 | Magazine. Howdy, Emily? Howdy? I have to say Jocelyn, our lovely producer, just winced at your |
| 0:27.8 | title, which makes me wonder if Listers are also going to wince. Of course not. That is the best title. |
| 0:33.6 | It's an obvious title. I've never been so sure of the clear title for a show ever. |
| 0:39.8 | Okay. |
| 0:40.5 | All right. |
| 0:41.2 | Go for it. |
| 0:42.1 | He's going to explain where that title came. |
| 0:43.7 | Well, I know where it comes from. |
| 0:45.0 | I just think invoking peeing. |
| 0:46.6 | I was surprised that Nancy Pelosi did it. |
| 0:48.5 | Anyway, we'll discuss a great leg. |
| 0:51.6 | That other voice, of course, is John Dickerson of CBS this morning, who is in Los Angeles. Hello, John. Hi. It's miraculous. Last night we taped our conundrum show all together here in New York. And now it's really early in the morning, and John is somehow in Los Angeles. Yes. |
| 1:11.7 | I know. |
| 1:12.5 | John is in Los Angeles, feeling the effects of the overnight cross-country flight. |
| 1:18.1 | All right. |
| 1:18.7 | It's going to be quite a show. |
| 1:20.0 | It's going to make the show amazing. |
| 1:22.1 | On this week's show, Michael Cohen is going to go to prison for three years, and we learned a ton about why that is during |
| 1:29.7 | his sentencing this week and also a lot more about the Mueller investigation. Then, |
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