The “War on Your Mind” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for August 9, 2018, the war on your |
| 0:12.0 | mind edition. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm David Plots of Atlas of Sura, Emily Bazelon, the New York Times magazine that's |
| 0:18.3 | New Haven. |
| 0:19.3 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:20.3 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:22.3 | And John Dickerson is on vacation. |
| 0:25.1 | But boy, oh boy, is this long overdue? |
| 0:28.1 | We have finally on the Gap Fest. |
| 0:30.5 | I don't know how long it has been that we want to do this. |
| 0:33.8 | It's been a really long time. |
| 0:35.4 | It's been with us the emprosario behind the wonderful site Empire Law Fair. |
| 0:41.7 | Hello, Ben. |
| 0:42.7 | Hey, I'm going to do my best John Dickerson imitation. |
| 0:47.1 | That if that was it, it's really bad. |
| 0:50.7 | Yeah, no, I mean, I was going to talk about the historic presidency. |
| 0:55.9 | But now I'll just be me. |
| 0:58.4 | So I'm excited because in Ben and in Emily, I feel like we can have a great competition. |
| 1:03.3 | It doesn't have to be a competition between the two of you as the people who are best able |
| 1:08.6 | to explain legal concepts to lay audience incisively. |
| 1:13.0 | And you each do it so brilliantly and in different style. |
| 1:15.5 | You have a different approach. |
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