Twin Cities
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss Democratic middle ground, “chaos voters,” and guest Curtis Sittenfeld’s fiction about living political figures.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and John take questions from the live audience in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for September 19th, 2019, the Twin Cities Edition. |
| 0:15.1 | The Gab Fest is live before a packed house at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. |
| 0:23.8 | We expected quiet politeness, Minnesota nice, |
| 0:28.4 | the quiet stillness of a night ice fishing under the stars. |
| 0:32.4 | And instead, we have the raucous braying. |
| 0:37.4 | Like, praised prairie mosh pit style. Yeah. we have the raucous brain. |
| 0:41.2 | Like, praised, prairie mosh pit style. |
| 0:43.9 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:47.4 | On my far left, the man who only came to Minnesota because he thought it was Iowa. |
| 0:51.0 | And fortunately, he's so blonde that he fits right in here. |
| 0:55.9 | CBS News is, CBS is 60 Minutes. |
| 0:58.5 | Excuse me, John Dickerson. |
| 1:03.8 | You know, you know I went to camp here in Minnesota. |
| 1:08.5 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:09.3 | Now I remember. |
| 1:10.5 | So, yeah. So, yeah remember. Camp Mishawaka. So, yeah. |
| 1:14.1 | Can't Mishawaka in the house. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, yeah. All right. Yeah. So I'm just |
| 1:18.5 | saying that I've got deep roots in this community. |
| 1:22.0 | I came here once to do an interview in a mall. Does that count? |
| 1:24.8 | You did an interview in a mall? Yeah. Yeah. Once. |
| 1:27.8 | Does that count? |
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