Wash Your Hands

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Emily, John and David discuss Super Tuesday, COVID-19's spread and the Supreme Court's hearing of a crucial abortion case. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and John discuss pandemics in fiction. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Gabfest every week, and access to special bonus episodes throughout the year. Sign up now to listen and support the show. You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter or post it to our Facebook page. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, slate listeners.
0:01.5	Deal us a favor and help us make a better slate by answering our survey.
0:05.9	It'll only take a few minutes.
0:07.1	You can find it at slate.com slash survey.
0:17.7	Hello, and welcome to the slate.
0:18.9	Political Gap Fest from March 5, 2020.
0:20.9	The Wash, Your Hands, Edition.
0:22.8	I have David Plotts about.
0:24.0	Let's obscure a...
0:25.6	I have not maintained...
0:28.0	not maintained Santa Eric conditions, not maintained,
0:30.6	Corona hygiene because John Dickerson is here in the studio with me
0:34.4	forming a disease vector possibly.
0:37.4	Hello, John Dickerson.
0:38.2	Oh my god, of the three of us, John is the least likely to catch the virus
0:42.0	and the most festity so you're in good hands being in John's house.
0:45.2	But he has washed his hands more than both of us combined.
0:49.0	I've washed my hands a lot, but John's...
0:50.8	John is risking himself.
0:52.8	I'm the one who should be...
0:54.2	I should be participating in the show.
0:57.7	He's touching the table right now, which is like touching my face, I think.
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