We’re Not Fooling Around Here
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss the impeachment investigation, a new theory of why conservatives can’t quit Trump, and the court ruling upholding Harvard’s affirmative action program.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily discuss the new nutrition guidelines for red meat consumption.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.5 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for October 3rd, 2019, the We're Not Fooling Around Here edition. |
| 0:16.0 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I am in Washington, D.C. Locus Center of Impeachment America. |
| 0:24.0 | That's probably some CNN studio downtown. |
| 0:27.9 | John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes joins me from New York City. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello, John. |
| 0:32.7 | Hi-ya. |
| 0:33.6 | And Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and also Yale University Law School of Law Law School joins me from probably from New Haven. |
| 0:43.8 | Are you in New Haven, Emily, or somewhere else? |
| 0:45.4 | No, I'm actually in New York. |
| 0:47.1 | I feel like I've joined a different show. |
| 0:48.8 | Like I missed a week and you turned into like a circus barker. |
| 0:51.7 | Oh, I don't know. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm actually, I'm in, I'm just trying artificially pep myself up. I'm having a slow start to the morning. That's exactly what it sounds like. Okay. Step right up, ladies and gentlemen. I was at Coney Island yesterday. So I was at Coney Island for the Atlas Obscura offsite. And so I'm feeling very carnival barker. See the tallest man. |
| 1:12.7 | This man will swallow a four-foot sword. |
| 1:15.7 | On today's GabFest, we have so much Ukraine, so much impeachment. |
| 1:20.7 | First, we will talk about what is going on in the investigation and how President Trump |
| 1:25.2 | and his allies are counterpunching. |
| 1:27.6 | John, did you just say God? |
| 1:28.9 | Did you just like thought of Vosche? |
| 1:31.4 | Because there's so much that's happened just between the time you started your sentence and right now. |
| 1:38.2 | I mean, so the prospect of trying to update it and is just daunting. just daunting that's great that's that is that is actually the |
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