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The Gist

Who's the Filibuster For?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, the opinions of the people at the Iowa State Fair. In the interview, Jay Inslee was among the 21 Democratic presidential candidates to converge on the Iowa State Fair this past weekend. Washington's governor grabbed a seat with Mike to talk about applying his state's environmental victories to the federal level, taxing Amazon, and getting rid of the gridlocking filibuster. In the Spiel, The Gist went to the Iowa State Fair and got answers from Democratic presidential candidates about filibuster reform. Want to see a special episode of The Gist live in New York? Get your tickets here! Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I am so over this situation, Peter. I am unbumble to find something real. You know, like someone

0:07.5

you can count on, someone who actually cares about what you think. I just want someone

0:12.5

who's ready for that long-term kind of love. Whether you're looking for your next boyfriend,

0:18.9

girlfriend, casual date or just someone who truly gets you, it's waiting for you unbumble.

0:25.5

The following recording may contain explicit language. I can't get more explicit than may.

0:33.6

Let's just say it may. It's Monday, August 12, 2019 from Slated to the Gist

0:42.6

on Mike Pasca. A little bit different kind of show today. I'm back from Iowa, where Pierre

0:46.8

and I went to the state fair. And here's the key part, state in a red roof in. Let me tell

0:52.4

you if the dollar general store decided, hey, we need to start a hotel. They'd start the

0:57.3

red roof in. So the interview portion of today's show will be with a candidate. I talk to

1:03.6

extensively, Jay Inzli. The spiel will be about one of his positions, the filibuster.

1:09.8

But first, I will bring you all with me to Iowa, where the fun is fried and the dedicated

1:16.6

Iowa Institute in line to place a kernel of corn in a jar, thus indicating their candidate

1:23.7

preference. So if we were Iowa, not Russia, the turn communist in 1917, Churchill would have

1:31.3

called the Hawkeye state a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, served on a stick.

1:37.7

Everything's on a stick at the state fair and in the agricultural pavilion with a giant

1:42.1

pumpkin in the award-winning grass. There was a line of about 100 people for an egg on a

1:48.2

stick. It was a free egg. It was seasoned nicely, not fried. So perhaps it was the safest

1:54.4

caloric source within a square mile. But while it was there in the ag pavilion, which is

1:58.9

to really say the state fair of the state fair, with blue ribbons around me for pumpkins

2:03.5

and beets and corn, I talked to Iowa state agronomist Rich Pope, because I was wondering

2:09.0

about something. See, I spent most of my time standing on cement or asphalt. And I said,

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