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The Gist

Would You Let Your Husband Road Trip With an Ex?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Today on The Gist, where do you draw the line with your husband's close female friends? Emily Yoffe of Slate's Dear Prudence column joins us for a post-Prudie impact statement concerning a husband's proposed road trip with an ex. Then, Susan Crawford, author of Captive Audience, explains why Hollywood and cable subscribers everywhere have the right to be spooked and outraged by the possible Fox-Time Warner merger. For the Spiel, it's time for another an-twentig. Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's Friday, July 25th, 2014 from Slate It's the GIST. I'm Mike Peska. So there are these

0:38.8

expressions, these phrases that in their very utterance rebut the actual point the speaker

0:45.8

is trying to make. Like I'm not racist but that's a big one or, and this is especially

0:51.0

true if you have the New York accent, I'm a legitimate business man. Like it's just

0:55.6

as soon as you say it out loud, you really cast out on yourself. I guess if you tried it

1:00.1

with the Eastern European accent, you know, maybe it could work. I am just a legitimate

1:04.4

business man. I cannot give these bribes. I don't even know if that's Eastern European.

1:08.6

It's just not I'm a legitimate business man. I have been supplying pinky rings and

1:14.0

hauling services for many years. Another one like this, I'm King of the World. And I

1:19.4

was thinking about this one. We've been hearing it for about five months. Listen to this

1:23.4

claim. I'm so fancy. Igeazel is fancy. Number one hit. Self disproving statement. The

1:31.8

truly fancy. And I've seen the truly fancy though they rarely walk among us. The truly

1:37.1

fancy need not proclaim their fanciness. Here's a little thought experiment that I like

1:42.0

to engage in. Let's say that you work as a bell hop in a hotel, a nice hotel, right?

1:47.0

And a guest comes in and you think, you know, she might be the queen of England. You're

1:51.2

not sure if she's the queen of England. She fits the profile. Maybe she has a bunch of

1:54.9

corgis and attendants. You know, maybe she's just merely queen like, but you know, she

1:59.2

could be the queen of England. Here's the test. You show her the room. You open the doors

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