You the North, We the South
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and John Dickerson discuss the impact of the US health care debate on the primary season, white supremacy from Canada with guest Jesse Brown, and who’s at fault in addition to sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for July 11th, 2019, the Uth |
| 0:12.2 | the North, We the South edition. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura, the Gapest is live in front of a patriotic and raucous crowd at the Kerner Hall at the Telecenter for Performance and Learning in Toronto. |
| 0:30.8 | So Canada, in recent weeks, I know this is a, I'm going to scrape a sore spot here for a minute. But you've been betrayed by an American superstar |
| 0:40.0 | who abandoned you for Los Angeles. |
| 0:43.5 | Oh, yeah. My husband told me about this last night. |
| 0:45.4 | He said it was the one thing about Canada I needed to know. |
| 0:48.4 | But now, I'm not sure I remember the name of the player. |
| 0:53.6 | Say it, say it for her. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh, yeah, Leonard, right. |
| 0:58.5 | So, thank you. |
| 0:59.9 | But you can weep no more |
| 1:00.9 | because we've brought two superstars from America |
| 1:03.7 | back to Toronto to replace Kauai. |
| 1:06.5 | On my immediate right, |
| 1:08.2 | strong in the paint. |
| 1:10.1 | On my immediate right hailing from the New York Times, which is like the Globe and Mail, is Emily Bazelon. |
| 1:21.6 | And on Emily's right is a man who's really disappointed that we're here with the Rosedale |
| 1:29.3 | elite and not among the yeoman farmers of Alberta. |
| 1:33.3 | CBS is John Dickerson. |
| 1:40.3 | So before we get the show started, actually I want to do a little quiz because I had a revelation today, a Canadian revelation. |
| 1:47.9 | As I was walking around with a new Canadian friend, I learned that you guys have a Senate, which I did not know. |
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