Summary
Here are some references from this week’s show:
David Wasserman for the Cook Political Report: “What One Florida County Could Tell Us About a ‘Gray Revolt’ on Election Night”
Rosemary Quigley’s Slate diary
The Betsy-Tacy Treasury book series by Maud Hart Lovelace
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
The Anne of Green Gables book series by L.M. Montgomery
John Dickerson for Slate: “To the Teacher Who Changed My Life”
Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:
Emily: Casey Newton’s newsletter, Platformer
John: El País: “A Room, a Bar and a Classroom: How the Coronavirus Is Spread Through the Air”; The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
David: David asked whether there is a word for the extreme discomfort he felt watching people embarrassed in terrible ways in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Listener chatter from Alana @snarkoutgirl: Wikitongues: “Aydyn Speaking Tuvan”
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.9 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for October 29th, 2020, the Almost edition. |
| 0:20.1 | I am David Plotz of Citicast at Citicast.com. |
| 0:23.9 | Check it out, please. |
| 0:25.4 | And I'm in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:27.3 | I'm joined from New York by John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello, John. |
| 0:34.5 | Hello, David. |
| 0:35.0 | Is Citicast FM going to have a theme song or set of sounds? Because I don't want to, you know, make a sound every time you mention it for fear of stepping on its early branding efforts. Oh, we just took your sounds and we've copyrighted it. We've already used it. We're using it. We've remixed it. |
| 0:59.8 | Oh, excellent. Your sounds. So it'll be your, your, your, your, your, be the citycast theme. |
| 1:08.1 | And then from New Haven, Connecticut of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School, it's Emily Baselon. Hi, Emily. |
| 1:20.5 | Hello. On today's Gab Fest, the campaign, mostly the presidential campaign, the most watched, most unusual, most contentious, most tense, maybe the most tense, I think. |
| 1:26.2 | Maybe not the most contentious, but certainly the most tense presidential election in my lifetime is coming to an end. |
| 1:32.9 | We will discuss, first, the practical issues around the vote that are causing such anxiety for so many of you, |
| 1:42.5 | around election accessibility, around voting lines, around Supreme Court decisions, around other legal issues in swing states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, North Carolina. |
| 1:46.5 | And then John watches elections more closely than anyone I know. So we're going to ask him. We're going to talk to John about what we |
| 1:52.4 | should watch for and when, both in the last few days before the vote finishes and on November 3rd |
| 1:59.3 | and in the days after, what should we pay attention to and what should |
| 2:02.8 | we not pay attention to? And then for our third topic, there's so much anxiety and stress and |
| 2:08.8 | fear floating around these days because of the pandemic, because of the economic crisis, |
| 2:14.5 | because of the anxiety about the election. We just wanted to spend a brief time with joy and good heart. And so we're going to do a just a sort of a surprise. It's not that as much of a surprise. We're just going to do a topic that is a heartwarming, we hope, topic that is not really about politics. And we hope it's going to be cheerful and joyful. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. So there are so many |
| 2:36.5 | issues that are bubbling up around voting, around accessibility, around mail and balloting, around |
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