Because of Sex

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Emily, John and David discuss Trump’s Tulsa rally, Bolton’s book, and this week’s historic Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ rights--with attorney Chase Strangio.

Episode Notes

Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas for Brookings: “Tracking Turnover in the Trump Administration”

Anne Applebaum for the Atlantic: “History Will Judge Trump’s Enablers Harshly”

Dylan Scott for Vox: “What Mike Pence Got Wrong About the New Coronavirus Spikes”

Margo Vansynghel and David Kroman for Crosscut: “The Future of Capitol Hill’s Protest Zone May Lie in Seattle History”

Ashley Garcia Ashley for the Washington Post: “Seattle’s Protest is the Latest in a Long History of Experimental Living”

Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:

John: Carl Hulse for The New York Times: “Senate Passes Major Public Lands Bill”

Emily: Jonathan Chait for New York Magazine: “The Still-Vital Case for Liberalism in a Radical Age”

David: David Plotz for Business Insider: “DC Statehood Is a Great But Doomed Cause. Here's a Better Idea.”

Listener chatter from D Holstein @The_Pophouse: Kaitlyn Tiffany for the Atlantic: “Why K-pop Fa Are No Longer Posting About K-pop”

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For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, Emily, and John discuss Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest, also known as “CHOP.”

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0:00.0	This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language.
0:10.4	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 18th, 2020, the Because of Sex edition.
0:17.6	I'm David Plotz, a business insider from Washington, D.C., back in the Heidi Hole at my house.
0:24.5	And I'm joined from New Haven. Again, now from a place with the bookshelves and nice prints on the walls,
0:34.2	New York Times Magazine, and Yale University Law School's Emily Bazelon. Hello, Emily.
0:38.3	Hello. Good morning.
0:39.7	And from Manhattan, New York City, fresh off his triumphant book launch, make sure you get the hardest job in the world, the American presidency by John Dickerson.
0:50.1	Hello, John Dickerson of CBS is 60 Minutes.
0:53.0	Hello, David.
0:54.2	A book launch launched on here with all our thousands of, really, tens of thousands of Gap Fest fans.
1:00.8	Yes, we did.
1:01.5	So it was so good doing our live stream with you listeners last week.
1:05.6	It wasn't the same as a live show, but we had 19,000 people stream the show, which is like we sold out Madison Square Garden.
1:11.7	If you think of it that way, 19,000 people streamed that.
1:15.1	We're just like Bruce Springsteen. I always feel like that comparison.
1:17.7	They watched a Zoom call.
1:19.9	Could Bruce Springsteen sell out a 19,000 seat arena for a Zoom call? I don't think so.
1:24.5	Yes. The answer is yes. He could.
1:29.1	I think he could do it reading the phone book, but that's fine.
1:32.7	That would be an interesting test. He definitely could do it reading the phone book.
1:36.3	That would definitely happen, for sure.
1:38.2	Yeah, for sure. Now, the question is how long people would stay on? Because they would assume that he was going to do more than read the phone book or that he would read it in a particular way and then after time they might tire
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