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Political Gabfest

Breaking Up Facebook

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, News, Government

4.6242 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Emily, John and David talk about the coup attempt, Facebook’s legal troubles, and which presidential norms to restore or discard, with guest Tim Wu. It's conundrum season! Pass along your most pressing conundrums here: www.slate.com/conundrum. Our annual Conundrum show is coming soon. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Tim Wu for the New York Times: “What Really Saved the Republic From Trump?” Zeynep Tufekci for the Atlantic: “ ‘This Must Be Your First’ ” They Might Be Giants Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:  John: Dalya Alberge for the Guardian: “ ‘Sistine Chapel of the Ancients' Rock Art Discovered in Remote Amazon Forest” David: Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield   Emily: Esmé E. Deprez for Bloomberg Businessweek: “How Medela Lost Moms” Listener chatter from Charlotte Hope, @charlottehope: Elizabeth Yuko for Architectural Digest: “How Previous Epidemics Impacted Home Design” Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Gabfest each week, and access to special bonus episodes throughout the year. Sign up now to listen and support our show.  For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, Emily, and John consider a question from listener Daniela Koontz about ideal road trips. You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to the SLA political gap as for December 10, 2020,

0:41.0

the breaking up Facebook edition IMD David Plotts of CityCast from Washington, D.C.

0:47.0

I'm joined from New Orleans, where she is on a week-long trip to discover the origins of jazz and blues

0:55.0

by Emily Bazeland of the New York Times magazine and Yale University Law School.

0:58.0

Hello, Emily.

0:59.0

You're going to put panic into the hearts of everyone who knows me and works for the New York Times,

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the idea that I would get such assignment.

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That's not what I'm doing in New Orleans, but I really like that idea.

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I wish I was that person.

1:12.0

Bazeland sings the blues.

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And then from New York City, John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes, hello, John.

1:22.0

Hello, David, hello, Emily.

1:25.0

I feel like I've been talking to you guys.

1:27.0

I know. This is our fourth hour together in the last 36 hours and there's more to come.

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