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Political Gabfest

Build Back Later

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.58.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Emily, John and David discuss January 6th revelations, Build Back Better and voting rights and they are joined by Slow Burn host Joel Anderson to talk about Season 6: The L.A. Riots. Give the gift of Plus to a fellow Slate fan and they’ll receive all the benefits of membership: unlimited reading, ad-free listening, bonus content, and so much more. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: David A. Graham for the Atlantic: “The Paperwork Coup” Barton Gellman for the Atlantic: “Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun” Charles Homans for the New York Times: “In Bid for Control of Elections, Trump Loyalists Face Few Obstacles” Slow Burn Season 6: The L.A. Riots Slow Burn Season 3: Biggie and Tupac Emily Bazelon for Slate: “The Nazi Anatomists” Here’s this week’s chatter: Emily: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, by bell hooks; We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity, by bell hooks John: Sharyn Alfonsi for 60 Minutes: “Negotiating With the Taliban to Save Lives Iin Afghanistan”; The Daily: “Economic Catastrophe in Afghanistan”; Christina Goldbaum for the New York Times: “Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan Is Gripped by Starvation” David: Julian Mark for the Washington Post: “Rapper Logic Wrote the Song ‘1-800-273-8255’ To Save Lives. He May Have Saved Hundreds, Study Finds.” Listener chatter from Adrian Monthony: Geraldine DeRuiter for The Everywhereist: “Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever” For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, John, and David share their best holiday gift ideas. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages 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 Slate Political Gap Fest for December 16, 2021, the Build Back

0:42.5

Later edition. I'm David Plotz of CityCast. I'm here in Washington, DC and I'm joined,

0:50.6

of course, by John Degersen of CBS Sunday Morning in New York City. Hello, John.

0:55.3

Hello, David. And by Emily Mazzelon. Emily Mazzelon. Wow. My name gets scrambled in so

1:04.7

many ways, but I've never heard anyone add an epitome to it. I was thinking of making

1:08.4

a joke and I think I got, so I was actually looking at my computer and it saw a M-A-M-A-M-A-Bazzelon.

1:15.2

Emily Bazzelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School is a new Haven

1:20.0

Hello, Emily. Hey. This week on the Gap Fest, the depressing developments in the January

1:26.9

6th investigation. Oh my gosh. On the future of American democracy. Oh my gosh. I woke

1:31.8

up really glum. I'm just going to tell you that. Then is Build Back Better Dead or just

1:38.2

sleeping? We will find out. Then we will talk to Slate's Joel Anderson about his new season

1:44.1

of Slow Burn, which is about the LA riots, plus we will have cocktail chatter. I don't

1:50.5

think I have ever been quite as depressed about the future of our country as I was this

1:56.1

week reading about the January 6th investigation and the groundwork that has been laid for

2:01.2

a more successful coup in the future. I really, really have been low. I usually am not,

2:07.5

I usually am able to sort of slip out of that stuff, get out of the slipstream of political

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