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Political Gabfest

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Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the discovery of classified documents at Biden’s home; the justices of the Supreme Court exhibiting open animosity toward one another; and fears of a “polycrisis” at Davos. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Matt Viser, Tyler Pager, Carol Leonnig and Yasmeen Abutaleb for The Washington Post: “Inside The White House Document Strategy And Its Pitfalls” Steven Mazie for The Atlantic: “The Supreme Court Justices Do Not Seem to Be Getting Along” Jess Bravin and Sadie Gurman for The Wall Street Journal: “Supreme Court Investigators Have Narrowed Leak Inquiry to Small Number of Suspects” Andrew Van Dam for The Washington Post: “The Happiest, Least Stressful, Most Meaningful Jobs In America” Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, by Studs Terkel Here is the poem (by an unknown author) that listener Christina Roosen sent to David after his cat died: Eyes bright, claws sharp, tail held high. Go keenly into the mist, old warrior. Valhalla waits for you A compilation of poems about pet loss: Rome Thorstenson for In Valhalla: “Pet Loss Poems” Here are this week’s chatters: John: Joseph Berger for The New York Times: “Adolfo Kaminsky Dies at 97; His Forgeries Saved Thousands of Jews” Emily: Joshua Vaughn for Penn Live: “Dauphin County Made Millions On Jail Phone Calls And Spent It On Staff Perks, Contractors” David: His Dark Materials on BBC One; The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman Listener chatter from Muirinn O'Neill: Josh Baker’s I'm Not a Monster podcast For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss the jobs people find most meaningful. 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 Cheyna Roth. Research by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, GapFestlisters. Before we start the show, we just wanted to let you know that after we taped

0:05.4

today, the Supreme Court announced that it has not identified the person who leaked the draft

0:09.8

opinion in Dops, which is the abortion decision from last summer. So it's sort of a news announcement

0:16.9

of having no information, but we didn't know the court was going to make that announcement

0:21.4

today when we taped. Thanks.

0:51.5

John Dickerson of CBS Prime Time, who's obsessed with birthdays. Hello, John.

0:55.5

Hello, David. I'm a little less on the show on Franklin's birthday this week.

1:03.0

And I haven't gotten sleep for 19 days, so I'm as punchy as can be.

1:09.2

And not punchy, and not a punching bag. Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and

1:14.3

Yale University Law School. Hello, Emily. Hello, hello.

1:17.7

This week on the GapFest, how bad is it that Joe Biden had a bunch of secret documents in his garage

1:24.3

next to his Corvette? Then does it matter if Supreme Court justices don't like each other?

1:31.2

And then the Wizards of Davos say the world has entered a poly crisis. What is a poly crisis?

1:37.6

And should we listen to the Davos people? John, you're going to degrade the value of your noise,

1:43.8

have you used it for Davos people? Shouldn't be used just willy nilly. But it's a high thread count.

1:49.2

That's the high thread count version of that noise. I mean, it's been polished and kissed off with

1:55.3

the most brilliant Davos among the most suitable for Swiss mountainside, suitable for the Egyptian

2:01.0

cotton sheets that they all sleep on. Plus, of course, we'll have cocktail chatter.

2:06.0

Garage, home library, old office. The question is, where have I left half empty cups of coffee?

2:12.8

Or possibly, where did I lose a set of keys? Or where did they find secret documents that Joe Biden

2:21.0

should not have had? The Biden classified documents Fiasco reached high velocity this week.

2:27.2

Discovery of more documents, the appointment of Robert Herr as an independent council to investigate

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