Georgia Out of Its Mind
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Emily, David and John discuss the pushback against COVID-19 restrictions, the success of female political leaders, and they're joined by Mark Bittman to talk about eating and cooking well during isolation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for April 23rd, 2020, the Georgia |
| 0:11.5 | Out of Its Mind edition. |
| 0:13.0 | I am David Plotz in closet in Washington, D.C., joining me from her home in New Haven, Connecticut, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times |
| 0:24.1 | magazine. |
| 0:24.5 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:25.9 | Hello. |
| 0:26.8 | The garbage truck is pulling up outside my house at this very second. |
| 0:30.5 | So if you hear it, that's why. |
| 0:32.3 | Essential services being conducted by the good public servants of New Haven. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm glad to hear it. And joining from a tent, |
| 0:40.9 | a tent perhaps in his home is John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes. Hello, John. Hello, David. Yes, |
| 0:47.9 | it's, it reminds me, sorry, the curtains pulled over me because I'm recording my audio book in this |
| 0:53.5 | little corner of the room where I've got the curtains basically attached to both walls. |
| 0:58.1 | And it reminds me when I was a little kid. |
| 0:59.7 | I used to make sheet forts. |
| 1:01.2 | And so I'm feeling about seven years old. |
| 1:04.7 | Did you used to record radio shows in your sheet forts back in the day? |
| 1:08.2 | Your mom was a broadcast journalist after all. |
| 1:11.8 | You know, I didn't. but I used to put a fan at the end of the sheet ford so the sheets would fill up with air, |
| 1:19.5 | and now I fill this tent fort up with my own hot air. Did you guys find that the world seemed a little gloomier, that people seem a little gloomier |
| 1:30.3 | this week? It felt for some reason, whatever adrenaline, I think, that was carrying people |
| 1:36.2 | through the first month, even people who are in pretty good shape and who don't have sick ones |
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