Political Gabfest - I'll Get the Vaccine If You Give Me A Pony
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
David, John and Josie discuss the politics of vaccine acceptance, the changed conversation on policing, and how Texas, undeterred by failing to find voter fraud, continues its assault on voting rights.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Dan Diamond for The Washington Post: “‘We Want To Be Educated, Not Indoctrinated,’ Say Trump Voters Wary of Covid Shots”
Charles Duhigg for The New Yorker: Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Not”
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley
Washington Post Editorial Board: “Reimagining Safety”
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
Josie Duffy Rice for Vanity Fair: “Abolition’s Promise”
Vann R. Newkirk II for The Atlantic: “American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old—And Hanging by a Thread”
Ross Douthat for The New York Times: “Can Anything End the Voting Wars?”
This American Life: “Squirrel Cop”
Zak Cheney-Rice for New York Magazine: “Ahmaud Arbery's Death and the Politics of Black Joy”
Here’s this week’s chatter:
Josie: We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Abolitionist Papers) Paperback by Mariame Kaba
John: “Ian McKellen Explains the Difference Between Acting on Stage and in Movies | The Dick Cavett Show”
David: The Atlas Obscura Podcast
Listener chatter from Rebecca Vernon: Andrew Chamings for SF Gate: “The Bizarre Tale of the World's Last Lost Tourist, Who Thought Maine Was San Francisco”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for March 18th, 2021, the I'll get the vaccine. |
| 0:12.2 | If you give me a pony edition. |
| 0:13.9 | I am David Plotz of Citicast in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:17.5 | I am so excited because we launched Citicast in Chicago this week. |
| 0:20.7 | I'll talk more about that next week. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm not going to talk about it today, but so excited. |
| 0:24.2 | If you were podcast, listener, or Chicago, and please check out CityCast, Chicago. |
| 0:28.5 | I am joined in New York City by John Dickerson of CBS is 60 Minutes. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello, John. |
| 0:34.2 | Hello, David. |
| 0:35.6 | And Emily is on a reporting trip. |
| 0:38.0 | And so we are so happy to have GabFest regular guest host Josie Deffy Rice, president of the |
| 0:46.0 | appeal, joining us from Atlanta. |
| 0:47.2 | Hello, Josie. |
| 0:48.4 | Hi. |
| 0:49.1 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:50.4 | Today on the GabFest, how big a deal is vaccine hesitancy, in particular Republican at vaccine hesitancy? |
| 0:57.0 | Then how is the criminal justice reform movement going to respond to rising crime? |
| 1:02.9 | And do those things have anything to do with each other? |
| 1:05.4 | And then the ongoing obscene efforts to stop people from voting this week,, Texas Edition and Georgia Edition, whatever, Everywhere Edition. |
| 1:14.1 | We'll talk about that. |
| 1:15.3 | Plus, we will not be talking about the funniest story of the week in which Breyer's Ice Cream named former Chief Justice, not Chief Justice, Stephen Breyer, honorary chair of the company now that he stepped down from the Supreme Court. |
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