Inspecting the Bunker
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🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss the protests against police brutality and racism, Trump’s increasingly authoritarian response, and the pandemic--with guest Jamelle Bouie.
Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:
John: Emily Bazelon for the New York Times Magazine: “What Will College Be Like in the Fall?”
Emily: A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua
David: The Ballad of Songbirds And Snakes by Suzanne Collins; Anne Applebaum for the Atlantic: “History Will Judge Trump’s Enablers Harshly”
Listener chatter from David Foreman: Aeon Video: “‘Quite A Height, Ah?’ A Tour of the Chrysler Building by Those Building It”
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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.
Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
The New York Times: “After 6 Months, Important Mysteries About Coronavirus Endure”
Monmouth University Polling Institute: “Protestors’ Anger Justified Even If Actions May Not Be: Most Say Police More Likely to Use Excessive Force on Black Individuals”
Shant Shahrigian for The New York Daily News: “De Blasio Staffers Demand ‘Radical Change From Mayor’ in Open Letter: Read Full Text”
German Lopez for Vox: “How to Reform American Police, According to Experts”
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Gab Fest contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.6 | Hello and welcome to this late political Gab Fest for June 4th, 2020, the Inpecting the Bunker edition. |
| 0:16.6 | I am David Plotz of Business Insider. |
| 0:19.3 | I have flashbanged the cats, tear gassed, the kids to clear a path to my closet, where I'm doing a photo op, a Zoom photo op in my closet. |
| 0:28.4 | John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes joins me from his home in New York City. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello, John. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, David. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm actually on the road. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm not in my home in New York City. I'm out |
| 0:39.3 | working. Oh, that's good for you. I'm actually in D.C. at the moment in my travels. |
| 0:46.8 | Oh, waving at you. Yeah. Oh, my God. We're in the same city. That's really funny. I've been |
| 0:52.5 | traveling like it's such a weird, it's very weird |
| 0:55.8 | traveling in this moment and so I've kind of lost track of where I am. Well, it's nice to see you |
| 1:01.8 | wherever you are. And Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law |
| 1:05.7 | School. Hello, Emily from New Haven. Hello, hello. On today's Gab Fest, we're going to be joined by the New York |
| 1:13.3 | Times as Jamel Bowie to talk about the extraordinary protests inspired by the murder of George Floyd. |
| 1:19.3 | What do the demonstrators want? Why have these protests spread so far and so quickly, what will |
| 1:25.9 | cause these protests to ease and the work of reform to begin. |
| 1:29.1 | And Jamel will also join us to talk about the presidency and the dictatorship, Trump and the |
| 1:34.9 | political implications of these protests, the clearing of Lafayette Park, the authoritarianism that's |
| 1:40.7 | been on display from him. How is all that going to play out politically in the coming |
| 1:44.7 | months? Then we will talk about COVID, the pandemic. So we have declining hospitalizations. |
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