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Political Gabfest

Is San Francisco a Hellscape?

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.58.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss Tuesday’s primaries, the economy (is it as bad as we all think it is?), and are joined by Susan Matthews to talk Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Nellie Bowles for the Atlantic: “How San Francisco Became a Failed City” Emily Bazelon for the New York Times: “America Almost Took a Different Path Toward Abortion Rights” Derek Thompson for the Atlantic: “Everything Is Terrible, but I’m Fine” Patricia Cohen for the New York Times: “Global Growth Will Be Choked Amid Inflation and War, World Bank Says” Here’s this week’s chatter: David: Jack Hitt for the New York Times: “Want to Do Less Time? A Prison Consultant Might Be Able to Help.” John: The Economist, “The coming food catastrophe”; The Paris Review, “Henry Miller, The Art of Fiction No. 28” Emily: Moore v. Harper Listener chatter from Daniel Reich: “The Path to Power” by Robert Caro For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and John talk about the 20th anniversary of The Wire. 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 and show notes by Grace Woodruff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gav Fest.

0:15.4

For June 9th, 2022, it's the IS San Francisco A Hellscape edition.

0:21.8

I am David Plots of CityCast.

0:23.4

I'm in Washington, DC, back in Washington after being in Chicago, which is definitively

0:27.5

not a Hellscape.

0:28.8

I am joined, of course, by my dear ones, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times magazine

0:33.5

and Yale University Law School.

0:35.0

Hello, Emily.

0:36.0

Hello, David.

0:38.0

And John Dickerson of CBS's Sunday Morning from New York City.

0:42.2

Hello, John.

0:43.2

Hello, David.

0:44.2

Hello, Emily.

0:45.2

Hello, world.

0:47.2

This week, we're not going to talk about the January 6th Commission hearings because they're

0:50.9

tonight for where we are.

0:52.3

It's Thursday morning when we're taping, and so they're awkwardly, awkwardly timed.

0:56.0

So we're going to talk about lots of other things.

0:57.2

Instead, we're going to talk about Tuesday's primary results, which were either really bad

1:01.3

for Democrats or incredibly bad for them.

1:03.8

We'll discuss.

1:05.3

Then we'll talk about the bad vibes economy.

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