King Me
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.6 • 242 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss the ongoing political fallout from Saturday's attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the monumental impact the Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais will have on minority political representation, and what yesterday's oral arguments at SCOTUS portend for immigrants under Temporary Protected Status.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss King Charles and Queen Camilla's state visit to the U.S., including the subtle digs in Charles's address to Congress and his inescapable position as a foil to President Trump.
In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily Bazelon talks with journalist Mark Oppenheimer about his new book, Judy Blume: A Life. Oppenheimer, who spent years with Blume’s papers at Yale and conducted extensive interviews with the author herself, traces how a restless housewife in New Jersey became one of the most beloved—and most banned—writers in American history.
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Research by Emily Ditto
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest. |
| 0:11.3 | Thursday, April 30th, the King Me Edition. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm Emily Bazelan from the New York Times Magazine and Yale Law School. |
| 0:23.2 | David is Wei. |
| 0:24.3 | He is in Umbria. |
| 0:25.7 | I am proud to report. |
| 0:26.9 | But we have Juliet Kayam, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, and senior national security analyst at CNN. |
| 0:34.2 | Hi, Juliet. |
| 0:35.1 | Hello. |
| 0:35.9 | It's great to be back. |
| 0:37.0 | Great to have you. And John is also here. John, Juliet. Hello. It's great to be back. Great to have you. And John is also here. John, |
| 0:40.9 | congratulations on being chosen to be the model for Christopher Robin from the Winnie the Pooh books. |
| 0:48.8 | Queen Camilla brought a bespoke version of Rue, Kanga's Baby, to the New York Public Library this week |
| 0:56.1 | because the New York Public Library has an exhibit with the original Winnie the Pooh and Iore |
| 1:00.8 | and Tigger and Piglet, but somehow they lost Rue. So Queen Camilla brought Rue, but then also |
| 1:06.4 | they announced that they need a Christopher Robin, and I'm so glad that you have agreed to step in. |
| 1:11.4 | Oh, my God. You really have taken your hosting duties seriously. I, this is, David is going to |
| 1:19.7 | take umbrage and umbrae because this is so much better than, uh, it is. Um, so, you know, |
| 1:27.3 | uh, who wouldn't want to be compared to Christopher Robin? |
| 1:30.6 | You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think, is what I always say. |
| 1:36.2 | Hi. |
| 1:36.5 | I love it. |
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