Political Gabfest - Live From Atlanta!
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson are Live in Atlanta discussing Georgia’s midterm election with NPR-WABE’s Rose Scott, as well as increasing political violencein the U.S.; and affirmative action at the Supreme Court.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
John Dickerson for CBS Primetime: “Political Threats And Violence In The U.S.” (Inteview with Robert Pape)
Steal This Book, by Abbie Hoffman
Here are this week’s chatters:
John: Carrie McBride for The New York Public Library: “100 Years Ago Men and Boys Fought on the Streets of New York Over Wearing Straw Hats Past Summer”
Emily: Fleishman Is in Trouble
David: The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan; Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, by Neil Stephenson; The Immortal King Rao, by Vauhini Vara; Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr; The Circle, by Dave Eggers
Listener chatter from John Campbell McMillian: Atlanta Police Department’s Citizen's Police Academy
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John take listener questions live.
Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth.
Research by Bridgette Dunlap.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | They think they're going to play the music live. |
| 0:01.5 | Here we go. |
| 0:02.4 | Let's see what happens. |
| 0:03.4 | Here we go. |
| 0:04.0 | Wait, shit. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello, and welcome to this late political gab fest. |
| 0:28.2 | November 3rd, 2022, the live in Atlanta edition. |
| 0:39.8 | I am David Plotz of Citicast, and this week the GabVet is live in front of a beautiful but anxious crowd at the first center of the arts on the campus of Georgia Tech University. |
| 0:47.1 | I'm joined on stage, of course, by my co-hosts on my far left. |
| 0:52.9 | Atlanta is, of course, the city too busy to hate. |
| 0:56.7 | And John Dickerson, that's kind of the John Dickerson nickname. |
| 1:00.6 | He is so busy and so has no hate in him at all. |
| 1:04.4 | John Dickerson of CBS's Primetime. |
| 1:11.0 | And then on my near left, the second most famous non-practicing lawyer in the Yale |
| 1:16.7 | University class of 1999, Emily Bazelon. |
| 1:20.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:24.9 | Emily Bazelon, who is the most famous non-practicing lawyer from the Yale University Law School Class of 1999? |
| 1:31.0 | Well, I'm actually the class of 2000, but I think you might be speaking of Stacey Abrams, although, yeah, right? |
| 1:36.9 | Why did you take an extra year to graduate? |
| 1:41.5 | So you're the most famous non-practicing lawyer from the Yale class of 2000. |
| 1:46.5 | I don't know, but anyway. |
| 1:47.9 | Why aren't you losing a governor's race somewhere? |
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